Monday, October 27, 2014

The BAT Pack: A Halloween Mix

Rockin' soul, surf, lounge, jazz, comedy, novelties, outsider oddities, movie ads and dialogue clips...hey kids, it's a '50s/'60s lowbrow All Hallow's Eve! Inc. dusty vinyl corpses robbed from my tomb, er, record closet, that I attached electrodes to and ripped to mp3. Featuring such creatures as: Mort Garson on the Moog; schoolkids singing about stealing trick-or-treaters' candy bags; a song-poem called "Vampire Husband;" Lon Chaney Jr "singing" the theme to the classic cult film "Spider Baby;" a James Brown rip-off; visits to Japan (The Golden Cups) and France; two different songs called "Surfin' Hearse," and jazz drummer Philly Joe Jones doing a goofy Dracula bit inspired by Lenny Bruce. And then you've got Bobby Christian's infamous "The Spider and the Fly," described by Lenny "Nuggets" Kaye as the most demented record ever made. (And who am I to disagree?)

 The BAT Pack

 01 "Horror of the Zombies"
02 Guy Marks (as Bela) - Begin the Beguine
03 Lon Chaney - Song From Spider Baby 
04 "bloodbeast"
05 Bobby Christian and the Allen Sisters - The Spider and the Fly
06 Richard Rome - Ghost a go go
07 The Quads - Surfin' Hearse
08 Jan and Dean -Surfin' Hearse
09 "Lady Frankenstein"
10 Serge Gainsbourg - Docteur Jekyll & Mister Hyde
11 Helen O'Connell - Witchcraft
12 Bela LaGoldstein - Old Boris
13 the Ventures - Exploration in Terror
14 "Dr.Tarr's Torture Dungeon"
15 Arthur Prysock - (I Don't Stand) A Ghost of a Chance
16 Alvino Rey - The Bat
17 "Brain that Wouldn't Die"
18 Little Tibia and the Fibulas - The Mummy
19 Happy Monsters - Clap Your Tentacles
20 The Golden Cups - Spooky
21 Jack Marshall - The Teen-Age Surfing Vampire 
22 The Ramrods - (Ghost) Riders in the Sky
23 "Bloody Pit of Horror"
24 Nancy Dupree with Ghetto Reality students - Bag Snatchin'
25 Mort Garson as The Blobs - Son of Blob
26 Shelley Stuart & The Five Stars - Vampire Husband
27 Cre-shells - Dracula
28 "Frenzy of Blood"
29 Philly Joe Jones - Blues for Dracula
30 Guy Marks (as Boris) - Don't Take Your Love From Me

 (FANGS a lot to Count Otto for a couple of these. Art by Shag.)
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6 comments:

  1. soylentlornegreen5:06 PM, October 27, 2014

    Ghoulisly good! Thanks (or should I say "fangs"?).

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  2. Holly6:18 PM, October 27, 2014

    Saw Alvino Ray & dl'd immediately. :-) Thank you!

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  3. AmericanSamourai10:06 AM, October 28, 2014

    Thanks, Mr. Fab!

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  4. Mr Fab10:25 AM, October 28, 2014

    You're welcome, you cool ghouls. And yes Holly, Alvino Ray and his wacked-out guitars are always fun, esp on songs like "The Bat," brilliantly remade by the Ventures as featured on the "Halloween Instros" post from a couple weeks ago.

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  5. Nick5:02 AM, October 29, 2014

    Came here from the fab IllFolks - and what a wonder this site is. Thank you for your industry and enthusiasm. Erm...don't know what an HTML tag is so...er

    And I am a robot but I like to kid around.

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  6. Mr Fab11:01 AM, October 29, 2014

    Welcome Nick, make yourself homely!

    (Ill Folks is a wondrous blog indeed.)

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