Today's slaylist includes the Five Jones Boys, the Four Tunes, Stan Freberg, Mantovani, the Charlie Spivak Orchestra, and Ray Stevens, among others. A very MY(P)WHAE-ish line-up, no?
I thought my transfer of Earl Fuller's 1918
Graveyard Blues came out nicely, though I had to cut a little more off the highs than I'd have liked, owing to elevated surface noise at the end. 78 collectors are used to last-part-of-the-record surface noise, something we can thank to tracking error caused by the arc-style movement of most tonearms, old and new, as they travel across the record. Of course, this isn't nearly the same problem with a modern stylus and lightweight pickup as it was in the olden days of soundboxes and sewing-needle-sized styli.
I've always wanted to type "sewing-needle-sized styli."
Today's version of
The Thing is our third this year (previously, we heard Cliff Holland and The Sundowners Band, though not together). Arthur Godfrey and Danny Kaye's versions are a-comin'.
Woke Up Screaming isn't a Halloween tune, exactly, but it's sure a Halloween title. Any excuse for putting Bobby Blue Bland on a play/slaylist is a good one.
Mantovani's version of Morton Gould's
Deserted Ballroom is the best of the three I own, in my ears' opinion--we previously heard Elliot Everett's on the cheapie Royale label. Hopefully, I'll have time to rip Morton Gould's own piano solo, which I have on a muffled-sounding 10-inch LP.
No, no one--to my knowledge--played it with a sewing-needle-sized stylus.
Stan Freberg's
Quest for Bridey Hammerschlaugen is a take-off on the crank best-seller (there was a record and movie, too) called
The Search for Bridey Murphy. You might notice that I mislabeled the track
Quest for Bridey Murphy--now you know why. The jazz talk midway through the track reminds me sooo much of conversations between my Mom and Dad and their jazz friends. Always the artists' last names--Shearing, Brubeck, Ellington,Tatum, Parker. Except for the occasional first name, like Dizzy. My parents dug Dizzy.
One-time "break-in" partners Bill Buchanan and Dickie Goodman are featured in seperate solo efforts--
Beware and
Suspense. The
Suspense music comes from Prokofiev's
Romeo and Juliet ballet score.
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Halloween 2008, Part 7.
SLAYLIST--HALLOWEEN 2008, PART 7THE THING--Steve Gibson and The Red Caps, 1950.LAUGHING OVER MY GRAVE--Ray Stevens, 1964.WOKE UP SCREAMING--Bobby Blue Bland, 1956.THE QUEST FOR BRIDEY HAMMERSCHLAUGEN--Stan Freberg, 1956.THE HONEY-EARTHERS--Stan Freberg, 1955.INNER SANCTUM--CHARLIE SPIVAK O., Feat. Irene Daye, 1948.GRAVEYARD BLUES--Earl Fuller's Rector Novelty O.,1918.CHOPIN'S FUNERAL MARCH--Arthur Pryor's Band, 1908.THE DESERTED BALLROOM (Gould)--Mantovani and His Orch., 1955.BALLAD OF JAMES DEAN--Four Tunes, 1956.MR. GHOST GOES TO TOWN--Five Jones Boys, 1936.SUSPENSE--Dickie Goodman, 1966.BEWARE--Bill Buchanan, 1962.Lee
