A very Happy Birthday to Mr Dizzy Gillespie! Let’s celebrate by enjoying Oro, Incienso y Mirra from his 1975 Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods album.
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For today’s musical number is the soundtrack for Disney’s Skeleton Dance by Carl Stalling with direction by Ub Iwerks.
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For this week’s double feature I went with humorous vampire movies. I was trying for movies that were not outright parodies like Love at First Bite or Dracula: Dead and Loving It. What I was really going for was actual[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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This is another one that I’m not completely sure has quite the right vibe I always say I’m looking for in my “Halloween Soundtrack” but it has Frankenstein and his monster tap dancing so I guess it’s okay. So please[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I mentioned this once before, but I’ve always been a fan of Charlie Daniels‘ “The Devil Went Down to Georgia“. I am told that as a good Christian Mr. Daniels is offended when people insinuate it was really the Devil[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I’m not completely sure how much a fan of HR Pufnstuf I was as a kid. I think at best it had a forbidden fruit quality to it since my Mom only let me watch PBS beyond saturday mornings… One[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I used up most of usual selection for classical Halloween music last year so I was so glad that I was pointed towards this one this is the overture to Heinrich Marschner’s opera Der Vampyr. A work written well before Bram Stoker’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I had really mixed feelings about including this one on the list. It was definitely one of the songs that while it had the subject matter didn’t have what I considered the Halloween vibe. But I’ve had a busy day[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Yes I know I skipped day 14, Sorry, crazy day. Anyway, I can’t believe I never heard of this one before. I love watching Louis Armstrong perform he’s so natural and expressive, almost a living cartoon completely drunk on life.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I’ve never seen Nightmare on Elm Street and because of my general wimpiness for this kind of movie I probably won’t. But Charles Bernstein wrote a wonderfully creepy soundtrack.
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