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Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts
October 31, 2024
Halloween articles/mentions
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Halloween 45 RPM picture disc
The Story Of Star Wars picture disc
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The Real History of Halloween Styrous® ~ Thursday, October 31, 2024
October 31, 2022
Halloween Greetings
Halloween - 2022
photo by Isaac Amala
Golden Earring - Twilight zone (1982)
Manhattan Transfer ~ Twilight Zone (1979)
Mary Ann McCall ~ You've Got Me Voodoo'd (1940)
Vaughn Monroe - Ghost Riders In The Sky (1987)
Patsy Montana ~ Yodeling Ghost (1954)
Napoleon XIV ~ They're Coming To Take Me Away Ha Ha (1966)
Bobby "Boris" Pickett & the Crypt Kickers ~ Monster Mash (1962)
The Poets ~ Dead (1959)
Saturday Night Live ~
Graveyard Song (2014)
Haunted Elevator (2016)
David Seville - Witch Doctor (1958)
Victoria Spivey ~ Spider Web Blues (1929)
Zager & Evans - In the Year 2525 (1969)
Styrous® ~ Monday, October 31, 2022
October 31, 2020
Halloween ~ 2020: The War of the Worlds in music: dedicated to Richard Burton
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What could possibly be more Halloween than the 1939 radio dramatization by Orson Welles and The Mercury Theatre of The War of the Worlds, the novel by H. G. Wells? Music interpretations of it, of course!
One of the best is by Jeff Wayne with Richard Burton reading the dialogue (links below).
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Jozef Skrezek ~ Wojna Swiatow (The War of the Worlds)
Jeff Wayne & Richard Burton ~ The War Of The Worlds
This entry is dedicated to Richard Burton!
October 31, 2018
Picture Disc 4: Helloween ~ Halloween 45 RPM
picture disc, side 1
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To celebrate this very special day I've chosen an appropriate song. Halloween is from the Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part I album by the German power metal band Helloween. It is a 45 RPM picture disc, also appropriately, in the form of a jack-o'-lantern. There are scarier images I could have used, eg, The politics of fear (link below).
picture disc, side 2 detail
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The Halloween picture disc was issued only as a promotional recording and was never meant to be sold to the general public.
picture disc, side 2 detail
detail photo by Styrous®
Helloween was founded in 1984 in Hamburg, Germany by members of the bands Iron Fist and Gentry. The group originally consisted of rhythm guitarist Kai Hansen, bassist Markus Grosskopf, lead guitarist Michael Weikath and drummer Ingo Schwichtenberg. Singer Michael Kiske was added but later replaced by Andi Deris and Schwichtenberg was replaced by Uli Kusch. The line-up of the group has been complicated over the years (link below).
picture disc, side 2
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The Keeper of the Seven Keys albums, Part 1 (1987) and Part 2 (1988), established the group as a notable heavy metal band and led to the creation of the power metal subgenre.
Since its inception, Helloween has released fifteen studio albums, three
live albums, three EPs, twenty-seven singles and has sold more
than eight million records worldwide (link below).
Helloween, Wacken Open Air - 2018
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Side 1:
1 - Halloween (Edited Version) - 5:06
Side 2:
2 - Halloween (Edited Version) - 5:06
Notes:
Promo only shaped Picture Disc.
Orig. version from the album "Keeper of the Seven Keys-Part I"
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Matrix / Runout (Side A): L27666 STERLING 5223 7 RAA A-1
Matrix / Runout (Side B): L27666 STERLING 5223 7 RAA A-2
Helloween – Halloween
Label: Noise International – 5223-7-RAA-A
Format: Vinyl, 7", Shape, Promo
Country: US
Released: 1987
Genre: Rock
Style: Speed Metal
Net links:
Helloween website
Band members
Discography
History
Blabbermouth ~ Michael Kiske: Reunion Was 'Meant To Be'
Metal Assault ~ Power Metal Heaven: Helloween Turns Back the Clock
Vimeo ~ Helloween videos
The Week ~ The politics of fear
YouTube link:
Helloween ~ Halloween
Styrous® ~ Wednesday, October 31, 2018
October 31, 2016
20,000 Vinyl LPs 72: Rocky Horror Picture Show with Audience Participation
movie poster
It is believed that many Halloween traditions originated from Celtic harvest festivals which may have pagan roots, particularly the Gaelic festival Samhain, and that this festival was Christianized as Halloween. Some academics, however, support the view that Halloween began independently as a solely Christian holiday.
What better way to celebrate a modern Halloween tradition than with the pagan (and raucous), The Rocky Horror Picture Show with Audience Participation?
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It has become a tradition to show The Rocky Horror Picture Show in hundreds of locations throughout the United States on All Hallows' Eve. But the first time I saw the film with some friends in 1975 the theater was virtually empty; our howls of laughter ricocheted in the vast vacuum. To say the film was a major flop is in no way an exaggeration (see Sarandon link below).
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The album is a gatefold. A gatefold cover, when folded, is the same size as a standard LP cover (i.e. a 12½ inch, or 32.7 centimeters square).
photo by Styrous®
photo by Styrous®
According to
J. Hoberman, author of Midnight Movies, it was after five months into the film's midnight run when lines began to be yelled by the audience.
The first person to yell out an audience participation line during a
screening was Louis Farese Jr., a normally quiet teacher who, upon
seeing the character Janet place a newspaper over her head to protect
herself from rain, yelled, "Buy an umbrella you cheap bitch".
This self-proclaimed "counter point dialogue" was soon helped into
standardization by Piro and repeated nearly verbatim at each screening.
By that Halloween, people were attending in costume and talking back to
the screen. By the end of 1979, there were twice-weekly showings at
over 230 theatres.
vinyl LP, cover detail
detail photo by Styrous®
Links to Rocky Horror on the net
and histories at the end!
vinyl LP, side 1
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vinyl LP, side 1 label detail
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vinyl LP, side 2
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vinyl LP, side 2 label detail
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vinyl LP, side 3
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vinyl LP, side 3 label detail
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vinyl LP, side 4
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Tracklist:
Side 1 Begins With A Welcome By Sal Piro And Ends With "The Time Warp"
Side 2 Begins With "Sweet Transvestite" And Ends With "Charles Atlas Reprise"
Side 3 Begins With The Bedroom Scenes And Ends With "Planet Schamanet"
Side 4 Begins With "The Floor Show" And Ends With "Science Fiction Double Feature Reprise"
Credits:
Arranged By [Music] – Richard Hartley
Engineer – Denis Dragon
Performer [Music] – Richard O'Brien
Producer – Howard Franck
Producer [Music] – Richard Hartley
Written By [Music] – Richard O'Brien
Notes:
Vocalists (Cast):
Tim Curry (Frank N Furter)
Susan Sarandon (Janet Weiss)
Barry Bostwick (Brad Majors)
Richard O'Brien (Riff Raff)
Patricia Quinn (Magenta)
Nell Campbell (Columbia)
Jonathan Adams (Dr. Everett Scott)
Peter Hinwood (Rocky)
Meatloaf (Eddie)
Charles Gray (Narrator)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (The Original Audience Par-Tic-I-Pation Album)
Label: Ode Records (2) – 1032
Format: 2 × vinyl LP
Country: US
Released: 1983
Genre: Non-Music, Stage & Screen
Style: Soundtrack, Dialogue, Comedy
Links to Rocky Horror on the net:
Susan Sarandon on her 70th birthday
Official Fan Site
(Tips for first-timers) A Virgin's Guide
How to do the Time WarpRocky Horror Etiquette
mortaljourney.com ~ Audience Participation Script
Director Lou Adler Interview
The Spectrum ~ Rocky by the light of the night
Rocky Horror Picture Show ~ live on TV? Director Lou Adler Interview
The Spectrum ~ Rocky by the light of the night
Live in New York City
UC Theatre 10/31/16
Images for Rocky Horror Picture Show
Rocky Horror Picture Show on YouTube:
Time Warp
Sweet Transvestite
History of Halloween
Halloween Videos, Facts, Origin & Meaning
Here's to ya, Louis Farese, Jr.!
Styrous® ~ Halloween, Monday, October 31, 2016
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