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Showing posts with label Buddy Beaverhausen Halloween Countdown. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Buddy Beaverhausen Halloween Countdown. Show all posts
Here's a haunting melody from Grace Jones on my Halloween Countdown.
"Libertango" is here for your Mischief Night -- or as we called it back in Paterson, NJ when I was growing up -- Goosey Night, meaning you might get "goosed;" that is, your butt might get pinched or tickled as a prank while you're on the street.
Today, Patti Page croons the title tune from the film Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) on our Halloween Countdown. The movie starred Bette Davis and Olivia DeHavilland, who is 99 this year.
Michael Jackson's "Thriller" is the perfect dance tune for any Halloween party.
Here is the video, one of MTV's highest rated of all time. Michael was still cute when he made this. Then he started getting scary-looking in real life through repeated surgeries.
This song includes Vincent Price "rapping." John Landis (An American Werewolf in London) directed the video. He brought along Rick Baker from American Werewolf to do the make-up.
Unforgettable choreography by Michael Peters.
Incidentally, Playboy centerfold Ola Ray plays Michael's girlfriend in this. She had to sue the superstar for royalties due to her. Eventually, after Jackson's death, his estate settled with Ms Ray out of court.
A British comedian and satirist parodied this song wonderfully.
Jackie Clune (imagine Karen Carpenter saying "clone") captures The Carpenters' lead singer's vocals delightfully in this dancefloor send-up. Karen's brother Richard, admitted his sister became obsessed with her diction around this time.
Yesterday, I posted the original version of Occupants on my Halloween Countdown. Here's the cheeky hiNRG dance mix.
Ms Clune is a UK dj, impersonator and comedienne. Ironically, perhaps, it was recorded for the Klone dance-music label.
Close encounters of the third kind are scary, especially since those who claim to have been abducted by aliens from another world usually tell us they were given rectal probes. Were the aliens, perhaps, searching for their brains?
The Carpenters -- Karen and Richard -- knew the aliens just want to be close to you. The song, written by Klaatu a year earlier, was covered by The Carpenters in 1977. I'm pretty sure Klaatu is of this planet, but who knows?
Enjoy this song and video as Halloween Countdown continues into its final week. Note the Phil Spector influence, especially toward the end.
Here's a dance mix for our Sunday Halloween Countdown. Glenn Rivera created a video using scenes from the Bewitched movie that starred Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell.
The singer is Polly Brown who had an international hit with "Up in a Puff of Smoke" in 1975. Well, that's the way some witches go out, isn't it?
Halloween Countdown will continue until All Hallow's Eve this Saturday.
Lon Cheney Jr as The Wolfman; Henry Hull as The Werewolf of London
Here's a catchy, Halloween-appropriate song from 1978. Warren Zevon's single, "Werewolves of London," off the album, Excitable Boy, was a major radio hit and a hit at record stores as well back in '78.
Mick Fleetwood and John McVie are featured in Zevon's band on this song.
Make Halloween your night to howl as my Halloween Countdown carries on!
Yes, Bette Davis goes twistin' the night away with this rock number from What Ever Happened to Baby Jane!
This was a rare release to promote the movie at the time.
Enjoy it on my 2015 Halloween Countdown!
You may recognize the music as the number Davis' obnoxious next-door teenaged neighbor (played by Davis' daughter) blasts on her record player in the film).
Let's see what's on the slab today on our Halloween Countdown!
"St. James Infirmary Blues" is an American folk song. It became something of a jazz standard with Louis Armstrong, though my fave rendition is Cab Calloway's.
Horror Hotel is the title for the American market of the UK's City of the Dead. Here it is in all its glory; the entire film on my Halloween Countdown this year. Perfect for your Friday night.
The late Christopher Lee, Betta St. John and an accomplished British cast portray Bostonians who, largely, happen to have veddy English accents for the most part.
A trim and economical film released in 1960, the first by Amicus Productions, it was made at under 90-minutes with double-bill status in mind. I saw this movie, as a kid, at the US Theater in Paterson, NJ (on a double-bill with Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory) and still have great affection for it. One of my favorite horror films of all-time.
The sets and characters are especially unforgettable. Mr Lee, of course, but also Patricia Jessel -- who I think bears a strong resemblance to Annie Lennox, Jonathan Dyall as Jethro Keane, Venetia Stevens as the plucky coed Nan Barlow, and Ann Beach as the sad sack mute hotel maid Lottie.
The overriding message to the film, in my estimation, is don't stand up your boyfriend on a date -- or all hell will break loose. You in danger, girl!
