Halloween-A-Thon 2011: Drac Goes Dancing

Aside from Christmas, no other holiday has inspired more strange disco novelties than Halloween. Needless to say, today's sharity is a disco album. The band behind the Halloween of disco is a rather anonymous German disco group, featuring a number of notable Munich session players under the name of Hot Blood. The record is so anonymous in fact, that the production credit is given as "Produced by Hot Blood". The major track on the record, "Soul Dracula" has every cliché one would expect from a novelty 'dracula' track: maniacal laughing drrrracu-la with exaggerated Bela Lugosi-esque accent, catchy/annoying background gimmicks that drill themselves into your head, cheesy sexual overtones, not to mention a bit of pointless appropriation in the song title. Still though, cliché's aside, this ain't that bad. Judge for yourself when you disco down to Hot Blood and "Disco Dracula". Enjoy!

Hot Blood - Disco Dracula

The Best of Eggbert The Easter Egg

Eggbert the Easter Egg

Eggbert the Easter Egg Was a teeny little Easter Egg. Cutest thing you ever saw In the window of a big department store.

All day the children came. Noses pressed against the window paid. Spoke to Eggbert but Alas! Eggbert cried because he couldn't answer back.

But all at once the clouds rolled by to let the sun shine through. Believe it or not! It got so hot that Eggbert split it two!

Out popped a baby chick. A teeny weeny little baby chick. And the children heard him say: "Eggbert wishes you a Happy Easter Day!"

Eggbert The Easter Egg

Halloween Surf

Gary Usher is best known as a sometime co-writer with Brian Wilson in the early 60's. But most Halloween music aficionados know him better as the man behind The Ghouls. The Ghouls were a made up band that released one album full of Beach Boys style novelty songs. The music was played by Usher along with Richard Polodor on guitar and Rick Burns on vocals. Rick Burns sings (or talk-sings in a style not too dissimilar to "Monster Mash") songs like "Be True To Your Ghoul" and "Dracula's Deuce". This silly little throwaway novelty album has become highly sought after by Halloween fans around the world. I've had this album in my collection for years and I never get tired of playing it around this time every year. Here it is for your enjoyment of the Halloween surf sounds of The Ghouls. Here is "Dracula's Deuce". Enjoy!

The Ghouls-Dracula's Deuce

One last little note: this is post #666!!!!!!!!