TRACK LIST:
Bach, J S: Toccata & Fugue in D minor, BWV565 Work length 9:19
- Philadelphia Orchestra
- Eugene Ormandy
Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre, Op. 40 Work length 7:31
- Philadelphia Orchestra
- Eugene Ormandy
Gounod: Funeral March of a Marionette Work length 4:06
- Boston Pops Orchestra
- Arthur Fiedler
Mussorgsky: A Night on the Bare Mountain Work length 11:59
- Philadelphia Orchestra
- Eugene Ormandy
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 – Marche au supplice Work length 4:43
- Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Georges Prêtre
Grieg: Peer Gynt: In the Hall of the Mountain King Work length 2:48
- Philadelphia Orchestra
- Eugene Ormandy
Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No. 1 Work length 11:19
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Fritz Reiner
Dukas: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Work length 10:24
- Philadelphia Orchestra
- Eugene Ormandy
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14: Songe d’un nuit de sabbat Work length 9:32
- Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Georges Prêtre
No MONSTER MASH?
Jerry, I have MONSTER MASH on another Halloween CD. Maybe next year…
You’ve gotta include (DON’T FEAR) THE REAPER, the essential Halloween song.
Michael, I have a Blue Oyster Cult CD with (DON’T FEAR) THE REAPER around here somewhere…
I have a copy of this CD and it gets a good workout every October. Great collection. I miss the days when record companies released albums like this. Spotify playlists do nothing for me…
Byron, I have the same feeling for CDs like CLASSICS FROM THE CRYPT that you do! Like you, I’m not a fan of streaming music online.
And here I thought it was going to be Zacherle doing “Dinner With Drac.”
Jeff, I considered “Dinner With Drac.” Maybe next year…
Not exactly Halloween, but morbid anyway — DEAD MAN’S CURVE, TEEN ANGEL, TELL LAURA I LOVE HER, MOODY RIVER, HONEY . . . and probably many more that don’t come to mind immediately.
Fred, dead teenager songs were once a big thing. With the state of the world today things have changed radically. No one wants a dead teenager song about a school shooting or a pandemic or a threatened nuclear attack from Russia or an economic collapse…or…or…
On the other hand, did I mention that last night at the dance I met Laurie…so lovely and warm, an angel of a girl?
“Patches, oh what can I do?
I know I’ll always love you.
It may not be right,
But I’ll join you tonight,
Patches I’m coming to you.”
For those who do not remember this Dickie Lee classic, Patches lived by the dirty old river that runs by the shantytown, and when the narrator’s parents told him he couldn’t marry her, she drowned herself.
Jeff, what ever happened to Dickie Lee…
I remember that, back in my Girl Scout days, LAST KISS was a favorite.
I’m sure the Scout leaders were praying for a rogue car to silence all our plaintive voices.
Beth, LAST KISS is a classic!
Strange things happen, in this world.
Meanwhile, https://youtu.be/UB4nrDWQXik
And, then, not quite a dead teen song so much as a, well, we saw that coming song: https://youtu.be/RqQn2ADZE1A
Fred, that’s an impressive list of tragic songs! Well done!
Strange things happen, in this world.
Meanwhile, https://youtu.be/UB4nrDWQXik
And any redundancy comes from two links driving a Need for Approval on comments:
And, then, not quite a dead teen song so much as a, well, we saw that coming song: https://youtu.be/RqQn2ADZE1A
While a sinister classics collection, even if it doesn’t want to have two Mussorgskis, with one of the PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION pieces in place as well, might consider Holst: https://youtu.be/Jmk5frp6-3Q
But among the most offensive of contemporary songs not recorded by Mountain, the Guess Who nor the Bee Gees, there is this winner from Zager & Evans, they/their label’s idea of an excellent followup to their less agreesively vicious but just as whiny “In the Year 2525″…https://youtu.be/Cgrmc3403C4