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With Halloween coming up, I went to go get the radio edit of Bauhaus's "Bela Lugosi's Dead."
...Except, the song didn't even crack the Hot 100 back in '83 when it was featured in that vampire movie with David Bowie, so there's no listing in the database, and when you go to Discogs, you find a promo 45 WAS released... but no time is listed.
If it truly ran at 45 RPM, there's no way you could fit the whole 9 & 1/2 minute song onto one side!
So, I rolled my own edit. I'm pretty pleased with the results. I kept every vocal element, and all but one of the edits near the beginning is inaudible unless you have the song memorized. It times out at 4:13, and fades.
Having done this, it re-occured to me that there likely WAS an edit on that 45.
Does anybody have it, or know the length / edit points for the promo version of this Halloween classic?
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Hi Nightaire,
I too tried to research the edit, but only found in
articles that there was a shorter radio edit issued, but
didn't specify any details about it.
I also did my own edit which times out to 3:35. I also
kept most of the vocals, chopped much of intro and the
long breaks and some repeats. Undead! undead! undead!
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lol.. he does do a OT of that, doesn't he? :)
In trying to chop it down, I was originally going to try to avoid all out of tune notes and apparent mistakes (since it was all done in one take).
I found there wasn't going to be much song left if I did. :-D
Glad to hear I'm not the only one who's tried to research this; it would be interesting to compare edits!
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Yeah i did this a few years back when i was filling my
"New Wave Classics" folder, and of course my "Halloween
Classics" as well! The full 9 minutes was just too much.
Re: out-of-tune notes, LOL yes this was big part of Peter
Murphy's dark "goth" style. (he sounded much more "goth-
pop" in his later solo stuff, which i love).
Now i don't remember what our local new-wave station
played, i missed its original release back in '79... but
they would break it out every Halloween.
For all i recall, it was probably the full import 12",
they tended to favor those over edits or domestic
releases.
I'd love to compare edits. PM me!
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Where I work, we have a company that supplies bundles of music for play over the speakers located throughout the building, including themed packages for certain holidays, one of them being Halloween. So each year, for roughly the 6-8 weeks leading up to October 31, we often get to hear the Halloween package played during our shift - and I must say, the people who put this stuff together did a really impressive job, researching & digging up many obscure/forgotten tunes. And they're all the original hit recordings by the original artists, too, w/ a few later cover versions also thrown in for good measure. (Haven't yet heard "Bela Lugosi's Dead" or Pendulum's "Gypsy Spirit", though...)
While few of the songs were recorded specifically for Halloween, until I started hearing them all together, I guess I never really thought about just how many hits over the years actually have topics/themes that could easily be associated w/ the holiday - and in most cases, the music itself fits right in, too! Many are old "kiddie" songs from movies and TV shows dating all the way back to the '50s & '60s (including the themes from "The Munsters", "Addams Family", etc.), as well as some instrumentals from the same period which I recognize, but don't necessarily know the artist/title to (hey, before my time, lol). There's probably enough music in the Halloween package to be played over two full shifts w/o any repeats (not counting multiple versions of a few songs), so if I had to guess, I'd say it has at least 200 songs on it; maybe even upwards of 250...
In chronological order, here's a sampling of about 60 heard on the package, all of which I was able to positively i.d. (oh, and bold = top 40 hits, by Pat's standards):
1958 "The Purple People Eater" - SHEB WOOLEY
1958 "Witch Doctor" - DAVID SEVILLE
1959 "The Caretaker" - JOHNNY CASH
1962 "Monster Mash" - BOBBY "BORIS" PICKETT AND THE CRYPT-KICKERS
1964 "Dead Man's Curve" - JAN & DEAN
1965 "I'm Henry VIII, I Am" - HERMAN'S HERMITS
1966 "Season of the Witch" - DONOVAN
1966 "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" - NAPOLEON XIV
1967 "People are Strange" - THE DOORS
1968 "I Put a Spell on You" - CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL
1968 "My Baby Must Be a Magician" - MARVELETTES
1969 "Bad Moon Rising" - CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL
1972 "The Witch Queen of New Orleans" - REDBONE
1972 "Witchy Woman" - EAGLES
1973 "Boogie Man" - JACKSON 5
1974 "Spiders & Snakes" - JIM STAFFORD
1974 "Tubular Bells" - MIKE OLDFIELD
1975 "The Time Warp" - ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW
1975 "Welcome to My Nightmare" - ALICE COOPER
1976 "Strange Magic" - ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA
1978 "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" - LEWIS LEE
1978 "Psycho Killer" - TALKING HEADS
1978 "Runnin' with the Devil" - VAN HALEN
1978 "Supernature" - CERRONE
1978 "Werewolves of London" - WARREN ZEVON
1979 "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" - CHARLIE DANIELS BAND
1979 "Planet Claire" - THE B-52'S
1979 "Spooky" - ATLANTA RHYTHM SECTION
1980 "Devil in My Car" - THE B-52'S
1980 "Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)" - DAVID BOWIE
1980 "Twilight Zone/Twilight Tone" - THE MANHATTAN TRANSFER
1981 "Charlotte Sometimes" - THE CURE
1982 "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)" - DAVID BOWIE
1982 "I Want Candy" - BOW WOW WOW
1983 "The Fanatic" - FELONY
1983 "She Blinded Me with Science" - THOMAS DOLBY
1983 "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" - EURYTHMICS
1983 "Twilight Zone" - GOLDEN EARRING
1984 "Ghostbusters" - RAY PARKER, JR.
1984 "Send Me an Angel" - REAL LIFE
1984 "Somebody's Watching Me" - ROCKWELL
1984 "Thriller" - MICHAEL JACKSON
1985 "All You Zombies" - HOOTERS
1985 "Dead Man's Party" - OINGO BOINGO
1985 "Freaks Come Out at Night" - WHODINI
1985 "Slime Creatures from Outer Space" - "WEIRD AL" YANKOVIC
1985 "Weird Science" - OINGO BOINGO
1988 "A Nightmare on My Street" - DJ JAZZY JEFF & THE FRESH PRINCE
1989 "So Alive" - LOVE & ROCKETS
1991 "Fear (Of the Unknown)" - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
1994 "Monsta' Rap" - ELVIRA (MISTRESS OF THE DARK)
1994 "Zombie" - THE CRANBERRIES
1996 "Devils Haircut" - BECK
1996 "Don't Scream (It's Only Halloween)" - ANDREW GOLD
1996 "I'm Your Boogie Man" - WHITE ZOMBIE (sinister version of 1977 KC&SB hit)
1996 "Spell on Me" - REVEREND HORTON HEAT
1998 "The Creature Stole My Surfboard" - DEAD ELVI
2000 "Voodoo" - GODSMACK
The above list is by no means complete, but you get the idea. A wide variety, for sure, but I find the dearth of tunes from the last 15 years or so to be quite interesting (although to be fair, there were a few additional songs I know were recorded in the past decade, but didn't know the artist/title, so they aren't included); I feel it just goes to show how little the music industry has to offer nowadays. But on the flip side, I must say, how refreshing to actually get to listen to some old forgotten favorites that I just don't hear anywhere else outside of my own personal music collection, such as "The Fanatic", "Send Me an Angel", or "Dead Man's Party" - geez, and while they've never ranked in my top 10, hearing Manhattan Transfer's "Twilight Zone/Twilight Tone" certainly brings back memories (got a lot of play on top 40 radio in SoCal, where I lived at the time, even though it wasn't a huge hit). I realize at this point there's only three more days till Halloween, but many of the above are definitely worth adding to anyone's playlist, if you hadn't already thought of them...
"Don't be afraid - it's only me..." :-)
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Must-play '80s song of the day (chart hit, but not necessarily top 40 - and if you don't already have it, track it down, lol) (also heard in the Halloween package above, but intentionally left off the list - a classic FUN song, if you've never heard it!):
"What can you do?/
You're in a stew/
Hot pot, cook it up/
I'm never gonna stop/
Fancy a bite/
My appetite/
Yum yum, gee, it's fun/
Banging on a different drum..."
(clues: 1983; female vocals)
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I love this song - "I Eat Cannibals" by Total Coelo. Trick or treat!
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Don't forget Bobby Boris Pickett's mid-80s "Monster Rap".
What about "Monster"--Fred Schneider (of the B-52s).
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What do "I'm Henry VIII, I Am" and "Send Me An Angel" have to do with Halloween???
Some from my "Halloween Mixtape" not already mentioned include:
Dinner With Drac - Zacherle
The Blob - Five Blobs
Haunted House - Gene Simmons
Frankenstein - Edgar Winter Group
Swamp Witch - Jim Stafford
Devil Woman - Cliff Richard
Ghost Town - Specials
The Gory Story Of Duane & Debbie - Count Floyd
Halloween - Helloween
Dragula - Rob Zombie
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A few favorite "treats":
1959 "The Mummy" - Bob McFadden & Dor
1964 "I Want My Baby Back" - Jimmy Cross
1971 "For Madmen Only" - Steppenwolf (B-side of "Ride With Me.") I'd play this at 33 1/3 while handing out candy.
1996 "The Devil's Radio" - Robin Hitchcock (from Moss Elixir)
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here's another -
1980 "The Legend Of Wooley Swamp" - Charlie Daniels Band
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To Yah Shure:
When I was a kid I actually did hand out candy while playing a 45 at 33 1/3.
That 45? The flip of Melanie's "Lay Down (Candle's...) entitled "Candles In The Rain". Very spooky at 33.
I no longer have my 45; does anyone out there have the Edsel import CD with it 'Candles In The Rain/Leftover Wine'?
That is also the only CD recently out there to contain the true stereo version of "Peace Will Come".
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Good one, Andy! I don't think the B-side of my Melanie 45 had ever gotten a second spin since 1970, even at the correct speed. At 33 1/3, the first part does sound pretty spooky, but it's the second half that's downright scary. Who knew that a mere handful of RPMs could separate the innocent voice of Melanie Safka from that of the devil himself, Ozzy Osbourne?! :)
Since we've stumbled upon the off-off topic of scary B-sides played at 33 1/3, I'll nominate the flip side of the Plastic Ono Band's "Cold Turkey." At the slower speed, Yoko's caterwauling intro on "Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking For A Hand In The Snow)" is a dead ringer for the sound that strikes terror in the hearts of every motor vehicle driver in a frozen northland winter: an engine that barely turns over and refuses to start.
Flipping to the opposite season, that same intro played at 78 RPM evokes the siren call of the unofficial state bird here in the Land Of 10,000,000,000,000 Mosquitoes.
And at 45... well, that's simply the eeriest sound on this planet. ;)
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It appears the 7" single of The Hooters' "All You Zombies" had the album version (5:54). The "extended version" is listed as 5:59. (Four extra seconds? Really?)
Anyway, there was a "short" version serviced to radio, and I suspect it is the same version used in the music video. The label says 3:52, although the video version (knocking off the extra content at the beginning and end) runs about 4:22.
Does anybody know of a CD source for the short version? Because this song didn't break the top 40, it's not listed in the database, and all the versions I've found so far are nearly six minutes.
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Gene -
My promo 45 of All You Zombies times out to 4:00.
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At least until I retired in '07, we always got AMAZING response at our station
to Rockapella's "Zombie Jamboree" (1992, Elektra.) Has anyone else ever
played/heard this around Halloween, during the past 20 years?
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Yes! "back-to-back, belly-to-belly, don't give a damn
cuz i'm stone dead already!"
one of the morning shows in our area occasionally broke
out "Zombie Jambouree" at halloween, since Rockapella
were occasional guests on the show. So 'round our
house, it was a halloween staple!
I love all the extra tunes folks find for their halloween
playlists. And yes, the list can get really long with
ones you wouldn't think of til you here them in that
light.
Oh, for Paul: re: "What do "I'm Henry VIII, I Am" and
"Send Me An Angel" have to do with Halloween???"
I think because Henry VIII and Angels were once popular
halloween costumes. that's what i figure anyway.
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Yep, they're ba-a-a-ack! :-) This year's Halloween-themed
package has been playing at work during my shift for
about a month now, and it seems the folks who put it
together have done some rotating. Several songs that I
heard last year have been mysteriously absent so far this
year, but w/ many new ones taking their place -
including, yes, Bauhaus' "Bela Lugosi's Dead"! I've heard
it only once so far, and while I didn't get a timing on
it, I doubt it was the full 9.5-minute version. I'll try
to pay more attention should I hear it again in the next
couple weeks...
I've been taking more notes, and here are another 30+
songs in chronological order, all but four or five of
which are new this year (and again, bold = top 40
hits, by Pat's standards):
1958 "The Blob" - THE FIVE BLOBS
1965 "Strychnine" - THE SONICS
1966 "Dark Shadows Theme" - ROBERT COBERT
1968 "Spooky" - CLASSICS IV
1968 "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" - THE JIMI HENDRIX
EXPERIENCE
1973 "Frankenstein" - EDGAR WINTER GROUP
1974 "Clap for the Wolfman" - THE GUESS WHO
1976 "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" - BLUE OYSTER CULT
1978 "Homicide" - 999
1979 "Bela Lugosi's Dead" - BAUHAUS
1979 "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky" - JOHNNY CASH
1979 "Human Fly" - THE CRAMPS
1981 "The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Asylum)" - THE
FUN BOY THREE
1982 "Grey Matter" - OINGO BOINGO
1983 "Hungry Like the Wolf" - DURAN DURAN
1983 "I Eat Cannibals" - TOTAL (TOTO) COELO
1984 "Bark at the Moon" - OZZY OSBOURNE
1984 "The Killing Moon" - ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN
1987 "Strange" - R.E.M.
1987 "Strangelove" - DEPECHE MODE
1988 "Am I Demon" - DANZIG
1988 "Peek-a-Boo" - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
1993 "X-Files Theme" - MARK SNOW
1995 "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" - U2
1998 "Dragula" - ROB ZOMBIE
1998 "No Costume, No Candy" - SWINGIN' NECKBREAKERS
2000 "What If" - CREED
2002 "Tainted Love" - MARILYN MANSON (sinister version of
1982 Soft Cell hit)
2003 "Tombstone, Baby" - PEACHES
2007 "Zombie" (Original Edit) - ANDREW SPENCER AND THE
VAMPROCKERZ (dance version of 1994 Cranberries hit)
2008 "Disturbia" - RIHANNA
2009 "Teeth" - LADY GAGA
2011 "Wolves" - THE GOOD NATURED
Once again, quite a lot of obscure/forgotten tunes, w/ an
emphasis on new wave/alternative (like Bauhaus), as far
as the previously-unheard stuff goes. They've added some
more recent tunes, too, including the Glee Cast's cover
of MJ's "Thriller", which I didn't even bother adding to
the list above; the ones by Swingin' Neckbreakers,
Peaches, and The Good Natured I know I'd never even heard
anywhere else before (same goes for that obscure '60s
tune by The Sonics)...
Have yet to hear Focus' 1973 hit, "Hocus Pocus", but
maybe that one just doesn't sound scary or "mysterious"
enough - much like the Steve Miller Band's "Abracadabra"
(1982)???
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MMathews wrote:
(he [Peter Murphy] sounded much more
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Never was much of a Bauhaus fan, but have to admit, I do
really like his 1990 solo hit, "Cuts You Up"...
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Hykker wrote:
What about "Monster"--Fred Schneider (of
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Good pick, although it hasn't played yet. Even though I
don't think I ever heard it on the radio, I do remember
seeing the video a few times on MTV back in '84, and
thought it should've done better. I also thought it was
interesting how Reprise re-issued the song's parent album
in 1991 (albeit w/ a new title and different cover art),
and attempted to re-promote "Monster" all over again. In
fact, I recently picked up the '91 promo CD single for
"Monster" at a store not far from you (southern NH)...
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Paul Haney wrote:
What do "I'm Henry VIII, I Am" and
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Hey, I'm just the messenger, lol. Don't know about "I'm
Henry VIII, I Am", but I'll agree w/ MMathews re: "Send
Me an Angel", as that was pretty much my thought when you
originally posted the question a year ago...
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Some from my "Halloween Mixtape" not already
mentioned include:
Dinner With Drac - Zacherle
The Blob - Five Blobs
Haunted House - Gene Simmons
Frankenstein - Edgar Winter Group
Swamp Witch - Jim Stafford
Devil Woman - Cliff Richard
Ghost Town - Specials
The Gory Story Of Duane & Debbie - Count Floyd
Halloween - Helloween
Dragula - Rob Zombie |
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"The Blob" has actually been included in the Halloween
package for several years now; I just wasn't familiar w/
it since I don't think I'd ever heard it before (being
from '58) - but I got a positive i.d. on it this time.
Remarkably, the ones by the Edgar Winter Group and Rob
Zombie weren't added till this year. Surprised I haven't
heard at least a couple others from your list yet...
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