I was wandering round Spitalfields Market in London yesterday killing some time before a load of work got emailed to me, and the market was taken over mainly by stall selling vinyl & CDs.
Whilst trawling through boxes of CD promos in search of a bargain, I found the following. I had no idea what it was, but for £2 it was worth a punt.
Upon returning home I did a bit of research and found it to be a 1960 lp recently reissued with lots of Halloween themed bonus tracks. Result!
The full tracklisting is below, as is the review...
Song Title
2. Annabel Lee
3. The Gold Bug
4. A Descent Into the Maelström
5. The Bells
6. The Fall of the House of Usher
7. The Pit and the Pendulum
8. Ulalume
9. The Black Cat
10. The Raven
11. Quoth the Raven
12. The Tell-Tale Heart
13. Bo Meets the Monster
14. At the House of Frankenstein
15. Don't Meet Mr Frankenstein
16. Dinner With Dracula
17. Witchcraft
18. The Rockin' Ghost
19. The Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor - Joe South
20. The Shriek of Agony
21. The Shadow Knows
22. Zombi
23. Do the Zombie
24. Igor's Party
25. The Creep
26. Graveyard
27. Frog in the Fog
28. Hoo Doo
29. Rockin' In the Graveyard
30. The Fang
Halloween beatnik jazz and sordid spooky songs. Just in time for Halloween, Fingertips offer up yet another forgotten masterpiece with a scary 30 track collection that brings together the complete classic vinyl rarity 'Poe For Moderns' by Buddy Morrow and his Orchestra, along with the best of the late '50s and early '60s music inspired by the burgeoning horror movie genre. Buddy Morrow And His Orchestra took the opportunity to roll out a whole album's worth of haunted melodies using the stories of Edgar Allan Poe as their inspiration under the suitably beat title 'Poe For Moderns', in which they also tried to appeal to the beat generation as well as horror fans. 'Poe for Moderns' mixes spoken word and spooky jazz fronted by a cooler-than-thou beatnik-styled English lecturer intoning the tales alongside creeped out harmonies from The Skip-Jacks. Alongside this horror genre classic are 18 classic exploitation 45s mainly culled from the classic horror year of 1958 when The Blob and I Married A Monster From Outer Space were staples at the drive-in. With classic performances by TV horror show hosts John Zacherle and Bob McFadden, tales of purple people eaters from both Joe South and the legendary Bo Diddley and a good smattering of Frankenstein and Dracula novelty hits, it's wall-to-wall gore with a fine sense of humour. The collection is an eerie kaleidoscope of doo wop weirdness, rollicking rockabilly with much maniacal laughter, plus oddball visions from the likes of Nervous Norvous and downright strange stories from a host of vintage crooners. Remastered from the original sound sources, the packaging includes copious sleevenotes by MOJO magazine's Dave Henderson.
Saturday 3rd November 2012
