ADVENTURES IN CERPTSLAND VOLUME EIGHTEEN - FOREST DEPTHS OF MOUNTAIN FASTNESS

 

*All tracks shown in black font are taken from wobbly old rekkids! (and/or Evatone Soundsheets)

**The episode of the Dr. Demento Halloween 1978 show here is without exaggeration one of the most important and formative recordings of my entire life.  I probably began listening to Dr. Demento on the radio in 1976 or so but this was the first Halloween episode I heard and it was transformative!  I'm sure it not only created the spark for me to seek out all horror-related songs and stories committed to vinyl (and later digital) but also probably had a major influence on my creation of Cerpts Tapes too!

Here is a track listing for the Dr. Demento 1978 Halloween Show:

The Dr. Demento Show #78-37 - October 29, 1978

Special Topic: Happy Halloween

Please Mr. Gravedigger - David Bowie

The Exorcist soundtrack (brief excerpt)

Grandpa's Grave - Peter Sellers

You Know My Name (Look Up The Number) - The Beatles

My Real Name - Steve Martin

Danse Macabre (The Dance Of Death) (excerpt) - composed by Saint-Saens, conducted by Toscanini

With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm (a/k/a Anne Boleyn) - Stanley Holloway

The Headless Horseman - Kay Kyser (vocal by Freddie Froghammer)

Grim Grinning Ghosts - Thurl Ravenscroft

Horror - Devon Marlin Henderson

Delicious! - Jim Backus & Friend

I'm In The Mood For Love - Steve Martin

Last Night I Had A Dream - Randy Newman

Timothy - The Buoys

The Awful Truth - Carole King

Dinner With Drac - John Zacherle "The Cool Ghoul"

Jeremiah Peabody's Poly Unsaturated Quick Dissolving Fast Acting Pleasant Tasting Green And Purple Pills - Ray Stevens

The Wobblin' Goblin - Rosemary Clooney

Looney Tune - Montezuma's Revenge

Mr. Ghost Goes To Town - Jon Schwartz & His Band

I Want To Bite Your Hand - Gene Moss

Don't Touch Me There - The Tubes

#5 My Old Flame - Spike Jones & His City Slickers

#4 The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati - Possum

#3 Sweet Transvestite - Frank N Furter (Tim Curry)

EXTRA: The Man With The Weird Beard - Arthur Godfrey

#2 Pencil Neck Geek (w/ epilogue) - Fred Blassie

EXTRA: Shrivel-Up - Devo

#1 Monster Mash - Bobby (Boris) Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers

And now, here are some of the album covers of the vinyl rekkids featured above (and some cd's too):

Ron Dante was the singing voice of Archie Andrews in THE ARCHIES cartoons (as well as a lot of commercials) many of which you'll hear right here on this Cerpts CD.

Just snagged this old George Garabedian Mark 56 LP of 2 NICK CARTER, MASTER DETECTIVE radio shows.  This label was probably one of the earliest putting old radio shows onto vinyl in the 1970's and I've got about a dozen of them.

THE GROOVIE GOOLIES was a 70's cartoon by the same makers of THE ARCHIES; consequently, they had song performances and here is the original album.

This newly-released CD combines 2 original Mad Magazine LPs and some extra tracks.

This children's record is from a label I've never heard of (FunTime) and I just bought it because it was cheap.  Some of the tracks are pretty fun and are heard here on this Cerpts CD.  Plus the back cover of the record has pictures to color and the crayon will allegedly wipe off to reuse!

So this record is a BIG ONE!!!!  For the last 100 years, I've been trying to remember a record I had as a child (and somehow lost) which I loved and which had the story of Pandora on it.  I bought this record on a whim and low and behold THIS WAS THE ONE I OWNED ALL THOSE YEARS AGO in the early 1970s.  It's funny how stuff remains in the back of your mind because I immediately recognized it and, like a song you've heard a million times, I still knew every word even though I hadn't heard it for decades.  That goes for ALL the 6 stories on this record (heard here on this Cerpts CD); every word and song came immediately back to me.  Wow!

When I was a kid back in the 1970s, my friend Ed Jacoby introduced me to Eva-Tone Soundsheets -- flexi discs usually bound into magazines and mailers -- and I immediately tried to collect every one I could!  I've got quite a stack.  And it was nice that Mad Magazine frequently included Eva-Tone Soundsheets in their special giant issues as well (like my beloved GALL IN THE FAMILY FARE).  Scholastic's DYNAMITE magazine also included one for their spooky issue (COUNT MORBIDA'S CHAMBER OF HORRORS).  Here's one I just got that National Geographic put out about "the space age".  More spacey stuff to follow on Eva-Tone. . .

Here's another Eva-Tone soundsheet I've had since I was a kid and got the TV Magic trick deck of cards and magic tricks.  I don't remember but this most assuredly must have come included in the magic kit.

In the 1980's documentary series THE MEN WHO KILLED KENNEDY, this paper record was featured.  Gallery Magazine included it in an issue in which they featured an article on the new audio evidence of more than 3 gunshots that killed JFK.  I finally tracked me down a copy.

I guess before Disney had their own record label, Golden Records released these yellow kids records on yellow vinyl that played at 78 speed (but were the same size as the later 45's.  I just snagged 6 of these yellow children's Disney records (most of which are on this Cerpts CD).  Sadly they did not come with the paper sleeves but you can see the OG sleeve above.

George Garabedian's Mark 56 record label strikes again with these 2 LPs I just got featuring old time radio soap operas.  You will hear brief excerpts from Ma Perkins, Just Plain Bill, Lorenzo Jones, The Romance of Helen Trent, The Guiding Light, and Mary Noble, Backstage Wife

This Power Records book and record deal I've also owned since I was a kid.  The record is a 45 and you can read along in a full-size comic book illustrated by Neal Adams.

Here's a record I just bought featuring old radio broadcasts of notable sporting events hosted by sportscasters like Mel Allen, Clem McCarthy, etc.

Danny Kaye sings kids song.  That's great.  But there's something really weird about this cover painting; it looks like it's by the same artist who painted all those Jesus and Bible paintings in Sunday School books!  Especially those kids.  

Here's another Radiola record I just got.  I have zero interest in boxing but a lot of interest in history so I put a brief excerpt from the beginning of this old radio broadcast of this fight.  That's only on side 1.  Side 2 is devoted to Babe Ruth and that's wear that 1922 recording and the Mel Allen day-after Babe Ruth's death recordings are from.

Here's another Power Records LP combining 3 stories that were probably released before in their "Book & Record" deals like the PASSAGE TO MOAUV earlier.  All 3 are featured in this Cerpts CD.

Here we have a better look at those Disney/Golden Records yellow discs like the DONALD DUCK, COWBOY one.  I also didn't get the paper sleeve with it so that's it up there.

This may look like a record album but, oddly, it's a paper sleeve for an Eva-Tone soundsheet flexi disc of the moon landings put out by Philco Radio & Ford Motor Co.

This 33 1/3rd LP gathers 3 of Power Records Superman adventures onto one vinyl album.  I only have the Mr. Mxyzptlk story on this Cerpts CD so far.  And yes, the art is by Neal Adams.

Reader's Digest decided to audio-book The Bible back in 1981 before audio books were a thing and here's the Eva-Tone Soundsheet promotion for it.  Don't forget to put that coin on it so the record doesn't slip.

Time-Life Records strikes again with another Evatone Soundsheet promoting a collection of old song favourites.

I've had a recording of this one probably for 20 years when I got it on the (I think) defunct site SCAR STUFF but now I finally tracked down an actual copy of the flexi disc that was attached to a paper backing.  See how it says not to remove the flexi from the paper.  Well, I guess mine removed itself from the paper backing because they were apart when I got it.  Happily, the flexi disc still plays absolutely fine!

So I ordered a handful of Evatone Soundsheets on Mercari (most of which are shown here) and the guy threw in this 45 basically for structural integrity of the package.  But both sides of it were great so I threw both songs on here!

This Evatone Soundsheet for Time-Life Record's Big Band record collection I've had since my friend Ed Jacoby gave it to me in the 1970's.

I've been collecting Radiola LPs since the late 1970's and here's a limited edition I just got.

This Monster Cereal CD was a 1990s promo from somewhere.

This ROCKY HORROR demo record I believe was given out on Free Record Day!

Ah, not the first real-life murderer we've had on these Cerpts CDs (remember Joe Meek?)

POE FOR MODERNS has just been released on CD with extra tracks!

The All-Time Classic album on probably dozens of Cerpts Tapes!  Of course, this record was recorded at the Magic Castle in California and the text was written by Forrest J. Ackerman himself.