Comments on: Bobby Pickett And The Crypt Kickers – London Records – 1973

By: Graham Burnett

Graham Burnett — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:55:11 +0000

Just remembered – same friend also had a ‘Hammer Horror’ LP which IIRC featured Christopher Lee doing spoken word highlights from the hammer Dracula films…

By: Graham Burnett

Graham Burnett — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:53:01 +0000

Back in the early 1960′s I used to go round to a friends house who had this excellent Spike Jones and His City Slickers ‘horror’ LP which we always seemed to be playing, this was maybe a couple of years before we ‘grew up’ and got into ‘proper’ music like Led Zeppelin, I’d forgotten all about this record until I saw this post, can’t remember the name of it, but thinking back it may well have had cover artwork by Jack Davies (of Mad Magazine fame), and contained these real cornball ‘Dracula’ and Peter Lorre parodies, which we found hilarious at the time… This friend also used to play ‘Ernie the fastest milkman in the West’ constantly, so shows how long ago/how young we were, but would be great to hear the Spike Jones album again, maybe an uplaod for next Halloween – Nic is bound to know what the record actually is…

By: bob

bob — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:32:49 +0000

See, that photo of me… I was using that exact same pose when the neighbourhood kids came round for trick or treat. I live in “the scary house” according to local children. Yes! My favourite costume this year was when an eight year old came to the door in a pack. The mummys, witches, vampire were easy to spot, but I had to ask her what she was. “I’m a murdered school girl” was her response. She earned herself extra lollies for that! Last night, the Dead Rabids, my current band, played a halloween party in a makeshift graveyard with smoke machines, ghosts in the trees, the whole nine yards. In case anyone is interested, songs included “Jesus”, “Paradise”, “Love Under Will” and a finale of “Louie Louie” and “Spit on your Grave”. I wish all you guys could have been there! Happy Halloween everybody.