Post #55381 by davew on Thu, Oct 16, 2003 6:01 AM

i just had to hip you folks to this new release on collectors choice.its spike jones taking a "stab" at halloween,the results are wildly original and very well done.two severed thumbs,way up!
-----dave from jersey

Spike went for straight comedy on his 1959 album for the then-fledgling Warner Brothers label, but the results were anything but straight; subtitled “A Spooktacular in Screaming Sound,” this affectionately lampooned the “Creature Feature” phenomenon that was then sweeping the nation, with longtime partners in musical crime Paul Frees, Loulie Jean Norman and George Rock the sickly sidemen. The album opener, 'I Only Have Eyes for You', invites us to “Shroud Nine” with our hosts Dracula (Frees) and Vampira (Norman), and then Frees (one of the all-time great voiceover artists) does double-duty as Alfred Hitchcock and Edward R. Murrow on 'Poisen to Poisen'. Thurl Ravenscroft—the voice of Tony the Tiger—is featured on 'Teenage Brain Surgeon', while Drac and Vampira return for ('All of a Sudden) My Heart Sings' and Frees does a masterful Boris Karloff impression on 'Everything Happens to Me (Lament by Frankentstein)'. “The Fiendager” (Ken Stevens to his friends) winds up Side One by inviting us to the “Cocoanut Grave” to see the 'Monster Movie Ball', setting up Side Two’s massacre of 'Tammy' and 'My Old Flame. This Is Your Death' parodies the old show 'This Is Your Life', while 'Two Heads Are Better Than One' features a two-headed beatnik—in stereo (hence the title). The entire cast troops by the mike for the glorious 'Funeral Death March', fittingly capping off the album. One of Spike’s last recordings, and definitely the product of a diseased mind…our kind of 'Collectors’ Choice Music' exclusive!