Pumpkinrot posted about this a month ago, but I think it deserves a signal boost. From Retro-A-Go-Go: Calling all monster fans! Get ready to shriek with pure joy! As you know, for too many years, there hasn’t been enough cool Halloween décor created specifically for us monster lovers. Retro-a-go-go! Product Developer, artist Doug P’gosh, set… Read more »
More proof that Halloween in the 1970’s was pretty great.
From the Kid Stuff Repertory Company circa 1977, Mostly Ghostly is one of the more unusual offerings from cheapo Halloween records of yesteryear. You won’t find the standard stock library sound effects (that we all know and love) here; the album appears to be completely original. Night Prowl is a particular spooky favorite around the… Read more »
From “Sounds Records” and released under a few different titles, “Hallowe’en Spook Sounds” is about as DIY as they come – why record an actual cat or dog when ol’ Bob here can make those sounds right here in the studio, right? That’s not a criticism, though – that’s what makes this one wonderful! Click… Read more »
From Dove Audio in 1991, Haunted Halloween was sold as a cassette in a cheap cardboard sleeve (but featuring some fun, Disney-inspired artwork). This is a great example of the direction these types of offerings were going by the early 1990’s – you can definitely hear more modern influences (particularly John Carpenter-ish synths and Friday… Read more »
From D. Records circa the 1960’s comes HALLOWEEN: Stereo Sounds and Music for Your Parties, Trick or Treaters & School Festivals, a peculiar blend of stock sound effects and music (apparently Indian-inspired music was very scary in the 1960s, as evidenced by “Ghost Combo (Play Spook Music)”. If you were a kid in the 60’s… Read more »
This one is a bit of a mystery. It was released some time in the 80’s and was as cheap as they come – no case, sold on a blister card in drug stores and featuring recycled sound effects from sources at least 20 or 30 years old. So cheap, in fact, that the “30… Read more »
A companion piece to yesterday’s post Haunted House, Haunted House Music Co’s “Night in a Graveyard: Recorded Live on the Estate of Castle Dracula” continues your oddly-retro-even-though-it-was-1985 sound story as you walk through a windy, haunted cemetery. This is another October favorite around the pumpkin patch and might easily have been released on the same… Read more »
Your moldering host Sam is old enough to remember picking this up as a cassette tape in a drug store on a whim in 1986. It was dirt cheap, but for something released in the 80’s, it has a decidedly old-school vibe that made it an immediate and enduring October favorite of mine, from the… Read more »
This classic series of “stories in sound” features a brief narrated intro for each vignette, then you hear each story played out in sound. Any Halloween-loving adult older than 40 will instantly recognize a lot of the sound effects used, as there seemed to be a common pool of them used for decades and, as… Read more »
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