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The Countdown to Halloween Starts Now! Spook Stuff for Hallowe’en (1960)
Happy October! Finally, our favorite time of year has arrived and we’re kicking it off with our first post for the annual Countdown to Halloween Blog-A-Thon! For 2014, we’re going to give the Faces of...
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Ghostly Sounds: A Haunting Experience (Power Records, 1974)
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...
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Haunted House, Haunted House Music Co (1985)
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...
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Night in a Graveyard, Haunted House Music Co (1985)
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...
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Horror Sounds of the Night
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...
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Halloween: Stereo Sounds and Music for Your Parties
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...
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Haunted Halloween: Spooky Sounds to Chill Your Bones! 1991
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...
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Hallowe’en Spooky Sounds (1962)
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...
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Mostly Ghostly (1977)
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...
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Halloween Haunts & Terror Tales Volume I: Trick ‘R Treating for Children –...
Do you remember those old 80’s Halloween cassette tapes that you used to put into your home stereo and crank up through the windows on those Halloween nights? Would you like to pass this tradition...
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