ROCKBEAT RECORDS OPENS THE CRYPT DOOR FOR A PAIR OF WICKED COLORED VINYL RELEASES
Rockbeat Records
What’s a caveman’s favorite music? Rock! Now that we got that outta the way, our friends over at Rockbeat Records just let us know some pretty stellar news and we’re gonna share it with you fiends for an early jump on Halloween.
On August 23rd, Rockbeat Records will release a pair of spooky-themed titles we know will get your ghost and make their bones shake, rattle, and roll.
From the Press Release
Return of Halloween Nuggets: Haunted Underground Classics is the third installment in the best-selling series which began in 2022. This compilation will feature 18 spooky 1950s and '60s musical deep cuts. The howlingly cool new cover design is by New York illustrator Cliff Mott. Return of Halloween Nuggets will be available on CD, digital, and limited-edition orange & black splatter vinyl. The CD and digital configurations will feature two classic monster movie trailers as bonus tracks.
This year, for the first time, the Halloween Nuggets title will have a ghoulish companion. Originally released at the height of the “monster kid” boom in 1963, Famous Monsters Speak predated Anne Rice’s concept for her blockbuster novel Interview with a Vampire by 13 years. Each side of the Famous Monsters Speak LP features an unnamed narrator prefacing the appearance of either Dracula or Frankenstein. Voice actor Gabriel Dell portrays each of the principal characters, with spine-tingling sound effects by Hal Johnson adding dread to the proceedings. Dell had a long Hollywood career that started in the 1930s when he made movies with the Dead End Kids, continuing into the ‘40s with the East Side Kids and the Bowery Boys.
Famous Monsters Speak was brought to the world by James Warren and Forrest J. Ackerman, publisher and editor of the legendary Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, working in tandem with Dell, Johnson, and scriptwriter Cherney Berg. RockBeat Records issued Famous Monsters Speak on CD for the first time in 2011. The last time it was reissued on vinyl was 1979, so the label is excited to dust off the cobwebs and once again make it available to vinyl and CD collectors. The title will be available on limited edition red & black splatter vinyl.
These albums will for sure be in our collection for spooky season and we hope you pick them up as well. Come on, who doesn’t love some spooky good tunes from the 60s to get your Halloween party movin and a groovin.
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