Best of Lux and Ivy's Favorites: Halloween Edition

 

I’ve resisted doing this for years, but here is a “best of” volume of Lux and Ivy’s Favorites for Halloween. Who doesn’t need something good to focus on these days?

Here are 40 tracks taken from LAIF volumes 1-20 of songs with a “creepy” bent to them. I made a playlist of them for myself, but then said “what the hell,” let’s make it so other folks don’t have to go through the hassle of making their own playlists.

I reached out to JR Willaims, who did a cover for one of the other volumes of LAIF, and he agreed and we teamed up for this cool cover from one of my favorite (non EC) pre-code horror comics called WEIRD MYSTERIES. I thought it would be perfect because Here Lies My Love by the Undertakers is among the set of songs. Thanks JR!

Happy Halloween everyone!

Kogar tSA

 

01 Anton LaVey - Satan Takes a Holiday

02 Ken Nordine - Strollin' Spooks

03 jan davis - Watusi Zombie

04 the symbols - Do the Zombie

05 The Del-Airs - Zombie Stomp

06 Ralph Neilson and the Chancellors – Scream

07 Jackie Morningstar - Rockin' In The Graveyard

08 joe wallace - leopard man

09 Lee Ross - The Mummy's Bracelet

10 Kip Tyler - She's My Witch

11 Zacherle - Dinner With Drac

12 The Electro-Tones - Ghost Train

13 bill carter -  baby brother

14 The Five Blobs - The Blob

15 the ran-dells - martian hop

16 The Invasion - The Invasion is Coming

17 roy brown - butcher pete part one

18 roy brown - Butcher Pete part two

19 Mr Undertaker - Here Lies Love

20 Revels - Dead Man's Stroll

21 Lord Luther & The Kingsmen Teenage Creature

22 Kay Starr - The Headless Horseman

23 The Five Jones Boys -  Mr Ghost Goes To Town

24 Bob and Jerry - Ghost Satellite

25 Deadly Ones - Monster Surfing Time

26 Hugh Barret and the Victors - There Was a Fungus Among Us

27 Richard Delvy - Green Slime Theme

28 Albert Elias - King Kong

29 The Gravestone Four rigor mortis

30 sickidz - Night of the Living Dead

31 Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You

32 Social Outcasts – Mad

33 The Deadly Ones - The Mad Drummer [pt. 1]

34 Cab Calloway - The Ghost of Smokey Joe

35 Jim Wolfe and the T-Towners – Innersanctum

36 The Ventures - The Bat

37 Jack Hammer and the Pacers - Black Widow Spider Woman

38 The Regal-aires -  It

39 Vampires' Sound Incorporation - The Lions and the Cucumber

40 GhoulardiSurf

Aircheck Of The Week

 

He called himself "The Fifth Beatle", but John Lennon called him "a wanker". It's Murray The K, only 4 months away from his Beatles-adjacent fame, playing the hits and misses of October 1963 on 1010 WINS and Boss Radio 66.

Ghouls Of The Moon

 

With Spookshow Serenade

1 Creepy Crawlers

2 Frankenstein - The Cadillacs

3 Weird Watusi - John Zacherle

4 Theme from Igor - Ernie Freeman

5 Wolf Gal - Skipper Ryle

6 The Wolf Pack - Kid Thomas

7 Voodoo Boogie - J.B. Lenoir

8 Voodoo Man - The Del Vikings

9 Monster Party - Bill Doggett

10 Voodoo Doll - Amelia

11 Walkin’ Through A Cemetery - Claudine Clark

12 You Give Me Heebie Jeebies - Dave Baby Cortez

13 Head Shrinkers Kit from Pressman Toys

14 The Shock - Tony Sperry and The Quarter Notes

15 Haunted by Repetition - The Glenrays

16 Devils Run - Bailey’s Nervous Kats (featuring Herb Kliebe)

17 Geisterball - Crazy Combo

18 Docteur Jekyll et Monsieur Hyde - Serge Gainsbourg

19 Chevauchée du Diable - Les Milords

20 Monster Beat - The Beatniks

21 A Crazy Haunted House - Rackers

22 Voice of the Mummy by Milton Bradley

23 The Mummy - The Naturals

24 Miss Frankenstein - George Jackson

25 Wolf Pack - The Mus-Tangs

26 It’s a Monster - The Apollos

27 The Black Widow - Link Wray and His Ray Men

28 Evil Hearted You - The Human Beinz

29 The Raven - The Yo Yos

30 Sinister Purpose - Creedence Clearwater Revival

31 This is a creature from the lost world

32. Pee Kow Pee Ork (Ghosts Come and Go) - Chai Muansing

33 Hallucinations - Bruno Leys

34 Noite de Terror - Roberto Carlos

35 Torture (Version 1) - Del Shannon

36 There’s Something Wrong with You - Screamin’ Jay Hawkins

37  Screech Game by Parker Bros.

Kogar's Jungle Juice Show #123

 

01 Chaino The Pigmy Song -tikky tikky boom boom- TAMPA

02 catalinas – safari 20^TH CENTURY FOX

03 the Gaynighters – mambone  YOUNG ARTISTS

04 the royal playboys - happy hours DODE

05 Bill Friel & The Fabulous Furies Ft Lauderdale JOKER

06 Cliff Nash and the Rockaways Normee NASH

 

01 The Populairs - Island of Paradise MARVELLO

02 the Five Dollars - doctor baby FORTUNE

03 The Don Clairs with Harold Perkins and his orchestra   Santa Fe AMP3

04 The Jewels Natural Natural Diddy R&B

05 The Cordells Laid Off BARGAIN

06 Lula Reed Caught Me When My Love was Down KING

 

01 Johnny Ace and Band Yes, Baby DUKE

02 Lester Williams McDonald's Daughter IMPERIAL

03 Choker Campbell Have you Seen My Baby ATLANTIC

04 Johnny Guitar Watson Love Me RPM

05 Mad Man Taylor Rock n Roll Espanole EAST WEST

06 Big Jay McNeely Strip Tease Swing FEDERAL

 

01 Darryl Vincent - Wild, Wild Party SANDY

02 Jett Powers With Vince Parle & The Raunch Hands – Go, Girl, Go DESIGN

03 Johnny Burnette Trio Oh Baby Babe CORAL

04 Mickey Gilley Come on Baby DOT

05 George and Earl Done Gone MERCURY

06 The Rockin' Chairs Come on Baby RECORTE RECORDS

07 Baker Knight Knightmares Bring My Cadillac Back DECCA

08 Eddie Renae and the Titans Snake Leg PINE

 

01 Baby Boy Warren - Chuc-a-Luck EXCELLO

02 Jerry Mcain and his Upstarts - Bad Credit EXCELLO

03 Roosevelt Sykes and his original Honeydrippers Stop-Her Poppa RCA VICTOR

04 Long Gone Miles Hello Josephine KENT

05 Baby Little and the Playboys Big Time Playboy WATTS WAY

 

01 Ronny Kae Twistin Rumble BAND BOX

02 The Sierakowski Family - Batmans Wipeout

03 richie allen - goochy bamba ERA

04 Baker Knight Peek - a - Boo CHESS

05 Leo Quica with the Earl Hagen Orchestra - Oh Leola LIBERTY

06 The Centars Weird Turtle ROCKET RECORDS

07 The Chambermen Shotgun II AMIGO 1

08 The Turtles – Pungfoo TORTOISE

Outro Laverne Baker Romance in the Dark

Songs From 1974

 

1. If You Want To get To Heaven - Ozark Mountain Daredevils

2.  This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us - Sparks

3.  Abra-Ca-Dabra - DeFranco Family

4.  Dark Lady - Cher

5.  Deuce - KISS

6.  Hooked On A Feeling - Blue Swede

7.  Need A Shot Of Rhythm And Blues - Dave Edmunds

8.  So You Are A Star - The Hudson Brothers

9.  Star Baby - The Guess Who

10.  Star - Stealers Wheel

11.  Virginia - Bill Amesbury

12.  Witch Doctor Bump - The Chubukos

13.  The Payback - James Brown

14.  Woman To Woman - Shirley Brown

15.  Come And Get Your Love - Redbone

16.  Beach Baby - First Class

17.  Devil Gate Drive - Suzi Quatro

18.  Get That Gasoline Blues - NRBQ

19.  I Can Help - Billy Swan

20.  Pepper Box - The Peppers

21.  You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - Bachman Turner Overdrive

22.  Midnight Rider - Gregg Allman

23.  The Show Must Go On - Three Dog Night

24.  Homely Girl - The Chi-Lites

Call Me Cannibal 007

 

With J.R. Williams

00:00 - Ennio Morricone - Intro: CANNIBAL (alt. version, excerpt)

00:28 - Mel Henke - IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD

03:05 - Dean Elliott & his Swinging Big, Big Band - THE LONESOME ROAD

05:34 - Fields-Madera Orchestra - OH ME

08:05 - The Three Suns - VOLCANO

10:30 - The Volcanos - DIANE

13:02 - The Valli Boys - NIGHT HAWK

15:38 - Red West Combo - MY BABE

17:46 - The Crystals - ESPRESSO

20:00 - The Incidentals - ALL NIGHT

22:42 - Billy Strange - WASHINGTON SQUARE

25:29 - The Turbo-Jets - IN REVERSE

27:55 - Wade Cagle & the Escorts - GROOVY TRAIN

30:18 - Bob Morris - GROUNDED WASP

32:26 - The Mystics - FRIED BACON CRISP

34:42 - The Triumphs - BURNT BISCUITS

36:38 - Colleen & Teddy - BEACHNUT

38:44 - Harry Stoneham - GREEN ONIONS

42:19 - The Young Alley Cats - CAT TRACKS

44:30 - I Bond’s Men - OPERAZIONE TUONO (THUNDERBALL)

46:50 - The Bikinis - FATIMA THE DREAMER

48:53 - Reg Owen & his Orchestra - KAZOO

51:13 - Dieter Reith’s Move - BITTERSWEET SAMBA

53:22 - Wes Dakus & the Rebels - ROULETTE

55:27 - The Dundeeville Players - WHEELS

57:40 - The Mindexpanders - DOWNTOWN TRIP

1:00:11 - Ennio Morricone - CANNIBAL (alt. version, excerpt)

Lux and Ivy's Favorites Volume 20!

 

Welcome to Lux and Ivy’s Favorites Volume 20! It’s been a little over a year since the last volume which was fully taken from the playlist of a tape that had been part of the Something Weird Audio Archives. Volume 20 is more like the majority of the other volumes in this series, a mix of tunes from various sources.  Here is a rundown of SOME of the tracks on this volume.

As always I have a running list of songs that I come across or that people send me via social media etc. Then I put them together in some semblance to make them “fun” to listen to, or “flow” in a cool way.

This volume has sort of an outer space theme just like volume 18. There are a bunch of tracks taken from the space themed tape Lux had made for someone back in the day. The tape was just labeled “Lux’s Space Discs.” It was a 90 minute tape of every genre you could think of dealing with UFO’s, creatures from outer space, and spoken word mumbo jumbo of the highest order. I can hear the questions already; “Kogar! Why didn’t you just put a playlist together of those songs?!?” Well, the answer is simple; some of those songs have already appeared on various LAIF volumes over the years, so it wouldn’t make a lot of sense to do that.

Let’s kick it off with Rocket USA by Suicide, which I think is a nice place to start given The Cramps mentioned it in various places that they used to cover this song back before they ever played a show in their early days.

Next up there are bunch of instrumentals found from various sources like the space tape and the tapes from Something Weird.

I included Radar Eyes because Lux used some lines from this song in a live bootleg that I have.

Somewhere along the line I noticed that The Cramps had used a lyric in Dope Fiend Boogie from this fantastic tune by The Calico Wall.

I Had too Much To Dream Last Night was mentioned by Lux during a snippet that Henry Rollins used on his radio show; I believe when he played the STLTU test pressing.

One really great addition came from Diego Carriero who noticed Black Widow Spider Woman was playing on one of The Cramps bootlegs from a Cramps show in Greece from 1991. The inclusion of the trailer from Las Vegas Hillbillies means that it more than likely came from a tape like the Vip Vop tapes that they played before their live shows.  Thanks, Diego!

The song Poison Ivy was long overdue to be included at some point, but I finally came across an interview where Ivy said the “she’s pretty as a daisy” line; found in an issue of Greasy Kid Stuff magazine.

I included Blues for the Red Boy because on one of the Vip Vop tapes Lux used sound from an Allan Freed aircheck that included some of this song which “The Moondog” used as intro music for his show. I forget who identified the song for me! Please let me know, and I will add you to the thank you list!

Alabama Bus was mentioned by Ivy in an interview in the Boston Rocker newspaper from the early 90’s. I’ve included parts 1 and 2.

I'm Gonna Murder My Baby was mentioned in a fanzine that I got from Howie Pyro called Flamejob Issue #1, a compilation of a bunch of Cramps articles from other sources.  Not sure where the original article came from.

Lastly, Stay as Sick as You Are seemed like a fitting way to end this volume. Taken from one of the Something Weird tapes that is filled with stuff like this. More of those type songs will appear on future volumes down the road.

The cover for this volume was taken from Paul Tanner’s Theremin album that Lux mentioned called MUSIC FOR HEAVENLY BODIES.  As always Adam Fitch makes my ideas a reality with his layout skills. We even made an alternative cover with a “sticker” to appease the social media censors, made to look like the stickers that sometimes graced old burlesque comedy albums back in the day.

Enjoy!

Kogar tSA

Thanks to: Lisa Petrucci, Robert Mache, Bruce Milne, Diego Carriero, Howie Pyro (always) and Adam Fitch…

Mixcloud link

Aircheck Of The Week

 

It's your curly-headed kid in the second row on the radio. Before becoming "New York's Oldies Station", WCBS-FM was a hybrid of album rock, Top 40, and R&B. Gus Gossert, later known for his Doo-Wop shows, was the program director and air talent heard in this rare aircheck. It's October 1970 on Boss Radio 66.

Longboards N' Longhorns

With Rick Hamilton

Michael Parks - Wayfarin' Stranger / MGM

John Severson - Goofy-Foot Glen / Capitol

Bonnie Owens - Number One Heel / Capitol

Neil Nissenson - Intoxica / Reprise

Trini Lopez - Sinner Man / Reprise

Oscar Ghiglia - A Dollar Between the Teeth / Concord

Billy Grammer - Princess of Persia / Everest

Crescents - Pink Dominos / Era

The Ventures - 1999 AD / Liberty

Autry Inman - The Volunteer / Jubilee

Manuel & the Renegades - Rev-up / RockBeat

Sonny Curtis - I Wanna Go Bummin' Around / Viva

Del Reeves - Skin Your Own Polecat / UA

La Cricca - Ronnie / Arc

Dave & the Saints - Leavin' Surf City / Satan

Ennio Morricone - Two Mules for Sister Sara / MCA

The Sundancers - Devil Surf / Break Out

Billy Byrd - Walkin the Floor Over You / Warner

Molly Bee - Heartbreak USA / MGM

Dave Myers & the Surtones - Laguna Limbo Luau / Del-Fi

The Sunlights - Saturday Night / Decca

Pernell Roberts - Rake and a Ramblin' Boy / RCA Victor

The Astronauts - Speedy Gonzalez / RCA Victor

Hank Williams Jr. - Guess What, That's Right, She's Gone / MGM

The Broadminded Beat

 

With Julea

Music Behind DJ:  Juaneco y su Combo – Me Robaron Mi Runa Mula  (Infopesa)

Willie Bobo – Spanish Grease (Verve)

Los Johnny Jets – Deja de Llorar (CBS)

The Yellow Payges – The Two of Us (UNI)

The Fatimas – The Hoochy Coo (Original Sound)

The Bonniwell Music Machine – Mother Nature, Father Earth (Warner Bros)

Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band – Abba Zabba (Buddah Records)

Music Behind DJ: Buzzy Brant – Intermission (Nashville)

The Metallics – Get Lost (Baronet Records)

Chick Carlton – Honey I’ve Got To Go (Demon Records)

Marie Knight – To Be Loved By You (Addit)

Dollee Escourt – Cold Hearted Man 9 (Malvern)

Barbara Trent – Heart Break Hotel (Red Label)

The Citations – Kiss in the Night (Don-El)

Music Behind DJ: Jimmy Knapp Trio – Poinciana (Esta)

Sonny Moore – Bloodshed in Tombstone (Roulette)

Sonny Moore – Every Big Man Ain’t Strong (Roulette)

Jim Taylor – Unknown Sin (Select-O-Hits)

The Blue Rondos – Little Baby (Pye Records)

Gene McDaniels – Another Tear Falls (Liberty)

Music Behind DJ: The Scamps – Petite Fleur (Arlan)

Adron – Heaven Scented Season Tree (self release) 

Kogar's Jungle Juice Show #122

 

01 the Eden Rocs - Walkin with Satan NUGGET

02 the maddisons - snake bite MADDISON

03 Duane Eddy his 'twangy' guitar and The Rebels Ramrod JAMIE

04 The Demotrons Rock a Way Special ENRICA

05 Roland Stone - Lost Love USA

06 Bob Taylor and the Counts - Taylor's Rock YUCCA

 

01 The Lamplighters Roll on FEDERAL

02 The Sputniks Hey Maryann CLASS

03 The Raiders Raiders from Outer Space ATCO

04 The Hurricanes Pistol Packin Mama KING

05 The El Torros Mama's Cooking DUKE

06 The Five Quails - Jungle Baby MERCURY

 

01 Don and Dewey Jungle Hop SPECIALTY

02 Larry Davis (My) Little Girl DUKE

03 Elton Anderson Sick and Tired LANOR

04 Ruth Brown If I Had Any Sense ATLANTIC

05 Billy Gayles Take Your Fine Frame Home FEDERAL

06 Bo Diddley Bo Diddley 1969 CHECKER

 

01 Hasil Adkins The Hunch A.R.C.

02 Corky Jones Hot Dog PEP

03 Malcolm Yelvington Rockin With My Baby SUN

04 Al Ferrier Hey Baby EXCELLO

05 Jack Scott The Way I Walk CARLTON

06 Glen Garrison and the Note Kings Lovin Lorene CREST

07 Kip Tyler - vagabond mama STARLA

08 Rhythm Rockers Juke Box Help me find my Baby SUN

 

01 Big Mack and the Shufflers - Out of my mind TRI MAC

02 Otis Blackwell Fool That I Be RCA VICTOR

03 Cousin Leroy Will a Matchbox Hold My Clothes EMBER

04 B. Brown and his Rockin McVouts Fannie Mae is Back VEST

05 Earl King Baby You Can Get Your Gun ACE

 

01 Dale Hawkins The Hawk Walks CHESS

02 Roscoe and his Little Green Men Weird 20TH CENTURY FOX promo

03 The Sci-Fi's Science Friction ERA

04 Jack Hammer and the Pacers - Black Widow Spider Woman MILESTONE

05 Tony Ray - Bossa Nova Baby IMPERIAL

06 The Godz - Radar Eyes ESP-DISK’

07 Calico Wall I’m a living sickness DOVE

 

Outro Lavern Baker Romance in the Dark

Aircheck Of The Week

 

They called him the Vanilla Gorilla. Jim Wood's got the goods for Southern California on KRLA. It's September '67 on Boss Radio 66.