Halloween music on 78 hard to find

[poodling around]

A couple of great ones that come to mind are "Tain't No Sin (to dance around in your bones)" and "Mysterious Mose" - there are multiple versions of both tunes - you might be lucky to find one between now and the spooky date!

Here's one on this side of the pond, but it's much too expensive: https://www.ebay.com/itm/VINCENT-LOPEZ- ... SwrPZcwyuq

So, I looked at your link and thought: "Wow ! I am SURE I have that record !

So, I had a look and ............ mine is a different version .....

On the other hand ...... perhaps 'Silv'ry Moon' is about a Halloween Werewolf .........

[Edisonfan]

Ragtime Goblin Man would be the more common. What are some other titles you've come across?

This House is Haunted- Roy Fox 1934
At the Devil’s Ball - Maurice Burkart : 1913
Bogey Wail - Jack Hilton : 1929
The Skelton Rag - American Quartet: 1912
The Boogie Man is here - Tom Gerun : 1929
Undertakers Blues - Helen Gross & The Kansas City Five : 1924
With Her head tucked underneath her arm - Cyril Smith : 1934
That Syncopated Boogie Boo - The Primer Quartet: 1913
Strange Enchantment - Ozzie Nelson & Rose Anne Stevens : 1939
The Ghost of the St. Louis Blues - Bob Skyles & His Skyrockets : 1930
Spooky Spook - Victor Military Band : 1917
Spider Web Blues - Victoria Spivey : 1926
The Ghost of the Terrible Blue - The Peerless Quartet: 1915

[Edisonfan]

Argh! Danse Macabre is one of my favourite records. I own the two Stoky/Philadelphia versions, plus a Brunswick one by Cleveland Orch conducted by Solokov, abridged to fit one 12" side. In later times I acquired an acoustic version on Odeon by the Paris Opera orch, squeezed in one 11" side, matrix XP-5039, reported to have been recorded in 1910, as per marvelous matrix compilation made by Christian Zwarg, from GHT.
The first electric Victor recording by Stoky, mx CVE-27929/30, issued takes nos. 2, was recorded on April 29th, 1925, and is said to have used the very same arrangement and instrumentation of the first acoustic recording of March 19th, 1923, same mx in first takes, tuba and double bassoon included. Something about very first electrical recordings made the same way as acoustics, for engineers were yet not confident enough about the possible results...?
Certainly, it is a curious sound, because of the instrumentation, and the thick staccato passages by the bassoon are amazing! A real test for any soundbox! The third version made eleven years later used a standard symphonic instrumentation.

I have been trying to find a copy, on 78.

[Orchorsol]

Another here in the UK, Ray Noble & the Mayfair Dance Orchestra: The Haunted House
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-MAYFAIR- ... 1438.l2649
(the other side to that advertised)

[OrthoSean]

I'm not sure it qualifies, but I'd add "Skeleton Jangle" by the ODJB to the list. Pretty easy to find, to boot.

Sean

[Edisonfan]

True!

[Pathe Logical]

Check out this Halloween related post from two years ago for some more ideas! http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewto ... en#p194088

Bob

[Edisonfan]

Thank you Bob. Just need to find copies on cylinder and 78, to buy!

[marcapra]

Good as Saint-Saens' Danse Macabre is, probably the most Halloweenish music of all time has got to be Stokowski's version of Mussorgsky's A Night on Bald Mountain with the Philadelphia Orchestra on Victor.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30oxAdib5L4

[wjw]

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