Halloween Soul/Funk....drawing a blank
The_Hook_Up
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radio show falls on Halloween, so I gotta have some themed jernts....cant think of any except:Poindexter Bros "Booga Man"Bowlegs Miller "Frankenstein Walk"I dont know, maybe Dusty Springfield "Spooky"some selections from the Blacula OST...I know I have to be missing some obvious ones..help plaese
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Dinner with Drac (maybe that's just a break record - i forgets)
some stuff from the playlist:
Lou Rawls - Season of the Witch (Capitol LP)
Gene Anderson - Devil Made Me Do It (Westbound 45)
Charles Sheffield - It's Your Voodoo Workin' (Excello 45)
Johnny Sayles - My Love's a Monster (Chi-Sound 45)
Caution - Love Ray (Fretone 45)
Curtis Knight - See No Evil (Paramount LP)
Howlin' Wolf - Evil (later version, Cadet Concept LP)
Cash McCall - Mojo Woman (Paula LP)
Blenders - Graveyard (Sue 45)
There's a bunch of good covers of "Spell ... " too -
Them, Alan Price ... there's a female one, I can't remember ...
and another i can add is nightmare strut by jc & the soul angels
Oh, and I've played Tommie Young -"Devil in their soul"
at a helloween party in the past to good dancefloor effect.
The "Dinner With Drac" I know (by Zacherle) is a good novelty rocker, but I wouldn't call it soul or funk.
Boogedy Boogedy - the Arrows
the obvious ones are good too
Monster Mash
Wooly Bully
Tubular Bells (Mike Oldfield - The Exorcist theme)
I got "Victory" for my 9th birthday because my mother knew I was crazy about "State Of Shock". I played that LP a lot. "Torture" was my jam too. I need to revisit.
Back on topic...if your radio show is only straight up soul-funk then this will probably not fit, but you could go from
to "Blind Concert" from
Starts off with the main theme which is kind of similar to Tubular Bells and goes into "funky fusion" territory.
Or maybe something from
Plenty of goofy "horror" vocal intros and even though it's reggae, The Roots Radics are funky as hell in my book.
Willie Wright "Right On For The Darkness"
And my all-time fave Rockabilly cut Rockin' Bones by Ronnie Dawson.
And if you're going to stray that far, it's just a hop, skip, and a jump to Vampires of Dartmoor. Sexy vampire loops, yo.