Part One And Part Two
We’ll be traveling into ghost towns, graveyards, and other dark and mysterious places on a final trip to a Haunted House filled with music from The Pixies, R Dean Taylor, Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs, Paul Simon, Martha & The Muffins, Bob Dylan, Amy Allison with Elvis Costello, and Screaming Jay Hawkins. Join Boris Karloff and his friends Bela Lugosi, Colin Clive, Lionel Atwill, Lord Huron, Field of Dreamers, Gus Black, Louis Jordan, Adia Victora, Donovan, Frank Sinatra and The Firesign Theatre as we play “Beat The Reaper”
“Beware of Shortcuts” a Halloween Special with Fay Wray, Bela Lugosi, The Firesign Theatre, Claude Rains, Dwight Frye, Boris Karloff, Ray Bolger, Lon Chaney Jr, George Harrison, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, ELO, The Rolling Stones, Edward Van Sloan, Helen Chandler, Robert Armstrong, Lionel Atwill, Una O’Connor, Maria Ouspenskaya, Cary Grant, Jethro Tull, Judy Garland, Humprhey Bogart, Margret Hamilton, Bert Lahr, Scott Muni, Walter Carlos, Monty Python, David Bowie, John Lennon, Chrysalis, Blue Oyster Cult, The Youngbloods, The Grateful Dead, Lol Creme and Kevin Godley, the cast of “Peter Pan”, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Warren Zevon and many others… Recorded and mixed on a 2 Track machine and originally broadcast in October of 1979 and spliced together by hand–“from the bodies I took from graveyards…”I created it!” A “Mini-Cab Driver” sketch by Peter Cook & Dudley Moore was added to the original 45 minute production somewhere in the eighties, along with a transfer of John Zacherle’s classic “Dinner with Drac” from the original 45 rpm single–scratches intact. Zacherle also lends his announcing talents to the production credit tag.