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Grant		#41	[-]
Oct 16 10 9:48 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	BijouBob8mm wrote: No, but that brings a smile and some memories! The cover I'm thinking of shows the girl from around mid-torso up. She's on the right hand side of the cover, looking off toward the left side, with her hair flowing about her head. I thought it was from a LIGHTS OUT or SLEEP NO MORE album, but I'm probably wrong about the title as a search for album art from those never comes up with that image. (Maybe it wasn't from a radio show, but an original audio recording?) The girl is attractive but eerie, which always made me think she must be a ghost. I'm sitting here with a copy of FM #27, which has an ad for a Boris Karloff LP called TALES OF MYSTERY & IMAGINATION. In spite of the title, it's not Poe but Washington Irving ("Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle.") That same issue has a two-page spread of LPs called "Adventure Stories in Sound." The titles in the series are FIRST MAN (sic) IN THE MOON, WAR OF THE WORLDS, THE WIZARD OF OZ, KIDNAPPED, 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, THE INVISIBLE MAN, AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS and JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH. I'm pretty certain the one you mean IS called Sleep No More.
Wich2		#42	[-]
Oct 17 10 9:39 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	No hairy lady there - unless, as with the ADVENTURES lps, maybe Warren used another illo at some point?
BijouBob8mm		#43	[-]
Oct 18 10 11:22 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Grant, SLEEP NO MORE is the title I've always associated with that image. I wonder if more than one company released episodes of the show and that accounts for the alternate art? Or, as Craig suggests, the cover was changed over the years? I got rid of so many of the original FMs over the years, as I rarely reread them, so haven't had any luck tracking down the image. (Lots of nostalgia, but the filmbook approach just wasn't drawing me back in this age of home video. I actually need to weed out some more magazines and comics I know will never get looked at again...maybe have a yard sale or garage sale.)
BijouBob8mm		#44	[-]
Jan 17 11 1:44 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Something that hit me recently, as I browsed through some old issues of VAMPIRELLA--the art (especially the eyes on the lady) on the mystery album cover looked very similar to the illustration style of the B&W Warren comic magazine in the early Seventies.
Princess Ananka		#45	[-]
Jan 18 11 2:47 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Friend of Daniel wrote: Listening to these again after many years it strikes me Taylor sounds quite a bit like Skelton Knaggs! It's true!! Listening to him reading "The Fall of the House of Usher". I half expect him to say, "It's a matter for us to handle...unless we all want to be murdered!"
GaryP11111		#46	[-]
Jan 19 11 11:02 AM Burgomaster Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	japfeif wrote: Friend of Daniel wrote: Great info on these recordings - particularly the Richard Taylor LPs. I remember being confused when my Captian Company copy of 'Nightmare' came in the 'Horror' jacket (with 'Nightmare' rubber stamped on a blank white rectangle), which now seems more appropriate considering that LP included "The Tell-Tale Heart". Listening to these again after many years it strikes me Taylor sounds quite a bit like Skelton Knaggs! I am not 100% positive, but I believe that the album covers for the 4 Richard Taylor albums (the ones posted by kronosis), with the different cover for each album, may have been advertising pics posted in FM (and Creepy, Eerie, etc.) but the actual albums, when purchased, all came in the "HORROR" album cover (of a scene apparently from "The Tell-Tale Heart"), with the actual name of the album (HORROR, FRIGHT, TERROR, or NIGHTMARE), as you said, stamped in a small white rectangle. I had NIGHTMARE and one of the others (either TERROR or HORROR, I can't recall) as a kid way back in the 70's, and I do remember both covers were the HORROR cover, with the name stamped in the white rectangle. Also, I recently, over the past 4-5 years, acquired all 4 albums and all are in HORROR covers with the name stamped in the rectangle. It may be, as I said, that the albums ultimately sold were not of the pics seen in the mags, or else maybe these are second editions or something....with the original ones being all different, but then a few years later they began to ship them all in the same covers with the album name merely stamped on it (would be cheaper I guess to use all the same cover & just stamp on the name rather than produce a totally different cover for each album). I am not sure on this, just a theory, since at least all the one's I have personally had or seen seem to be in jackets with the HORROR cover. Has anyone actually had one of these albums one with the 4 different covers originally seen in the mags & in kronosis's posted pic (besides HORROR, of course!)? I know for certain that the HORROR, NIGHTMARE and HOUSE OF FRIGHT albums did, at least for a time, use the advertising art for the covers as seen in FM (I have two of them). In fact I've also spotted the HOUSE OF FRIGHT album with a white cover and black lettering. My copy of the TERROR album has the aforementioned HORROR cover with "Terror" stamped in a white rectangle. I don't recall running across a copy using the same art as seen in the FM ad. GARY L. PRANGE "Sic gorgiamus allos subjectos nunc." Check out my YouTube Video of the Week! (updated 8-3-09) Last Edited By: GaryP11111 Feb 18 11 3:07 AM. Edited 2 times.
GaryP11111		#47	[-]
Feb 18 11 3:11 AM Burgomaster Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	BTW, the Nightmare album was voiced by Irving Adatto, not Richard Taylor. The guitar noodling was by Jerry H. Galuten. There is an Irving Adatto listed as living in either Rockaway Beach or Rockaway Park, NY. He'd be about the right age. I wonder... And there are several patents held by a Jerry H. Galuten. GARY L. PRANGE "Sic gorgiamus allos subjectos nunc." Check out my YouTube Video of the Week! (updated 8-3-09)
BijouBob8mm		#48	[-]
Mar 26 12 8:46 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I see Electric Lemon has reissued the old "Poe with Pipes" LP on CD, which has John Carradine reading Poe's works. I vaguely recall this, but have never heard it. Anyone here heard it?
Red Gargon		#49	[-]
Apr 1 12 10:40 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Yes, it's good stuff - if you know Verne Langdon's style on the pipe organ, it's that plus Carradine doing mellifluous Poe readings over the music; exactly what you'd expect. The CD reissue also includes the HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR LP as well.
Ray Faiola		#50	[-]
Apr 6 12 8:27 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Uncanny and Unequaled! Classic Film Scores Restored on CD http://www.chelsearialtostudios.com
BijouBob8mm		#51	[-]
Apr 6 12 10:58 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Thanks Red!
Wich2		#52	[-]
Apr 6 12 3:28 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Ray, that is one TRIPPY lp!
Red Gargon		#53	[-]
Apr 6 12 11:48 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	POE FOR MODERNS has one of my favorite recordings ever of "Ulalume". �
Wich2		#54	[-]
Apr 7 12 2:33 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	For youse guys who likes dat recorded poetry stuff, I just did a cut for an album coming from the NY Browning Society with a gang that included Tammy Grimes, Christine Baranski, and Brian Murray.
Dr Acula		#55	[-]
Apr 9 12 2:04 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Alan Parsons Project has an album full of Poe, Tales of Mystery and Imagination. The original version didn't have it, but later pressings has Orson Wells reading some Poe added to the songs.
BijouBob8mm		#56	[-]
Apr 10 12 3:57 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	A while back I stumbled across a listing for an audio book of Orson Welles reading a number of short stories, including Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," called The Masterworks of Orson Welles (from New Millenium Audio).
Red Gargon		#57	[-]
Apr 11 12 10:06 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	My Holy Grail Poe LP that I've never been able to track down, is William Castle apparently reading or performing "The Tell Tale Heart" on a Hanna-Barbera LP:
BijouBob8mm		#58	[-]
Apr 12 12 10:11 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Wow, Red, never knew about that one. Can't make out what it says under William Castle's name: "Cartoon..." something.
Red Gargon		#59	[-]
Apr 12 12 9:43 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I think it's Cartoon "Series" abbreviated to "SER" and an HLP identification number. I'm pretty sure this is part of the same record series where they'd put a HB character into some classic literature, a la "Jonny Quest in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea". Obviously the concept's a delicate problem when you're deciding if it's Barney Rubble who's the psychotic killer and Fred Flintstone who gets chopped up and stashed under the floorboards or vice-versa. So I'd guess pulling in William Castle for a one-shot was the workaround. Either way it just seems rarer than a hen's tooth. I'd love to just hear the thing, I don't necessarily want the album itself, so if there's anyone who has a copy of some kind (tape, mp3, whatever), for sale or trade, please PM me!
BijouBob8mm		#60	[-]
Apr 13 12 8:30 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Didn't know about JQ in a version of "20,000 Leagues." As a kid, I had a 45 of "The Wizard of Oz" that featured Snagglepuss as the Cowardly Lion on the sleeve. (He also narrated the tale.)

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