Poe For Moderns – Music To Scare Your Neighbours

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Just in time for Halloween, Fingertips offer up yet another forgotten masterpiece with a scary 30 track collection that brings together the complete classic vinyl rarity 'Poe For Moderns' by Buddy Morrow and his Orchestra, along with the best of the late '50s and early '60s music inspired by the burgeoning horror movie genre.

Buddy Morrow And His Orchestra took the opportunity to roll out a whole album's worth of haunted melodies using the stories of Edgar Allan Poe as their inspiration under the suitably beat title 'Poe For Moderns', in which they also tried to appeal to the beat generation as well as horror fans.

'Poe for Moderns' mixes spoken word and spooky jazz fronted by a cooler-than-thou beatnik-styled English lecturer intoning the tales alongside creeped out harmonies from The Skip-Jacks.

Alongside this horror genre classic are 18 classic exploitation 45s mainly culled from the classic horror year of 1958 when The Blob and I Married A Monster From Outer Space were staples at the drive-in.

With classic performances by TV horror show hosts John Zacherle and Bob McFadden, tales of purple people eaters from both Joe South and the legendary Bo Diddley and a good smattering of Frankenstein and Dracula novelty hits, it's wall-to-wall gore with a fine sense of humour.

The collection is an eerie kaleidoscope of doo wop eirdness, rollicking rockabilly with much maniacal laughter, plus oddball visions from the likes of Nervous Norvous and downright strange stories from a host of vintage crooners.

Remastered from the original sound sources, the packaging includes copious sleevenotes by MOJO magazine's Dave Henderson.
 

TRACKLISTA:

1 “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”
2 “Annabel Lee”
3 “The Gold Bug”
4 “A Descent into the Maelstrom”
5 “The Bells”
6 “The Fall of the House of Usher”
7 “The Pit and the Pendulum”
8 “Ulalume”
9 “The Black Cat”
10 “The Raven”
11 “Quoth the Raven”
12 “The Tell-Tale Heart”
13 “Bo Meets the Monster” Bo Diddley
14 “At The House of Frankenstein ” Big Bob Kornegay
15 “Don’t Meet Mr Frankenstein” Carlos Casal Jr
16 “Dinner With Dracula” John Zacherle
17 “Witchcraft” The Spiders
18 “The Rockin' Ghost” Archie Bleyer
19 “The Purple People Eater Meets The Witch Doctor” Joe South
20 “The Shriek Of Agony (Shriek Of Agony-Cha Cha Cha)” Bob McFadden & Dor
21 “The Shadow Knows ” The Coasters
22 “Zombi ” The Monotones
23 “Do the Zombie ” The Symbols
24 “Igor's Party ” Tony And The Monstrosities
25 “The Creep ” Bob Luman And The Shadows
26 “Graveyard ” Leroy Bowman And The Arrows
27 “Frog in the Fog ” The Zircons
28 “Hoodoo ” Al Reed And The Blue Notes
29 “Rockin' in the Graveyard ” Jackie Morningstar
30 “The Fang ” Nervous Norvous