LOOKIT DAT!!!: THE CAPTAIN & FUNNY ANIMALS

Over the next few weeks, I'll be going through my image folders doing some spring cleaning now that it's mid-Summer clearing out some files I've been hoarding like a fiend for quite a while.  I tend to do that with images and then come back to them either as fascinated as before or perplexed as to what the heck I thought I saw the first time around.  This should be interesting insight into my way of seeing things or a disturbing look into a fractured mind.

YOU BE THE JUDGE!

These peeks into my accumulated image files will be entitled "LOOKIT DAT!!!".

Here we go:

I'll have to assume that the following drawing by the late great "Mean" Gene Colan was a collector's request as these guys just seem strange together!  Pluto with Howard the Duck and not Donald and Bugs whispering in Cap's ear--kind of odd.  Still, Gene pulled off the sketch flawlessly

and that's the point when you're trying to please a fan.

COUNTDOWN TO HALLOWEEN DAY 7: SOUNDS OF THE SEASON

For me, this album represents the sounds of Halloween as I knew them in my childhood. Originally released in 1964 with a white border, DISNEY'S THRILLING, CHILLING SOUNDS OF THE HAUNTED HOUSE, played in our home every year when the wind grew chill and the darkness crept in.

It was as scary as hell to a child of my age and I can't remember how old I was when I first heard it. The sounds of the ghosts are what got to me the most. The fact that they not only seemed to be tortured souls, but completely bat-crap crazy and laughing even more wickedly than Frank Gorshin as the Riddler on BATMAN, disturbed me more than a little. It made my first viewing of FRIDAY THE 13TH a walk in the park by comparison.



Needless to say, there have been many re-releases of this album on vinyl throughout the '70s, but I'm unaware of any CD versions. It is finally available for download officially on iTunes, and I'm sure you can find it somewhere in the many twists and turns of the internet. And if you gotta have the vinyl you can't have mine, but I've seen several copies listed over on eBay of course. It really is the cream of the crop when it comes to Halloween sound effects.



Here are some fine blogs and articles on this subject that pretty much say what I just said, but better or with audio:

Haunted-Dimensions

monsterkid

doombuggies

Kindertrauma

Brooklynvegan

Davesworld

SeattleSubsonic

Finally, few examples from the vinyl up on the youtubes:





Today's Halloween Greeting: