Friday, October 5, 2018

Casey's Really Scratchy Record Collection Presents: Chilling, Thrilling Sounds Of The Haunted House (1964)


This record came out on Walt Disney Records back in 1964. It was basically just a way for Disney to make some easy money off of their sound effects library. In fact, side two was exactly that, just a bunch of cuts of ghost howls, thunderstorms, screams etc. But on side one, they used the sound effects to augment a series of spooky narrations by Laura Olsher that were very well done.

They re-released it on Disneyland Records in 1973 and that is when I bought a copy of it at a local drugstore, either Super-X or Cunningham's, I can't remember which. I played it dozens of times on my old plastic red, white and blue record player. My favorite cut being the first, "The Haunted House".

The album was certified gold in 1972, selling over a million copies. Through the years, it has been sampled by various hip hop performers and was performed live in 2014 by the rock band Phish. It is a great record to get you in the mood for the Halloween season.  So as always, turn out the lights, crank it up and BYOB.


Listen to the full album HERE

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