November 1, 1998 - Halloween Special on All Saints Day
This week's Lotsa A Cappella featured the ARI (A Cappella Radio International)
concert and interview with the very scary Mary Schmary. Thanks to CASA for
sending us the ARI programs every month, and to Phil DeBar for his contributions
to A Cappella Radio International.
Here's a list of all the frightening things we played on November First:
- Persuasions - Good Old A Cappella (The Scary Wolfman Mix) - We Still Ain't Got No Band (wolf howls added)
- The Bobs - The Ambient One - I Brow Club
- Flesh & Bone: Compassion - Skeleton Woman
- Spatz - There's Gonna Be The Devil To Pay - I Wish I Felt This Way All The Time
- Artisan - Hammer Ghost - Breathing Space
- Toby Twining Music - Shaman - Shaman
- Boukman Eksperyans - Zan'ji Yo (The Spirits Are Back); Libete (Pran Pou Pran'l!) - Freedom (Let's Take It!)
ARI: Interview and private concert with San Francisco's own Mary Schmary -
includes the following songs:
- Creepy Halloween Theme
- Babar
- Peace
- I Put You There
- Little Fish (A Darwinian gospel tune)
- Los Immigrantes
- I'll Take You There
Scary Gospel and Shapenote Music:
- One Accord - Whitestown - Pleasure Tunes My Tongue
- Soul Stirrers - Feel Like My Time Ain't Long - Shine On Me
- Northampton Harmony - Despair - The Hookes' Regular Sing
- Dixie Hummingbirds - Born To Die - Amazing Grace (various artists)
More Scary Stuff:
- Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - Halloween Spooks - (various artists compilation)
- Screaming Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You (live version) / Evidence Blues Sampler (various artists)
- Weekend Edition - (Ghost) Judges In The Pit - Only In My Dreams
- Boyz Nite Out - People Are Strange - Harmony Sweepstakes 1995 (various artists)
- The Bobs - Psycho Killer - Sing The Songs Of...
- Zabe I Babe - Sarena Guja - Drumovi
- Mint Juleps - The Snake - Round Our Way
- (Brigham Young U.) Integral - Blood Makes Noise - Acappellagram (various artists)
- Rockapella - Zombie Jamboree - Primer
- Sensational Nightingales - Burying Ground - The Best Of
- Staple Singers - A Dying Man's Plea (See That My Grave Is Kept Clean) - Great Day
- Mrs. Bertha Smith & group - Lay Down Body - Been In The Storm So Long (various artists)
Music "beds" and incidental music throughout the program from the following recordings:
- London Philharmonic Orchestra - Music From The Great Hitchcock Films by Bernard Herrmann, conducted by the composer
- L'Orchestre De La Societe Des Concerts Du Conservatoire - Pictures At An Exhibition by Mussorgsky, orchestrated by Ravel
- London Symphony Orchestra - Night On Bald Mountain by Mussorgsky, orchestrated and conducted by Leopold Stowkowski
- Sound Effects:
- Halloween Hysteria (K-Tel)
- 100 Greatest Sound Effects: The Ultimate Collection
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Q: What did the daddy ghost say to his family when they went out for a drive? A: "Fasten your sheet belts!"
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