Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.’ Spike Jones in Stereo: A Spooktacular in Screaming Sound! (Omnivore) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Omnivore Recordings LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Omnivore Recordings The late, great Spike Jones’ side-splittingly spooky 1959 album In Stereo: A Spooktacular in Screaming Sound! returns from Omnivore Recordings in time for Halloween as freshly remastered from the original tapes. Led by an illustrious company including Paul Frees (Boris Badenov, The Haunted Mansion’s Ghost Host), Thurl Ravenscroft (“You’re…
This Is Your Death! “Spike Jones In Stereo: A Spooktacular in Screaming Sound” Returns From Omnivore
Dracula, Vampira, Frankenstein, and Dr. Jekyll walk into a room… When the late, great Spike Jones (1911-1965) set his sights on Halloween, a cult classic album was born. The fiendishly funny musical satirist had been unleashing insanity on unsuspecting record buyers since the early 1940s, turning car horns, belches, sneezes, gurgles, and gunshots into high art. In 1959, both rock-and-roll and the horror movie craze were in full swing, and the fiendishly funny, endlessly inventive purveyor of “musical depreciation” couldn’t let them pass by unnoticed. With a troupe of legendary voice actors,…



