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Elvira Presents Haunted Hits

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This CD features some great horror themed songs. Classics like "Monster Mash", "Haunted House" and "The Purple People Eater". Plus great lesser known songs like "The Creature From The Black Lagoon", "Halloween Spooks" and "Voodoo Voodoo". The only bad song here is "Full Moon", sung by Elvira herself. In fact, if it hadn't been performed by Elvira, it wouldn't have been considered good enough to be on this CD. The other problem I have with this CD is that it only has 17 tracks, while the LP and cassette versions had 23 tracks. The CD is only 54 minutes long, so it's not like there wasn't room for the 6 extra tracks. For the record, the missing songs are: "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes", "Little Demon", "Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman", "King Kong", "The Creature" and "Martian Hop". But this is still probably the best horror themed music compilation available.

This CD will be a great addition to your Halloween Party! Several songs on this CD are pretty unique. Some of my favorites from this CD are: Haunted House, The Blob, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, Welcome to My Nightmare, Twilight Zone, Dead Man's Party, and Voodoo Voodoo. GhostBusters of course is an Awesome Halloween song, but you can find that song a lot of places. (same thing with Monster Mash), but if you get your hands on this CD you'll have a few popular well known songs plus new songs too. The song I Put A Spell on You is a really great song, but find the original Nina Simone version! Some of these songs are kind of silly, and depending upon your party or tastes, you might not find them appropriate for your party (they'd be better for a kid's!) but there are some great songs here, and something for everyone.

How am I the first person to review this cd? How do so many other cds get all the publicity? I don't know, but here we go...
My name is Marcus H. Smilfer, usually a purveyor of cultural junk, but this time I am here to convince you to buy a great cd for your next Halloween (or Walpurgis Nacht) blowout.

"Elvira Presents: Haunted Hits" probably had nothing to do with the curvy Mistress of the Dark (and I don't mean Vampira), until she insisted that her picture and her song, the last one on this cd, be included. Well, leave it up to producers Mark Pierson and Eric Gardner to do an awesome job with something they could have easily phoned in. You get a great collection of Halloween songs on this one cd: "Out of Limits" by the Marketts (sounds like a surf music take on the theme to the old TV show "Outer Limits"; cool!), "The Blob", "The Addams Family" theme, an orchestral take on the "Twilight Zone" theme, "Dead Man's Party" by Oingo Boingo, the super-cool "Horror Movie" by the Skyhooks (must be heard to be believed), the classic "I Put a Spell on You" by crazy-man Sceamin' Jay Hawkins, great & bluesy "Voodoo, Voodoo" by LaVern Baker, the often imitated but never equaled "Halloween Spooks" by L, H, & R (cool song!), requisite "Purple People Eater" & "Ghostbusters" (which have always been stupid songs), the excellent "Creature from the Black Lagoon" by Dave Edmunds (I love this song!), but MOST IMPORTANTLY the ORIGINAL versions of: "Haunted House" by Jumpin' Gene Simmons (lots of horrible re-dos by Gene are floating around) and the classic that set off the whole Monster-Song extravaganza: "MONSTER MASH" by Boris Pickett!!!!!

Yes, you see Gene & Boris apparently recognized that their two big hits were being played again and again in the original versions and decided to re-record them. Well, the re-recorded versions are never listed as such by most Halloween compilations, and they are VERY different from the originals that you remember. So, if you buy another compilation and listen to it and think, "hey this sounds different than I remember..." that's probably because...IT IS! This cd has the ORIGINAL versions of the songs and, to the best of my knowledge, is the ONLY cd which has that distinction. ALSO, it has the amazing song "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" by the Cramps, which will blow your mind. If you are looking for a "gateway" Halloween cd, folks, this is it and it is worth any price you pay to get it. Buy it, open up the coffins and few Schaefer beers and howl at the moon...Halloween was never so good...

This collection of Halloween classics is a scream (literally!)From the Crypt Kickers singing the classic Monster Mash, to Oingo Boingodoin' Deadman's Party, this album will keep you rockin and rollin this Hallow's Eve

We have 3 of the 'Elvira' collections & our favorites are this one & Revenge of Monster Hits. The light-hearted songs have been great background music at our Halloween parties & while decorating.

We like Revenge of the Monster Hits the best but enjoy the tremendous variety of songs on Haunted Hits.

I have purchased this CD twice now. We purchased it years ago, before Hurricane Katrina. We lost our house, and possessions, in Katrina but my boys, now older, never forgot this album. It has some hip, good songs. Many are funny. The songs by Elvira are the best. Recommended.

While staying true to the Halloween theme, I wouldn't play this collection all the way through at a party. While there are some great selections ("Monster Mash", "Dead Man's Party", "I Put a Spell on You", and "Voodoo Voodoo"), it is too much of a mish mosh of slow tempo and up tempo to get a party really rockin'. It would probably be great for kicking back while answering the door to trick or treaters, or just to get into the Halloween spirit. Be sure to skip the Elvira song "Full Moon"...it's bad enough to make the cats go and hide.

This compilation is amazing, every song is a classic!!! if you can, get it!!