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Track Listings
| 1. Halloween Hootenanny - Zacherie |
| 2. Halloween (She Get So Mean) - Rob Zombie |
| 3. The Halloween Dance - Reverend Horton Heat |
| 4. A Fistful Of Terror - The Bomboras |
| 5. Werewolf - Southern Culture On The Skids |
| 6. Gravewalk - Satan's Pilgrims |
| 7. Ribcage Mambo - Frenchy |
| 8. I Drink Blood - Rocket From The Crypt |
| 9. Little Demon - The Amazing Crowns |
| 10. No Costume, No Candy - Swingin' Neckbreakers |
| 11. 'The Munsters' Theme - Los Straitjackets |
| 12. Sinister Purpose - Zacherie |
| 13. Werewolves On Wheels - The Born Losers |
| 14. Psychic Voodoo Doll - Deadbolt |
| 15. Banshee Beach - The Ghastly Ones |
| 16. The Creature Stole My Surfboard - Dead Elvi |
| 17. Extrasensory Deception - David Allan/Phantom Surfers |
| 18. Spooks Night Out - Legendary Invisible Men |
| 19. Happy Halloween - Zacherie |
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
You just need one look at Rob Zombie to know that the guy knows a thing or two about Halloween. He really proves his mettle--and his metal, for that matter--on this loud, garish, downright fun collection of rip-roaring devil's music. There's actually very little to be afraid of, to tell the truth--unless, that is, you have a phobia about the kind of goofy good times laid down by Zombie and pals like Rocket from the Crypt, Satan's Pilgrims, and the wrestling-masked power-surf combo Los Straitjackets (who turn in a hypercharged "Munsters Theme"). The garishly groovy package, which features some of Zombie's most over-the-top cartoon illustrations, is rife with haunting hoedowns like the Dead Elvi's "The Creature Stole My Surfboard." More fun than a coven meeting any day. --David Sprague
Product Description
19 tracks. The Ghastly Ones, Davie Allen, the Bomboras, Southern Culture On The Skids etc. BMG Direct club version - DGCSD-25214. SM.
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
20 of 22 people found the following review helpful
By Hearse Queen
Format:Audio CD
I love this CD to death! It's got surf, rockabilly, and even some macabre mambo music. This is hauntingly hip halloween party music you'll want to play all year round.
It also features a spoken intro by Zacherley, the famous TV Horror Host from the fifties. He also sits in with the crazy fun Southern Culture on the Skids for some spoken word on the track, Sinister Purpose.
This is one of those CD's I put in the player and hit repeat all tracks and start working at the computer, because I enjoy all of it. I just have to get up from working occassionally to dance around madly. The artwork inside and out on the CD is also very killer, very retro creature feature-esque.
Fun stuff!
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I can definitely visualize a tiki-laden environment, like a Halloween Luau, perhaps at the beach at night, with everyone dressed up as their favorite monsters, sipping martinis and dancing nearby a bonfire to the joyous tunes of Halloween revery...
1. Halloween Hootenanny - Zacherie
We are introduced to the Halloween festivities with a poem narrated by our Ghoulish Host Zacherie, providing a welcoming atmosphere, starting off the party...
2. Halloween (She Get So Mean) - Rob Zombie
Emerging from the blackened earth, the zombie king launches the celebrations with a bang, where you can picture Baby girating in a devil-girl a-go-go costume...
3. The Halloween Dance - Reverend Horton Heat
Stick your arms out like you're in a trance, the gang's all here! You can hear them in the background throughout the songs herein. Everyone's having fun beneath the harvest moon!
4. A Fistful Of Terror - The Bomboras
An effervescent instrumental reminiscent of 'Wipe-out' by The Ventures.
5. Werewolf - Southern Culture On The Skids
Lycanthropic fun! You really being out the beast in Me!
6. Gravewalk - Satan's Pilgrims
A nocturnal jaunt in the graveyard may yield some unexpected pleasures...
7. Ribcage Mambo - Frenchy
A dimly-lit room, smoke looming above everyone's heads, as a zombie-like Noir beauty slinks out into the spotlight in a sequence gown and pillbox hat, while the skeletal band plays a hauntingly exotic number...
8. I Drink Blood - Rocket From The Crypt
High-velocity with a very feedback / static quality.
9. Little Demon - The Amazing Crowns
A Rockabilly cover of the classic by Witch Doctor Screamin' Jay Hawkins.
10. No Costume, No Candy - Swingin' Neckbreakers
Now here's a great sign waiting to happen! A really fun song addressing a possible issue on Halloween night. Perhaps those who do not dress up but still expect candy should also be given the "trick" of fetid condoments in those little packets instead of candy. If you lack the imagination or effort to celebrate, don't dare expect a treat here! You're no mummy, you're just a dummy!
11. 'The Munsters' Theme - Los Straitjackets
An amusing spook-surf rendition of the original by Jack Marshall, from a band who dress up as masked wrestlers.
12. Sinister Purpose - Zacherie
I really enjoy this one, wherein The Devil comes knocking on the coffin door offering wondrous gifts of immortality and riches. Sort of reminds Me of L'Air Epais, wherein one is awakened unto one's carnal nature.
13. Werewolves On Wheels - The Born Losers
Lycans on motorcycles going wild into the night!
14. Psychic Voodoo Doll - Deadbolt
Somewhat of an endearing sado-masochistic romantic tune.
15. Banshee Beach - The Ghastly Ones
Another fun instrumental. This actually reminds Me of a shirt which featured The Creature, Frankenstein, The Mummy, and Wolfman carrying surfboards, heading out for some tasty waves. This from a band who look like undertakers.
16. The Creature Stole My Surfboard - Dead Elvi
A humorous diddy about a surfer relating the time when The Creature took over his board for some late-night surfing. Of course, the band are all dressed as zombie Elvi...
17. Extrasensory Deception - David Allan/Phantom Surfers
Yet another highly-energetic instrumental utilizing some echo effects to add to that haunting element.
18. Spooks Night Out - Legendary Invisible Men
The spooks are out! With vocals sounding like they emminate from a megaphone, accompanied by echoing guitar and organ. Yes, that's right, the band members are bandaged invisible men.
19. Happy Halloween - Zacherie
Our host would stop at nothing to wish all a Happy Halloween!
The booklet features Rob Zombie's artwork throughout, from Frankenstein to The Mummy, with Baby dressed up like a barbie-like sexy witch on the back.
Overall, Halloween Hootenanny is a fun collection of jaunty tunes for year-'round revery, in a "spook surf", martini-sipping sort of way. Amidst the undead 50's-style rockabilly, many of which are enhanced with sound effects, we hear from "Zacherie", a ghoulish host regailing the listener with haunted tales sure to add that certain spicy ingredient to the Witch's brew.
1. Halloween Hootenanny - Zacherie
We are introduced to the Halloween festivities with a poem narrated by our Ghoulish Host Zacherie, providing a welcoming atmosphere, starting off the party...
2. Halloween (She Get So Mean) - Rob Zombie
Emerging from the blackened earth, the zombie king launches the celebrations with a bang, where you can picture Baby girating in a devil-girl a-go-go costume...
3. The Halloween Dance - Reverend Horton Heat
Stick your arms out like you're in a trance, the gang's all here! You can hear them in the background throughout the songs herein. Everyone's having fun beneath the harvest moon!
4. A Fistful Of Terror - The Bomboras
An effervescent instrumental reminiscent of 'Wipe-out' by The Ventures.
5. Werewolf - Southern Culture On The Skids
Lycanthropic fun! You really being out the beast in Me!
6. Gravewalk - Satan's Pilgrims
A nocturnal jaunt in the graveyard may yield some unexpected pleasures...
7. Ribcage Mambo - Frenchy
A dimly-lit room, smoke looming above everyone's heads, as a zombie-like Noir beauty slinks out into the spotlight in a sequence gown and pillbox hat, while the skeletal band plays a hauntingly exotic number...
8. I Drink Blood - Rocket From The Crypt
High-velocity with a very feedback / static quality.
9. Little Demon - The Amazing Crowns
A Rockabilly cover of the classic by Witch Doctor Screamin' Jay Hawkins.
10. No Costume, No Candy - Swingin' Neckbreakers
Now here's a great sign waiting to happen! A really fun song addressing a possible issue on Halloween night. Perhaps those who do not dress up but still expect candy should also be given the "trick" of fetid condoments in those little packets instead of candy. If you lack the imagination or effort to celebrate, don't dare expect a treat here! You're no mummy, you're just a dummy!
11. 'The Munsters' Theme - Los Straitjackets
An amusing spook-surf rendition of the original by Jack Marshall, from a band who dress up as masked wrestlers.
12. Sinister Purpose - Zacherie
I really enjoy this one, wherein The Devil comes knocking on the coffin door offering wondrous gifts of immortality and riches. Sort of reminds Me of L'Air Epais, wherein one is awakened unto one's carnal nature.
13. Werewolves On Wheels - The Born Losers
Lycans on motorcycles going wild into the night!
14. Psychic Voodoo Doll - Deadbolt
Somewhat of an endearing sado-masochistic romantic tune.
15. Banshee Beach - The Ghastly Ones
Another fun instrumental. This actually reminds Me of a shirt which featured The Creature, Frankenstein, The Mummy, and Wolfman carrying surfboards, heading out for some tasty waves. This from a band who look like undertakers.
16. The Creature Stole My Surfboard - Dead Elvi
A humorous diddy about a surfer relating the time when The Creature took over his board for some late-night surfing. Of course, the band are all dressed as zombie Elvi...
17. Extrasensory Deception - David Allan/Phantom Surfers
Yet another highly-energetic instrumental utilizing some echo effects to add to that haunting element.
18. Spooks Night Out - Legendary Invisible Men
The spooks are out! With vocals sounding like they emminate from a megaphone, accompanied by echoing guitar and organ. Yes, that's right, the band members are bandaged invisible men.
19. Happy Halloween - Zacherie
Our host would stop at nothing to wish all a Happy Halloween!
The booklet features Rob Zombie's artwork throughout, from Frankenstein to The Mummy, with Baby dressed up like a barbie-like sexy witch on the back.
Overall, Halloween Hootenanny is a fun collection of jaunty tunes for year-'round revery, in a "spook surf", martini-sipping sort of way. Amidst the undead 50's-style rockabilly, many of which are enhanced with sound effects, we hear from "Zacherie", a ghoulish host regailing the listener with haunted tales sure to add that certain spicy ingredient to the Witch's brew.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
By K. Brown
Format:Audio CD
This is one of the best rock-oriented Halloween compilations I have heard. Every band here is hep, though Zacherle & Southern Culture on the Skids absolutely steal the show with "Sinister Purpose."
"Halloween Hootenanny" is totally solid, with the strongest Halloween essence delivered by The Bomboras (my favorite of the instrumental tracks), Dead Elvi (I love that name name!), The Ghastly Ones, and "Ribcage Mambo" by Frenchy. The Amazing Crowns' take on "Little Demon" is very good, but nowhere near as hot as Screamin' Jay Hawkins' version (then again, there was only one Screamin' Jay!).
There are plenty of good contemporary Halloween compilation CDs out there, but I would easily place this high in the top 10 of the heap!
"Halloween Hootenanny" is totally solid, with the strongest Halloween essence delivered by The Bomboras (my favorite of the instrumental tracks), Dead Elvi (I love that name name!), The Ghastly Ones, and "Ribcage Mambo" by Frenchy. The Amazing Crowns' take on "Little Demon" is very good, but nowhere near as hot as Screamin' Jay Hawkins' version (then again, there was only one Screamin' Jay!).
There are plenty of good contemporary Halloween compilation CDs out there, but I would easily place this high in the top 10 of the heap!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Campy fun!
If your humor is along the lines of The Munsters or The Addams Family, then you will love this album. It is very campy, but still rocks hard! Read more
Published 1 month ago by Wright
2.0 out of 5 stars
So So
It just isn't great music and the sound is so so. One certainly can't dance to it, live and learn.
Published 5 months ago by Linda J. Sherman
5.0 out of 5 stars
Surf's Up on Creepy Halloween Tunes!
"Halloween Hootenanny" is an eerie compilation of songs that makes you feel like you're on a beach at night doing the twist and sipping on a Werewolf's Eye martini. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Kristin
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Halloween Essential
There are a LOT of Halloween CDs out there, but this one ranks among the very best, with that rockabilly, monster-surf sound that has become synonymous with the holiday. Read more
Published 20 months ago by JohnFDM
5.0 out of 5 stars
surfer/rockabilly/tiki lounge Halloween!!
I CAN NOT WAIT TO GET THIS CD!! This is what I've been searching for for soooo long! It's right down my alley :-) PERFECT for people looking for this type of music!! BOOOOO!!!
Published on September 6, 2010 by E. Steele
5.0 out of 5 stars
Halloween Hootenanny
This is one of my all-time favorite compilations. The ghoulish and wonderful Zacherle opening transitions into a very dance-able Rob Zombie/Ghastly Ones duet. Read more
Published on April 18, 2010 by G. Allison
3.0 out of 5 stars
Re: Hallowe'en Hootenany
Not bad, but for an even better Hallowe'en selection I recommend the CD for "Return of the Living Dead." That music rocks!
Published on November 4, 2008 by James D. Weldon
5.0 out of 5 stars
Essential Halloween Listening
It's that time of year when you can listen to this one late at night under a full moon, the dead leaves scraping across the road and swirling in the yard in the cool yet still... Read more
Published on October 5, 2008 by Steven Swan
4.0 out of 5 stars
Unique Halloween Music, but not the best for me
This is a pretty good Halloween music CD because most of these songs I had never heard anywhere before. The music is mostly upbeat and fun. Read more
Published on June 21, 2008 by H. Richmond
4.0 out of 5 stars
Fun for an adult party
This CD was a big hit at a Halloween party for age 40+ adults. Good dance music, and upbeat without being too disco-y. Not too goth either, so it appealed to a wide audience.
Published on November 27, 2007 by loraloo
