The Original Music From Dark Shadows (Television Series Soundtrack - Deluxe Edition) [Soundtrack]

Bob Cobert, Dark Shadows (Related Recordings) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 5, 1999)
• Original Release Date: June 27, 1966
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Varese Fontana
• ASIN: B00001T3H5
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #47,143 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Opening Themes: Dark Shadows/Collinwood

2. I'll Be With You, Always

3. Josette's Theme

4. A Darkness at Collinwood

5. Meditations

6. Night of the Pentagram

7. When I Am Dead

8. No. 1 at the Blue Whale

9. Shadows of the Night (Quentin's Theme)

10. The Secret Room

11. Epitaph

12. Séance

13. I, Barnabas

14. Back at the Blue Whale

15. The Old House

16. Epilogue/Dark Shadows

17. Radio Interviews (1968) [#]

18. Radio Interview (1969) [#]

Editorial Reviews

The 1969 release of this album reached #18 on the Billboard Top 200 album chart-and is still among the Top 10 best-selling TV soundtracks ever! This reissue adds 40 bonus minutes of unreleased interviews with the cast from 1968 and 1969. Now that should satisfy even the bloodthirstiest fans!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Like coming home!, May 26, 2003

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Kurt A. Johnson (North-Central Illinois, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Original Music From Dark Shadows (Television Series Soundtrack - Deluxe Edition) (Audio CD)

Listening to this soundtrack is quite a lot like coming home! I remember as a kid, running home after school to watch the television show Dark Shadows (1966-71) with my sister. She bought this album, in record form, and here it is again in CD form. As an added bonus, the album has two extras: a 27-minute radio interview (with Jonathan Frid (who played Barnabas Collins), Grayson Hall (Julia Hoffman), Roger Davis (Peter Bradford), Humbert Allen Astredo (Nicholas Blair), Robert Rodan (Adam) and Donald Briscoe (Tom Jennings and others)), and a 12-minute radio interview with David Selby (Quentin Collins).

This is a great album with a lot of memories attached. For me, the big question is, would I enjoy just listening to this album for itself, or is it just mood music? The answer is that these tunes are all quite nice, and I enjoyed listening to this album over and over again. I must say, though, that if you are going to do this, you might want to program your player to skip the interviews.

So, overall I thought that this is a great album, and a great buy. I highly recommend it!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A terrific compilation of classic DS sound!, January 9, 2003

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David Waters (Montgomery, AL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Original Music From Dark Shadows (Television Series Soundtrack - Deluxe Edition) (Audio CD)

This is a GREAT CD! The classic, eery music that set so much of the atmosphere on Dark Shadows is here! A HUGE bonus is the narration tracks done by Jonathan Frid (Barnabas Collins) and David Selby (Quentin Collins) - I Barnabas, I'll Be With You Always, and of course the classic Shadows of the Night narration of Quentin's Theme to name a few. As if it couldn't get better, they add some great bonus material at the end, two radio interviews with the cast! Jonathan Frid (Barnabas Collins), Grayson Hall (Dr. Julia Hoffman), Humbert Allen Astredo (Nicholas Blair), Roger Davis (Jeff Clark/Peter Bradford), Don Briscoe (Chris and Tom Jennings), and Robert Rodan (Adam) are interviewed in the first from 1968, and the second is exclusively with David Selby (Quentin Collins) from 1969. Both interviews are the final two tracks on the CD.

If you are a DS fan, you MUST have this album. Tons of classic themes, great narrations, and wonderful bonus interviews are what you'll get. I also recommend the Dark Shadows 30th Anniversary soundtrack, and the House of Dark Shadows / Night of Dark Shadows soundtrack. Dark Shadows lives on!

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars "Shadows of the Night - Quentin's Theme..lives on", May 19, 2000

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J. Lovins "Mr. Jim" (Missouri-USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Original Music From Dark Shadows (Television Series Soundtrack - Deluxe Edition) (Audio CD)

This special reissue of Original Music from DARK SHADOWS is a welcome edition to recent releases of past film scores from many successful TV series. The "OPENING THEME:DARK SHADOWS/COLLINWOOD" are nothing less than classic. Take notice of - "I'LL BE WITH YOU, ALWAYS", "MEDITATIONS", "WHEN I AM DEAD", "EPITAPH", "I, BARNABAS" with narration from Jonathan Frid is both enjoyable and entertaining. Tracks 1-16 Original Music from DARK SHADOWS, then we have Tracks 17-18 bonus material containing Radio Interviews (1968) with Jonathan Frid, Grayson Hall, Roger Davis, Humbert Allen Astredo, Robert Rodan, Donald Briscoe and David Selby in (1969) Radio Interview is a collectors dream. There is a following which have formed various fan clubs that continually meet and talk about the series. This collection contains material which any collector would be proud to own.

Total Time: 76:11 on 18 Tracks/Varese Sarabande - 302 066 066 2 (1999)