Well, I'm sure you could see this one coming, from 1959, "The Giant Gila Monster." One of the most heart wrenching scenes ever shot, where they bring in the little crippled girl with leg braces & Don sings this happy little song to make her feel better. Excuse me while I wipe the tears off my keyboard. Don Sullivan wrote & sang "The Mushroom Song" accompanying himself on ukulele. What is it about guys named Don? Enjoy!
The first ever Sci-Fi film from Czechoslovakia, "Ikarie XB 1" released in America in 1964 as "Voyage To The End Of The Universe" & tries to convey the future of 2163 in outer space, including what music & dance would be like. Most people still aren't ready for this vision of the future.
Spiders, spiders & more spiders!! This 1958 Bert I. Gordon classic had music composed by Albert Glasser, who did the music for a host of giant Monster movies like "Giant From The Unknown," "The Cyclops," "Amazing Colossal Man" & "War Of The Colossal Beast." I guess if you were making a movie about something 'Giant', then Al was the guy to call for the music! In this film, there's this one scene where the band is practicing & the Spider awakes, as you'll hear as all hell breaks loose. Ricky Nelson's buddy Wally, on the "Ozzie & Harriet" show played by Skip Young, is Sam, the bass playing leader of the band. It's a swinging little tune!
This well documented film was made in 1964, but wasn't released until 1968 because of financial problems, so the world had to wait another 4 long years before we got to hear this Ron Stein (Not Frank's brother)composition performed by none other than Lon Chaney Jr. himself. It was definately worth the wait!
From the 1960 German film, "Horrors Of Spider Island," we've created a collage of music from the Babs 'Dance tryout' at the beginning of the film, some looking for Gary footage from the middle, & the music from the party towards the end of the film. 3 minutes & 29 seconds of swingin' pleasure, we like to call "C'Mon Gary, Let's Dance."
Written by Skip Redwine & Paul Dunlap, "You Gotta Have Ee-Ooo" from the 1958 Classic "How To Make A Monster" was sung by teenage heart throb John Ashley. More of an actor than a singer, John belts this tune out like a Teenage Frankenstein & Teenage Werewolf were after him. Rent it, you'll see what we mean, more re-cycled monsters.
This 1963 Mexican movie, "Bring Me The Vampire" had this great choreographed number we like to refer to as the "Achoo" song, "A la Salud." Produced by K. Gordon Murray, We have literally seen bodies come back to life after hearing this song. Find a copy on DVD to see the splendor of the whole dance number. Salud!!
