NIGHT TIDE - Paul Horn Combo - "West Coast Club Scene" (1961)

Here's the place where you can read the complete press kit for "Night Tide." www.milestonefilms.com/pdf/Nighttide.pdf There is an uncanny amount of information, quotes, and bibliographical information about Dennis Hopper & director/writer Curtis Harrington and every other part of the film except, what else, who are the players in the club? Yeah, they tell us over and over that the incredible Paul Horn is the flautist in the club scene, but for the other guys, Nada! I'm sorry, I want to know who's playing the trumpet, bass & drums too! Here's the short opening theme... Night Tide

(Fifteen years later, thanks to you astute readers, we now know that the players were Joe Gordon - trumpet, Jimmy Bond - bass, and Kenny Dennis on drums.Thanks people!)

  ....and some seriously cooking music from the first point that Dennis Hopper comes on the scene. Probably THE coolest jazz from any movie of any time! "Great combo!" Indeed!!!!! Paul Horn Combo Paul Horn later in his career would record an album inside "The Great Pyramid," he also was the reed man in "Bucket Of Blood!" Yes, Paul is one of THE hippest men on the planet! And there's even more!! Now, really do yourself a favor, find a DVD somewhere & enjoy something special for a change, & don't forget to get yourself some fish & chips to go with it too, for the complete experience! 

 

These people are so cool, they're drinking Pabst!! 

 

ANATOMY OF A PSYCHO - "The Card Game" (1961)

This is another one of those films where you can find out everything, except information on the music. We can tell you that "Anatomy Of A Psycho" is a dingy, dirty, creepy movie with a Very Cool soundtrack. It seems one third of the writing credits goes to some guy named Larry Lee (Edward Wood Jr.), one third was written by Don Devlin, who also plays Moe in this film, and one third was written by Jane Mann who also wrote "The Unearthly," which featured Tor Johnson, who I'm sure passed himself off as Curly every once in a while, so it's no wonder this Mickey Psycho character is so crazy!! This neat little tune is off in the background, but it sure sets a great scene! And now for a short public service announcement, just in case you wondered folks, it's probably not a real great idea to give booze to psychos. Thank-you! 

 

Anatomy Of A Psycho

THE GHOST IN THE INVISIBLE BIKINI - Quinn O'Hara/Piccola Pupa - "Fight Songs" (1966)

"The Ghost In The Invisible Bikini" is a story about conflicts, and as such, reminds us greatly of Tolstoy's "War And Peace," only in technicolor! The basic struggles of the Proletariat are defined in musical strokes of genius by the characters of Piccola Pupa & Quinn O'Hara in their opposing thoughts. Shall we the people, "Stand Up And Fight?" or shall we give up and give in and "Don't Try To Fight It Baby." The choices are clear, the decision is yours, to rent or to buy??

 

Don't Try To Fight It, Baby

 Stand Up And Fight

HAND OF DEATH - Sonny Burke - "Main Title" (1962)

"Hand Of Death" was basically the only Monster movie that Sonny Burke was to ever work on. Seems he liked to use one note as punctuation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And actually, it's quite effective as you will soon find out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Find a copy if you can, it's a great movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hand O' Death

HILLBILLYS IN A HAUNTED HOUSE - Ferlin, Merle, Jeepers, Marcella, Jim, Sonny & Boots (1967)

Looks pretty scary right about here, doesn't it?? 

 

This is what they did to Joi Lansing for singing the "Gowns" song! 

 

So it's just about that there time of the year out there, and it's also time to clean out this ole haunted house, "Hillbillys In A Haunted House," that is, and it's a perfect movie to show at yer local annual Country Pagan Carnival and Beer Fest, so circle up the wagons, light a big hot chemical fire, put the big HD TV right smack in the middle and turn it on! Grab yerself a cold one & settle in, cause it's gonna be a long night! To get you all prepared for the big event, here's some tunes just to whet yer appetite. Don't forget the hazmat suits! It's a Jamboree after all, and that's all! Now here we go, to get it all started: Here's... FerlinJeepersBootsMerleMarcella

 Before the big Jamboree, which was at the end of the movie, there was a whole bunch more songs, if you can believe that!! Like Jim Kents on the TV! 

 

Jim Kents And another heartbreaker from the phenomenal Sony James! Sony James Lost In A Trance by Mr. Ferlin Husky Ferlin Husky And last & very most especially least, probably the worst piece of garbage ever recorded in any medium, & we only add it here as a historical note, God knows we love Joi Lansing, but this song about gowns will make you gag before you join the next herd of lemmings headed toward the nearest cliff without ever glancing back! I'm, sorry, they made me do it!! 

 Gowns

IL BOIA SCARLATTO (The Bloody Pit Of Horror) - Gino Peguri - "Main Title" (1965)

It appears that even though most of the European horror films never reached the box office status of their American counterparts, a lot of the time, they had much cooler soundtracks, just as jazz in general was appreciated more in Europe, it was also used more often in their movies. This Italian movie, "The Bloody Pit Of Horror" is a good example. The music by Gino Peguri is quite pure. This song alone should make you want to see this movie, it's that cool, and not quite like anything else you've ever heard. If that's not enough, this film is also shot in "Psychovision"!!!! What else do you want?  

Cool Personified

IL MOSTRO DI VENEZIA (The Embalmer) - Jti Janne - "The Medium" (1965)

Well, if you weren't waiting for this one, it could only be because you didn't know about it. Either way, now you do, so the wait's over! So now we're in a weird little club, acolytes set the scene, coffin opens, "it's a guitar!" And here he is, .....Jti Janne! 

 

This dude might look a little like Elvis, but that's where the musical resemblance ends. "Pretty different?", I guess!! Meanwhile, The Embalmer's going around doing you know what to all the local girls! Cool and crazy, crazy and cool!! Embalmer Elvis