SOME NEAT ALBUM COVERS FROM MOVIES & TV SHOWS (1956 - 1987)

The original concept of this blog was to be 'music from the monster movies,' so I think it's about time I showed you some of the record soundtrack album covers to go along with some of those movies! Welcome to The Dungeon! Up first from 1956, is the wild electronic soundtrack by Louis and Bebe Barron for one of the best movies of all time, "Forbidden Planet." As cool and ahead of it's time as this music was, it's still hard for me to imagine anybody taking this record home and listening to it over and over. It was perfect for the movie, but it's just not that kind of music!

I was going to strictly do records from movies we've written about here, but I'm making the exception for these two "Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer" records, just because it's Mickey Spillane we're talking about here, not some ordinary chump!!

 "The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad" from 1958 had a magnificent score by Bernard Herrmann!

"I Married A Monster From Outer Space" came out in 1958, but this 'soundtrack' CD wasn't released until 2012. I still included it here since it's one of our favourite movies!

This LP was a 1964 release of music from the TV series "Burke's Law." The double entendre here is that the composer's name was Herschel Burke Gilbert. Tricky, right?

Piero Umiliani was a gifted composer we have featured here many times, and I'm sure this 1965 album for the movie "Operazione Poker" is a swingin' affair! Five aces in the deck, you gotta love it!

"The Satan Bug" came out in 1965, but this hard to find CD by Jerry Goldsmith wasn't released until 2007.

This fantastic record of music by Peter Thomas for the German Space Patrol, "Raumpatrouille" was released in 1966. I'm pretty sure that autographed CD's can still be purchased from BSC Music for a very reasonable price.

This seven inch 45 from 1966 by Nelson Riddle featured the "Batman Theme" written by Neal Hefti from the "Batman" TV series, and the flip side was another composer play on words, called "Nelson's Riddler!"

In 1967 "Bedazzled" came out, and this soundtrack LP came out the following year. Most of the music for the movie was composed by Dudley Moore himself. What a talented guy he was!

This is the cover for a 2016 vinyl LP they released of the 1967 film "Mad Monster Party" featuring music composed by Maury Lewis and Jules Bass, with some spoken word from Boris Karloff, and the title song sung by Ethel Ennis as can be heard right here!

This 1968 soundtrack from "Danger: Diabolik" is composed by Maestro Ennio Morricone and features the awesome song "Deep Down."

The prolific Bruno Nicolai is another Italian composer we've featured on these pages a number of times! This 1972 LP featured the music from the film "All The Colors Of The Dark!"

This CD for the 1973 film "The Satanic Rites Of Dracula" composed by John Cacavas, came back from the dead in 2011.

Sun Ra and his amazing Intergalactic Solar Arkestra came out with this movie and record called "Space Is The Place" in 1974, and is a must-see for any true fan of music!

"Suspiria" from 1977 is a Dario Argento movie we haven't got around to yet, but I wanted to include this cover just because I like the "Creepers" band called Goblin!

"The Monster Club" came out in 1981, with this very fun and listenable soundtrack featuring B.A. Robertson, The Viewers, Night, UB-40, Expressos. The Pretty Things, John Williams with the Douglas Gamely Orchestra, John Georgiadis, and Alan Hawkshaw!

Last but not least comes "Evil Dead II" from 1987, and music from Joseph Lo Duca!

Pretty Crazy, huh?

BEANY And CECIL In 'Rin-Tin-Can' / Bob Clampett - 1962

Here's Episode 19 of Season 1 from this too fun cartoon show that Eegah!! and I used to watch!

In this episode the gang's watching TV, Willy The Wolf appears on THIS WAS YOUR LIFE, and, he has a sad tale to tell...

Willy was the talk of the town until the big wigs in Hollywood decided that wolves were out and tin dogs were in!.. What the Hell!

Game over, man!!.. Now, Rin-Tin-Can gets all the adoration, not Willy anymore.

So, Willy sneaks onto the set as a tree trunk to hatchet the star, but Rin-Tin-Can is too fast for him and foils the plan. Willy has to pick up the pieces and come up with another angle.

This time, he tries to put a lit bomb in the balloon with RTC while on giant stilts, and you know it'll go very bad for him before it's over!

Next, Willy is tricked into getting in the rocket, just before it's shot into space! Of course they blow it up with him inside!!

He also gets shot full of holes after he goes in the wrong place on a gangster movie set!

Willy ends up in a mound of dirt and finally accepts the fact that his life in Hollywood is over!

So, he comes up with a clever new plan, he'll wear a tin dog suit and become popular again! But alas...

The dog catcher picks him up and takes him away as the gang watches! Okay, we're back tomorrow with some very cool junk for you, check it out... Oh yeah, and, Happy Friday the 13th from The Dungeon Gang!

KILLER'S KISS - "Her Soft Mouth Was the Road to Sin-Smeared Violence!" - Stanley Kubrick (1955)

 Since we never have a clue what we're doing around here, it's always refreshing to stumble upon something great that you didn't know about previously, and such is the case tonight! 

Welcome to the Why Not Wednesday edition of The Dungeon, and a very, very interesting film!

 "Killer's Kiss" is a fairly extraordinary movie that came out in 1955, and was Mr. Stanley Kubrick's second feature film! Just in case that there is some possible chance that you don't know who Stanley Kubrick is, then you're probably also not familiar with films like "Dr. Strangelove," "2001," "A Clockwork Orange," and "The Shining," all which he is also responsible for!

 Jamie Smith is welterweight boxer Davey Gordon at the end of his career! Jamie was in one other movie in 1952 called "Faithful City," but the rest of his work was in TV.

 Davey Gordon has a big  'make it or break it' fight with a young and upcoming potential champion boxer named Kid Rodriguez!

 

 To show you a bit of his roots, this is one of the photos pinned to his mirror.

 When Davey looks out his window, he sees into his neighbor's room, a young lady named Gloria Price as portrayed by Irene Kane. Irene only has six acting credits, but they spread across 3 decades, the last being "All That Jazz" in 1979.

 Gloria works in this club as a hostess, and her sleazy boss thinks he loves her!

 Seriously, don't you just love it? This story was also written by Stanley Kubrick.

 Ladies and Gentlemen.....Let's get ready to Rumba!

Kid Rodriquez is raring to go, but Davey Gordon is still on his stool!

 That didn't take long!

 Frank Silvera is Vinnie Rapallo, the owner of the club and the guy in love with Gloria!

Frank Silvera is a very interesting story all unto himself. Frank was an African-American born in Jamaica who was an avid civil rights supporter, who because of his light skin was able to get roles from black to white, and everything in between! He was Dr. Koslenko in the "Twilight Zone" episode titled "Person Or Persons Unknown." Frank was also the star of Stanley Kubrick's first feature film titled "Fear And Desire!"

  These scenes in the gym are brilliant!

 It wouldn't be much of a movie if it didn't have some dancing drunken Shriner bandits in it!

 Signs in movies can be quite prophetic!

 "The Embassy Newsreel Theatre!"

 It's a case of mistaken identity, and after the deed is done, one of the hoodlums has to comb his hair walking away, because it got a little mussed up!

 Face down again! Davey's life is a shit storm!

 I find both the rooftop water towers and the staircase fascinating!

 So........if it's 1955, and you're Stanley Kubrick, and you need some place really wild to finish off your second movie, what else would you choose but a room full of mannequins?

 This is obviously not going to end well for somebody!

Hey, I liked this movie, and I feel bad that it took me 63 years before I got to see it. There aren't too many 1955 movies that look this cool, thanx to Mr. Kubrick, it's got boxing, and the background music throughout by Gerald Fried is outstanding! It's got the look, the feel, and the sound, and is a great example of what Stanley had in store for us in the future!