The Lounge Show on KOOP Radio Was a Spook-Tacular Shock-A-Rama!

The Lounge Show, with Jay Robillard as host, on KOOP Radio 91.7 (on Saturdays from 10 AM-12 PM-it`s streamed on the World Wide Web too!), was a SPOOK-TACULAR SHOCK-A-RAMA yester-morn, with two hours of Halloween-themed zingers! Jay piggybacked a bulging black bag of delirious ditties up to the KOOP station as sonic trick-or-treats. I`ll just give you a sliver of a microscopic specimen of `is corpus derelictus, by way of radio clarion blasts as buzzing riff-raff bats.

A tingle of fright shimmied down my spine, as I listened to Bob McFadden (with Rod McKuen), an Einstein of a voice-over artist, sing The Mummy, with his wormy and wimpy-throated spoof of a rendition. He can`t scare one iota even outta a hip, finger-snappin` beatnik Daddy-O  that he encounters on the street, who claims he has “a warped groove.”

That is a rare one from 1955 that I have never heard, A Man in a Raincoat, by a Canadian singer, Priscilla Wright. The black and white over here on the right is Priscilla Wright. As usual, I forever marvel over Ghost Riders in the Sky, written by Stan Jones and performed by Vaughn Monroe-a # one hit in 1949. I`m a fool for tall cowpoke yarns told `round a campfire of lonesome Yosemite Sams. Odles of artists have covered this gem too!

Furthermore, Jay sprinkled in some movie trailers for good measure, or maybe some of them were radio spots…don`t know for certain? There was The Vault of Horror that used the slogan “a life worth leaving,” then there was Vampire Playgirls (Devil`s Nightmare), an Italian/French co-production from 1971, starring Erica Blanc with its dated sex appeal. Frogs (starring Ray Milland) croaks like a good toad to see and AstroZombies is a B flick combo of Sci-Fi & Horror that I`d like to run my eyes over some bleak night.

Green-Eyed Dragon *(these lyrics differ from the JCT version), performed by John Charles Thomas was the whipped cream & maraschino cherry of the show for me! Thanks for a wonderful Halloween radio show, J.R.!  P.S. I saw Paranormal Activity yesterday, & trembled with the jeepers -creepers for nearly two hours!

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