Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/10/31/memory-palace-episode-about-bo.html
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Dinner With Drac is the patrician’s choice of novelty Halloween tunes
“Vhatever happened to my Transylvania Tvist?”
I prefer the sequel
Early in Frank Zappa’s career he was involved in a similar novelty 45 called “Dear Jeepers” that was more or less a ripoff of “Dinner With Drac.” He produced and played on it, but I gather it was done for a local TV personality who had a horror movie show on Saturday nights.
The Beach Boys, of all groups, did a pretty good cover of the MM. Behold Mike Love going absolutely nuts:
My favorite parody:
wow. I think the label art is the best part.
the channel 20 horror movie show in Detroit – Thriller – used the psycho-breakdown of Zeppelin’s Whole Lotta Love for the theme music in the intro and ads. I always loved it but it wasn’t until I was a teenager obsessed with Zep that I found out where it was from. bit of a mindfuck.
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