Monsters intruded upon popular culture for centuries before the dawn of recorded sound. Within the principal genres - blues and country & western - from which pop was derived -they've tended to be ectoplasmic, as exemplified by the much-syndicated 'Ghost Riders In The Sky': but fascination with escapist horror movies and comics spawned more tangible beings. As well as extra-terrestrials, the 1950s brought forth the likes of Bobby Please and his Pleasers' 'The Monster' - which a horrified Frankenstein imagined wrongly had been destroyed - 'The Graveyard' from Lee Bowman and the Arrows - buoyed with piano-pumping worthy of Jerry Lee Lewis - the ubiquitous 'Purple People Eater' and all manner of discs concerning zombies: dead humans reanimated with no will of their own, and belonging principally to Afro-Caribbean folklore, Gothic myth, Voodoo (still Haiti's majority religion) and its Hoodoo variant. This collection, boasting an eclectic array of musical styles, features the very finest – albeit often in the worst possible – selection of songs referencing monsters, zombies, voodoo and the un-dead. Thirty absolute classis from this most gruesome of genres, The Zombie Horror Collection is certain to be a smash for this year’s Halloween season and way beyond. Trackslist 1 The Harlem Wildcats – Zombie – 1932 2 Fats Waller – Abercrombie Had A Zombie – 1940 3 Johnson Brothers – Zombie Lou – 1959 4 Johnson Brothers – Casting A Spell – 1959 5 The Monotones – Zombi – 1958 6 Smiley Smith – Voodoo Women – 1959 7 Jackie Morningstar – Rockin’ In The Graveyard – 1959 8 Jack & Jim – Midnight Monsters Hop – 1959 9 Billy Taylor – Wombie Zombie – 1959 10 King Flash And The Calypso Carnival – Zombie Jamboree – 1955 11 Bobby Bare – Vampira – 1959 12 The Hollywood Flames – Frankensteins Den – 1959 13 The Crew Necks – Rockin’ Zombie – 1959 14 Elroy Dietzel – Rock N Bones – 1957 15 Screamin’ Jay Hawkins – Little Demon – 1958 16 Bob Mcfadden & Dor – I Dig You Baby – 1959 17 The Duponts – Screamin Ball (At Dracula Hall) – 1958 18 The Del-Vikings – The Voodoo Man – 1957 19 The Big Bopper – Purple People Eater Meets The Witch Doctor – 1958 20 Bill Doggett – Monster Party – 1959 21 The Monotones – Legend Of Sleepy Hollow – 1958 22 Johnnie Temple – Hoodoo Women – 1937 23 Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup – Hoodoo Lady Blues – 1947 24 Sly Fox – Hoo-Doo Say – 1954 25 Chaino – Voodoo – 1958 26 The Swingin’ Phillies – Frankenstein’s Party – 1958 27 Billy Gayle – The Night Howler – 1954 28 Bert Convy – Monster Hop – 1958 29 Bobby Please & The Pleasers – The Monster – 1959 30 Leroy Bowman – The Graveyard – 1958
