HALLOWEEN PINUPS OF ANN MILLER

Last week, I posted a Halloween pinup of Morgan Fairchild and this week it is several of dancer Ann Miller. People my age remember Ann Miller as an older lady, who would be on TV shows dancing. Her trademarks were great looking legs (even in her advanced age) and big, stiff hair. She also appeared in the movie, Mulholland Drive, and a Stan Freburg produced commercial for a short-lived product called Great American Soups as a tap dancing housewife. I've found several pinups of Ann Miller with a Halloween theme.  I'll have too say that when Ann Miller made these photos, she was not only smoking hot, but darn cute.

DESDINOVA'S HALLOWEEN PODCAST 1

I love Halloween oriented music and think it should be on the radio for at least a week before Halloween. Many of the big corporate radio stations will probably start playing Christmas music this month. I've decided to give you more than one podcast this month. They will be filled with Halloween music and horror movie trailers. Enjoy!

BTW: This podcast contains the following:

• "In the Hall of the Mountain King" - Sounds Inc.
• "Halloween Mary" - P. F. Sloan
• "The Pumpkin Man" - The Little Golden Records Orchestra
• "My Girlfriend Is a Witch" - October Country
• "The Monster Hop" - Bert Convey
• "Werewolves of London" - Warren Zevon
• "Creature with the Atom Brain" - Roky Erickson
• "Batman, Wolfman, Frankenstein and Dracula" - The Diamonds
• "Barnabas Theme from Dark Shadows" - The First Theremin Era

 

Van Beuren's Magic Mummy Cartoon

I've said on this blog before that the Van Beuren Studios made some of the worst cartoons ever. This is one of the few good ones.

I mentioned on an earlier post about Van Beuren's Milton Mouse that got them a lawsuit from Walt Disney. This is Van Beuren's ripoff of the popular Mutt & Jeff comic strip and cartoon characters named Tom & Jerry. These cartoons have been used in many budget compilations of cartoons because they are in public domain and they have the same name as the more popular cat & mouse team from MGM.

This has a Phantom of the Opera type character and dancing skeletons. The mummy is more of a Goth chick/zombie, who sings in a Betty Boop-like voice. Oh yeah, also Tom & Jerry are cops at a gay precient. There are two singing cops wearing eye shadow and lipstick. The other cops spend their time dancing with the jails inmates. Enjoy this bit of strangeness.
   

MONSTER PHOTO FUN 2015

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I decided to create some more of these little creations for your entertainment. These are inspired by the Cracked magazine "For Monsters Only" issues. They say great minds think alike. Gilligan over a Retrospace has a similar post. Check it out.

Okay, the last two have nothing to do with monsters, but I saw those photos and could not resist. Those jokes just wrote themselves.

The Halloween That Almost Wasn't/The Night That Dracula Saved The World

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I'm glad I found this video. I've been looking for it to post here during the Countdown to Halloween. I remember watching this as a child and liking it, because of the monsters. I also thought it seemed more mature and intelligent than the other kid's Halloween specials.

It has references to the monster kid phenomenon, disco, TV commercials, and even a reference to the movie, Young Frankenstein. Judd Hirsch is great as Dracula. He not only sounds like Lugosi, but looks like him. John Schuck was so good as Frankenstein's monster that later, in the 80s, he played Herman on a short lived revival of The Munsters. Mariette Hartley, who was spokes person for Polaroid cameras at the time, tries to sound like Margarete Hamilton. However, many people on YouTube said that when they were kids they thought it was Cher playing the witch. Enjoy this seldom seen TV special of the 70s.

BTW, I found the TV Guide ad on Pinterest and, lo and behold, it is from the Southwest Missouri edition.

Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band Sing "Monster Mash" on Do Not Adjust Your Set

MORGAN FAIRCHILD IS A REALLY HOT WITCH

This photo pretty much speaks for itself.