R.I.P PAUL REVERE

TERROR CASTLE AT THE STUDIO

In the good old days of the old Desdinova blog, I used to post the ads for The Studio that appeared in the Springfield Daily News. The Studio was Springfield's adult movie theater. According to this ad, tit was located at 3833 S. Campbell. Here is an ad for a "horror" film called TERROR CASTLE. The actual title is TERROR AT ORGY CASTLE. You can find a short clip of this film on You Tube, and the whole thing is available on DVD from Something Weird video.

A SCARY #THROWBACK THURSDAY

A #throwbackthursday featuring scary, monster people.

LON CHANEY

LON CHANEY Jr (His hair was perfect)

BELA LUGOSI

BORIS KARLOFF

VINCENT PRICE

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

ROD SERLING (with his parents)

STEVEN KING

COFFIN JOE

JONATHAN FRID/BARNABAS COLLINS

ALICE COOPER

OZZY OSBOURNE

MONSTER PHOTO FUN Part 2

MONSTER PHOTO FUN Part 1

A mainstay of monster kid life, in the 60s, 70s and early 80s, was the monster magazines and trading cards that featured stills from classic horror films with funny captions and speech balloons added. I decided to try my hand at creating some new versions this summer when I was bored. I posted these on the Facebook site and got some positive results. I plan to create more for the Countdown to Halloween.

 

LET THE COUNTDOWN TO HALLOWEEN BEGIN FOR 2014

DESDINOVA'S 40 FAVORITE ONE HIT WONDERS

Supposedly, September 25th is One-Hit Wonder Day. I got the memo kind of late. When I started the revamped version of this blog in 2011, I created a series of post about one-hit wonders (Oddly enough in September). There is a mystique and misconception about one-hit wonders. Of the post I made at that time, I gave my 40 Least Favorite One-Hit Wonders, a list of artist often mistaken for one-hit wonder artist but actually had several hits, and acts that are considered one-hit wonders but had very minor hits.


For once I ranked these, to an extent, on how well I like them. I tried to look up chart info to make sure that these acts had only one chart hit. I'll admit I fudge on a few, but it wasn't a flagrant manipulation that would alter history, as one reference book on this subject did.

1. "In the Year 2525" - Zager & Evans

Arthur Brown

2. "Fire" - Crazy World of Arthur Brown

3. "Smoke From a Distant Fire" - Sandford/Townsend Band

4. "Romeo's Tune" - Steve Forbert
5. "One Tin Soldier" - Coven
6. "Who Do You Love?" - The Sapphires
7. "Girl of My Dreams" - Bram Tchaikovsky
8. "Sausolito Summer Night" - Diesel
9. "Money (That's What I Want)" - Barrett Strong
10. "Into The Night" - Benny Mardones

11. "Fantasy" - Aldo Nova

12. "Psychotic Reaction" - The Count 5
13. "Na-Na-Na Hey Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye)" - Steam
14. "Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)" - Reunion
15. "But It's Alright" - J.J. Jackson
16. "Wipe Out" - The Surfaries
17. "Driver's Seat" - Sniff N the Tears

18. "Dinner With Drac" - John Zacherley
19. "Nothing But a Heartache" - The Flirtations
20. "Tired of Toein the Line" - Rocky Burnett
21. "Mummer's Dance" - Loreena McKennitt

Kajagoogoo

22. "Too Shy" - Kajagoogoo
23. "Stay" - Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs
24. "Liar, Liar" - The Castaways
25. "Next Plane To London" - The Rose Garden
26. "Pipeline" - The Chantays
27. "Midnight Stroll" - The Revels

28. "Sunshine" - Johnathan Edwards

29. "Cars" - Gary Numan
30. "The Rain" - Oran Juice Jones

31. "Pilot of the Airwaves" - Charlie Dore
32. "Whoomp (There It Is)" - The Tag Team
33. "Sally Go Round The Roses" - The Jaynetts
34. "Makin It" - David Naughton
35. "Why Can't We Live Together" - Timmy Thomas

36. "Kiss In The Dark" - Pink Lady
37. "Then You Can Tell Me Goodby" - The Casinos
38. "Let's Go All The Way" - Sly Fox
39. "Whirly Girl" - Oxo
40. "To Know Him Is To Love Him" - The Teddy Bears

Honorable Mention: "God, Love and Rock & Roll" - Teegarden & Vanwinkle