Today’s song of the day comes from the soundtrack of 1973’s The Wicker Man.
Composed by Paul Giovanni, Willow’s Song was based on several songs that screenwriter Anthony Shaffer claimed to have heard at various spring pagan festivals. Magnet, who is credited with performing the song, was a band of sessions players that were brought together specifically to record the film’s score. According to Giovanni, the woman singing was Rachel Verney and not, as some people claimed, jazz performer Annie Ross.
Today’s song of the day is Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Barry Adamson.
This instrumental work appeared on the soundtrack for David Lynch’s 1997 film, Lost Highway, and its one of my favorite pieces of music. It’s amongst the songs that I tend to play whenever I’m dealing with writer’s block or if I just need an extra boost of energy to finish up a project. This song also seems like the perfect way to kick off our annual Horrorthon!
I also have to say that the video below, which was put together by Jessie Essex, is amazingly cool.
The nights are indeed about to crazy around here! This is the song that traditionally leads us into our annual Horrorthon! Don’t bring me down, October is right around the corner!
Today’s song of the day is this classic example of early EDM, Pump Up The Volume. That’s what we’re planning on doing here at the site all through October. Horrorthon makes me want to dance!
Today’s song of the day comes to us from Adi Ulmansky, a singer to whom I was introduced by my best friend, Evelyn! Here, to help the site prepare for the incoming onslaught of Horrorthon reviews, is Adi with Bombs Away!
With today’s song of the day, we continue our Bonnie and Clyde theme!
This song is from 1968 and was inspired by Arthur Penn’s classic crime film, Bonnie and Clyde. Oddly enough, this song insists that Bonnie and Clyde were from Savannah, Georgia when everyone knows that they were from my part of the world, North Texas. Then again, “Savannah” does sound a bit better when set to music than “West Dallas.”
Today’s song of the day is my favorite song of all time, performed by the wonderful Yvonne Elliman. I can actually sing this song!
I don’t know why I’m surviving every lonely day When there’s got to be no chance for me My life would end, and it doesn’t matter how I cry My tears of love are a waste of time
If I turn away, am I strong enough to see it through? Go crazy is what I will do
If I can’t have you, I don’t want nobody, baby If I can’t have you, ah-ah-ah, oh If I can’t have you, I don’t want nobody, baby If I can’t have you, ah-ah-ah
Can’t let go, and it doesn’t matter how I try I gave it all so easily to you, my love To dreams that never will come true Am I strong enough to see it through? Go crazy is what I will do
If I can’t have you, I don’t want nobody, baby If I can’t have you, ah-ah-ah, oh If I can’t have you, I don’t want nobody, baby If I can’t have you, ah-ah-ah, oh
If I can’t have you, I don’t want nobody, baby If I can’t have you, ah-ah-ah, oh If I can’t have you, I don’t want nobody, baby If I can’t have you, ah-ah-ah (I’m in love with nobody)
If I can’t have you, I don’t want nobody, baby If I can’t have you, ah-ah-ah, oh If I can’t have you, I don’t want nobody, baby If I can’t have you, ah-ah-ah, no
(Lyrics by Maurice Ernest Gibb / Robin Hugh Gibb / Barry Alan Gibb)
The House on the Edge of the Park (1980, dir by Ruggero Deodato)
Today’s song of the day is a deathless little disco song that comes from the soundtrack of Ruggero Deodato‘s legendarily tacky film, The House On The Edge Of The Park. This was one of many songs composed by Riz Ortolani, the John Williams of Italian exploitation cinema.
(This is also the song that Giovanni Lombardo Radice was dancing to in today’s scene that I love.)
