ELVIRA PRESENTS HAUNTED HITS - Various Artists

YEAR: 1988

LABEL: Rhino

TRACK LISTING: Monster Mash - Bobby "Boris" Pickett, Haunted House - Jumpin' Gene Simmons, Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr., Out of Limits - The Marketts, The Blob - The Five Blobs, The Creature from the Black Lagoon - Dave Edmunds, The Purple People Eater - Sheb Wooley, The Addams Family (Main Title) - Vic Mizzy, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes - Lewis Lee, Welcome To My Nightmare - Alice Cooper, Dead Man's Party - Oingo Boingo, Twilight Zone - Neil Norman & His Cosmic Orchestra, Little Demon - Screamin' Jay Hawkin, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman - The Tubes, King Kong - Big 'T' Tyler, The Creature - The Jayhawks, Halloween Spooks - Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, Horror Movie - The Skyhooks, I Put A Spell On You - Screamin' Jay Hawkins, I Was A Teenage Werewolf - The Cramps, Voodoo Voodoo - LaVern Baker, Martian Hop - The Ran-Dells, Full Moon - Elvira

IMPRESSIONS: In 1988 when I picked up this 2 record set on vinyl, it was a pretty nice collection of Halloweenie songs all in one place. Despite the old favourites, there were several new songs I hadn't heard up until that time which have now become old favourites of mine as well. It's sad that several songs were dropped when the album came out on cd but most of them appear later on Elvira's "Monster Hits" series of EPs which came out in the 1999s. Oh, by the way I just thought I'd take this opportunity to say that I absolutely HATE HATE HATE Jumpin' Gene Simmons' song "Haunted House"; one of the most inanely repetitive and boring songs ever created in the history of Western Civilisation already!

MY FAVOURITE TRACKS: Monster Mash - Bobby "Boris" Pickett, The Blob - The Five Blobs, The Creature from the Black Lagoon - Dave Edmunds, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes - Lewis Lee, Welcome To My Nightmare - Alice Cooper, Dead Man's Party - Oingo Boingo, Halloween Spooks - Lambert, Kendricks & Ross, Horror Movie - The Skyhooks, I Put A Spell On You - Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Voodoo Voodoo - LaVern Baker, Martian Hop - The Ran-Dells, Full Moon - Elvira

FACT SHEET: HAUNTED HITS is Elvira's second compilation album of Halloweenie songs after Rhino Records' released ELVIRA'S VINYL MACABRE several years earlier. Since the original vinyl LP was a two-record set and the cd reissue of HAUNTED HITS was a single cd, several songs were dropped and do not appear on the cd version of this album: say goodbye to Attack of the Killer Tomatoes by Lewis Lee, Little Demon by Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman by The Tubes, King Kong by Big 'T' Tyler, The Creature by the Jayhawks and Martian Hop by the Ran-Dells.