MONSTER BOP - Various Artists

YEAR: 1993

LABEL: Buffalo Bop

TRACK LISTING: Rockin' in the Graveyard - Jackie Morningstar, Werewolf - Carl Bonafede, Caveman Hop - Jerry Coulston, The Cat - Rod Willis, Midnight Monsters Hop - Jack & Jim, Nightmare - Scottie Stuart, Graveyard - Leroy Bowman, The Skeleton Fight - Mack Allen Smith, The Monster Hop - Jimmy Dee, Story That's True - Carl Bonafede, The Gorilla - Bert Convy, Leopard Man - Joe Wallace, Nightmare Hop - Earl Patterson, The Monster - Bobby Please, Graveyard - The Phantom Five, Caveman - Tommy Roe, Mad House Jump - The Daylighters, Jekyll and Hyde - Jim Burgett, Haunted House - Cris Kevin, The Head Hunters - Mike Fern, I'm the Wolf Man - Round Robin, Frankenstein's Den - Hollywood Flames, The Monster Hop - Bert Convy, Don't Meet Mr. Frankenstein - Carlos Casal Jr., I Was A Teenage Monster - The Keytones, You Can Get Him Frankenstein - The Castle Kings, The Gila Monster - Joe Johnson, Frankenstein Rock - Eddie Thomas, I Was A Teen-Age Caveman - Randy Luck, Frankie Frankenstein - Ivan

IMPRESSIONS: Very rare collection of 50's/early 60s horror-themed 45s most people have never heard. During the monster boom of the late 50s when SHOCK THEATER released the classic Universal monster movies to television for the first time and Forrest J. Ackerman launched FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND and Bobby "Boris" Pickett recorded MONSTER MASH, it seems like every garage band in America recorded a "monster song" in hopes of getting their big break. None of these ever did (with the exception of Tommy Roe a little later) but these songs are great rockin' monster fun.

MY FAVOURITE TRACKS: Rockin' in the Graveyard - Jackie Morningstar, Werewolf - Carl Bonafede, Caveman Hop - Jerry Coulston, Graveyard - Leroy Bowman, The Skeleton Fight - Mack Allen Smith, The Monster Hop - Jimmy Dee, Leopard Man - Joe Wallace, Nightmare Hop - Earl Patterson, Graveyard - The Phantom Five, Mad House Jump - The Daylighters, Haunted House - Cris Kevin, The Head Hunters - Mike Fern, I'm the Wolf Man - Round Robin, Frankenstein's Den - Hollywood Flames, The Monster Hop - Bert Convy, You Can Get Him Frankenstein - The Castle Kings, The Gila Monster - Joe Johnson

FACT SHEET: This high-quality MONSTER BOP cd has been digitally remastered from the original 45s to maintain the real 50s blast of. Yes, Tommy Roe is the artist who would later have a hit with "Dizzy". And yes, Bert Convy is THE Bert Convy: the host of 70s game shows like "Tattletales" and the actor who appeared in countless TV shows like "The Snoop Sisters".