HAMMER PRESENTS DRACULA - Christopher Lee

YEAR: 1974

LABEL: EMI

TRACK LISTING: Dracula, Fear In the Night, She, Vampire Lovers, Doctor Jekyll and Sister Hyde

IMPRESSIONS: In the days before VCRs, it must've been a spectacular treat to drop the needle onto a record of the Hammer version of Dracula (however unrelated to the actual movies) starring Christopher Lee himself. Even the second side, consisting of film music from some rather minor Hammer Horrors, must still have been a situation of beggars cannot certainly be chosers; you were very unlikely back in the day to find a record containing ANY film music from Hammer films so this was a rarity indeed.

MY FAVOURITE TRACKS: Dracula

FACT SHEET: HAMMER PRESENTS DRACULA features an album-side length track entitled "DRACULA" featuring Christopher Lee as well as an introduction by Bill Mitchell and the classic Dracula music by James Bernard. Side Two of the album featured soundtrack music from the Hammer Horrors "Fear In the Night", "She", "Vampire Lovers" and "Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde".