These Viper compilations are always good value, and arriving just before the season of the witch is upon us,

the timing is most fortuitous for this spooky trawl through Americana, incorporating horror-themed rock & roll,

rhythm & blues, jazz and doo-wop, predominantly culled from the 1950s. Bo Diddley, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and

The Big Bopper are among the artists lined up here, tapping into the American post-war appetite for drive-in fodder

with impressive efforts like Leroy Bowman & The Arrows’ ‘Graveyard’ (just the sort of thing you could imagine The

Horrors covering) and direct B-movie plunderers such as The Five Blobs’ novelty instrumental ‘The Blob’ and Sheb

Wooley’s ‘The Purple People Eater’. The compilation closes on a particularly old entry — The Five Jones Boys’ 1937

recording ‘Mr Ghost Goes To Town’, an eccentric blues number that’s perhaps more of the era and temperament

you’d encounter on Mississippi compilations. Excellent stuff.

1. Tony’s Monstrosities — Igor`s Party (1958)
2. Archie King — The Vampires (1958)
3. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins — I Put a Spell on You (1957)
4. Leroy Bowman and The Arrows — Graveyard (1958)
5. The Duponts — Screamin’ Ball (at Dracula Hall) (1958)
6. Bo Diddley — Bo Meets the Monster (1958)
7. Kip Tyler — She’s My Witch (1958)
8. The Hollywood Flames — Frankenstein’s Den (1958)
9. Sheb Wooley — The Purple People Eater (1958)
10. The Coasters — The Shadow Knows (1958)
11. The Five Blobs — The Blob (1958)
12. The Swingin’ Phillies — Frankenstein’s Party’ (1958)
13. Elroy Dietzel and the Rhythm Bandits — Rock n`Bones (1957)
14. Buster Doss and his Arkansas Playboys — Graveyard Boogie (1948)
15. Miller, Glen & Orchestra / Swingin’ At The Seance (1941)
16. Al Reed — Hoodoo (1955)
17. The Monotones — Zombi (1958)
18. The Big Bopper — Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor (1958)
19. Nervous Norvus — The Fang (1957)
20. The Five Jones Boys — Mr Ghost Goes to Town (1937)

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