Special Halloween treat for all you Audium readers around the world. I present: "Selections from The Haunted House and Other Spooky Poems and Tales". I've digitized all the tracks into mp3s and scanned the cover too. This is a pretty "high-culture" kid's record, including work by Langston Hughes, Goethe, Theodore Roethke. It's also interesting to think of all these authors having written spooky or macabre pieces. I bought this 45 in a thrift store in Honolulu several years back. As the ballpoint pen on the back attests, it once belonged to an "Anne Wong". The record was released by Scholastic in 1970, and contains selections from a book of the same name.
"Selections from The Haunted House and Other Spooky Poems and Tales"
The Haunted House (by Vic Crume) 1:14
Winter Moon (by Langston Hughes) 0:18
Sir Roderic's Song (by William Schwenck Gilbert) 0:29
A Young Lady from Glitch (by Tamara Kitt) 0:10
Ruth and Johnnie (by Anon.) 0:14
A Skeleton once in Khartoum (by Anon.) 0:12
It Isn't the Cough (by Anon.) 0:08
The Bat (by Theodore Roethke) 0:46
The Velvet Ribbon (by Ann McGovern) 2:32
The Erl-King (by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) 2:01
November Night (by Adelaide Crapsey) 0:21
Dust (by Sydney King Russell) 0:50
The Kilkenny Cats (by Anon.) 0:17
The Cradle that Rocked by Itself (by Maria Leach) 2:44
A great look at "Spooky Sounds" albums
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Thanks for the post. My brother and I listened to this recording every year after we bought the record and the book in 1970. Great memories to share with our kids - it took me years to track down my own copy of the record - complete with "Rice Krispies - Snap, Crackle and Pop". Sounds real clean with your work. I see you have the glossy cover of the early issue. Later issues were white with violet lettering on plain paper stock.
I used "The Haunted House" as narration for a slideshow of my Halloween Display.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d64XaxHysfU
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