Thread: Need music to haunt a Victrola.

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I have a beautiful old Victrola that gave up the ghost along time ago but I have decided to "haunt" it. Make it come on by itself and play. I need some suggestions for songs. I love the song Hand and Hand again from The 13th Hour from Midnight Syndicate and would love the original but I can't find it. I'm sure some of you know of something similar.

Charles Harrison 1919 version ?
Here's an original 1919 version done by Harrison - http://www.4shared.com/audio/95C-qbC...nd_in_Han.html

& a Haunted up version I did to give it that old aged / warp sound - http://www.4shared.com/audio/Oi20JRj..._in_Hand_.html

No the one I want has two people singing at the same time it's Henry Burr and Albert Campbell. i like it cause it's slow and drug out.

Ok, think I found that one.....give me a few minutes.

This one ? - http://www.4shared.com/audio/e4yxwoY...pbell-Han.html

Might look into some of Robert Johnson's music. Bluesman with a great number of his songs that fit with both the Halloween theme and would sound like they were being played on a Victrola - scratches and pops... and he has a legend of selling his soul at the crossroads to play the blues.

Two suggestions:
Hell Hound on my Trail
Me and the Devil Blues


Jeepers Creepers - by any of the artists that did it where the recording is all tinny and sounds like a genuine old record... actually, that would be pretty cool to go find a few really old recordings like that. That movie was CREEPY and I think in the right setting, almost any old, scratchy recording could be made to seem odd and scary.

I have things like Vincent Price and Boris Karloff (downloaded from ScarStuff before he stopped posting ) reading stories and the like, and I think those would be fun for a haunted Victrola too.

Oh!

Just remembered the "Oh Brother Where Art Thou?" soundtrack. I picked that cd up secondhand years ago, and there are some GOOD songs on there that would be great for something like this:

Hard Time Killing Floor Blues - Chris Thomas King
I Am Weary (Let Me Rest) - The Cox Family
O Death - Ralph Stanley (this is sung completely acapella, and is pretty powerful)
Angel Band - The Stanley Brothers
Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby - Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch

Any specific era of music you are wanting? Like 1930's, 40's, etc...

Dark Lord, I love you! That's it. Thank You!!! It even crackles

I would lean towards the oldest music you can possibly find ... there's gotta be some stuff from the 20's and early 30's out there. I don't think the Victrola was sold after the 20's. There could be some music on Halloween Stomp or The Haunted House that could work.

Jill Tracy's soundtrack to Into the Land of Phantoms was written as a score to the 20's silent film "Nosferatu" ... I think it sounds like the kinda thing you could play on a Victrola ... esp. "Renfield Concocts a Scheme", "The Book of Vampires" ... really most of the album is dark and very Victorian. But it lacks all the pops and crackles you might like to have.