Zero to 180 – Three Minute Magic

Discoveries of a Pop Music Archaeologist

Category: Halloween & horror

Halloween & horror
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The Cool Ghoul: Theme Song Remix

It’s been ten years since the passing of Dick Von Hoene, Cincinnati’s late-night weekend TV phantom, The Cool Ghoul, as he was known professionally.  Aaron Bates, along with oldies radio station WGRR, put together a freewheeling and vintage-filled 2-minute tribute to the loveable horror figure specific to our Ohio Valley

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"Five Minutes to Live"
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“Five Minutes to Live”: Death Sentence Commuted to 50 Years

My deep appreciation to Brian Horrorwitz of Trash Palace for introducing me to a great tune that was sung by Johnny Cash and featured in a mediocre film in which he starred: “Five Minutes to Live“ Johnny Cash (1960) I am especially in awe of Luther Perkins’ guitar lines, who

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"Some of Them Bones Are Mine"
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“Some of Them Bones Are Mine”: Kinda Spooky

According to the authoritative Rockin’ Country Style website, Johnny and Jonie are Johnny & Jonie Mosby — he, born in Ft. Smith, Arkansas, and she, born Janice Irene Shields in Van Nuys, California.   Married in 1958, released two 45s that same year. “Some of Them Bones are Mine” — whose

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"Behind My Baby's Bedroom Door"
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Johnny Seay Asks That You Not Look Behind His Baby’s Bedroom Door

In July of 1967, one month after the release of Bobbie Gentry’s Ode to Billie Joe album, Johnny Seay went into Columbia’s Nashville recording studio to record one song — a singularly strange, slightly surrealistic Southern gothic tale.   Listen for the ghostly train whistle near the end of the first

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