2 LP VINCENT PRICE - Witchcraft & Magic 1969 USA

£ 19

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Apr 10, 2009 Sold Date

Apr 3, 2009 Start Date

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Very rare and hard to find first American pressing.

The record is in EXCELLENT condition - very nice, dynamic, clear sound.

The cover is in EXCELLENT - contition.

Gatefold cover, booklet.

Visually graded.

The item is located in Poland so the shipping rate (registered air mail) worldwide is 6 pounds.

Vincent Price came to be identified with gothic horror and crazed villainy through a series of leading film roles in the 1960s that were based on such Edgar Allan Poe poems and short stories as The Raven, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum, and The Masque of the Red Death. Thanks to the actor's wide exposure in those movies and others like them, his voice became immediately associated with the horror genre, opening the door for Price to contribute to a number of different recordings, as well as an album of his own.

His spooky laughter alone was enough to conjure all sorts of macabre thoughts and associations, and his elegant diction only enhanced the effect. A sampling of Price's contributions includes an appearance on Alice Cooper's Welcome to My Nightmare from Atlantic in 1975 and a guest spot on Michael Jackson's Thriller from Epic in 1982. He was also included on a 1998 children's soundtrack, Scooby-Doo's Snack Traks: The Ultimate Collection. Price's own album, Witchcraft and Magic, was released by Capitol Records.

Vincent Price - Narrator
Douglas Leedy - Sound Effects
Terry d'Oberoff - Composer, Director
Roger Karshner - Producer

SIDE 1 (25:30)
Prologue
The Tale of Master Seth
Hitler and Witchcraft
Witchcraft In History
Women As witches
Witch Burning
Witch Tortures

SIDE 2 (25:56)
Witch Tortures (continued)
The World of Spirits and Demons
Preparation for Magic
Instruments of Magic
How To Invoke Spirits, Demons, Unseen Forces
The Magic Bloodstone
The Witches Cauldron
How To Communicate with The Spirits

SIDE 3 (26:45)
How To Communicate with The Spirits (continued)
Gerald Yorke and Necromancy
How To Make A Pact with The Devil
How To Become A Witch
Curses, Spells, Charms

SIDE 4 (26:25)
Curses, Spells, Charms (continued)
Potions
The Hand of Glory
The Witches Sabbat
Witchcraft Today
Epilogue

Douglas Leedy , a classmate of Terry Riley, was on the experimental electronic scene pretty early. He made a bit of a stir in the late 60s with his recordings The Electric Zodiac and the influential electro-acoustic piece Entropical Paradise, a mammoth 3LP set (parts of which were used later in the film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five). If you wanna get the jump on coming festivities he also whipped off a disc of xmas ditties.

As for Karshner, the internet only seems to want to return page after page of search results for plays written by someone of that name. Producer-wise, besides this eeffort I found an earlier Capitol LP by Eli Radish (a 1968 Danny Sheridan project with David Allan Coe) and a 2006 London Philharmonic Orchestra album. Not much seems to have happened in between as far as music is concerned so it's not beyond the pale to figure it was the same guy.

Eve more tantalizingly obscure is Terry d'Oberoff. After some searching, the only other credit I could find elsewhere for him was writing the liner notes for Black Magic's debut album Where Love Is .