lp sealed MONSTER SOUNDS ('65) Frankie Stein & His Ghouls - rockabilly horror
You are bidding on a rare MINT lp of MONSTER SOUNDS, from Frankie Stein and His Ghouls on Power Records, 1965.
Sun Ra, Duane Eddy, and members of the Blues Project may be in the Frankie Stein lineup... or maybe not. See notes below.
Record is still sealed, never opened, never played. Original pressing, not a re-release.
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"The music of Frankie Stein and his Ghouls is cooler than it has any right to be. Between 1964 and 1965, the “band” cranked out no fewer than five full-length albums. By all rights these records should have been little more than white noise, the kind of generic elevator music that blared from teenage radios in movies and television whenever the producers didn't feel like ponying up the dough for a legitimate song.

But there's something special about the Frankie Stein series. Something surprisingly focused, haunting and aggressive. Which has led fans to sometimes speculate about the identities of the anonymous musicians that made of the ersatz band. If Frankie Stein was a real person, he’s been suspiciously quiet in the years since his band’s albums were hastily released. And there might be a good reason for it, if even a fraction of the rumors about the musicians involved with this project are true.

The “Frankie Stein” albums were released by Power Record, a subsidiary of the children’s specialty label Peter Pan. Power would later strike a chord with its young audience during the ‘70s when it licensed movie, television and comic book properties for its famous “book and record” sets. Years earlier, though, it was still struggling to find an identity, which lead the company to create some … unusual products.


For example: the 1966 album “Batman and Robin”. It’s since been established that there were no “Dan & Dale,” and that the band was actually made up of the legendary Sun Ra. It was a quickie album meant to capitalize on the first wave of Bat-mania. The music had little to do with the Caped Crusaders, but it’s likely the young fans buying the album didn’t care.

“Batman and Robin” was produced another music legend: Tom Wilson. If the name doesn’t ring a bell, his list of credits absolutely will. During the 1960s, he produced such acts as Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, the Velvet Underground and the Mothers of Invention. He’d been working with Sun Ra since the 1950s, which is probably why he was able to persuade the man to pick up a quick paycheck on a silly Batman knockoff.

The album was the product of Synthetic Plastics Co., a toy company located in Newark, N.J. Coincidentally, Synthetic Plastics Co. also produced the “Frankie Stein” albums. Which is where the rumors about the album’s creation get interesting. While nobody has ever taken credit for their work on them, rumor has it that Wilson produced these albums (all of which might have been recorded during the same session) with a roster of musicians that might have included Duane Eddy, members of the Blues Project and, possibly, Sun Ra, himself.

Or maybe it didn't include any of them. Who knows?" - webfind

frankie Stein and His Ghouls ?– Monster Sounds And Dance Music

Label: Power Records 342
Released: 1965

Tracklist

A1 The Creep (Twist) 2:22 A2 Be Careful It’s My Throat (Frug) 2:00 A3 Dreamin’ And Screamin’ (Mashed Potato) 2:13 A4 Chills (Hully Gully) 2:18 A5 Dance Of Doom (Monkey, Watusi) 2:19 B1 Mummy’s Little Monster (Hully Gully) 2:03 B2 Kiss Of Death (Slow Rock, Shimmy, Twist) 3:10 B3 Body Twist (Twist) 2:12 B4 Bat And Cat (Fox Trot) 1:45 B5 Saturday Evening Ghost (Surf, Twist)

B3 has the same exact chords and phrasing as Beatles' "All My Loving."