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Tuesday 10 January 2012

HAMMER FILMS: WHEN THE VINYL VAMPIRE WAS KING.


Two great gems from the later years of Hammer Films.  The DRACULA album has been available for sometime on CD and as download, but in some cases it's minus the suites from Hammer Films She and Vampires Lovers.


The album Hammer presents Dracula with Christopher Lee
when first released was available as a gate fold sleeve. When it was re released some years later
economically the sleeve was just a single sleeve minus the great colour photograph of Christopher Lee as Dracula from The Satanic Rites of Dracula and the supporting notes.

ADRACULA
Composed By – James Bernard
Narrator – Christopher Lee
Arranged By, Conductor – Phillip Martell
Script By – Don Houghton
Four Faces Of Evil
B1Fear In The Night
Composed By – John McCabe
B2She
Composed By – James Bernard 
B3The Vampire Lovers
Composed By – Harry Robinson 
B4Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
Composed By – David Whittaker


The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires released a few months after the Dracula album featured the voice of Peter Cushing narrating the story of the Hammer/Vampire Run Run Shaw Brothers movie. Complete with more sound effects than you could shake a stake at, this was to be the second of a series of three albums from Hammer. A Frankenstein album was in the works when diminished returns from the first two albums put the nail in the coffin.

The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampire (Original Soundtrack)
1974|Vinyl|Warner Bros. Records|K56085
Narrator: Peter Cushing
Producer Roy Skeggs Producer The Legend Of Ancient China Prologue The Seven Golden Vampires The Chinese ... James Bernard (2) The Legend Of The 7 Golden Vampires (Original Soundtrack) Warner Bros. Records K ... The Vampires The Lovers' Death Count Dracula's Death And Disintegration Epilogue The Legend Of Ancient

The good news, for those who have never heard either album, copies can be found on EBAY quite regularly of the Christopher Lee Dracula album, though the chop socky vampire outing is quite rare. If you see them, snap them up and splash out a tenner for that old record player in that thrift store. They are a treat!  

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