Who wants to win a $75.00 Shopping spree to Metropolis Vintage?
Well than come on down this Sat night to Soul Clap at Brooklyn Bowl and enter the dance contest. Because if your good but not just the best (2nd Prize) you will will the $75.00 Shopping spree to our store, So make the plans. The fun starts at 12 mid night this Sat at Brooklyn Bowl

Another SOUL CLAP and another fun time had by all dancers. Brooklyn Bowl has been great for Soul Clap the added space and the big stage has brought out the best in the dancers. This month David Johansen was the guest DJ for the contest and he drought his Glam Punk songs for the dancers to shake there assess to and boy did we get a great pair of winners. Take a look at our winner of the $75.00 Shopping Spree she is the dancer with the tall boots. Wow she was my favorite all the way but i am sure glad she came in 2nd because she came in the store to use her gift card and she was just as much fun a person as she was a dancer. Three CHEERS to Jonathan Toubin for bring us another great SOUL CLAP and keep a look out for next months Soul Clap Dec 15th.

Love and candy corns,

Jonathan Toubin

1. Baron Daemon and the Vampires “Ghost Guitars” (WHYS TV, 1963): Throughout the 1960s Syracuse TV newsman Mike Price had a long-running local late night show as horror movie host Baron Daemon. This B-side to “Transylvania Twist” is a top notch spooky surf instrumental by the Vampires (local group Sam and the Twisters) with the Baron rapping on top… He’s no Jay-Z but that makes it even more ideal for our purposes.? 

2. Gary Warren “Werewolf” (Nasco, 1958): One of the best ever songs of the season! EVER! I was unable to learn anything about Gary Warren or any other details but “Werewolf” is such a spooky supreme rocker in every regard that it speaks for itself and stands up outside of the monster genre…

?3. Salmas Brothers with Bumps Blackwell Orchestra “Zombie” (Keen, 1959): This long-lived west coast chicano vocal trio this time is backed up by Bumps Blackwell, who’s best known for producing Little Richard’s early hits and other great Specialty records. Also arranged by a young music industry up-and-comer named Herb Alpert. ZOMBIE DANCE PARTY!

?4. Claudine Clark “Walking Through a Cemetery” (Chancellor, 1962): Released as the follow-up to her huge self-pinned Top 5 hit “Party Lights,” this deadly dance jam single-handedly sunk her career despite an blazing vocal performance, strong beat, and oom-bop sha doodie doodie… You know the story, sometimes folks just don’t get it.

?5. Merv Griffin “House of Horrors” (Mercury, 1962) Before he was one of the world’s most famous talk show hosts and before he created “Jeopardy!” and “Wheel of Fortune”, Merv Griffin made one of the most baroque Halloween records ever – cartoon chaos bouncing into tight breaks full of shrieks and howls and references to an encyclopedia of creepy culture. And you can skank to it Rudy! As Merv asks at the end in his best Dracula voice, “Horrible! Wasn’t it?”

?6. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins “All Night” (Decca, 1966) – My favorite Screamin’ Jay dance jam, though not one of his better-known numbers, is fierce enough to play all year long in any situation – the o.g. shock rocker and quintessential Halloween artist at his fastest, most urgent, and most danceable.

7. Bily Snel “One Too Many Heads” (Wild, 1958): This super-rare jumpy bopper is artist/illustrator Bily Snel’s only known record. His protagonist is just wild about his girlfriend with one heart, two heads, three teeth, and four eyes. His only problem is he doesn’t know which one to touch!

8. Carole Bennett “Haunted Lover” (Capitol, 1957): Carole Bennett is a haunted lover since he left her in this poltergeist popcorn swinger! “Your memory keeps sneaking up behind me trying to remind me… Even my shadow’s running for cover!”

9. The Copycats featuring Kimo and Sabbe “The Abominable Snowman” (Prince, 1960): Another of the greatest monster hits of all time! And, like the “Monsters’ Holiday” genre, also suitable for Christmas. This superbad snowman is “public monster number one!” – getting his kicks catching mountaineers and pushing them off cliffs. But you’re probably safe. He lives up high because if he lived down low, he’d turn into a puddle of H2O…

?10. The Fortunes with Adam Keefe as “Professional Ghoul” “The Ghoul In School” (Cub, 1963): Not to be confused with the British Merseybeat Fortunes, this unknown girl group is joined by a Peter Lorre-esque ghoul played by Adam Keefe (???) in the theme song from the horror cult classic flick “Werewolf in a Girls’ Dormitory” – about a murderous werewolf terrorizes a school for wayward girls.

?11. The Couplings “Egor” (Prism, 1964): The obscure combo responsible for the demented classic “Dill Tickle” offer a danceable duet between irritable master Dracula and an unruly Egor who is caught playing with Dracula’s train. Egor winds up tying his master to the track and… Never mind! Like a lot of the best popular music the lyrics and narrative are totally amateurish but this one oozes a weird charm and locks into a very catchy latin-tinged Sloopy beat…?

12. The Zanies “The Blob” (Era, 1958): This Los Angeles recording combo that released a couple of decades worth of interesting instrumentals and novelties on Dore do a killer take on the Five Blobs’ Burt Bacharach/Hal David-pinned hit. The flip “Do You Dig Me Mister Pigmy”. Sorry for the condition of this record but I’ve been hitting it on Halloween for years and its too good to exclude.?

13. Art Roberts “Terrible Ivan” (Imperial, 1958): Another all-time favorite! The demented flip of “Give Her the Axe Max”?…

14. Joe Johnson “Gila Monster” (Cascade, 1959): For Joe Johnson’s story, see Nick Tosches’ “Save the Last Dance For Satan” (Kick’s Books). This would be goofy garage worthy of your attention even if it didn’t have such an interesting story. Joe Johnson was the bandleader at Jack Ruby’s Vegas Club (the Warren Commission’s report on the Kennedy assassination mentions Ruby’s involvement in the recording!). If you like this and don’t wanna spend the time and money finding it, Norton records recently re-released the song on 45.?

15. The Naturals “The Mummy” (Era, 1959): This rockabilly novelty’s narrator finds himself opening up a mummy’s casket in Egypt, learns that his new ancient friend was a musician, and winds up hitting it big after he gets this bronze age bard in his rock and roll band… But all the mummy wants is to be let back in his tomb…

?16. Jack Marshall’s Music “The Ghoul” (Capitol, 1962): A prestigious Capital Records producer/arranger/composer, Jack Marshall also did the music for “The Munsters”. This humongous horror surfer really swings hard and comes in a first class picture sleeve (http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/62dabe8e90ce88fa2fe9434609774d2a/3740230.jpg)?…

17. Teddy Durant “The Beast of Sunset Strip” (Impression, 1965): This beatnik exploitation pop culture rock poem is about a new kind of monster… The kind that drinks blood, eats corpse meat, chases chicks, likes blondes, and has big bad teeth, plays the bongos with the watusi beat, and does the jerk and the swim right on his feet… Don’t meddle with this scuzzy dude! Forget him! Just hop in your woody and split man split!…

18. The Brigidi Sisters “That Tickles” (Chancellor, 1959): Another song about a man who spent 3000 years of contentment before getting dug up… Don’t really understand everything they’re saying. A new acquisition that impulsively ended up here in the last second for a reason that hasn’t even yet been revealed to me…

19. Googie Rene Combo “The Chiller” (Class, 1964): Straight outta Romesville, this groovy beatnik jazz organist made a whole slew of boss 45s. This is the only one I know of where he explores his spooky side.?…

20. Gary “Spider” Webb “The Cave (Part I)” (Bamboo, 1961): Another one of my all time faves! This one’s hard to find in the original but can be found comped here and there. On a dark rainy night Jimmy and Julie duck into the shelter of a cave. They get lost and separated from one another and they booth freak the frug out! They spend the entire record calling out to one another in fear while the mysterious tremolo of minor key surf guitars reverberate above of a tribal beat. A stone cold classic!

21. Music For Monsters “Ghoul’s Glide” (Sounds, 1962): I bought this solo theremin 45 for its low-fi werewolf cover. While I don’t typically do much in the way of snippets anymore, I employed this one to allow me a moment to flip the previous record over for part 2…

?22. Gary “Spider” Webb “The Cave (Part II)” (Bamboo, 1961): Kind of like Part I but a looser jazzier take showcasing the drums of the Hollywood Argyles’ Gary Webb. I couldn’t decide which side to give you so you get more of a dark cave scaring the bejesus out of Jimmy and Julie…

BONUS TRACK?:
23. The First Theremin Era “The Barnabas Theme From ‘Dark Shadows'” (Epic, 1969): Totally out of place here stylistically and chronologically, I couldn’t resist tacking on this groovy theremin driven mover from the “Dark Shadows” TV show.

Released by: NEW YORK NIGHT TRAIN
Release/catalogue number: NYNT 15
Release date: Oct 22, 2012

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Jonathan  is back in action! After many months of recovery our friend and DJ  has returned to full fill all our dancing needs and this coming May 12 at Glasslands Gallery will be the return of Soul Clap and we will be sponcering the second place prize ($75 Metropolis Gift Certificate) for the dance contest, so put on your dancing shoes and get ready to have some fun. Read some more about Jonathan and his recovery at this NY Times article.

Also check out that nice VINTAGE JACKET Jon is wearing in the picture!!! I wonder where he got it????

 

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Check out the video of where all the fun is at!!!!

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Check out the sounds of SOULCLAP

Sarah is the SoulClap’s reining champion. Sarah is such a good dancer that she has won Soulclap dance contest two years in a row. WOW she has MOVES!! We were so so HAPPY that Sarah agreed to do a photo shoot we us. PLUS she also let us VIDEO tape her dancing. KEEP a eye out for the video it is going to be awesome.

Nick Gazin; Photographer and Isabel Simpson: Stylist.

WOW, What a night. Glasslands was packed. Our leader Mr. Jonathan Toubin fresh off his article in The Wall Street Journal was slinging vintage 45’s at a furious pace trying to keep up to the frenzied dancers. What happened to our MC? Lets just say she was missing in action.The dancers had taken over the stage but, In the end we had two winners who danced off to find out who will be holding the cash and who will get to spend the $75.00 shopping spree at Metropolis. And may I say the Metropolis winner was my favorite.

Check out our hero and leader of SOULCLAP dance contest