POE WITH PIPES - JOHN CARRADINE (1975)

 I RECENTLY PICKED UP A BEAUTIFUL NEAR-MINT VINYL COPY OF THIS 1975 GEM FROM THE ELECTRIC LEMON RECORD CO. 

This is the same legendary label which gave us such Halloween favourites as THE PHANTOM OF THE ORGAN, THE VAMPYRE AT THE HARPSICHORD, MUSIC FOR ZOMBIES and DOCTOR DRUID'S HAUNTED SEANCE.  Most of these records featured Verne Langdon on the organ and POE WITH PIPES is no exception.  Here we have a record tailor-made for the Halloween season with the venerable, sonorous-voiced John Carradine emoting the poems of Edgar Allan Poe while Langdon's funereal organ plays in the background.  On display are the Poe-ems "The Conqueror Worm", Ulalume, Annabelle Lee, The Sleeper (Irene), The Raven and A Dream Within A Dream.  Ah yes, the soundtrack for my Countdown to Halloween, all right.  And I believe someone has posted the album of youtubers so you can listen to it for your own Haunted Halloween.  Love that album cover, too!