MP3: Ingrid Pitt Indeed (2.9 mb)In the late 60s/early 70s, there was a midnight horror movie show called Shock Theatre that came on TV in Montgomery every Friday and Saturday night. I was glued to the set each week as they showed hours of famously frightening movies starring the black and white likes of Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi and Lon Chaney Jr, but the ones that really caught my budding eye were the ones by a British company called Hammer. These lush and gothic films, shot in technicolor and seemingly always featuring Peter Cushing or Christopher Lee (or both!), careened my imagination far into overdrive...especially when they brought out the busty actresses who were either innocent victims or vicious temptresses, but always alluringly sexy. What more could a young boy want?This tribute to Ingrid Pitt - Hammer's Queen (what, you were expecting maybe Barbara Steele?) - is from the out-of-print Marble Tea CD 2001: A Case of the Tea, a collection of home recordings from earlier this century. Happy Halloween....INGRID PITT INDEEDI've got a Hammer horror film in my headStarring Ingrid Pitt as the Queen of the DeadI walk into the laundromatwith red and ripped sheetsa roll of quarters in my pocketso I can wash rinse and repeatI've got a Hammer horror mood in my brainSheer white gowns and a castle in the rain I step out of the restaurantand fall to my kneesrip my shirt down to the waistbecause I know that she'll be pleasedI've got a Hammer horror look to my faceIngrid Pitt wipes her mouth on the staircaseI don't know where I was todayI just woke up scaredwhen she comes again tonightI'll try to be more preparedIngrid PittIn the Vampire LoversIngrid Pitt indeedIngrid PittAs Elizabeth BathoryIngrid Pitt indeedIngrid PittIn Sound of HorrorIngrid Pitt indeedIngrid PittDah dah dee dum dee dahIngrid Pitt indeed** Don't forget to check the Blog Archives to get the songs you missed! ** And don't forget that there are also official Marble Tea releases that you can download right from my website!Hey. Go buy the new Max Eider album. It's FANTASTIC!!
Why doesn't the sound match up?
Thanks for noticing that. The video snippet I have on the computer syncs picture & sound fine, but once I uploaded it to Photobucket (yes, instead of YouTube) it didn't match up. It took so long to upload it that I didn't want to try it again. I also felt that - at the beginning at least - the mismatched sound seemed kind of neat, almost like a narration or something. But mostly I was too lazy to try uploading it again.
cool. I remember Creature feature on Saturday mornings too. And Ultraman, and Jonny Sokko and his Flying Robot. Anyways, I dropped over from icompositions to say hello. Hello.
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Why doesn't the sound match up?
Thanks for noticing that. The video snippet I have on the computer syncs picture & sound fine, but once I uploaded it to Photobucket (yes, instead of YouTube) it didn't match up. It took so long to upload it that I didn't want to try it again. I also felt that - at the beginning at least - the mismatched sound seemed kind of neat, almost like a narration or something. But mostly I was too lazy to try uploading it again.
cool. I remember Creature feature on Saturday mornings too. And Ultraman, and Jonny Sokko and his Flying Robot. Anyways, I dropped over from icompositions to say hello. Hello.
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