You get a twenty second opening of scary howling wind creaky coffin atmosphere before the music starts. This is a creepy instrumental only Joe Meek could have made. And in 1961! It sounds like the Sorcerer's Apprentice, but with spidery electric guitars treated with heavy distortion and reverb. I can imagine Tim Burton making some sort of stop motion film with little dancing vampires a la The Nightmare Before Christmas. The song was banned by the BBC because it was ‘unsuitable for people of a nervous disposition’. It is a great piece of music to play on Halloween. Joe Meek himself did the howling at the very end.
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