JEEPERS CREEPERS

It’s creepy and spooky . . . and also lush, lovely, and melodic. It’s
JEEPERS CREEPERS: GREAT SONGS FROM HORROR FILMS.

Scarlet Street magazine publishers Tom Amorosi and Richard Valley have joined
forces with Grammy-nominated producer Bruce Kimmel to create a new CD
featuring tunes from such classic fright films as WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY
JANE?, I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF, THE MUMMY’S CURSE, CIRCUS OF HORRORS, WHO
KILLED TEDDY BEAR?, FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN, HOLD THAT GHOST, ATTACK OF
THE PUPPET PEOPLE, HUSH . . . HUSH SWEET CHARLOTTE, FRANKENSTEIN’S DAUGHTER,
and THE UNINVITED.

The singers are some of Broadway’s finest performers, including Broadway and
Hollywood veterans Katherine Helmond (WHO’S THE BOSS, SOAP, BRAZIL), Judy
Kaye (MAMMA MIA), Brent Barrett (KISS ME KATE, CHICAGO), Rebecca Luker, Alison
Fraser, Christiane Noll, Jason Graae, Sharon McNight, and Lynnette Perry, along
with Michelle Nicastro, Tammi Tappan, Guy Haines, Theresa Finamore and Juliana
A. Hansen, Remy Zaken, and Susan Gordon (who appeared as a child in ATTACK OF
THE PUPPET PEOPLE, produced by her father, frightmaster Bert I. Gordon). The
CD also includes a Special Ghoul Appearance by TV’s legendary horror host of
the fifties and sixties, Zacherley.

JEEPERS CREEPERS is the premiere CD project for Richard Valley’s Red Circle
LLC, and Mr. Kimmel’s new CD label and entertainment company. Valley recalls
how the album came about:

“It was some 10 years ago, at a New York book and magazine convention, that
Tom Amorosi and I met Bruce Kimmel for the first time. A friendship grew, we
being fans of his film THE FIRST NUDIE MUSICAL and he being a rabid reader of
Scarlet Street. A few weeks later, over dinner, I mentioned a dream I’d been
nursing for several years—a collection of songs either written for or used in
horror films. The songs would all be newly recorded, using the talent that had
made Bruce’s previous albums so tremendously popular. Purely by coincidence,
I had with me a complete list of songs that I thought would fit the format.
Bruce was enthusiastic. Tom was enthusiastic. Even the waiter was
enthusiastic—but unfortunately, we never got past the talking stage, and
there the matter lay, as dormant as Frankenstein’s Monster before an
invigorating jolt of electricity.

“Flash forward—in fact, lightning flash forward—to February 2003, and Tom
and I are having dinner again with Bruce. I ask Bruce how much it would cost to
produce HORROR’s GREATEST HITS (as it was then called). He tells me. I say,
‘Let’s do it.’”

And we did it.

Following several months devoted to choosing and arranging the songs, JEEPERS
CREEPERS: GREAT SONGS FROM HORROR FILMS was recorded in June and July 2003. All
told, 17 fabulous singers (plus orchestra and a chorus dubbed The Scarlettes)
perform 18 fantastic tunes from 17 classic horror films:

1.  WHO KILLED TEDDY BEAR? (Bob Gaudio/Al Kasha)
from Who Killed Teddy Bear?
Tammi Tappan

2.  GOODY GOODY (Johnny Mercer/Matty Malneck)
from What’s the Matter With Helen?
Lynnette Perry with special appearance by Zacherley

3.  LOOK FOR A STAR (Tony Hatch)
from Circus of Horrors
Guy Haines

4.  I’VE WRITTEN A LETTER TO DADDY (Frank De Vol/B. D. Merrill)
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? (Frank De Vol/Lukas Heller)
from What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Katherine Helmond and Remy Zaken

5.  THE FAITHFUL HEART (James Van Heusen/Sammy Cahn)
from Journey to the Center of the Earth
Rebecca Luker

6.  HEY YOU (Oliver Drake/Frank Orth)
from The Mummy’s Curse
FARO-LA, FARO-LI: SONG OF THE NEW WINE (Kurt Siodmak/Hans J. Salter)
from Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
Judy Kaye and The Scarlettes

7.  HUSH . . . HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE (Mack David/Frank De Vol)
from Hush . . . Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Christiane Noll

8.  JEEPERS CREEPERS (Johnny Mercer/Harry Warren)
from Jeepers Creepers
Sharon McNight

9.  THE BLOB (Mack David/Burt Bacharach)
from The Blob
Alison Fraser

10. AURORA (Harold Adamson/Mario Lago/Roberto Roberti)
from Hold That Ghost
Michelle Nicastro

11. MOTHRA’S SONG (Shinichi Sekizawa/Yuji Koseki)
from Mothra
Theresa Finamore and Juliana A. Hansen

12. YOU’RE MY LIVING DOLL (Albert Glasser/Don Ferris/Henry Schrage)
from Attack of the Puppet People
Susan Gordon

13. STELLA BY STARLIGHT (Ned Washington/Victor Young)
from The Uninvited
Brent Barrett

14. I WAS A TEENAGE HORROR MEDLEY:
YOU GOTTA HAVE EE-OOO (Skip Redwine/Paul Dunlap)
from How to Make a Monster
EENY MEENY MINEY MOE (Jerry Blaine/Paul Dunlap)
from I Was a Teenage Werewolf
DADDY BIRD (Page Cavanaugh/Jack Smalley)
from Frankenstein’s Daughter
Jason Graae

JEEPERS CREEPERS is available exclusively from Red Circle LLC at
http://www.mycottage.com/SCARLET/CDjeepers.htm