I mowed my aunt's lawn just so I could make enough money to go out and buy this album! I will never forget how disappointed I was that there wasn't the music from the show I'd hoped would be on it, but I was still thrilled to have it. I now own the 8 disc set of every piece Robert Cobert recorded titled "The Complete Dark Shadows Soundtrack Music Collection", and everything is on it! I wish I still had this album, though.
I used to have this record too. The CD is available at amazon. This was my favorite side of the record. Thank you for posting this. "When I Am Dead" is lovely and almost prophetic. As Jonathan Frid has passed from this world, I read that he chose not to have a funeral service. Seems odd, he has so many endearing fans. People love him. RIP Jonathan.
I think most lps sound better on a good turntable .. but in this case, the CD is fine. But I always prefer vinyl, that's just me. Hope this helps @@ghost_knight_001
Soundtrack Tracklist Hide Credits A1 Opening Themes: 1. Dark Shadows 2. Collinwood Written-By - Robert Cobert 2:44 A2 I'll Be With You, Always Narrator [Narration By] - Jonathan Frid Written-By - Charles Grean, Robert Cobert 2:22 A3 Josette's Theme Written-By - Robert Cobert 1:19 A4 A Darkness At Collinwood Written-By - Robert Cobert 3:25 A5 Meditations Narrator [Narration By] - Jonathan Frid Written-By - Robert Cobert 2:29 A6 Night Of The Pentagram Written-By - Robert Cobert 2:42 A7 When I Am Dead Written-By - Robert Cobert 1:42 A8 No. 1 At The Blue Whale Written-By - Robert Cobert 2:22 B1 Shadows Of The Night Narrator [Narration By] - David Selby Written-By - Charles Grean, Robert Cobert 2:06 B2 The Secret Room Written-By - Robert Cobert 2:29 B3 Epitaph Narrator [Narration By] - Jonathan Frid Written-By - Robert Cobert 1:56 B4 Seance Written-By - Robert Cobert 1:18 B5 I, Barnabas Narrator [Narration By] - Jonathan Frid Written-By - Charles Grean, Robert Cobert 2:12 B6 Back At The Blue Whale Written-By - Robert Cobert 2:10 B7 The Old House Written-By - Robert Cobert 2:21 B8 1. Epilogue 2. Dark Shadows Written-By - Robert Cobert
this Lp is a little warped too ;-) you can hear it on the organ wobbling especially. one can now purchase this sounding pristine (though still a bit tinny) on such as iTunes, which is wonderful. with that remastered option for hearing Robert Cobert's finest TV music score finally available, the crackle of a vintage copy of the vinyl from one's collection only adds to the nostalgic fun
I didn't think it was either camp or gothic soap opera. It felt more like an endless epic fantasy adventure with a semi-horror bent, that just happened to take the format of a soap. Then again, I was born and raised on golden-era RPGs like Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy and Chrono Trigger, so....
I think it was TV Guide that dubbed it "supernatural intrigue." Given that all the monsters were "real" (for the purposes of the plot), the writers took them to interesting places that even the books that inspired them did not go.
Lucky you! I bought mine brand-new in November, 1969 and it was ripped off in October, 2002. I watched Dark Shadows from the beginning in 1966 right up to the end in early 1971. :)
Brings back fond memories. "I'll Be With You Always" was being piped into a large amphitheater in advance of Jonathan's appearance in Redwood City, CA..way back in 1968 or so. It was a thrill to see him in person...just six rows in front of me. Thanks for posting, wrti2010.
Memories. Running home from school to watch! Watching with my bff and her grandmother.... Wonderful! I used to like the original music box theme. It was more haunting. I don't know why they changed it.
It seems as if all school aged children always Ran from school to watch DS. Not walked home...not took the bus or train or blimp or helicopter home....but ran home. So be it. Raise your hand if you thought that Willie was a wimp.. ..
I got this album for Christmas when I was about 10 or 11. 69, 70. It's disturbing to me now, 40 some-odd years later, to recall how obsessed with this shit I was back then. Weird memories!
I still have this album......so many memories of this cool show. When I hear the track for "#1 at the Blue Whale", I automatically think of Joel Crothers.
I REALLY LOVE THIS AUBLM AND ALL THE SCARY MUSIC FROM DARK SHADOWS I WILL PLAY THIS AUBLM ON HALLOWEEN AND I REALLY HOPE THAT JONATHAN FRID WAS STILL HERE WITH US R. I. P. OUR FAVORITE VAMPIRE BANANAS COLLINS JON LOECHERT FAN OF DARK SHADOWS JULY 8TH 2016
I do also-actually the pre-Barnabas episodes actually feature the music a bit more. Best music on any soap in history and there is not even a close second.
My school let out at 3:15 and I'd get home in time to see reruns of "The Flintstones" at 3:30 and DS at 4. Talk about an interesting juxtaposition... Robert Cobert's music did a lot to add to the macabre feel of the show. I often wonder whether the show had any lasting effect on how the actors and actresses perceived their own mortality.
+TheYellowTulips Me too, exact same time, I would make it just in time if I RAN! Quentin's Theme has been stuck in my mind ever since, just found it again here. What year was this I wonder? I'm thinking 1971?
where did you grow up, i wonder? i've never heard anyone else mention the 3:15 bell and the 15 minute dash so specifically. this would corroborate my own experience. many have waved away at my memory, saying i must be wrong about 3:15 for starters. i was at Bret Harte in Chicago (where our congrats go to the Cubs today!) at the time, watching that clock like a hawk, edgy from 3:00 until the end of school day bell at 3:15! cheers!
DS debut was 1966 (hence this year of 2016, the Anniversary, the 50th). this Lp was released in 1969 at the peak of Dark Shadows TV ratings and around the time that Quentin, to great fame coming after Barnabas, became another new DS breakout star, started obsessing over a particular gramophone record, when very soon that particular Cobert melody indelible melody casually recycled from a Dan Curtis TV movie of "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde". Quentin, of course, was played by a fine young actor called David Selby who created the role as it led him from silent ghost to strong willed scion and for his efforts that piece of this great music soon stuck to him like glue, which happy accident he does not at all mind, and in fact he happily embraces that fact of his life and ours to this day. that piece became known ever thereafter known solely as his, and was upon its first record release retitled and cannily called "Quentin's Theme". many more versions existed though most seem to be unavailable to us today. Dark Shadows was 'cancelled' by the newly confident abc-TV that rode it to legitimacy without warning or apparent regret - outside of almost 20 million daily viewers at its peak - early in 1971.
they moved it around. when i was in the Midwest DS was on at 3:00. maybe it moved later, though i don't know where you were. only in NY did i see it at 4:00.
Oh yeah! I remember when a thunderstorm would come on, lightning flashing, rain pelting our windows... my two friends and I would roleplay (back then we called it 'playacting' now it's called LARPing) we would put the album on the turntable and re-enact Josette's flight and fall from Widow's Hill! I was always Angelique, Jon was Barnabas and Velda was Josette! I can never forget! "You cannot harm me, Ben! I have too much power for you! Listen, Ben... it's your heart... your heart is going to burst right out of your chest!! HAHAHAHAHA" Oh the curses I could throw!
I remember racing home to se this show. My brother and I would be glued to the T.V. I hate Johnny Depp for making a stupid version of a classic. The 3 Original movies were awsome.
i love the new dark shadows movie i love the way they did not try to be just like the 1960's show at all that would have never worked it was great cool as hell !
I shall proffer an answer in the form of a skill-testing question: My age at the time of the Dark Shadows LP one of the square roots of 169 in the Real Number system.
17:10 at the Blue Whale. Righto. The fishy smell wafting over the rafters, the nets strung up all round the pub, the bleary eyed sailors with their woolen caps...*Burp*. uh, excuse me. Dis plonk's recent vintage...
HI ALL DARK SHADOWS FANS I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S OVER 50TH YEARS OF DARK SHADOWS I THINK THAT HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS SHOULD HAVE A HAUNTED HOUSE FOR DARK SHADOWS HAUNTED HOUSE FOR UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS CALLED HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS WITH VAMPIRE'S AND WEREWOLVES AND WITCHES WARLOCKS DEMONS SPIRITS AND GHOSTS AND THE LIVING DEAD ZOMBIES PLEASE ALL DARK SHADOWS FANS LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT IT AND MAYBE WE WILL HAVE A HAUNTED HOUSES FOR DARK SHADOWS HAUNTED HOUSE FOR UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS JON LOECHERT FAN OF DARK SHADOWS
+Jon: Sounds like fun. Which Universal Studios are you near, Orlando or Califorinia? We have a Dark Shadows fan club in Central Florida that meets on a regular basis. Some members just came back from the 50th Anniversary convention (not me, sadly).
I liked everything on DS until the mid 300's episodes when they went back in time. Also they kept changing characters like I change shoes. Other than that I lo ved the series.
I mowed my aunt's lawn just so I could make enough money to go out and buy this album! I will never forget how disappointed I was that there wasn't the music from the show I'd hoped would be on it, but I was still thrilled to have it. I now own the 8 disc set of every piece Robert Cobert recorded titled "The Complete Dark Shadows Soundtrack Music Collection", and everything is on it! I wish I still had this album, though.
I used to have this record too. The CD is available at amazon. This was my favorite side of the record. Thank you for posting this. "When I Am Dead" is lovely and almost prophetic. As Jonathan Frid has passed from this world, I read that he chose not to have a funeral service. Seems odd, he has so many endearing fans. People love him. RIP Jonathan.
abyios o.o
Passed from this world? Did he... Really...?
Hi is it true the lp edition is better sounding
I think most lps sound better on a good turntable .. but in this case, the CD is fine. But I always prefer vinyl, that's just me. Hope this helps @@ghost_knight_001
I BOUGHT THIS ALBUM IN 1966 AND STILL HAVE IT I WAS A JUNIOR IN HIGH SCHOOL NEVER MISSED DARK SHADOWS
+Arlette: Any chance you could post the song track titles? I am curious what the names of them are.
Soundtrack
Tracklist Hide Credits
A1 Opening Themes: 1. Dark Shadows 2. Collinwood
Written-By - Robert Cobert
2:44
A2 I'll Be With You, Always
Narrator [Narration By] - Jonathan Frid
Written-By - Charles Grean, Robert Cobert
2:22
A3 Josette's Theme
Written-By - Robert Cobert
1:19
A4 A Darkness At Collinwood
Written-By - Robert Cobert
3:25
A5 Meditations
Narrator [Narration By] - Jonathan Frid
Written-By - Robert Cobert
2:29
A6 Night Of The Pentagram
Written-By - Robert Cobert
2:42
A7 When I Am Dead
Written-By - Robert Cobert
1:42
A8 No. 1 At The Blue Whale
Written-By - Robert Cobert
2:22
B1 Shadows Of The Night
Narrator [Narration By] - David Selby
Written-By - Charles Grean, Robert Cobert
2:06
B2 The Secret Room
Written-By - Robert Cobert
2:29
B3 Epitaph
Narrator [Narration By] - Jonathan Frid
Written-By - Robert Cobert
1:56
B4 Seance
Written-By - Robert Cobert
1:18
B5 I, Barnabas
Narrator [Narration By] - Jonathan Frid
Written-By - Charles Grean, Robert Cobert
2:12
B6 Back At The Blue Whale
Written-By - Robert Cobert
2:10
B7 The Old House
Written-By - Robert Cobert
2:21
B8 1. Epilogue 2. Dark Shadows
Written-By - Robert Cobert
Its amazing how many 50 yr holds were forever warped by show. It was so popular with us kids back then.
this Lp is a little warped too ;-) you can hear it on the organ wobbling especially. one can now purchase this sounding pristine (though still a bit tinny) on such as iTunes, which is wonderful. with that remastered option for hearing Robert Cobert's finest TV music score finally available, the crackle of a vintage copy of the vinyl from one's collection only adds to the nostalgic fun
TERESA ELLIOTT sonnyclarencejames
I loved this music. I still do.
You are exactly right Teresa!
I WATCHED,,,THIS,,,ALL THE TIME,,,BACK IN THE DAY,,,FLASHESBACKFRIDAYFROM THE SPACE,,THANK,,,THIS CAME ON T.V.
Yes! this music is very haunting and the arrangements by Robert Cobert is ingenius.
This series DS is a camp classic and will always be.
I didn't think it was either camp or gothic soap opera. It felt more like an endless epic fantasy adventure with a semi-horror bent, that just happened to take the format of a soap. Then again, I was born and raised on golden-era RPGs like Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy and Chrono Trigger, so....
I think it was TV Guide that dubbed it "supernatural intrigue." Given that all the monsters were "real" (for the purposes of the plot), the writers took them to interesting places that even the books that inspired them did not go.
I had this album.
Thanks for the memories.
Dark Shadows will always be one of my all-time favorite shows.
Lucky you! I bought mine brand-new in November, 1969 and it was ripped off
in October, 2002.
I watched Dark Shadows from the beginning in 1966 right up to the end in early 1971. :)
I remember getting this album as a birthday gift ages ago. Played it all the time. Wish I still had it.
Josette's Music Box. I loved her. This showing being dark for the time period is mild compared to the darkness in today's world.
Brings back fond memories. "I'll Be With You Always" was being piped into a large amphitheater in advance of Jonathan's appearance in Redwood City, CA..way back in 1968 or so. It was a thrill to see him in person...just six rows in front of me. Thanks for posting, wrti2010.
Memories. Running home from school to watch! Watching with my bff and her grandmother.... Wonderful! I used to like the original music box theme. It was more haunting. I don't know why they changed it.
To each his own. I like the first one better. I understand it was a copyright issue that forced the change.
It seems as if all school aged children always Ran from school to watch DS. Not walked home...not took the bus or train or blimp or helicopter home....but ran home. So be it. Raise your hand if you thought that Willie was a wimp..
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Excelente musica, a otro nivel.
Robert Cobert--Genius!
I still have the original album!
I love how you have Quentin peeking through the hole in the record.
I still have this album. I got Jonathan Frid to sign his picture on the cover.
I still have the album.
I loved this album..and Dark Shadows. Can't believe I remember all the words..been awhile since I heard this album..thanks.
I got this album for Christmas when I was about 10 or 11. 69, 70. It's disturbing to me now, 40 some-odd years later, to recall how obsessed with this shit I was back then. Weird memories!
I totally still have this album!
I'm just getting into this series- Its great! I just got this lp off ebay, so you can look there for a replacement for the one you lost.
My dog and I like to dance to the second song. It's our song.
THE GREATEST DAYTIME DRAMA EVER DONE I THINK IT SHOULD OF BEEN ON IN PRIME TIME IT WAS THAT GOOD
I had this as well as more music from Dark Shadows albums. There was a music only version of "I'll Be With You Always"...it was really beautiful.
I loved this show.
I still have this album......so many memories of this cool show. When I hear the track for "#1 at the Blue Whale", I automatically think of Joel Crothers.
I REALLY LOVE THIS AUBLM AND ALL THE SCARY MUSIC FROM DARK SHADOWS I WILL PLAY THIS AUBLM ON HALLOWEEN AND I REALLY HOPE THAT JONATHAN FRID WAS STILL HERE WITH US R. I. P. OUR FAVORITE VAMPIRE BANANAS COLLINS JON LOECHERT FAN OF DARK SHADOWS JULY 8TH 2016
I think this is the best horror music ever.
I have this album from a used record sale. I like how you have the scary face peeking through the hole on the record!
Robert Cobert = Masterwork
I love this soundtrack.
I do also-actually the pre-Barnabas episodes actually feature the music a bit more. Best music on any soap in history and there is not even a close second.
I inherited the album from my older brother..still have it. I remember when it 1st came out seems everyone was playing it on Halloween night
used to run home from school every day to watch this show , but school let out at 3:00 and it took 15 mins to run home .....
My school let out at 3:15 and I'd get home in time to see reruns of "The Flintstones"
at 3:30 and DS at 4. Talk about an interesting juxtaposition...
Robert Cobert's music did a lot to add to the macabre feel of the show.
I often wonder whether the show had any lasting effect on how the actors and actresses perceived their own mortality.
+TheYellowTulips Me too, exact same time, I would make it just in time if I RAN! Quentin's Theme has been stuck in my mind ever since, just found it again here. What year was this I wonder? I'm thinking 1971?
where did you grow up, i wonder? i've never heard anyone else mention the 3:15 bell and the 15 minute dash so specifically. this would corroborate my own experience. many have waved away at my memory, saying i must be wrong about 3:15 for starters. i was at Bret Harte in Chicago (where our congrats go to the Cubs today!) at the time, watching that clock like a hawk, edgy from 3:00 until the end of school day bell at 3:15! cheers!
DS debut was 1966 (hence this year of 2016, the Anniversary, the 50th). this Lp was released in 1969 at the peak of Dark Shadows TV ratings and around the time that Quentin, to great fame coming after Barnabas, became another new DS breakout star, started obsessing over a particular gramophone record, when very soon that particular Cobert melody indelible melody casually recycled from a Dan Curtis TV movie of "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde". Quentin, of course, was played by a fine young actor called David Selby who created the role as it led him from silent ghost to strong willed scion and for his efforts that piece of this great music soon stuck to him like glue, which happy accident he does not at all mind, and in fact he happily embraces that fact of his life and ours to this day. that piece became known ever thereafter known solely as his, and was upon its first record release retitled and cannily called "Quentin's Theme". many more versions existed though most seem to be unavailable to us today. Dark Shadows was 'cancelled' by the newly confident abc-TV that rode it to legitimacy without warning or apparent regret - outside of almost 20 million daily viewers at its peak - early in 1971.
they moved it around. when i was in the Midwest DS was on at 3:00. maybe it moved later, though i don't know where you were. only in NY did i see it at 4:00.
You are exactly right Teresa!
Still have my original album too.
me too! if only I had a turntable to play it!
Memories!!!
Awesome!
on wed.of the week at our cub scout meetings this is what we did FIRST! watch dark shadows, then meeting time!
I ran through backyards to get to the TV before my sister got off the bus to watch the gong show.
Chuck Barris over Jonathan Fridd ??? Never!
Oh yeah! I remember when a thunderstorm would come on, lightning flashing, rain pelting our windows... my two friends and I would roleplay (back then we called it 'playacting' now it's called LARPing) we would put the album on the turntable and re-enact Josette's flight and fall from Widow's Hill! I was always Angelique, Jon was Barnabas and Velda was Josette! I can never forget! "You cannot harm me, Ben! I have too much power for you! Listen, Ben... it's your heart... your heart is going to burst right out of your chest!! HAHAHAHAHA" Oh the curses I could throw!
I remember racing home to se this show. My brother and I would be glued to the T.V. I hate Johnny Depp for making a stupid version of a classic. The 3 Original movies were awsome.
Ken Jessup I agree. The re-make movie with Johnny Depp was horrible.
i love the new dark shadows movie i love the way they did not try to be just like the 1960's show at all that would have never worked it was great cool as hell !
For what Tim Burton and Johnny Depp did they should be horsewhipped.
have all 4 albums now on cd, plus 8 cds remastered, plus cobert's cd on HODS/NODS and his other cd on other scary music including DS1991
Julia: "But I..I don't understand, Barnabas"
Yes, please hurry~ R.I.P J.F
Back on Decades TV -- started with the Introduction of Barnabas … check online.
… today is November 5 2018 -- Dark Shadows (50 years+) is still a great work of television and performance art.
I shall proffer an answer in the form of a skill-testing question:
My age at the time of the Dark Shadows LP one of the square roots of 169 in the Real Number system.
the darkness at collinwood music is very creepy
Had this exact vinyl many moons ago...must've misplaced it. 😮😢
17:10 at the Blue Whale. Righto.
The fishy smell wafting over the rafters, the nets strung up all round the pub, the bleary eyed sailors with their woolen caps...*Burp*. uh, excuse me. Dis plonk's recent vintage...
josettes music box....anybody know the words to it....thx in advance..
Barnabas!
HI ALL DARK SHADOWS FANS I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S OVER 50TH YEARS OF DARK SHADOWS I THINK THAT HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS SHOULD HAVE A HAUNTED HOUSE FOR DARK SHADOWS HAUNTED HOUSE FOR UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS CALLED HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS WITH VAMPIRE'S AND WEREWOLVES AND WITCHES WARLOCKS DEMONS SPIRITS AND GHOSTS AND THE LIVING DEAD ZOMBIES PLEASE ALL DARK SHADOWS FANS LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT IT AND MAYBE WE WILL HAVE A HAUNTED HOUSES FOR DARK SHADOWS HAUNTED HOUSE FOR UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS JON LOECHERT FAN OF DARK SHADOWS
+Jon: Sounds like fun. Which Universal Studios are you near, Orlando or Califorinia? We have a Dark Shadows fan club in Central Florida that meets on a regular basis. Some members just came back from the 50th Anniversary convention (not me, sadly).
Ha-ha...me too, and I think of the werewolf and Angelique during Night of the Pentagram.
wow
I liked everything on DS until the mid 300's episodes when they went back in time. Also they kept changing characters like I change shoes. Other than that I lo ved the series.
why is david selbys name importnt to the occult? Selby...Bael Saturn...yeap