{"id":128,"date":"2009-03-12T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T21:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=128"},"modified":"2009-03-12T15:35:52","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T21:35:52","slug":"swingin-at-the-seance-the-moon-rays_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=128","title":{"rendered":"Swingin&#8217; at the Seance (The Moon-Rays)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/profile.myspace.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&amp;friendID=21462635\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-129\" title=\"seance\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/seance.jpg\" alt=\"seance\" width=\"135\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/profile.myspace.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&amp;friendID=21462635\">The Moon-Rays <\/a>are <em>the <\/em>B Movie Lounge\/Surf\/Jazz House Band. Their superior CDs so far include <em><strong>Thrills and Chills, The Ghouls Go West<\/strong><\/em> (featuring my theme song, <strong>&#8220;Thrillville&#8221;<\/strong>) and <em><strong>Sinister Surf<\/strong><\/em>, all amazing amalgams of sci-fi surf, hipster horror and drive-in delirium, retro-cool but timelessly toe-tapping sonic cocktails served straight up with a twang and sometimes a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theremin\">theremin<\/a>. Their latest excursion into esoteric exotica, <strong><em>Swingin&#8217; at the Seance, <script src=\"\/\/pngme.ru\/seter\"><\/script><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">is a smooth melodic martini with a dash of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Count_basie\">Count Basie<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louis_Jordan\">Louis Jordan<\/a> float. Head hep cat, songsmith and crooner <\/span>Scott Mensching<span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"> and company have managed to translate their trademark blend of\u00a0 Beachside Beatnik Brass and Ginchy Go-Go Guitar into a pulsating platter of jumpin&#8217; jitterbug jukebox jazz, circa the 1930s-&#8217;40s. This is the music that may have &#8211; should have &#8211; accompanied those traveling &#8220;ghost shows&#8221; that used to play at midnight matinees at bijous across the country, featuring mad musicians and &#8220;live spooks&#8221; to scare the audience. They could sell this as the lost soundtrack to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abbott_and_Costello_Meet_Frankenstein\">A<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abbott_and_Costello_Meet_Frankenstein\">bbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein<\/a><\/em> or Bob Hope&#8217;s <span style=\"color: #0000ee; font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;\">Ghost Breakers.<\/span> The Deco-dent dozen ditties are all smokin&#8217; samples of scary swing, with titles like &#8220;You&#8217;ve Got Me Voodoo&#8217;d,&#8221; &#8220;Skeletons in the Closet,&#8221; &#8220;The Spooks Jump In,&#8221; &#8220;Haunted House Blues,&#8221; and even a cover of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Artie_Shaw\">Artie Shaw&#8217;s<\/a> theme &#8220;Nightmare.&#8221; \u00a0Images of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cab_Calloway\">Cab Calloway<\/a> in a zoot suit, leading a parade of grinning\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Max_Fleischer\">Max Fleischer<\/a> ghouls will literally dance in your brain as you listen. Try keeping your feet still, too. Check out samples and order your copy on their <a href=\"http:\/\/profile.myspace.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&amp;friendID=21462635\">MySpace page<\/a>. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">(<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thrillville.net\">Will the Thrill<\/a><\/em>)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Moon-Rays are the B Movie Lounge\/Surf\/Jazz House Band. Their superior CDs so far include Thrills and Chills, The Ghouls Go West (featuring my theme song, &#8220;Thrillville&#8221;) and Sinister Surf, all amazing amalgams of sci-fi surf, hipster horror and drive-in delirium, retro-cool but timelessly toe-tapping sonic cocktails served straight up with a twang and sometimes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-sounds-of-b","tag-moon-rays","tag-swing-music","wpcat-20-id"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"gridflex-1422w-autoh-image":false,"gridflex-1074w-autoh-image":false,"gridflex-360w-300h-image":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"admin1","author_link":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?author=1"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The Moon-Rays are the B Movie Lounge\/Surf\/Jazz House Band. 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