DARK SHADOWS FORUMS
Members' Mausoleum => Games => Topic started by: VAM on March 22, 2002, 04:34:19 PM
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Much thought goes into the selection of a music box melody. It often reflects in some way the person, who is to receive it. For instance, if Angelique gave Barnabas a music box, it might play the "Theme from Batman" or "If I Can't Have You, I Don't Want Nobody Baby." Let see what tunes, depending on the presenters and receivers, everyone can suggest.
Hey Ringo this is your kind of post! But everyone is welcome to join in and have fun- LOL ;D
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Here are a few, quick obvious ones:
Barnabas to Angelique: I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That" (Taupin/John) ::)
Petofi to Aristede: "Honesty" (Joel) :o
Barnabas to himself (in memory of Josette): "C'Etait Toi (You Were the One)" (Joel) :'(
Jake
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Julia to Barnabas "Hopelessly Devoted to You'.
Birdie
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Barnabas: "Long Dark Night"
Angelique: "Never Ending Love"
Barnabas: "Strangers In The Night"
Victoria Winters: "Remember Me"
Ben Stokes: "Little Brown Jug"
These are older songs but they work.
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Victoria Winters: "Remember Me"
Ben Stokes: "Little Brown Jug"
I especially like these two! ;D
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Vam,
Here are a couple of off-the-cuff ideas for music box songs:
Quentin Collins - You're So Vain (Carly Simon)
Magda Racosi to Sandor Racosi - Close To You (The Carpenters)
The Eagle Hill Cemetery Caretaker - Just A Gigolo
(Louis Prima)
Nicholas Blair - See Quentin Collins above
Dirk Wilkins - People Are Strange (Jim Morrison and the Doors)
Pansy Faye - I Get Around (The Beach Boys)
Rev. Gregory Trask - Harper Valley, PTA (Jeannie C. Riley)
Gerard Stiles- Positively Fourth Street (The "Man" a/k/a Bob Dylan)
"Buzz" Hackett - Take This Job And Shove It - (Johnny Paycheck)
Roger Collins to Cassandra Blair - I Get A Kick Out Of You (Cole Porter as interpreted by F. Sinatra)
Abigail Collins - Beast of Burden (Mick Jagger, Keith Richard and the Stones)
Barnabas Collins to Josette DuPre - Got To Get You Into My Life (John Lennon, Sir Paul McCartney plus George and Ringo of You-Know-Who!)
Bob the Bartender, President of the Slim Whitman Fan Club
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Bob,
You had me rolling on the floor with laughte-Priceless!!
It made me think of one for Midnite and MB:
Victoria Winters gives Peter Bradford a music box, which plays the title song from the Broadway play HAIR!
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Bob the Bartender, President of the Slim Whitman Fan Club!
Kill any Martians lately??? [fangs]
Anyhoo...been listening to some vintage Neil Diamond tonite and a good song for Barnabas would be...
Thank The Lord For The Nightime!
Always, Minja
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Vam,
Thanks for the kind words. Here's one more I just thought of:
Professor T. Elliot Stokes to Madame Findley - Light My Fire (Jose Feliciano as interpreted by Jim Morrison and the Doors)
I can just see the learned Stokes intoning to the alluring Madame Findley, "Come on baby, light my fire, trying to set the night on fire..."
Bob the Bartender, who does not believe in Martians, but is not quite sure about the existence of the Leprechauns.
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Jeb to Carolyn - The Shadow of Yer Smile
For Judah Z - Don't Get Around Much More
For Nicholas - Red Caddilac and A Black Moustache
For Angie - I Can See For Miles
For The So-Called Rev. Trash - Thick as A Brick
For Laura Collins - Burning Down The House
For the Dream Curse Kids - I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night [ Electric Prunes]
Night of Dark Shadows Angie - She Hangs Out/What Am I Doin' Hanging 'round? [Monkees Medley]
From me to TLATKLS - You Are So Beautiful, To Me [- written by Billy Preston]
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I gotta go to bed, so I can get up to hand the Ticketmonster a couple of house payments in the morning! >:(
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You never disappoint, Ringo...
Great stuff from all contributors and thanks for replying to my post!!!
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Paperback Writer - Flora Collins
I've Got You Under My Skin - Count Petofi to Quentin Collins
Piano Man - Laszlo Powi
Alone Again (Naturally) - Barnabas Collins
Will the Circle Be Unbroken - The Seance Singers
I Want to Hold Your Hand - The Count Petofi Fan Club
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - Laura Collins
Leaving on a Jet Plane - Burke Devlin
And we can't forget The Theme from "Cheers" for Bob the Bartender
Ben
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The suggestions so far have been too precious!
A friend suggested that a suitable theme for Adam to present to Eve would be You Were Made For Me by Freddie and The Dreamers.
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I could just visulize the Rev. Trask presenting one to Angelique that played "Devil With the Blue Dress ON"and she gave him one that played "Brick House" in return!
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I could just visulize the Rev. Trask presenting one to Angelique that played "Devil With the Blue Dress ON"and she gave him one that played "Brick House" in return!
Or "Another Brick in the Wall." ;)
Angelique could have a music box that played "Needles and Pins," or better yet, "Evil Woman."
ProfStokes
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Angelique really needed Love Poton # 9
Chris J(my fave)Werewolves of London or Collinsport or
anywhere you are :-*
Angelique again Witchy Woman(love those Eagles)
Barnabas Roxanne(but he could change it to Josette
or Vicki or Aachel or Lady H or the ladies of the docks but never angelique unless she gets the above love potion)
jennifer
have to say that i love all the songs but Dirk's People are strange really had me laughing :o
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Here's one Barnabas could sing to Angelique- You Don't Own Me! By Leslie Gore. Or here's one that Barnabas & Angelique could sing together during their fling in Martinique, Im not sure of the name but it's sung by Meatloaf and it goes like this: Angelique: I gotta know right now!! Will you make me so happy for the rest of my life? Will you take me away, will you make me your wife?! And Barnabas singing the last verse: So now Im praying for the end of time so I can end my time with you!!
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"Or here's one that Barnabas & Angelique could sing together during their fling in Martinique, Im not sure of the name but it's sung by Meatloaf and it goes like this: Angelique: I gotta know right now!! Will you make me so happy for the rest of my life? Will you take me away, will you make me your wife?! And Barnabas singing the last verse: So now Im praying for the end of time so I can end my time with you!!"
Ah, yes, "Love By the Dashboard Light," a fine song by Meatloaf that aptly describes the Barnabas-Angelique relationship!
Or I thought it would be a cool song for David and Hallie, who surely were headed for some kind of hormonally-charged teenage fling sometime down the line!
Robin
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Thanks Robin! It's nice to see you here too!! :) I just couldn't get that title in my mind, thanks for refreshing my memory. ;)
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Reference to the Adam and Eve post--
Adam to Eve "Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree"
Also:
Barnabas "One Has My Name, The Other Has My Heart"
Barnabas "In the Misty Moonlite"
Angelique "You Ain't Woman Enough To Take My Man"
Cocoa
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Dear Vam,
Here are a couple more zany music box melodies that dawned on me as I drove out of Atlantic City onto the beautiful Garden State Parkway:
Julia Hoffman to Barnabas Collins - Constant Craving (K.D. Lang)
John Yeager to Maggie Evans Collins - Anticipation (Carly Simon)
Here's one that can apply to two JD's with varying connections to Dark shadows:
(1) Tony Peterson to Carolyn Stoddard, and
(2) Ben to Katherine Leigh Scott - *Lawyers in Love (Jackson Browne)
*(I would also like to include those two honorary JD's: Gerard and Ringo in number (2) as well.
Bob the Bartender, winner of the Coach from "Cheers" lookalike contest.
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Bob,
Wouldn't it be a great idea to take all these Zany Music Box Melodies on this post to the Festival and present them in a session? We could share them with other fans, who are not on the post and the celebrities might also enjoy them.
Do you have any ideas or perhaps Midnite may have a suggestion?
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Here's one that can apply to two JD's with varying connections to Dark shadows:
(2) Ben to Katherine Leigh Scott - *Lawyers in Love (Jackson Browne)
*(I would also like to include those two honorary JD's: Gerard and Ringo in number (2) as well.
Aw, shucks, Bob, thanks for thinking of me. What a coincidence that you thought of a song from me to TLATKLS, for she was the only DS star I had a picture with at last year's Fest.
I'm flattered to be in the company of Gerard and Ringo, esquires in their own right. If you all are in Anaheim this June, and we can commandeer a piano, I'll play the themes from "Perry Mason" and "Cheers" for you.
Ben
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Dear Vam and Ben,
Yes, our zany music box melodies would be a worthwhile topic of discussion for Dark Shadows fans at one of the upcoming festivals. I think that the irrepressible Roger Davis would be the perfect moderator for this 'uninhibited" discussion.
Ben, In addition to the Cheers theme, would you please play for me, the theme song for my favorite show (after Dark Shadows), the one and only Gilligan's Island: "With Gilligan, the Skipper too, the millionare and his wife, the movie star, the Professor and Mary Ann, here on Gilligan's Isle." (6:00 PM - EST on TV Land is "must see tv" for me every weeknight!)
By the way, Woody Allen once said that Richard Nixon decided to run for the presidency in 1968, the same year that Gilligan's Island was cancelled. Was there some connection, Mr. Allen mused?
Here's another zany music box melody suggestion:
Maggie Evans Collins to her abusive PT husband, Quentin Collins - Don't Talk (Natalie Merchant, formerly of 10,000 Maniacs)
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Dear Vam, here are some more: Peter Bradford singing to Vicky: JailHouse Rock, by Elvis Presley, Sandor singing about himself: Sharp Dress Man, by ZZTopp, Angelique singing to Barnabas: Bang Bang (my baby shot me down) by Sonny & Cher, Barnabas as a vampire: Walkin After Midnight, by Patsy Cline, Barnabas & Josette singing together, Someday We'll Be Together,by The Supremes ;)
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Ben, In addition to the Cheers theme, would you please play for me, the theme song for my favorite show (after Dark Shadows), the one and only Gilligan's Island: "With Gilligan, the Skipper too, the millionare and his wife, the movie star, the Professor and Mary Ann, here on Gilligan's Isle."
Hmmm, requests? Sure! My current TV theme medley includes the following distinguished fare: Bewitched, MASH, Cheers, Andy Griffith, Leave It to Beaver, The Flintstones, Everybody Loves Raymond, Hill Street Blues, Growing Pains, Family Ties, I Love Lucy, LA Law, and Perry Mason. We can add Gilligan to that list.
Ben
(still thinking of a way to translate the main DS theme into a piano solo, although Quentin's Theme and that maudlin thing Laszlo always did are do-able ;))
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(still thinking of a way to translate the main DS theme into a piano solo, although Quentin's Theme and that maudlin thing Laszlo always did are do-able ;))
Ben,
You don't mean Laszlo-You are speaking about Michael Stroka's character Bruno Hess. The tune he always played was "Ode to Angelique" in 1970PT. ;)
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Oops! Sorry, VAM. I guess once you hit 40, the centuries start to run together. :-[
Yes, I'm familiar with "Ode to Angelique," and I guess that's the song I meant -- where Stroka is playing the piano in such a campy way, swaying violently back and forth on the piano bench, I was so sure the next song would be "Feelings."
But there was another song, I believe in 1841PT, that struck me because it seemed a bit modern for that era. What was the song, and who was the pianist?
Ben
(Feeling as though that very last sentence should have begun with, "For five hundred dollars ...") :D
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But there was another song, I believe in 1841PT, that struck me because it seemed a bit modern for that era. What was the song, and who was the pianist?
Ben,
I think it was Nancy Barrett's character Melainie Collins. Sorry, I do not know the song. Perhaps someone else can offer a response.
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But there was another song, I believe in 1841PT, that struck me because it seemed a bit modern for that era. What was the song, and who was the pianist?
Ben, I remember you had that reaction to Cobert's "Joanna's Theme" from the 1840 story. It *is* lovely but does seem better suited to NoDS. Oh yeah, and it was Gerard that played it, wigging Quentin out since he torched his copy after writing it, but Gerard insisted he had just found it lying around. (But we know how it really got there, heheh.)
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Thanks Midnite!
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Ben, I remember you had that reaction to Cobert's "Joanna's Theme" from the 1840 story.
Midnite, I must have made that fleeting comment either last year on the VantageNet board or last August to you in person at the Fest. And you remembered! [blshy]
And now, finally, I got those two songs straightened out in my head. Thanks!
Ben
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Dear Vam,
Three more melodies come to mind:
Bramwell Collins to Morgan Collins (RE: Catherine Harridge) - She's Rather Be With Me (The Turtles a/k/a Flo and Eddie)
Jeremy Grimes (same as Q. Collins and N. Blair) - You're So Vain (Carly Simon) or I Feel Pretty (from the play
West Side Story)
Roger Collins to Elizabeth Stoddard - What Do The Common Folk Do? (from the play Camelot)
Bob the Bartender, former understudy to Bill Macy in the Broadway classic, Oh, Calcutta!
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Julia to Barnabas - "The Big Hurt" by Miss Toni Fisher
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Falling - Julee Cruise
Teardrop - Massive Attack
Worry About You - Ivy
For some reason, I can see Julia giving music boxes of all of those to Barnabas. For those who recognize the names but can't place them, edited versions were used as the themes to Twin Peaks, House, and Kingdom Hospital, respectively.
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Cassandra Collins - Back in Black (AC/DC)
Willie Loomis - Bent (Matchbox 20)
Barnabas Collins - My Way (Frank Sinatra)