The Original Music From Dark Shadows (Television Series Soundtrack - Deluxe Edition)

Listening to this soundtrack is quite a lot like coming home! I remember as a kid, running home after school to watch the television show Dark Shadows (1966-71) with my sister. She bought this album, in record form, and here it is again in CD form. As an added bonus, the album has two extras: a 27-minute radio interview (with Jonathan Frid (who played Barnabas Collins), Grayson Hall (Julia Hoffman), Roger Davis (Peter Bradford), Humbert Allen Astredo (Nicholas Blair), Robert Rodan (Adam) and Donald Briscoe (Tom Jennings and others)), and a 12-minute radio interview with David Selby (Quentin Collins).

This is a great album with a lot of memories attached. For me, the big question is, would I enjoy just listening to this album for itself, or is it just mood music? The answer is that these tunes are all quite nice, and I enjoyed listening to this album over and over again. I must say, though, that if you are going to do this, you might want to program your player to skip the...Read more

This is a GREAT CD! The classic, eery music that set so much of the atmosphere on Dark Shadows is here! A HUGE bonus is the narration tracks done by Jonathan Frid (Barnabas Collins) and David Selby (Quentin Collins) - I Barnabas, I'll Be With You Always, and of course the classic Shadows of the Night narration of Quentin's Theme to name a few. As if it couldn't get better, they add some great bonus material at the end, two radio interviews with the cast! Jonathan Frid (Barnabas Collins), Grayson Hall (Dr. Julia Hoffman), Humbert Allen Astredo (Nicholas Blair), Roger Davis (Jeff Clark/Peter Bradford), Don Briscoe (Chris and Tom Jennings), and Robert Rodan (Adam) are interviewed in the first from 1968, and the second is exclusively with David Selby (Quentin Collins) from 1969. Both interviews are the final two tracks on the CD.

If you are a DS fan, you MUST have this album. Tons of classic themes, great narrations, and wonderful bonus interviews are what you'll get. I also...Read more

This special reissue of Original Music from DARK SHADOWS is a welcome edition to recent releases of past film scores from many successful TV series. The "OPENING THEME:DARK SHADOWS/COLLINWOOD" are nothing less than classic. Take notice of - "I'LL BE WITH YOU, ALWAYS", "MEDITATIONS", "WHEN I AM DEAD", "EPITAPH", "I, BARNABAS" with narration from Jonathan Frid is both enjoyable and entertaining. Tracks 1-16 Original Music from DARK SHADOWS, then we have Tracks 17-18 bonus material containing Radio Interviews (1968) with Jonathan Frid, Grayson Hall, Roger Davis, Humbert Allen Astredo, Robert Rodan, Donald Briscoe and David Selby in (1969) Radio Interview is a collectors dream. There is a following which have formed various fan clubs that continually meet and talk about the series. This collection contains material which any collector would be proud to own.

Total Time: 76:11 on 18 Tracks/Varese Sarabande - 302...Read more