DISRESPECTFULLY, SEYMOUR
Title:
DISRESPECTFULLY, SEYMOUR
Artist:
SEYMOUR, “FRIGHT NIGHT” HORROR HOST (with Commercials)
Originally Recorded:
1972 (TV commercials are later)
Issued on CD:
2000 (Totem records #14 / Appollo Music Group #173)
SHEEP appearing on this project:
NONE! Unless you count Rrob giggling in the background
Compilization Produced by:
Chris Matthews
CD Liner Notes:
~ “Fright Night” segments recorded by John Snowhill (who is
better known in Sheep circles as Rrob Perrone’s Uncle John),
circa 1972.
~ Most of the TV
commercials recorded by Chris Matthews & Danny Hesse, 1976-79.
“Seymour” was the
beloved TV horror-host of the early 1970’s in the Los Angeles area,
hosting “Fright Night” on KHJ (channel 9) and then, later, “Seymour
Presents” on KTTV (channel 11).
Rrob recently laid some cassettes on me of that later show,
also taped by his Uncle John, and they are just as witty, snide,
self-deprecating and professional –- and LIVE! –- as the material
you hear here. Perhaps
Totem Records (Rrob’s label) will put out a bootleg of THOSE tapes
too someday…
Uncle John did not
tape the actual movie segments of the show, nor any of the
commercials of the time, so I took the liberty of adding in bits
from my collection, taped by me & Danny some years later.
You will find many gems and annoying memories among them, but
let me recommend my faves: check out “7/11 Slurpee Rock Cups”, “KTEL
Blockbusters” and perhaps the greatest country song ever written
just for a car lot, “Cormier Chevrolet.”
The Night Gallery-esque music loop that plays
behind the “TV Guide” ad still creeps me out (and me & Jeff
are sampling that already for a track on his new CD so don’t get any
ideas!)… At the end of this CD I put on all the stray commercials
that did not fit elsewhere, ending with the voice that would play on
Channel 52 late at night when the signal got scrambled so they could
broadcast “Select TV” --
PAY TV!?!? What a
concept!