Real Gone Music’s October Album Releases Include THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD Soundtrack, CUJO Score & More

With the season of apple cider-soaked gatherings nearly upon us, Real Gone Music is making sure you have the appropriate tunes for party time with their announcement of four October album releases, including The Return of the Living Dead soundtrack, the Cujo score, and more.

"Real Gone Music announces several Halloween-themed albums available this October including the soundtrack to Stephen King's Cujo, Zacherle's Monster Gallery from the Cool Ghoul, John Zacherle, the sole studio album from one of the great 80s goth/death rock bands, 45 Grave, and another eagerly awaited repress of the cult soundtrack to Return of the Living Dead.

Charles Bernstein
Cujo—Music from the Motion Picture

• Available October 6
• Limited Edition "St. Bernard" Vinyl
• First Ever Vinyl Reissue
• Includes New Cover Art and Production Stills

Ah, life in the country…such bucolic bliss. Until your neighbor’s dog contracts rabies, kills its owner, and then comes after you! With such emotional extremes, Cujo was not an easy movie to score, but when Stephen King’s classic novel came to the screen in 1983 starring Dee Wallace and Daniel Hugh-Kelly with Lewis Teague directing, composer/conductor Charles Bernstein (A Nightmare on Elm Street) proved mightily up to the task. In addition to employing harsh synthesizer effects and dissonant orchestral layers leading up to the climactic showdown between Mom and beast, Bernstein also penned a tender theme expressing the gentle joys of family life.

Unfortunately, post production woes mixed up some cues and caused the score to be abbreviated in the film; Intrada’s recent CD release presented Bernstein’s work for the first time as it was originally recorded, and that’s where the 18 tracks on our first-ever vinyl release come from, with new (and terrifying) cover art. Limited black and brown “St. Bernard” vinyl edition limited to 1000 copies!"

"John Zacherle
Zacherle's Monster Gallery

• Available October 6
• Limited Edition Green & Orange "Pumpkin" Vinyl
• During the ‘50s and ‘60s, Zacherle Was the “Cool Ghoul” of East Coast Television, Presenting Late-Night Horror Movies in NY & Philly
• Features Original Cover Art Inked by Mad Magazine’s Jack Davis

Fittingly enough, The Cool Ghoul himself, John Zacherle, passed away right around Halloween in 2016, and now we here at Real Gone Music are celebrating his one-year “deathday” by releasing his incredibly rare album Zacherle’s Monster Gallery, originally issued on the budget Elektra imprint Crestview, on green & orange “pumpkin” vinyl limited to 1000 copies!

This record was originally released in 1963, and was actually a copy of the 1960 Elektra album Spook Along with Zacherley, except for one very important detail: the cover art to the Crestview release was inked by legendary Mad Magazine artist Jack Davis, who actually passed away last year as well.

Which probably explains why original copies of this record are selling for about $150 if you can find them…So consider this release a twin tribute to two guys who brought a big smile to millions of kids, especially those on the East Coast that used to see Zach present all those cheesy horror movies on TV. R.I.P., Zach and Jack!"

"45 Grave
Sleep In Safety (Expanded Edition)

• One of The First Great American Goth/Deathrock Bands From the 80s
• Expanded Edition CD Includes 3 Non-LP Tracks
• Liner Notes by Chris Morris Feature an Interview with 45 Grave’s Paul B. Cutler
• Booklet Also Includes Lyrics and Graphics Drawn from the Very Rare “A Tale of Strange Phenomena” Press Release
• LP Coming Later This Fall

Formed from putrefying remnants of The Germs, The Consumers, The Bags, The Gun Club, and The Screamers among other L.A. punk outfits, 45 Grave were arguably the first American Goth/deathrock band and inarguably one of the best.

Fronted by the Exene-meets-Vampirella vocal and visual stylings of Dinah Cancer (still one of the greatest stage names in a punk rock genre full of ‘em), 45 Grave also featured Paul B. Cutler on guitar, Don Bolles on drums, Rob (Ritter) Graves on bass, and Paul Roessler on keyboards, and from that all-star line-up came 1983’s Sleep in Safety, their lone studio release and only recording with the band’s original members.

Probably most famous for the first appearance of the horrifyingly graphic, true-crime track “Partytime,” the single version of which was subsequently cut in 1985 and featured on The Return of the Living Dead soundtrack (both versions appear on our Expanded CD Edition), Sleep in Safety also offered the early MTV track “Evil” and the band “theme song” “45 Grave” among other blandishments for those who like their rock and roll with a side of the macabre.

Both the LP and CD have been out of print for an eternity, and cost an arm and a leg; for our Real Gone Music exhumation of this classic record, we have “embalmed” a very special Expanded Edition.

Not only have we enlisted author Chris Morris to interview Paul B. Cutler for the liner notes, and have incorporated lyrics and graphics from the very rare “A Tale of Strange Phenomena” press release into the booklet, but our Expanded Edition also includes a non-LP side, “Riboflavin,” a cover of the classic Don Hinson & the Rigamorticians track, plus the “Partytime” single featuring a cover of Alice Cooper’s “School’s Out” on the B-side. Folks have been dying for this one!"

"The Return Of The Living Dead
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

• Available October 6
• Limited Edition Black & Brown "Tarman" Vinyl
• Features The Cramps, 45 Grave, The Flesh Eaters, The Damned, Roky Erickson, The Jet Black Berries, T.S.O.L. and SSQ
• Original Cover and Label Art

There are zombies…and then there are brain-eating zombies! And Return of the Living Dead was the film where brain-eating zombies got their first lease on, er, life. Co-written by John Russo, who was George Romero’s writing partner on Night of the Living Dead, this 1985 quasi-sequel introduced more “splatstick” humor to the horror formula as well as the indelible image of ghouls (most notably the infamous “Tarman”) groaning “Braainsss” as they shuffle along.

All set to a KILLER score featuring the greatest punk and death rock bands of the era, including The Cramps, 45 Grave, The Flesh Eaters, The Damned, Roky Erickson, The Jet Black Berries, T.S.O.L. and SSQ. Just in time for Halloween we’ve got another Real Gone version: 1000 copies in limited edition black and brown “Tarman” vinyl! Braainsss!"