The Conqueror Worm Limited Edition 12″ Vinyl – Buy Now
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Vincent Price returns in… The Conqueror Worm | Limited Edition 12″ Vinyl – Order Now!
The distinctive, iconic voice of Vincent Price can be heard once again on a new 12″ EP featuring a never-before-released recitation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Conqueror Worm fused with a pulsating electronica score from London-based electronica outfit The Core.
Pressed on coloured vinyl with artwork designed by celebrated illustrator Graham Humphreys, this Limited Edition EP (300 units) is now available to order directly from our VP shop on this site for only £14.99 (excluding postage). One copy per customer.
Darling of the Day (1968) | Vincent Price’s first and only Broadway musical
The Theatre Guild and Joel Schenker
Present
Vincent Price and Patricia Routledge
In a new musical
DARLING OF THE DAY
Based on Arnold Bennett’s Buried Alive and his play The Great Adventure.
Also starring Brenda Forbes, Peter Woodthorpe and Teddy Green.
Composed by Jule Styne
Lyrics by EY Harburg
‘…thoroughly delightful. It has charm, tunefulness, humour, imagination, a good book, impeccable taste and a handsome production. Mr Price is convincing and charming as the artist in hiding… a superior musical comedy!’ (Richard Watts, The New York Post)
Darling of the Day is set in the England of 1905 – Edwardian and elegant – and it’s the story of a great and painfuly shy painter named Priam Farll (Vincent Price) who is summoned back to England after 20 years as a virtual recluse in the South Seas, to be knighted by his King.
After the death of his butler, Henry Leek, Farll assumes his identity, falls for a young widow called Alice Challice (Patricia Routledge) and they marry and settled in (what was then) lower middle-class Putney.
Life becomes complicated for Priam and Alice when his identity is unveiled and he ends up in court. However, when Farll warns that if there’s a ‘Butler in the Abbey’ the social structure of Britain will be shaken, the judge hastily rules that Leek must remain Leek…
Following Darling of the Day‘s pre-Broadway run, the York Theatre Company show had three previews before its premiere performance at the George Abbott Theatre (152 W. 54th St., New York, NY) on 27 January 1968. Following mixed reviews, the show folded after 31 performances, but it did earn Routledge the 1968 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical.
However, thanks to an RCA cast album that was recorded in Webster Hall, New York City, the Broadway musical has been preserved for prosperity, capturing not only Routledge’s award-winning performance, but also Price in his first and only Broadway musical. You can listen to it in full HERE on our sister site, The Sound of Vincent Price.
In the meantime, here’s rare clip of Price performing I’ve Got a Rainbow Working For Me on Frost On Sunday on 15 March 1970.
Click on the picture below to view the entire original playbill
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The Masters of Menace Vincent Price and Edgar Allan Poe rocking to a wild electro beat
On 21 May 2016, a live musical performance showcasing the velvet voice of Vincent Price was held at the historic King & Queen pub in Fitzrovia.
This collaboration between London-based band The Core and Peter Fuller, curator of the Vincent Price Legacy UK community project, took inspiration from the Master of Menace’s performances in his best-known 1960s Gothic chillers and Poe’s classic poem, The Conqueror Worm, to conceive of two ‘Poe-gressive’ compositions utilising sythns and Theremin.
Ahead of the group’s studio recording of these two compositions later in the summer, here are the live recordings of the ‘jam’ sessions.
Do feel free to share and if you’d like to hear us perform live again, then do let us know.
From a Whisper to a Scream soundtrack now available in the UK
Over in the US, Terror Vision have released Jim Manzie’s score to Jeff Burr’s 1989 horror flick, From A Whisper To a Scream, on 180 gram black vinyl, as well in an assortment of colours (depending on if you are a subscriber or mail order). Check out the main theme at the bottom of this post.
It comes packaged in retro style ‘Tip-On’ gatefold jacket with color inner sleeve (featuring some quite hideous artwork) and liner notes by Burr and Manzie (who was thrilled to learn that Vincent Price was attached to the indie project).
Now if you live in the UK, I’ve been able to track down the local outlets where you add this release to your VP soundtrack collection.
STOCKISTS IN THE UK
http://transmissionrecords.co.uk/shop/from-a-whisper-to-a-scream-jim-manzie-cassette/
https://boomkat.com/products/from-a-whisper-to-a-scream-ost
http://www.resident-music.com/productdetails&product_id=37939
https://bleep.com/release/64604-jim-manzie-from-a-whisper-to-a-scream
https://www.normanrecords.com/records/155751-jim-manzie-from-a-whisper-to-a
