Gene Moss was the Weird Al Yankovic on this album.  Moss wrote all the song parodies for "Dracula's Greatest Hits" along with a few original offerings and provides the vocals in a Bela Lugosi exaggerated style.  Pretty funny, as well as a fun spin.  The musicians were all established studio rats and as silly as the songs may be, the rats didn't short-change the music.  All are pretty good.

The album artwork was created by Jack Davis of the bent Mad Magazine fame.  Davis also did the artwork for albums as diverse as Homer and Jethro to The Guess Who.  And it was this recognizable artwork that caused me to pause in the first place to have a better look.

Favorites include "I Want To Bite Your Hand."  And "Drac The Knife" and "The New Frankenstein And Johnny Song" are both pretty excellent.  Of course, all the songs follow this Drac theme.

I picked this album up probably 3 or 4 years ago on a lark.  I am just now checking it out.  The cover looked great, plus the Beatles were getting their first big hit in America cracked on in spectacular ...Dracu-lized...style.  This was 1964 after all, and everybody was trying to get their shots.  The album was supposed to include 15 monster trading cards, but mine was long-gone missing.  I imagine kids grabbed them up pretty quick and are pretty hard to come by.

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