Rhino's HALLOWEEN: VINYL MACABRE, HAUNTED HITS and HALLOWEEN HITS [1983-1991]

The very first Halloween themed collection on Rhino Records was the one pictured above, from 1983. Sadly, there never was a Vol. II.  Rhino had released Elvira's debut single the year before and the label would continue to partner with the popular persona on music projects over the next decade.

That partnership was raised from the undead with the 1988 release of Elvira Presents Haunted Hits.  Four of the songs from the Vinyl Macabre album were re-animated for the follow-up. The two-headed vinyl album included 23 songs including "Full Moon", an Elvira original, while the one-eyed CD featured 17 of those songs:  

	not on CD
Monster Mash		Bobby "Boris" Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers
Haunted House		Jumpin' Gene Simmons
Ghostbusters		Ray Parker Jr.
Out Of Limits		The Marketts
The Blob		The Five Blobs
The Creature From The Black Lagoon		Dave Edmunds
The Purple People Eater		Sheb Wooley
The Addams Family (Main Title)		Vic Mizzy
Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes	X	Lewis Lee
Welcome To My Nightmare		Alice Cooper
Dead Man's Party		Oingo Boingo
Twilight Zone		Neil Norman & His Cosmic Orchestra
Little Demon	X	Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Attack Of The Fifty Foot Woman	X	The Tubes
King Kong	X	Big 'T' Tyler
The Creature	X	The Jayhawks
Halloween Spooks		Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
Horror Movie		The Skyhooks
I Put A Spell On You		Screamin' Jay Hawkins
I Was A Teenage Werewolf		The Cramps
Voodoo Voodoo		LaVern Baker
Martian Hop	X	The Ran-Dells
Full Moon		Elvira

The bare-boned Halloween Hits was unearthed in 1991 and featured the bloated corpses of ten songs that had been featured on the earlier Elvira Presents albums.  Because there were no new tracks to be added, HERC did not buy the cursed disc.