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Tracklist
01: “Satan Takes a Holiday” – written in 1937 by bandleader Larry Clinton. Arranged for Hammond Novacord. Originally used as background music for “magic acts and midnight spook shows”.
02: “Answer Me” – A German love song from 1953 by Gerhard Winkler and Fred Rauch, with a translation by Carl Sigman. Vocal by A. LaVey.
03: “The Whirling Dervish” – Written in 1938 by Harry Warren and Al Dubin for the film Garden of the Moon.
“Chloe, or the Song of the Swamp” – Written by Gus Kahn and Neil Moret in 1927. This is a tale of lost love told from the perspective of the abandoned one. Vocal by N. Bougas.
04:”Thine Alone” – Bombastic version of a 1917 piece by Victor Herbert and Henry Blossom, for stage show, called Eileen.
05:”Golden Earrings” – Written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans for the film of the same name, starring Marlene Dietrich. Vocal by A. LaVey, credited as “The Tipsy Gypsy”.
06:”The More I See You” – Written by Harry Warden with words by Mack Gordon. Vocal by N. Bougas.
07: “Band Organ Medley
08: “Money in My Clothes” – A 1934 song written by Irving Kahal and Sammy Fain.
09: “Taboo” – 1941 piece by M. Lecuona.
10: “Giovanni” – Standard Band Organ Waltz composer and date unknown
11: “Yankee Rose” – by Abe Frankel and Sidney Holden, written in 1926.
12: “Hello, Central, Give Me No Man’s Land” – Written by Sam L. Lewis, Joe Young, and Jean Schwartz about a young boy trying to use the telephone to talk to his father who’s been killed in the war. Vocal by A. LaVey
13: “Blue Prelude” – 1933 suicide song by Gordon Jenkins and Joe Bishop. Vocal by B. Barton.
14: “Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise” – By Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein II, for the 1928 operetta, “The New Moon”. A song about love’s betrayal. Vocal by N. Bougas.
15: “Honolulu Baby” – Written by T. Marvin Hatley in 1933 as background music for the Laurel and Hardy comedy, Sons of the Desert. Vocal by A. LaVey.
16: “Variations on the Mooche” – Written by Duke Ellington and Irving Mills, 1928 and favored by exotic dancers.
17: “Here Lies Love” – Suicide song written by Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger for the 1933 film, The Big Broadcast. Vocal by N. Bougas.
18: “Dixie” – Written by Daniel Emmett in 1860. Vocal by N. Bougas.
19: “If You Were the Only Girl in the World” – By Nat D. Ayer and Clifford Grey, 1916. Vocal by A. LaVey.
20: “Satan Takes a Holiday (reprise)” – Vocal treatment of title track by Blanche Barton.
21: “Satanis Theme” – Written in 1968 by LaVey for the film, Satanis.