Video: Godspell Finale (1984)

The finale from Godspell - Prepare Ye and Day by Day.  This includes the curtain calls, so everyone in the show should get a few seconds of fame in the video.

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Prepare ye, the way of the Lord
Everybody now
Prepare ye, the way of the Lord    (etc)

Day by day
Day by day
Oh Dear Lord
Three things I pray
To see thee more clearly
Love thee more dearly
Follow thee more nearly
Day by day

Video: Dracula Spectacula Show (1981)

The opening song (ie "Dracula Spectacula Show") from the musical.

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Lyrics:

Song: The Dracula Spectacula Show

Look! Read! Gasp! Quiver!
He's waiting for you there
Girl Meets Ghoul! Shiver!
In his castle lair.

So if you feel cosy
With Bela Lugosi
This is the show for you
There are no tomorrows
In this chamber of horrors
Check your heartrate - do.

Who is it drinks from the coffin's cup?
What goes down but must come up?
The Prince of Vampires, the King of Night
It's the Dracula Spectacula
The Dracula Spectacula
Dracula Spectacula Show

Bats! Screech! Blood! Rites!
You'll need the exorcise.
White! Fangs! Eyes! Ice!
Do not trust that smile.

So if your cup of tea
Could be Christopher Lee
Then fly with us tonight!
'Cos it's a two-way trip
In a cataleptic fit
Watch out in case he bites!

Who is it drinks from the coffin's cup?
What goes down but must come up?
The Prince of Vampires, the King of Night
It's the Dracula Spectacula
The Dracula Spectacula
Dracula Spectacula Show

Video: Fly Transylvanian Airways (1981)

Video clip from the song Fly Transylvanian Airways from the musical Dracula Spectacula.

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Lyrics:

Song: Fly Transylvanian Airways

Come fly, Transylvania
Fly, fly, fly.
Come fly over Pennsylvania
Fly, fly, fly.
Come fly,
Transylvanian Airways
It's so easeeeeee.

Come fly, Transylvania
Fly, fly, fly.
Come fly over Yugoslavia
Fly, fly. fly.
Come fly,
Transylvanian Airways
It's fantasticaaaaaa.

Time and the world are ever in flight
So the poet says
Come fly with us to the highest height
Wrapped in clouds and snow
Just smile on those below

Come fly, Transylvania
Fly, fly, fly.
Come fly over Transylvania
Fly, fly, fly.
Come fly...
Fly Transylvanian
Fly Transylvanian

Video: Be Silent and Attentive to Me (1981)

Here's the videoclip for the song Be Silent and Attentive to Me sung by Lisa Cook (nee Crawley) from Dracula Spectacula.  Who could ever forget Mistress Landau's coach trip from the airport to Dracula's castle?

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Lyrics:

Song; Be Silent and Attentive To Me

Be silent and attentive to me
Hold fast as we pass the gallow tree
A dreadful creature devastates this land
Possesing woman and devouring man.

So we must ride, ride, ride
With never a backward glance
Keep low and hide, hide, hide
The inn is our only chance.

If the moon shines fair and bright
He will spy us from his castle height
When blood lust vampire dominates the air
Then 'fair is foul' and truly 'foul is fair'

So we must ride, ride, ride
With never a backward glance
Keep low and hide, hide, hide
The inn is our only chance.

If the moon shines fair and bright
He will spy us from his castle height
When blood lust vampire dominates the air
The 'fair is foul' and truly 'foul is fair'

So we must ride, ride, ride
With never a backward glance
Keep low and hide, hide, hide
The inn is our only chance.

Video: The Lubbly Glublick Song (1981)

Who could ever go past a German Drinking Waltz in a high school musical? Well there's certainly one in Dracula Spectacula, and this is it - the Lubbly Glublick Song!

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Lyrics:

Song: The Lubbly Glublick Song

Hans:
If you're a poor man who's full of regret
From family matters and problems of debt
If you've done all you can, but would like to do more
Then drink up your Glublick and freedom's restored

All:
Drink Lubbly Glublick
Fill up your glass to the brim
Drink Lubbly Glublick
Till it overflows the rim
All your troubles will stop
You'll find peace in each drop
When Glublick goes fizz ping and pop!

Gretel:
If you're a housewife who has given her all
To wiener schnitzel and pumpernick balls
If you've done all you can and the meal has no spice
Then pop in some glublick and everyzink's nice

All:
Drink Lubbly Glublick
Fill up your glass to the brim
Drink Lubbly Glublick
Till it overflows the rim
All your troubles will stop
You'll find peace in each drop
When Glublick goes fizz ping and pop!

Idiots:
If you're a Looby, a Clod or Riff-raff
You'll like drinking glublick with Scrubb and with Scratch
If you've drunk all you can and there's Dreg's in your Boots
Then pass on the glublick to Bogie and Booze.

All:
Drink Lubbly Glublick
Fill up your glass to the brim
Drink Lubbly Glublick
Till it overflows the rim
All your troubles will stop
You'll find peace in each drop
When Glublick goes fizz ping and pop!

Pupils:
If you're a schoolchild who finds learning too tough
And equations confuse you, then never give up
If you've done all you can, still the figures perplex
Just dip them in glublick and answer is 'X'

All:
Drink Lubbly Glublick
Fill up your glass to the brim
Drink Lubbly Glublick
Till it overflows the rim
All your troubles will stop
You'll find peace in each drop
When Glublick goes fizz ping and pop!

Video: Rhesus Negative Rock (1981)

Here we go, a sneak-peak of what's coming.  The videotape from the Dracula Spectacula has finally surfaced, and I have digitised a copy.  Be aware the tape was 31 years old, and toward the end of the show it was very badly damaged from too much pausing and playing, but this will really warm the cockles of your hearts.  Not bad at all.  This little clip is going to be like a Pringle - you can't stop at one.

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Lyrics:

Song: Rhesus Negative Rock

Welcome to my Vampire Empire

High up on this misty hill

Meet the intravenous genius

Ever second's a vermilion thrill

Oh, Draculame'

He can charm me

He can turn me on and off

You can keep your muscles

We prefer corpuscles

When we dance the Rhesus Negative Rock!

Welcome to my Vampire Empire
High up on this misty hill
I supply re-vivication
Simply swallow down this cochineal pill!

Rhesus-Negative-a-Negative Rock
Rhesus-Negative-a-Negative Rock
Rhesus-Negative-a-Negative Rock
When we dance the Rhesus-Negative Rock!

Oh, Draculame'
He made us barmy
He just drove us quite insane
Changed our composition
With that small incision
Now we dance the Rhesus Negative Rock!   -  again!  (key change)

Welcome to my Vampire Empire
High up in this castle shell
It's a lunatic lymphatic
Every brainstorm's like a bat out of hell!

Rhesus-Negative-a-Negative Rock
Rhesus-Negative-a-Negative Rock
Rhesus-Negative-a-Negative Rock
When we dance the Rhesus-Negative Rock!

Oh, Draculame'
You don't harm me
You launch me to eternity
'Cos when we're hobnobbin'
With haemoglobin
We can dance the Rhesus-Negative Rock!
Rhesus-Negative-a-Negative Rock
Rhesus-Negative-a-Negative Rock
Rhesus-Negative-a-Negative Rock
I mean MMMM! Yeah!!!!
Dance the Rhesus-Negative Rock!

(spoken) Miss Nadia: Oh, I hope we're not interrupting anything?

Welcome to my Vampire Empire
High up in this castle shell
It's a lunatic lymphatic
Every brainstorm's like a bat out of hell!

Rhesus-Negative-a-Negative Rock
Rhesus-Negative-a-Negative Rock
Rhesus-Negative-a-Negative Rock
When we dance the Rhesus-Negative Rock!

Oh, Draculame'
You don't harm me
You launch me to eternity
'Cos when we're hobnobbin'
With haemoglobin
We can dance the Rhesus-Negative Rock!

Rhesus-Negative-a-Negative Rock
Rhesus-Negative-a-Negative Rock
Rhesus-Negative-a-Negative Rock
I mean Mmm! Yeah!!!!
Dance the Rhesus-Negative Rock!

Video: Jacob and Sons (1980)

The Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat video is in better condition picture-wise than Dracula, but there is one small problem.  It has NO audio.  At the start you can hear Neil Aubrey flicking about two dozen bars of chords, really quietly and with a bit of a buzz over the top, but no picture underneath.  There's then a flicker, the picture pops up, and the audio drops out, and is gone completely for the rest of the show!

There is, however, a cassette tape of the soundtrack for the final night, which will contain the entire show apart from probably 20-30 seconds when the 45-minute side ran out, and it had to be flipped over and the recording re-started.

It is possible to re-join the soundtrack with the pictures.  The problem is the cassette and video don't play at precisely the same speed, so a song on video might be 3:00, and the song on tape might be 3:02.  This pushes the lip-synch out by an annoying amount; however most of the pictures are from way back in the hall and you can't see the lips too well as it is.  I can also make slight adjustments with the software I've got.  I will have to cut the video up into small segments (eg a song) and add audio under each one, and I can tell you it IS tedious and very time-consuming.

However, the result isn't too bad, and here is the first song Jacob and Sons which sounds bloody fantastic.  With Neil on accoustic guitar and Kay Bridge (nee Doessel) and her beautiful almost pitch-perfect voice, this comes over as a pleasure to listen to.  Here's the song.  Just a reminder, the pictures don't start until just over a minute into the show (where the audio disappeared).

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Way way back many centuries ago,
Not long after the Bible began
Jacob lived in the land of Canaan,
A fine example of a family man.

Jacob, Jacob and sons,
Depended on farming to earn their keep.
Jacob, Jacob and sons,
Spent all of his days in the fields with sheep.

Jacob was the founder of a whole new nation
Thanks to the number of children he had
He was also known as Israel, but most of the time
His sons and his wives used to call him Dad.

Jacob, Jacob and sons,
Men of the soil, of the sheaf and crook
Jacob, Jacob and sons,
A remarkable family in anyone's book.

Reuben was the eldest of the children of Israel
With Simeon and Levi the next in line
Naphtali and Isaachar with Asher and Dan
Zebulun and Gad took the total to nine

Jacob, Jacob and sons,
Benjamin and Judah, which leaves only one
Jacob, Jacob and sons,
Joseph - Jacob's favourite son

Jacob, Jacob and sons
Jacob, Jacob and sons
Jacob, Jacob and sons
Jacob Jacob Jacob
Jacob and Sons ...