DJ Compilation Of The Month: Songs From The Midnight Matinee

MP3s: 26 of them below the jump.

Long before the the great convergence of all media into one, John Schnall was remixing movies for the radio on his WFMU program The Midnight Matinee. The show combined dialogue from movies with music in various ways, and turning such cinematic classics as Jerry Lewis' feel-good Nazi flick The Day The Clown Cried into hour-long radio programs. In the process of remixing, songs were sometimes created out of the dialogue and musical snippets. Many of the the full shows are archived in realaudio on this page. Here are 26 of John's Midnight Matinee songs, along with the title of the episode each song came from, which often suggests the film that provided the original source material.

Bring In The Experts from Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction?

Demons To Some from Hellraiser

Do Not Open This Door from My Yiddisha Monster

Don't Expect It To Tango from ReAnimator Ska

Don't Really Understand Myself from Hellraiser

Don't You Do That Incest Mommie from Hamlet

Everything's Falling Down from Davey and Goliath

Fact or Fiction? from Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction?

God from Davey and Goliath

Herbert, You're Insane from ReAnimator Ska

Homosexuality from  Naked Lunch

I Need A Minute Here from Terminator Tango

I'm Gonna Faint from Hellraiser

Let My People Go from 9 & 1/2 Commandments

Memories Are Made Of This from The Manchurian Candidate

My Way from The Manchurian Candidate

My Yiddisha Monster from My Yiddisha Monster

Nice Night For A Walk from Terminator Tango

Not What I Had In Mind from Einstein on the Beach Blanket Bingo

Push The Little Daisies from Einstein on the Beach Blanket Bingo

The Worm Is Not A Human Being from My Yiddisha Monster

Thin Ice from Davey and Goliath

This Was Your Husband from Hamlet

Ticking In My Head from A Touch of Mambo

We Can Bring Him Back To Life from ReAnimator Ska

Yeah Yeah Yeah from A Touch of Mambo

Comments

[Blind Uncle Gaspard]

The Worm Is Not A Human Being from My Yiddisha Monster
seems not to want to download.

Any ideas of the problem?

[squinchy]

My Yiddisha Monster=brilliant
but then Young Frankenstein is my fave movie perhaps

[fatty jubbo]

this was one of my favorite shows growing up listening tp FMU. I still have a few episodes on cassette somewhere. thank you.

[Ration Lanager Ken]

Thanks Uncle Gaspard, i fixed that link.

-ken

[The Cockroach of Del Monte]

I'm not a mold school listener, but I've craved this release every since Scott and Kenny G played cuts (Everything's Falling Down and God respectively) from it. Smiles!

[Mark L]

Wonderful. One of the many reasons I love WFMU is finding stuff like this. Anyone got any full shows for download, mp3 stylee?

[myname]

Absolutely my favorite tracks. Found them here back in '05... still listening to them to this day.