Now that I’ve undertaken this #SoundtrackSunday project, do I wish I’d started my A-Z rundown of those we own a month earlier, so that this second installment could have appeared shortly before Halloween? Maybe a little.
But I’m equally pleased to use this vinyl variant of Vic Mizzy’s music from ‘The Addams Family’ television series as a means to say 1) for some of us spooky season has no time constraints and 2) I respectfully have a difficult time relating to those of you who thaw out Mariah Carey the moment the clock strikes November. Color me old-fashioned, but Christmas season shouldn’t start when Thanksgiving hasn’t even arrived. This is still witchy weather where I live. Mind you, we continue to be an unconventional family as divided on this matter as the two shades of this record, and my Yuletide-crazy kid seems quite grateful every autumn to have two residences within minutes of each other: one where Christmas tunes are welcome pretty much any time, and this one, where it remains verboten until our tryptophan comas have worn off and we’ve mentally braced ourselves for 3,653 unavoidable encounters with ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’ and nearly as many run-ins with Paul McCartney’s ‘Wonderful Christmastime.’ Don’t get me wrong: I wouldn’t want to hear the finger-snappin’ ‘Addams Family’ theme so frequently either, for as you well know, once within earshot your synapses are doomed. Even so, this LP — a 2017 repress of the ‘65 novelty, on ‘Gomez Addams black-and-white split’ vinyl — is welcome any month, not just December. Mariah’s nifty jingle jangle? Nope.
SoundtrackSunday 002:
‘The Addams Family’
RCA Victor, 1965
Spacelab9 repress, 2017
d: various, but mostly Sidney Lanfield