Dark Shadows Collection 01With it's alluring tales of gothic mystery and supernatural intrigue, DARK SHADOWS became the most popular daytime series of all time during it's run on ABC from 1966 71. Much like the shows character Barnabas Collins, a guilt ridden vampire released from his chained coffin after nearly 200 years, DARK SHADOWS retains an immortality that time steadfastly fails to erode.

Effortlessly the music itself shows the direction

the French ambassador in Venice

Free Love carries the confidence of two people delighted to be all those things

the rare tracks presented here feature Rushing's vocal expertise backed admirably by Frank "Floorshow" Culley

The film is based on Bayley's 1999 memoir Elegy For Iris

Tony Lavorgna is a one off too

Sugar Pie Desanto's rare classic soul single "The Feelin's Too Strong" b/w "Be Happy

It zigs and zags from Waylon Jennings to Social Distortion and Townes Van Zandt to Willie Nelson - all who shared a connection with the storied Beaumont guitar slinger

it shares an ethos and much music with Artyomov's celebrated Requiem hence the choral elements found in the ballet score

and a 1985 article in Time magazine declared that she was 'the greatest lyric coloratura soprano in the world'

have played together in duos

the internet's pervasive effects on our lives and the surveillance state that disproportionately punishes Black people