Category: Film Score Freak

Music/Film mash ups

The Twilight Zone: The Hitchhiker & “Hello It’s Me”

This is my cover to the iconic song of the 70s Todd Rundgren’s “Hello It’s Me”

I find myself often weepy about the good ole 70s, here’s a tribute to those dreamy hazy days filled with possibility and passion. I might even get myself some eagle feather eye lid paste ons like Todd and sit at the piano and play my heart out live soon!

with sadness in my heart over the great loss too soon, of Inger Stevens…

MonsterGirl( JoGabriel)

Originally recorded at The Luna County Conservatory In NY by Mike Fazio , now remixed by friend and fellow artist Mark Sheppard adding fretless bass and horns and dreamy drifts.

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Todd and his awesome eagle feathered brows!

Bride of Frankenstein (1935)& The Mummy(1932) “We Belong Dead” A video tribute to Boris Karloff

James Whale’s brilliant follow up film and what I consider even better than it’s predecessor Frankenstein,(1931) starring the great Karloff and Elsa Lanchester as The Bride.

And a deliciously campy and fabulous performance by Ernest Thesiger as Doctor Pretorius.

In Karl Freund’s The Mummy Boris plays Imhotep who comes after his immortal beloved played by the fiery sensual Zita Johann.

I have said this so many times, and I never get tired of making the point, I wish Boris Karloff had been my grandfather. I did this music tribute to just 2 of his memorable performances, although there hasn’t been any time that I haven’t been moved by his gentility that comes through even the most notorious characters he’s inhabited.

Here is my song Fable Honey off the album Fools and Orphans. I dedicate this video to Boris and hope that he would be pleased with my treatment of his performances.

MonsterGirl (jogabriel)

Rosemary’s Baby 1968 “Aren’t You His Mother Rosemary?”

Roman Polanski’s masterpiece from Ira Levin’s novel of Satan in the city, Motherhood, Paranoia and Betrayal.

Starring Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon and Sidney Blackmer.

“Aren’t You His Mother Rosemary?” is from my album The Last Drive In

MonsterGirl (jogabriel)

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962: Objects In The Mirror

Robert Aldrich’s Masterpiece in Gothic Grand Dame Cinema starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.

Jo Gabriel’s song “Objects In The Mirror” appears on my album Hunting Down The Ceremony Vol

I dedicate this video to Bette Davis for I adore and worship her more than mere words can ever express!

MonsterGirl (jogabriel)

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Bette Davis appears on The Andy Williams Show

Nightmare Alley 1947 Carnival Noir and lifes Little Birds

Edmund Goulding’s Carnival Noir masterpiece starring Tyrone Power as the opportunistic mentalist.Also starring Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray and Helen Walker.

Jo Gabriel’s “Little Birds” remixed by Mark Sheppard originally appears on the album Hunting Down The Ceremony Vol.1

MonsterGirl (jogabriel)

Jane Eyre (1943) Joan Fontaine & Orson Welles: Charlotte Brontës beloved captives

JANE EYRE 1943 Directed by Robert Stevenson and Adapted from the  Charlotte Brontë novel by John Houseman, Aldous Huxley and Stevenson.

Starring the lovely Joan Fontaine as the empathetic Jane, Orson Welles as the brooding Edward Rochester, the great unsung character actor Henry Daniell, and 2 very young and wonderful actresses the uncredited immortal Elizabeth Taylor as Helen Burns and the pixie Margaret O’Brien as Adele. Also appearances by Agnes Moorehead and Hillary Brooke. And Peggy Ann Garner as young Jane.

Jo Gabriel’s Poison In The Well appears on my album Fools and Orphans.

MonsterGirl (jogabriel)

Val Lewton’s “I Walked With A Zombie” (1943) Elements of Jane Eyre, Colonialism and The Synergy of Sound

Val Lewton’s Masterpiece on a low budget for RKO. Directed by Jacques Tourneur and story by Curt Siodmak

Jo Gabriel’s “Sway” appears on my album The Amber Sessions

I will be doing a major feature on the work of Val Lewton in the coming months, his masterworks in shadow are some of the most evocative films ever screened.

MonsterGirl (JoGabriel)

Boris Karloff’s Thriller: The Premature Burial (1961) Jo Gabriel’s How The Devil Falls In Love

Season 2, Episode 3: The Premature Burial

Starring Sidney Blackmer as Edward Stapleton and Patricia Medina as Victorine also starring Boris himself as Dr. Thorne and Scott Marlowe as Julian Directed by Douglas Heyes and adapted from Edgar Allan Poe. Script by William D. Gordon.

Original Air Date"”2 October 1961

Jo Gabriel’s How The Devil Falls In Love appears my album Fools and Orphans

featuring the incredible performance by cellist Matt Turner


The song How The Devil Falls In Love is dedicated to my beloved Lady Cat Angeline who passed away tragically too soon from this earth. I cannot breath without you here.

MonsterGirl (JoGabriel)