When I got back from India in 1968, our drummer, Richard Delvy was working for MGM and asked me to play sitar on this song. I can still play my part. Rick Lancelot (later with Skyoats and then Frank Zappa) is singing lead. Rob Edwards, who I'd played with since high school, is on guitar. The Theremin player is the same on the Beach Boys song "Good Vibrations". When Rob wanted to form a band, we added Jim Keltner and David Jackson. With that line up we recorded the title to John Severson's film "Pacific Vibrations"... (Rick Griffin asked me to do it). I was running a West Coast Office for Albert Grossman Management by the time that I began to work on Severson's last movie.
I remember when we recorded this at MGM. It was to market this Japanese film in the US. The fellow playing the Theremin also played it on the Beachboy's "Good Vibrations". (Electro-Theremin, played by Paul Tanner). I believe that Rob Edwards is on guitar. I played the sitar that I'd studied and brought back from India. It was a long stormy night. After the session I crashed my '63 Porsche at the bottom turn, heading West on Sunset Blvd. at UCLA and Marymount. -Randy Nauert
I had to special order this movie on DVD from the "Warner Brothers archive" for $30 back in the day. Well, I didn't HAVE to but I really wanted a copy of this film to show my friends at movie night.
I had the single (in a picture sleeve, even!) of this as an 8 year old circa 1969 that my Dad had picked up somewhere--probably brought it home from the radio station he worked at. This was the hardest rocking sound available in the entire household at that point (this is before I discovered Hendrix/Sabbath/Zeppelin, etc.) and it made a huge impression on me. My older sister and I used to sing along into a pretend microphone, like maybe a hairbrush. Dig that fuzz guitar!
The Prince Charles cinema showed this tonight as a mystery movie. Whilst it is one of those "so bad it's good" films, this theme song was actually genuinely good!
fond memories of the movie and always remembered the song. Both were subtle motivators for me to become an engineer, an air force captain, work in aerospace, satellite killers, play the guitar. Don't underestimate how strongly things can influence a youngster. If you read this, get your kids off total junk and gossip. Expose them to lots of things. Some will stick
MAN HAS LOOKED OUT TO SPACE IN WONDER FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS THINKING THERE COULD BE LIEF SOMEWHERE AND NOW IT'S HERE ! ...... SPREADING AND GROWING I REALLY LOVE THIS 60S MONSTER MOVIE BRINGS BACK MEMORIES. 🎬🎬🎬📽📽📽📽😀😀😀
I remember seeing this trailer in my local movie theater... I gotta see THIS! Then the movie theater closed down... I finally saw it on RU-vid about 3 years ago. The song makes me and my wife laugh. Would you believe it when you're dead? :)
You’re here because of a Brandon Tenold video. I’m here because I caught this movie on some late night cable show when I was a kid and have had the song stuck in my head for 30+ years. We are not the same. (Jokes aside, Brandon is great)
Dude, where did you find this? I always thought the only version of this song came from the soundtrack. I had no idea there was a longer version! Thanks for posting this, it's a badass song.
I agree 🙂 people have become increasingly hard to please ( maybe it's that new generation of teenagers/ young adults ? ) so maybe the solution is to make simple movies like this timeless classic no matter how goofy and corny they are...I know I'd watch them and I'd have a great time...
Thank you Retroshock for this gem in theme songs!! ( Retroshock is a Hungarian yt channel for the old Z movies even in they time in an entertainment way no swearing only funny dialect or funny ways to told these movies story...its a gem channel for us Hungarians but most people don't know him sadly but who know that channel they always stuck to that channel and i think its the most greatest gratitude way to show how we need that channel)
I own that 45. My grandfather gave it to me after he and i checked out a few of his old 45s and when we would listen to a few of them and which ever ones i liked he would give me and green slime was one of them
If there's anything I'd like to see in a video game it's characters that can use various different powers depended on what kind of glowing enemies get KO'd. That's why I'm thinking of writing stories where the heroes in the stories I write unlock lots of incredibly creative powers and moves to use against the enemy.
I just realized that The Green Slime is the polar opposite of the original 1958 version of The Blob. The Blob is a genuinely good monster movie with a cheesy theme song (yes, it's catchy, but it only works as a guilty pleasure). Whereas The Green Slime is a terrible monster movie with an amazing theme song.
Open the door you'll find a secret to find the answer is to keep it you'lll believe it when you find !!! SOMETHING... SCREAMING CROSS YO MIND... GREEN SLIME!!!!!
What can it be?? What is the reason??? Is this the end to all we've done?? !!! Is it just something in YO HEAD??!!! Well, you'll believe it !!!When you are dead !!!! GREEN SLIMEEEE!!
man, has looked out to space, in wonder for thousands of yearss.. Sometimes thinking that life could be somewhere !!! and now, now ITS HERE !!!! !!!GREEN SLIME!!! What can it be?? What is the reason??? Is this the end to all we've done?? !!! Is it just something in YO HEAD??!!! Well, you'll believe it !!!When you are dead !!!! GREEN SLIMEEEE!!! !!!! GREEN SLIMEEEE!!! !!!! GREEN SLIMEEEE!!! !!!! GREEN SLIMEEEE!!!
Saw this movie a few years ago on TV. Always thought this song was way too awesome compared to the actual film (though it's still worth watching for the sheer camp value)
I got it on a CD called Monster Rock 'n' Roll Show, and it sounds like this is where it came from, since the opening is a bleed off the radio spot for _The Astro Zombies_.
I've got it on Monster Rock 'n' Roll Show, a compilation produced by John Warner, but it has carryover of horror film trailers at the beginning and end of the track. It says that the song was produced, arranged, and conducted by Richard Delvy and written by Sherry Gaden. I never would have guessed that it wasn't the credited score composers Charles Fox and Toshiaki Tsushima.
