This is such a hauntingly beautiful song.. In a way it brings tears to my eyes. I loved Dark Shadows and rushed home after school to watch it. This brings back good memories. Thank you.
I found it interesting that after months of hearing the tinny "gramophone" version of Quentin's music, after the ghost frightened everyone into leaving Collinwood we heard what I call the "modern" version. I've wondered what that was supposed to signify. I thought maybe that was how the music sounded as played by an orchestra when it was recorded in the nineteenth century. But as I said, I couldn't grasp what that was supposed to mean in the context of Quentin and life, death, and return. As an aside, I thought that final scene was considerably enhanced by the images of all the empty rooms in the house as the music played.
@@ericnewman5519 Leave then go out . Eat a chili dinner with garlic and onions . Then take a strong laxative . Drive back to Collinwood . When yo feel the rumble run back inside Collinwood to you know where . Right past Beth and Quentin . He will go huh and you won’t be frightened because you have a job to do. . When you hurry to the John . Leave the door open . After you plop down and explode . Beth will go jump back off the cliff. Quentin ? Well he was a man so we don’t know how he’ll react but he will forget that he is a ghost for a bit
They made Dark Shadows look so authentic back then with what they had to work with . To this day this Boomer would say that David Selby and Jonathan Frid fleshed out fictional characters just as good as anybody in TV history . Yes you Mills and subsequent generations they can hang with Bryan Cranston’s and James Gandolfini’s creations . Quentin’s theme made the charts in 69 . Yes it hung out with the Beatles and Creedence
I remember as a kid, walking down the street to the Katz Drug Store and buying the 45 of this song. And I played it on my parent's stereo over and over and over.
It was the first record I ever bought, on a trip with my grandmother into downtown Chattanooga, and, like you, I played it way too many times. Just ran into a fellow named after this ghost and wondered if the theme was as I remembered and 55 years later every note’s the same.
same here....got my 45 at the local T,G&Y. Played it so much my parents and everyone in the house got sick of it. I kept playing it....! I don't know what happened to the 45....got lost or thrown out, alas!
Thanks for posting this version of the song, and not the one's of the talking over it. This is a gorgeous composition by Bob Cobert and the way he intended it to be heard, and I WANT to hear it. It genuinely sounds like a song that really WAS from 1897, and not written in 1968 for the series. For too long it's been "overshadowed" by "Shadows of the Night" for us original fans of the show from that time.
@@TheBob3759 That's fine. Part of why I don't like it is because when I watch the later episodes with Quentin, I see him as a one-dimensional bore who in nearly every scene he's in tell people to "GET OUT" countless times. I accepted it in 1969-'70 between being 11 and 13, but more recently watching it in 2018-'19 realize how awful he really was; especially compared to the calm, sophisticated Barnabas. I love DS, don't get me wrong, but felt the 1897 storyline was dragged out waaaay too long.
@@TheBob3759 Absolutely!! Count Petofi really did save the day there. One of the best roles Thayer David played aside from Prof. Stokes. Sandor was the most degrading. Unfortunately, Evan Hanley was a big comedown for Humbert Astredo as Nicholas Blair. Unfortunately, 1969 and later was a comedown for DS otherwise, from the show's creative peak year of 1968.
Love this version with just the music . Like to listen to it. I think its something my grandmothers would have liked since they were both born before the turn of the century, one in 1886, the other in 1898. 😊
I heared he spent 6 months just scareing people in the modern day Collins family but never spoke a word..........untill they went back in time in 1897 and he was alive and spoke then..............but never spoke as a ghost although he did laugh when he chased the family out of Collinswood.
I was mistaken the night the modern day Collins Family was chased out of Collinswood. Julia was checking on David who passed out and was dieing in the Drawing room....you hear Ghost Quentin tell Julia that david was his now and forever.
God yes, Robert. I (and I figure you also) want the pure and gorgeous 1890's sound experience, without the god damn vocals that ruin it. I tolerated it for years, but never again. I love this song too much to ever hear it any other way. Thanks for your comments!!
