| Product Summary | | Label: Walt Disney Records | | UPC: 00050086101672 | | Release Date: 11/25/2003 | | Buy.com Sku: 60619152 | | Item#: MTUM79 | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 25050 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Superstition - (with Raven) ~ Disney |  | | 2. Grim, Grinning, Ghosts - (with Barenaked Ladies) ~ Disney | | | 3. Somebody's Watching Me - (with Morris Day) ~ Disney | | | 4. Spooky - (with Conti Bros.) ~ Disney | | | 5. Things That Go Bump In The Night - (with Jack) ~ Disney | | | 6. Right Place, Wrong Time - (with Brian O'Neal & The Bus Boys) ~ Disney | | | 7. Dead Man's Party - (with Oingo Boingo) ~ Disney | | | 8. Man With The Hex - (with The Atomic Fireballs) ~ Disney | | | 9. Monster Mash - (with Brian O'Neal & The Busboys) ~ Disney | | | 10. Boogie Man, The - (with The Jackson 5) ~ Disney | | | 11. Tombstone - (with Suzanne Vega) ~ Disney | | | 12. I Put A Spell On You - (with Calvin Richardson) ~ Disney | | | 13. Grim, Grinning, Ghosts - (with Singing Busts) ~ Disney | | | 14. Overture - (score, from "The Haunted Mansion", with Mark Mancina) ~ Disney | | | 15. So Long - (with Singing Busts) ~ Disney | |
| The Haunted Mansion Haunted Hits features both new and classic songs inspired by the spine-tingling adventures and excitement of Disney's The Haunted Mansion!
Check out a funky new version of "Superstition" by Raven, star of Disney Channel original comedy series, "That's So Raven". You've never heard a song like this before! Barenaked Ladies add their twist to Disneyland favorite "Grim, Grinning Ghosts." New urban artist Calvin Richardson spins "I Put A Spell On You" R&B style. Then, get up and dance to Morris Day and the Time's "Somebody's Watching Me!"
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Original score composed by Mark Mancina. | | Composer: Mark Mancina. | | Personnel: Tim Davis (vocals). | | Audio Mixers: Torahn "Mystro" Bell; Jon Alexander Graves; Jean Marie; Jochem van der Saag; Brian O'Neal. | | Recording information: Sony Scoring Stage. | | Arrangers: Jochem van der Saag; David Foster. | | Not so much a soundtrack as a collection of "spooky" pop songs, The Haunted Mansion: Haunted Hits ranges from an overwrought remake of Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" by Raven to Oingo Boingo's "Dead Man's Party." "Dead Man's Party" is one of the few original songs included on the soundtrack, along with the Atomic Fireballs' "Man with the Hex," Suzanne Vega's "Tombstone," and the Jackson 5's "Boogie Man." Most of the album features fair to middling covers, including Morris Day's cover of "Somebody's Watching Me"; even though Day has been responsible for many great funk-pop moments, his performance -- which is the album's best cover -- still isn't on par with Rockwell's original. The Conti Bros.' version of "Spooky" and Brian O'Neal & the Bus Boys' covers of "Right Place, Wrong Time" and "Monster Mash" are decent enough, but just aren't as charming as the original material. One cover that does work well is the Barenaked Ladies' spin on "Grim, Grinning Ghosts," aka the theme song from Disney's Haunted Mansion ride; it's also reprised by the movie's Singing Busts. Mark Mancina's sparkly, "spooky" score gets short shrift, appearing only once on the soundtrack. While the album isn't bad, it could've been funnier, scarier, or more creative, and it's hard not to look at the soundtrack as a missed opportunity. ~ Heather Phares |
Producer: Danny Elfman; Deke Richard; Starr Andreff; Ricky "Freeze" Smith; Torahn "Mystro" Bell; Whole 9; Jochem Van Der Saag; Kaylin Frank; Mark Mancina; Allen Sides; Mitchell Froom; Steve Bartek; Ted Kryczko; David Foster; Brian O'Neal; Bruce Fairbairn; Richard W |
Engineer: Mitchell Leib |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 11/25/2003 | | Original Release Date : 2003 | | Catalog ID : 861016 | | Label : Walt Disney | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00050086101672 |
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