{"id":1649,"date":"2009-01-17T07:33:25","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T20:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2009-01-17T08:26:45","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T21:26:45","slug":"vincent-price-and-the-black-widow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/01\/17\/vincent-price-and-the-black-widow\/","title":{"rendered":"Vincent Price and the Black Widow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The music video below features Vincent Price and Alice Cooper, performing &#8220;The Black Widow&#8221; from Cooper&#8217;s classic album <em>Welcome to My Nightmare<\/em>. The performance is from a TV Special called &#8220;Alice Cooper &#8212; The Nightmare&#8221; that aired on 25 April 1975 and later released to home video &#8212; Alice looking much less scary than he does these days. Vincent Price&#8217;s introductory monologue is an extended version of that on the album (one of my all-time favourites), but notice the authority with which he delivers every syllable. What a voice!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JVHUyDxmi_Q&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JVHUyDxmi_Q&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Worthy of note is the fact that the TV Special (produced by David Winter) was nominated for a Grammy but lost out to Duran Duran.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Source<\/strong>: via Dale on the Creature Features Yahoo group<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sickthingsuk.co.uk\/video\/v-tvspecial.php\" target=\"_blank\">Sickthingsuk.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The music video below features Vincent Price and Alice Cooper, performing &#8220;The Black Widow&#8221; from Cooper&#8217;s classic album Welcome to My Nightmare. The performance is from a TV Special called &#8220;Alice Cooper &#8212; The Nightmare&#8221; that aired on 25 April &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/01\/17\/vincent-price-and-the-black-widow\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}