so when my grandma was a kid, her family's church let her play their organ and she taught herself how to play this by ear, despite never having lessons to learn to play (they were very poor) and when i was little and showing interest in the piano, she taught me how to play this piece. I remember getting SO upset and frustrated trying to learn it Im 22 now and after being her full-time caregiver for 2 and a half years, she recently passed away as of April 15, 2024. I love you Mema and I don't think I'll ever be able to play this song again without crying, but I think they're good tears ❤
She was really something. Loved Dark Shadows and Qunentin"s theme. An old fleeting memory but it is like early today! Life is short, embrace those you love today.
I'm watching now I have the DVDs in Barnabas coffin box Quentin is about to scare everyone out of Collingwood. I used to run home from school to watch in the 1960s and the everytime they ran reruns. We get a kick out of all the bloopers with the boom or getting crew in frame or sets almost falling.
The show had great story lines, music, sound effects and atmosphere, but it moved at an agonizing snail's pace. I'd like to see someone edit all the episodes into a movie or two, with all the dead-time and most of the narration taken out. I think that would appeal to a wider audience, especially with today's expectations for fast-paced entertainment.
The show was taped live everyday and was extremely hard for the actors to learn their lines in such a short time. The show was full of bloopers & mistakes. Dan Curtis is known to have said to the actors: It doesn’t matter if there are bloopers or the actors forgot their lines because “no one is ever going to see it again!”
I tried to watch it on RUclips a few years ago and was so disappointed...I thinknjust because it moved so slowly. I never got past the first few episodes the 2nd time around, but boy was I hooked on the original airing.
Beautiful hurdy gurdy organ sound for a true tv horror show. But well done for all local vampiry. BARNABAS COLLINS, yes. Luv. Memorable & radio fave. DS, 1966-71 tv vampires galore. Great melody, well done. Thanks, Robert Cobert, Charles Green, Dan Curtis, & ABC tv. Vive les pop rock, ballad & retro freaks ....
At the beginning I instantly remembered hearing it on a Dickie Goodman novelty break in from 1969 about the moon landing, I think was called Lunar Trip.
Love this - the next time soap opera theme to make the Billboard Top 40 would come in late 1976 with Nadia's Theme (aka The Young and the Restless theme)
David Selby had to stay in his Quentin makeup for the Dark Shadows LP picture cover (no one would have recognized him otherwise) - He did a recitation of the lyrics, "Shadows of the Night" on the LP over the "Quentin's Theme" sequence - The LP also featured Jonathan Frid (Barnabas Collins) as recitation poetry plus Shakespeare on the last LP track.
@@jimhilliker2450 ; Actually, Jim, I do recall hearing the song, but not sure if I heard it being played on the Radio. Unless You watched "Dark Shadows", which I did not, You may have Never heard the Song. I'm not quite certain where I heard it ? In case You Didn't know, Dark Shadows was a TV "Horror" Soap Opera. (1966-71) Main Character - Barnabas Collins, (a Vampire 🦇) - Also a Character Named, "Angelique", (a Witch 🧙), who had a Love/Hate Relationship with Barnabas. Apparently There was also a Movie 🎥 🍿- (a Horror/Comedy Based on the TV Show), in 2012. JaneLee 🕊️ 1/27/21 PS, There's Nothing Wrong with You 😏
I have this! No record player though. I begged dad to get this for me and he did. I was 7 when Dark Shadows first came out. But Barnabas scared me into nightmares so couldn’t watch it anymore but saw enough when Quentin was introduced. Never did learn how he died. Anyone know?
Cool, groovy neat-o far out 1960's tune, man. This somehow reminded me of former president Richard M. Nixon who was president at the time from 1969 to 1974.
Charles Grean was as much to popular music as anyone else, from his sessions with his wife Betty Johnson up to this single and his orchestral music background to Leonard Nimoy's Spock LPs.
Didn't Quentin start out as kind of a heel? I remember him showing up in the tower room where that kid slept and tormenting him, going so far as to burn him in one episode. I think Quentin became more of a good guy (or maybe good ghost) in later episodes.
Fantastic piece of music! But then again I may be a little bit biased because my name is Quentin! Quentin D. Osiecki from Connecticut.
so when my grandma was a kid, her family's church let her play their organ and she taught herself how to play this by ear, despite never having lessons to learn to play (they were very poor) and when i was little and showing interest in the piano, she taught me how to play this piece.
I remember getting SO upset and frustrated trying to learn it
Im 22 now and after being her full-time caregiver for 2 and a half years, she recently passed away as of April 15, 2024.
I love you Mema and I don't think I'll ever be able to play this song again without crying, but I think they're good tears ❤
Yes.
She was really something. Loved Dark Shadows and Qunentin"s theme. An old fleeting memory but it is like early today! Life is short, embrace those you love today.
Absolutely beautiful!!!
Always loved this theme.
OMG memories......
Summer, 1969.
great song from 1969
I'm watching now I have the DVDs in Barnabas coffin box Quentin is about to scare everyone out of Collingwood. I used to run home from school to watch in the 1960s and the everytime they ran reruns. We get a kick out of all the bloopers with the boom or getting crew in frame or sets almost falling.
The show had great story lines, music, sound effects and atmosphere, but it moved at an agonizing snail's pace. I'd like to see someone edit all the episodes into a movie or two, with all the dead-time and most of the narration taken out. I think that would appeal to a wider audience, especially with today's expectations for fast-paced entertainment.
The show was taped live everyday and was extremely hard for the actors to learn their lines in such a short time. The show was full of bloopers & mistakes. Dan Curtis is known to have said to the actors: It doesn’t matter if there are bloopers or the actors forgot their lines because “no one is ever going to see it again!”
I tried to watch it on RUclips a few years ago and was so disappointed...I thinknjust because it moved so slowly. I never got past the first few episodes the 2nd time around, but boy was I hooked on the original airing.
I did TOO!
It's vintage
Beautiful hurdy gurdy organ sound for a true tv horror show. But well done for all local vampiry. BARNABAS COLLINS, yes. Luv. Memorable & radio fave. DS, 1966-71 tv vampires galore. Great melody, well done. Thanks, Robert Cobert, Charles Green, Dan Curtis, & ABC tv. Vive les pop rock, ballad & retro freaks ....
New on me .. I like it. And this was 1969, right? What an Era! ;o)
Yeah. This song was from 1969. I loved it when it was on the charts, when I turned 13 in 1969. I'm almost 68 years old and I still love this song.
At the beginning I instantly remembered hearing it on a Dickie Goodman novelty break in from 1969 about the moon landing, I think was called Lunar Trip.
I looked for this for years. I remember it as a minor summertime hit. A kind of b side to Love is Blue.
I had this 45!! The flip side was #1 at the Blue Whale!!
DARK SHADOWS WOULD HAVE AIRED ON WCVB IN BOSTON, BUT THEY DID NOT COME UNTIL 1972. Kenneth Huang. 10/11/24.
I had this on a 45. Also had “Number One at the Blue Whale”.
Me too. At the Blue Whale was the flip side, was it not?
Yes, it was on the flipside.
Beautiful song. Just stumbled on it. Never watched the show.
Very nice. Thought I heard this a few times....
A haunting melody. Can only think of dashing, charming Quentin and his love Angelique
Love this - the next time soap opera theme to make the Billboard Top 40 would come in late 1976 with Nadia's Theme (aka The Young and the Restless theme)
organ sound recalls 'carnival of souls', another groovy ghoulie epic.
Thats a harpsicord (think thats how its spelled)
Listening to this away from the context of the show it sounds very much like a tradtional Hawaiian song.
David Selby had to stay in his Quentin makeup for the Dark Shadows LP picture cover (no one would have recognized him otherwise) - He did a recitation of the lyrics, "Shadows of the Night" on the LP over the "Quentin's Theme" sequence - The LP also featured Jonathan Frid (Barnabas Collins) as recitation poetry plus Shakespeare on the last LP track.
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Thank You AP,
JaneLee 🕊️
1/26/21
I can't remember hearing this in 1969. What's wrong with me?? LOL
@@jimhilliker2450 ;
Actually, Jim, I do recall hearing the song, but not sure if I heard it being played on the Radio.
Unless You watched "Dark Shadows", which I did not, You may have Never heard the Song. I'm not quite certain where I heard it ?
In case You Didn't know, Dark Shadows was a TV "Horror" Soap Opera. (1966-71)
Main Character - Barnabas Collins, (a Vampire 🦇) -
Also a Character Named, "Angelique", (a Witch 🧙), who had a Love/Hate Relationship with Barnabas.
Apparently There was also a Movie 🎥 🍿- (a Horror/Comedy Based on the TV Show), in 2012.
JaneLee 🕊️
1/27/21
PS, There's Nothing Wrong with You 😏
@@janeleekeller my sister liked Dark Shadows. I must have been doing my homework. 😂
@@jimhilliker2450 My two aunts used to run home from school to watch it!
Song often played on radio WGAY in DC area in 1980's. So smoothe and creepy. Well done, good TV horror waltz theme. Vive les vampire freaks ....
A pain in the neck and then immortality, what's not to like ?
I have this! No record player though. I begged dad to get this for me and he did. I was 7 when Dark Shadows first came out. But Barnabas scared me into nightmares so couldn’t watch it anymore but saw enough when Quentin was introduced. Never did learn how he died. Anyone know?
I don't think Quentin died. He was reincarnated into the 1969 storyline after Barnabas returned from 1897.
he was dead and a spirit in episodes because the music was his voice. The storyline you’re referring to are a look of the past that was earlier.
The closing theme from call it a serial or not "Dark Shadows' it was on every afternoon after the Dating Game and Newleywed Game.
ABC TV
Dan Curtis production.
Same director that gave us "Trilogy of Terror" starring Karen Black.
t40o ;
Karen Black was a Very Good Actress 👍🏻 (Easy Rider)
Her Sister, Gail Brown - also an Actress,
(Another World - TV Soap)
JaneLee 🕊️
Classical music memory.
Cool, groovy neat-o far out 1960's tune, man. This somehow reminded me of former president Richard M. Nixon who was president at the time from 1969 to 1974.
Charles Grean was as much to popular music as anyone else, from his sessions with his wife Betty Johnson up to this single and his orchestral music background to Leonard Nimoy's Spock LPs.
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Loved this dong as a kid
Lol song
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0:39 the answer lies with Lance
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Didn't Quentin start out as kind of a heel? I remember him showing up in the tower room where that kid slept and tormenting him, going so far as to burn him in one episode. I think Quentin became more of a good guy (or maybe good ghost) in later episodes.
Quentin Collins and Beth Chavez!❤
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