V01-T08a "...My card, pretty lady..."

.....As a change of pace, the next interstitial required background research with IMDb, which for those of you who have never needed to use it is the Internet Movie Database, not Music.

Volume 1: THE PITCHFORK APPROACH, track 8a

• 00:36 [archetypal scene of The Devil bartering for a soul] (screenplay by Ken Sobol; music by Bauhaus)
• performed by Chris Wiggins (Devil), Annabel Kershaw (ingenue/Jan), Martin Lavut (flunky/Wheez), Laurel Runn (Jan's singing voice); music by Bauhaus
• original source: (dialogue) television feature "THE DEVIL AND DANIEL MOUSE" Nelvana (Canada) Oct/78
• original source: (music) radio broadcast of The John Peel Show, BBC Radio 1(England) April 12, 1982 (recorded March 13, 1982) as "PARTY OF THE FIRST PART"
• original source: (commercial release) from Bauhaus, A-side, track 2 of 12"EP [unprinted title:"Covers"] Beggars' Banquet BEG 83T (England) Oct/82
• and my source: CD SWING THE HEARTACHE Beggars' Banquet/RCA 9804-2-H (US) Aug/89

.....I know, that's an awful lot of disambiguation for a half-minute snippet, but it doesn't stop there. The dialogue from the 1978 animated cartoon was sampled and edited for use in the sound collage broadcast on the radio in the spring of 1982 and titled "PARTY OF THE FIRST PART". In the summer of 1982, Bauhaus recorded the Bowie song "ZIGGY STARDUST" and the Eno song "THIRD UNCLE" and released them as a 7" single in October. Weeks(?) later the 12" version of that single was released during a UK tour by following "ZIGGY..." with "PARTY..." on side A and "THIRD UNCLE" with a live performance of the band with Nico (doing "WAITING FOR THE MAN" recorded a year earlier) on side B.

.....While the domestic American pressings of Bauhaus' last two original albums (on A&M) were in print, their British counterparts were difficult to import (for reasons too complicated to go into here), which is a shame because the UK discs had four bonus tracks apiece and the US discs had none. Those bonuses included "PARTY..." on the 1988 UK pressing of "The Sky's Gone Out" album, meaning that we had to wait a year in this country to get the original radio session on "Swing The Heartache".

.....In 2005 there was a 2DVD release of Nelvana's 1983 theatrical feature "ROCK & RULE" with the entire "THE DEVIL AND DANIEL MOUSE" special as a bonus feature on the second disc. The main feature (which hardly touched the theaters) is a must for fans of the "Heavy Metal" animated movie and Ralph Bakshi's 70's-80's output.

.....Tomorrow I'll shed light on the song this interstitial introduces.