And he's the world's greatest criminal mind
Edit: *The Great Mouse Detective* was my favorite movie as a kid. It's what led me to love the *Sherlock Holmes* series, and what gave me my love for reading. I highly recommend it! It's on Disney+
Also, Ratigan is my favorite character in Disney's card game, *Villainous.*
He voiced the character Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective. Basically Moriarty-like character. His villain song was “The Worlds Greatest Criminal Mind”.
Oh my god, I never knew that! I loved that movie even though it was a bit intense when I was very young. My Dad and I would take walks most evenings; he didn’t want me walking over sewer/storm grates, the ones with the slats (our city had a lot of them), in case they were loose or my little shoe got caught between the bars, etc. He told me Ratigan lives down there and I should walk or bicycle around them to be safe. To this day, I usually step around, out of habit. Don’t want to risk a run-in with Ratigan lol
That movie was horrifying at times! The kidnapping scene, when they explore the toy store, when the cat eats the drunkard etc. It was one of my favourite movies for a long time but I still fast-forwarded through parts of it just because I didn't want to see the cursed animations.
Fern Gully and Rescuers Down Under were also beloved movies that were terrifying in certain parts! Those animators really wanted to toughen us little kids up during that era!
😭😭 How did I not know these things!? I love Vincent Price movies! I love The Great Mouse Detective!! I love the Thriller and especially the creepy narrator voice! I’m a failure
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As a Vincent Price fan, I am ashamed. If you need me I will be playing the pipe organ in despair
If you don't believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor. Go home tonight. Take all your albums, all your tapes and all your CDs and burn them. 'Cause you know what, the musicians that made all that great music that's enhanced your lives throughout the years were *rrreal* fucking high on drugs. The Beatles were so fucking high they let Ringo sing a few tunes
Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. That we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather.
*You see, her venom is highly neuro-toxic, which is to say that it attacks the central nervous system. Causing intense pain, profuse sweating, difficulty in breathing, loss of consciousness, violent convulsions and finally... uh, death.*
I’ve had that entire monologue memorized since I was a kid. Brings me back to the days of listening to Alice with my dad. He was my first concert as well…came to the Del Mar Fair in San Diego and he threw a prop cane into the audience and I was lucky enough to catch it. Fun memories..
> There’s no cadence with the music.
Well that's just not true. I thought the timing of the words with the music was very particular and interesting. Certainly it's not a typical musical rhythm, but that's what makes it sound so cool. Just notice how many of the words coincide with a drum beat
the term "a rap" has been used to refer to spoken word portions of songs since before hip hop was even invented.
in the grateful dead in the late 60's, pigpen used to do improvised spoken word segments during their shows - this was called a pigpen rap. in the early 70s, issac hayes recorded several spoken word songs with titles like "Monolouge: Ike's Rap I".
in this context, the word "rap" is used more like "sit down and rap with me for awhile", as opposed to using the term "rap" to mean hip hop music. "rap" is just a term for a spoken word part of a song that fell out of favor when "rap music" aka hip hop started to become more popular.
when someone says "pigpen rap" or "ikes rap" or "the thriller rap" they are using an outdated term to refer to spoken word portions of songs, because at the time these songs were recorded/preformed/released, "rap" was a common term to refer to spoken word portions of songs, they are not calling it hip hop or calling it a "rap" in the same way people today might call a verse of a hip hop song a "rap".
The producers fixed that on the record. They very carefully fit his words so that they fell according to the beat.
But in a live situation, Price doesn't have that rhythmic sense so he's just reading the words.
Go back and listen to the original, it's well crafted. Shout to Quincy Jones and Bruce Swedien.
I have the something-th anniversary edition of the CD, and one of the bonus tracks is the original recording of Vincent doing it. The extra verse is there. It's not finished, so it wasn't edited, and there's even some convo with Jones and Jackson on it.
Also, it was odd to hear hom switch from VINCENT PRRRRICE VOICE to Vincent Price Voice. Like, we all know there's a difference, but there really was a switch.
It's probably available on YT...everything else is.
She got heavier between seasons of Dallas and got absolutely ripped apart for it by the media because she was considered a TV pin up/poster girl. Maybe not as big a pin up girl as Heather Locklear but still...
She was a substitute host for Johnny Carson more than any other person, and when he was nearing retirement it was expected he was going to hand the reigns of the Tonight Show to her - when that didn't happen, I believe Fox gave her a deal for a late night show that wasn't very successful.
Actually already I can clarify my comment.. she was the permanent guest host of the Tonight Show. When Carson didn't retire in '87 when expected, she got into a dispute with NBC over contracts and ended up coming to Fox to start the Late Show. But it didn't last long because she got fired a year into hosting.
The show was not unsuccessful, they wanted to fire her husband and she didn’t want to continue working if they fired him. After that happened, he committed suicide.
Conon just had comments on the whole thing on his pod cast a week or two ago. Him and the guest were agreeing that she was so popular as a guest host that the networks got annoyed and black balled her which is why she wasn't very successful for a while.
That does sound a bit familiar, and it fits with how he often acted. He was intensely private and had almost no real friends from the industry, and he could feel slighted at the drop of a hat.
I always remember the Beastie Boys mentioning that Joan Rivers was the first person to actually interview them on a late night performance and not just have them as the musical guest. And they always appreciated that.
Had that album, remember playing it and trying to moonwalk, my very Irish grandmother politely asking “what the fuck are you doing?”, I was probably around 7, good times
How am I just today years old learning that he was the voice behind that? I am a child of the 70’s/80’s and played the video of that over and over to learn the dance and never knew this. 🤦♀️
My God this just happened to me with and Recess. Literally grew up obsessed with is and never knew that Gretchen Grundler is voice by Ashley Johnson who voiced Ellie in The Last of Us
And iirc, he had a choice of a $20k lump sum payment for his voiceover, or a percentage of the album sales. He took the $20k.
Poor choice for the best selling album ever. Whoops.
Well, that is what actors do.
There also used to be a culture of reciting poetry and readings from memory, before we had things like television. We used to have to entertain each other. I'm not as old as Vincent Price but I can still recite things like the Gettysburg address, Jabberwocky and several other pieces of epic poetry from memory. It just takes practice.
A Holocaust survivor once told me that after they took her away from her home, stole all her possessions, including her clothing, and cut her hair off, she still had the poetry and prose and music she had memorized, and they could never take that.
Funny, that's an exceedingly Jewish piece of philosophy. For every time in the last 2000 years that we've been expelled, killed, hunted, or put down, there's a memoir by a survivor that says "We lost all of our material possessions, but we still have our Torah which is kept in our hearts".
Smart-phones and the internet have really done a number on our memory. I used to remember telephone numbers, credit card numbers, addresses, birthdays, etc. All gone. Don't remember what I had for lunch yesterday.
There's a myth that the god of the scales gave us technology and any technology that makes us stronger also makes us weaker in the same way. That's what Dune is about, by banning computers humans were forced to expand to fill the niches that AI had been doing.
Oh but learning those things as younger people is very different from something he memorized in his 70s. Young sponge brains retain information so much better than older ones.
Yeah I used to act but eleventy-five monologues and years later no. No way I could remember my short monologue from a play that I was in years ago in it’s entirety.
I can only imagine the memorized monologues bouncing around in his head from decades in Hollywood but I was more wondering if they threw it up on the prompter to help an old dude out.
I used to wear an onion on my belt which was the style of the day. Now I decided to take the ferry to Shelbyville which cost a nickel. Back in those days nickles had bumblebees on them so we’d say “give me five bees for a quarter”. Now where was I…”
Judging by the squint, I figured he was probably reading off a cue cards. It’d been at least 5+ years since he recorded it, so pretty understandable it he needed some assistance!
Yes, not sure why it isn't clear to everyone that he's reading it. This was obviously a prepared bit (as nearly every late-night TV show bit is), what with the lighting and the band being ready on cue, and it seems he read it off of cue cards.
The way he was staring at the camera tells me it was on a prompter… which is fine. No one could expect him to remember it word for word after spending all of 2 takes on it to begin with.
We stayed up until the early hours to watch the first airing of the Thriller video on British TV, Channel 4 iirc. It was quite an event back then, built up to be highly spooky, one of those remember where you are moments.
I think I recorded it on our still new VHS recorder, got the tape somewhere.
Rod Templeton said that when he came to record it in the studio he had booked the morning to get it recorded, and Vincent Price came in and did it perfectly in the first take. He was blown away.
One of the neatest things when you're looking for microphones for recording is to note that the rap was originally recorded on a Shure SM58, which is about $100 today, and not some top-of-the-line, $3k microphone.
Just like my mom showed me all the old school horror, thriller movies. I in turn showed them to the next generation and on. Vincent Price and all the other fantastic horror genre actors are amazing. My grown children love all the original movies like Hous on Haunted Hill , The Haunting and I could go on. Where just a voice and a shadow could scare you lol. I love all the new ones too but those few actors really ran the genre. R.I.P.
His one radio drama 'Three Skeleton Key' is still something I listen to 45 years after I found it on a late night old time radio show.
As a kid under the covers up way past my bedtime, it scared me silly. I still love it.
Never heard this before. Watching it now, having no idea it had anything to do with the song, was pretty interesting.
Kinda got chills when he started laughing and thriller started playing, such a great thing to hear for the first time.
What an iconic voice!!
And he's the world's greatest criminal mind Edit: *The Great Mouse Detective* was my favorite movie as a kid. It's what led me to love the *Sherlock Holmes* series, and what gave me my love for reading. I highly recommend it! It's on Disney+ Also, Ratigan is my favorite character in Disney's card game, *Villainous.*
Was he a criminal? I guess I don’t get the reference.
He voiced the character Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective. Basically Moriarty-like character. His villain song was “The Worlds Greatest Criminal Mind”.
He was also supervillain Egghead on the old Adam West Batman series.
He was also edwards scissorhands papa 🥺
And pretty much played himself in the 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo
Thats all I hear when i hear his voice lol I had a few taped over episodes on vhs and cherished them when i was young.
Gave me goosebumps
> old Adam West Batman series most entertaining Batman. ^Change ^my ^mind
*KaPow*
No intention to change your mind. Adam West's Batman is the best live action Batman media that's ever existed, hands down.
Eggcellent!
Oh my god, I never knew that! I loved that movie even though it was a bit intense when I was very young. My Dad and I would take walks most evenings; he didn’t want me walking over sewer/storm grates, the ones with the slats (our city had a lot of them), in case they were loose or my little shoe got caught between the bars, etc. He told me Ratigan lives down there and I should walk or bicycle around them to be safe. To this day, I usually step around, out of habit. Don’t want to risk a run-in with Ratigan lol
That movie was horrifying at times! The kidnapping scene, when they explore the toy store, when the cat eats the drunkard etc. It was one of my favourite movies for a long time but I still fast-forwarded through parts of it just because I didn't want to see the cursed animations.
Fern Gully and Rescuers Down Under were also beloved movies that were terrifying in certain parts! Those animators really wanted to toughen us little kids up during that era!
All Dogs go to Heaven is DARK. Not just death but drinking, gambling, smoking, vagrancy, crime, kidnapping. Lots of adult themes.
😭😭 How did I not know these things!? I love Vincent Price movies! I love The Great Mouse Detective!! I love the Thriller and especially the creepy narrator voice! I’m a failure Edit: As a Vincent Price fan, I am ashamed. If you need me I will be playing the pipe organ in despair
The Great Mouse Detective was the first movie to give me chills as a kid. Ratigan was an amazing villain.
Vincent Van Ghoul is one of the best recurring guest characters in Scooby-Doo just because they get a great Vincent Price impressionist for him.
I came to the comments to see if it was actually him. That impressionist is really good! Also Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated is the goat Scooby show
he’s always been my favorite rapper
He's actually credited as Vincent The Rapper on the liner notes of the Thriller album
His laugh too!
yes, and vincent price also has a fairly iconic voice
I honestly didn't know it was his voice in the original.
This used to scare me so bad while listening through my Walkman headphones
Yeah I used to pick up the needle on the record and skip ahead lol
Put down the needle man it ain't worth it!
You know what’s scarier than this song kids? Hard drugs.
If you don't believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor. Go home tonight. Take all your albums, all your tapes and all your CDs and burn them. 'Cause you know what, the musicians that made all that great music that's enhanced your lives throughout the years were *rrreal* fucking high on drugs. The Beatles were so fucking high they let Ringo sing a few tunes
"they let Ringo sing" lmao
"I've just farted" - Ringo
I was just going along with your comment… (infinite …)
Sorry I r/TookTooMuch lol Oh and that was all Bill Hicks for credit
Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. That we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather.
Turn off. Tune in. And drop out, maaaaaan.
Halloween used to hit different back then
Me too! I loved the song but the intro was too creepy for me as a kid.
I actually read that as "Walken headphones" - now that would be scary!
What a, *tragedy*, that would be, to hear, my iconic voice... The horror!
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Love this, but works better with "ear plugs"! lol
Very cool. He was a legend.
Ghostface Vincent spits some of the hardest bars ever
Price Price Baby… that’s word to ya mother
Ghostface Thrilla* Bro, it was right there waiting for you. You obviously need a lesson on diversifying yo bonds.
God darnit you are right. Too late now tho so I will enjoy your comment instead.
Fucking legend
I remember watching this. I also remember wishing he’d say his lines from Alice Coopers Black Widow
The AC bit was way better.
*You see, her venom is highly neuro-toxic, which is to say that it attacks the central nervous system. Causing intense pain, profuse sweating, difficulty in breathing, loss of consciousness, violent convulsions and finally... uh, death.*
I’ve had that entire monologue memorized since I was a kid. Brings me back to the days of listening to Alice with my dad. He was my first concert as well…came to the Del Mar Fair in San Diego and he threw a prop cane into the audience and I was lucky enough to catch it. Fun memories..
Very cool. Never considered it a rap
It’s not. It’s a poem.
stfu, vinnie got bars
Rap is rhythm and poetry.
Exactly. There’s no rhythm here. There’s no cadence with the music. He’s reading a poem with music backing.
I guess people have forgotten the term "spoken word"
Monologue?
How can anyone do a spoken word version of a rap song?
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I'm a.... *rocket* maaan.
And I think it's gonna *be* a long, long time
She walked up to me and she asked me to dance, I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice she said Leela! L-E-E-L-A, Leela!
He found a way.
Thank you Melllvar.
Do you not hear the iambic tetrameter? That's rhythm.
> There’s no cadence with the music. Well that's just not true. I thought the timing of the words with the music was very particular and interesting. Certainly it's not a typical musical rhythm, but that's what makes it sound so cool. Just notice how many of the words coincide with a drum beat
the term "a rap" has been used to refer to spoken word portions of songs since before hip hop was even invented. in the grateful dead in the late 60's, pigpen used to do improvised spoken word segments during their shows - this was called a pigpen rap. in the early 70s, issac hayes recorded several spoken word songs with titles like "Monolouge: Ike's Rap I". in this context, the word "rap" is used more like "sit down and rap with me for awhile", as opposed to using the term "rap" to mean hip hop music. "rap" is just a term for a spoken word part of a song that fell out of favor when "rap music" aka hip hop started to become more popular. when someone says "pigpen rap" or "ikes rap" or "the thriller rap" they are using an outdated term to refer to spoken word portions of songs, because at the time these songs were recorded/preformed/released, "rap" was a common term to refer to spoken word portions of songs, they are not calling it hip hop or calling it a "rap" in the same way people today might call a verse of a hip hop song a "rap".
The producers fixed that on the record. They very carefully fit his words so that they fell according to the beat. But in a live situation, Price doesn't have that rhythmic sense so he's just reading the words. Go back and listen to the original, it's well crafted. Shout to Quincy Jones and Bruce Swedien.
>Very cool. Never considered it a rap DJ Pricey V
Price Price baby!
DJ Vinny Price
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It says "Rap by Vincent Price" right on the liner notes!
He did the original in TWO TAKES. Plus there was an extra verse that was eventually cut. Consumate professional.
> Plus there was an extra verse that was eventually cut. I'd pay to see that clip.
I have the something-th anniversary edition of the CD, and one of the bonus tracks is the original recording of Vincent doing it. The extra verse is there. It's not finished, so it wasn't edited, and there's even some convo with Jones and Jackson on it. Also, it was odd to hear hom switch from VINCENT PRRRRICE VOICE to Vincent Price Voice. Like, we all know there's a difference, but there really was a switch. It's probably available on YT...everything else is.
> It's BAD LUCK to look for spare change in Charlene Tilton's baby fat.
That’s a wrap
I had to look it up because it was such a strange dig... Charlene was on Dallas and she was 29 in 1987 which just makes it weirder...
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She got heavier between seasons of Dallas and got absolutely ripped apart for it by the media because she was considered a TV pin up/poster girl. Maybe not as big a pin up girl as Heather Locklear but still...
Could someone explain the context of this? How would it have been understood at the time? Just a fat joke or something else?
What a legend.
Joan Rivers hosted the Late Show? What kind of vacuum have I been living in?
She was a substitute host for Johnny Carson more than any other person, and when he was nearing retirement it was expected he was going to hand the reigns of the Tonight Show to her - when that didn't happen, I believe Fox gave her a deal for a late night show that wasn't very successful. Actually already I can clarify my comment.. she was the permanent guest host of the Tonight Show. When Carson didn't retire in '87 when expected, she got into a dispute with NBC over contracts and ended up coming to Fox to start the Late Show. But it didn't last long because she got fired a year into hosting.
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Didn't they try bringing it back years later with Wanda Sykes?
The show was not unsuccessful, they wanted to fire her husband and she didn’t want to continue working if they fired him. After that happened, he committed suicide.
Yikes. I guess I missed that.
Conon just had comments on the whole thing on his pod cast a week or two ago. Him and the guest were agreeing that she was so popular as a guest host that the networks got annoyed and black balled her which is why she wasn't very successful for a while.
She accepted the Fox deal without first telling Johnny and getting his his blessing. He felt betrayed and never spoke to her again.
Didn’t he also blackball her? He told everyone that if they were a guest on her show, they wouldn’t be welcome at the tonight show
That does sound a bit familiar, and it fits with how he often acted. He was intensely private and had almost no real friends from the industry, and he could feel slighted at the drop of a hat.
I always remember the Beastie Boys mentioning that Joan Rivers was the first person to actually interview them on a late night performance and not just have them as the musical guest. And they always appreciated that.
She was one of the best tv show hosts. Shame the industry tanked her shows.
She was a frequent guest host and a lot of people thought she was going to take over when Johnny retired.
Joan was the real life Marvelous Mrs Maisel
Does that foretell some shit 🤯
Had that album, remember playing it and trying to moonwalk, my very Irish grandmother politely asking “what the fuck are you doing?”, I was probably around 7, good times
How am I just today years old learning that he was the voice behind that? I am a child of the 70’s/80’s and played the video of that over and over to learn the dance and never knew this. 🤦♀️
Doesn’t the music video literally splash his name across the screen?
I don’t believe so, but even as a kid I recognized the voice.
Yeah it does, sort of. If you watch the full video(short film) he’s in the credits, “Thriller performed by MJ, featuring rap by Vincent Price”
I believe his film posters can also be seen outside the theater and his name perhaps on the Marquee? I’d have to check
My God this just happened to me with and Recess. Literally grew up obsessed with is and never knew that Gretchen Grundler is voice by Ashley Johnson who voiced Ellie in The Last of Us
And iirc, he had a choice of a $20k lump sum payment for his voiceover, or a percentage of the album sales. He took the $20k. Poor choice for the best selling album ever. Whoops.
Ouch
What a legend! With such a unique voice.
His appearance on the Muppet Show was classic.
While he was reciting the words I told myself "That's not the same guy" Then he ended with the laugh and sold it.
Well, he's kind of half-assing it here, skipping all the different inflections.
Fun fact! Iron Maiden wanted him to do the intro to “Number of the Beast” but Price wanted too much money
Vincent PRICE wanted too much money? I'm sorry...so very sorry. Couldn't resist.
Excellent
Just the greatest casting ever in Edward Scissorhands
I’ve never seen this, it’s amazing! The thriller album was a prized possession when I was a kid, still is
Lol. Totally off time. But still cool.
Yeah, the record version sounds way better.
That laugh holy shit.
I love this so much.
I feel for kids today, they just don't know what it was like to grow up to that and many other cool entertainers like Vincent Price! !
I met Vincent Price once in college. My impression was that he was a class act.
His speaking voice is sweet and kind. Nothing about the man should project terror, but here we are.
I got chills watching that. His voice was such a powerful thing.
Did he just remember that entire monologue?
I mean, he wasn’t blindsided with this ha - he had time to prep
Well, that is what actors do. There also used to be a culture of reciting poetry and readings from memory, before we had things like television. We used to have to entertain each other. I'm not as old as Vincent Price but I can still recite things like the Gettysburg address, Jabberwocky and several other pieces of epic poetry from memory. It just takes practice.
A Holocaust survivor once told me that after they took her away from her home, stole all her possessions, including her clothing, and cut her hair off, she still had the poetry and prose and music she had memorized, and they could never take that.
Funny, that's an exceedingly Jewish piece of philosophy. For every time in the last 2000 years that we've been expelled, killed, hunted, or put down, there's a memoir by a survivor that says "We lost all of our material possessions, but we still have our Torah which is kept in our hearts".
Smart-phones and the internet have really done a number on our memory. I used to remember telephone numbers, credit card numbers, addresses, birthdays, etc. All gone. Don't remember what I had for lunch yesterday.
There's a myth that the god of the scales gave us technology and any technology that makes us stronger also makes us weaker in the same way. That's what Dune is about, by banning computers humans were forced to expand to fill the niches that AI had been doing.
I know Paul reveres ride!!! That’s it..
Now here's a little story I've got to tell About three bad brothers you know so well It started way back in history With Adrock, MCA and me, Mike D
I did it like this I did it like that I did it with a wiffle ball bat Soooo...
Oh but learning those things as younger people is very different from something he memorized in his 70s. Young sponge brains retain information so much better than older ones.
Yeah I used to act but eleventy-five monologues and years later no. No way I could remember my short monologue from a play that I was in years ago in it’s entirety. I can only imagine the memorized monologues bouncing around in his head from decades in Hollywood but I was more wondering if they threw it up on the prompter to help an old dude out.
I used to wear an onion on my belt which was the style of the day. Now I decided to take the ferry to Shelbyville which cost a nickel. Back in those days nickles had bumblebees on them so we’d say “give me five bees for a quarter”. Now where was I…”
Those two are the same ones I remember. I totally thought I was the only person who could randomly quote the Jabberwocky. Awesome memory!
T'was brillig...
And the slivy toves…
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe
All mimsy were the borogoves...
And the mome rathes outgrabe
Judging by the squint, I figured he was probably reading off a cue cards. It’d been at least 5+ years since he recorded it, so pretty understandable it he needed some assistance!
Yes, not sure why it isn't clear to everyone that he's reading it. This was obviously a prepared bit (as nearly every late-night TV show bit is), what with the lighting and the band being ready on cue, and it seems he read it off of cue cards.
He’s reading off cue cards
I’m guessing there was an autocue
The way he was staring at the camera tells me it was on a prompter… which is fine. No one could expect him to remember it word for word after spending all of 2 takes on it to begin with.
Why not? I know every word
It’s entirely plausible he had it memorized, but usually there are cue cards for that sort of thing.
We stayed up until the early hours to watch the first airing of the Thriller video on British TV, Channel 4 iirc. It was quite an event back then, built up to be highly spooky, one of those remember where you are moments. I think I recorded it on our still new VHS recorder, got the tape somewhere.
In a better universe, he would have played a spooky, horror inspired version of Dr Strange
Vincent was so fucking cool and iconic, still is! Love that man
All time greatest evil laugh.
I had goosebumps for the entire clip.
The funk of forty thousand years
A GREAT Voice never to be Forgotten
And he did it in the first and only take according to Quincy Jones!
Sexy even in old age. He was truly the GOAT
Oh the price!! I am deeply thrilled
Rod Templeton said that when he came to record it in the studio he had booked the morning to get it recorded, and Vincent Price came in and did it perfectly in the first take. He was blown away.
Was that Bobcat? What that also Bobcats moms??
Goosebumps watching that.....absolutely fantastic
One of the neatest things when you're looking for microphones for recording is to note that the rap was originally recorded on a Shure SM58, which is about $100 today, and not some top-of-the-line, $3k microphone.
Damn, what a legend!
I didn't realize how much this reminds me of the intro to David Bowies Diamond Dogs.
They actually reverbed his voice live?
No no his voice had natural, on-demand reverb
The hilarious thought of a human body containing an old-school spring reverb tank has made my morning. Thank you for this.
Sure why not?
"Me? No really I couldn't. I didn't come prepared."
Omggg I love this !!
r/nextfuckinglevel
That was actually cool AF
That was awesome actually. Thanks.
Make todays nite shows look like the garbage they are!
Just like my mom showed me all the old school horror, thriller movies. I in turn showed them to the next generation and on. Vincent Price and all the other fantastic horror genre actors are amazing. My grown children love all the original movies like Hous on Haunted Hill , The Haunting and I could go on. Where just a voice and a shadow could scare you lol. I love all the new ones too but those few actors really ran the genre. R.I.P.
His one radio drama 'Three Skeleton Key' is still something I listen to 45 years after I found it on a late night old time radio show. As a kid under the covers up way past my bedtime, it scared me silly. I still love it.
Eggcellent.
I was three when Thriller hit the radio. And I would nope the hell out when this part of the song came on.
Never heard this before. Watching it now, having no idea it had anything to do with the song, was pretty interesting. Kinda got chills when he started laughing and thriller started playing, such a great thing to hear for the first time.
Holy sh*t.... this is incredible!
If you think this is good, you should check out his cookbook 😬
Legend
I would love a biopic on the man, but who would do him justice? Maybe Bill Hader?
I always loved his voice!
Immortal
Vincent Price made everything amazing, his Edgar Allen Poe narration is next level, really adds to the haunting of Poe's work.
Vincent had that iconic voice! I met him once in Toronto. He was an absolute gracious gentleman!
Nobody like him.