Comedian Fred Armisen misses Halloween SFX albums...

 

On the September 2nd, 2025 New Yorker Radio Hour, comedian Fred Armisen was missing the lack of Halloween sound effects albums of yesteryear.   

Fred Armisen: "It was kind of like I was lamenting that there aren't sound effects albums in our lives as much, or in my life. I feel like they just used to exist more or they were more present. There'd be like a Halloween one. You just would see them everywhere. The thought, I was like, "Oh, I should make one," just like the titles of the ones that used to exist were always like, Door Closing."

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Michael Schulman: "You mentioned the sort of classic sound effects albums that you used to see. Did you own them growing up? Did you own these or just kind of---"

Fred Armisen: "Only Halloween ones. I remember Ghoul Sounds, you know, woo-oo-oo, woo-oo-oo, and I guess they'd be used for haunted mansion, amusement, like during Halloween. Oh, actually, I had a GI Joe single, the toy GI Joes, and I think those were heavy on sound effects. They weren't advertised that way, but there was a lot of crawling through the dirt kind of stuff."

 [Edit:  I was also DELIGHTED to see that he had actually added some "Haunted House" tracks (with a comedy twist of course).]

1. Haunted House Demonic Voices 1:34

2. Haunted House Ghost Going Upstairs but the Door is Locked 0:31

3. Haunted House Ghost but Nobody is Home 0:09

4. Haunted House Piano 0:11

You can listen to FULL INTERVIEW HERE.

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