Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Discovered - My Childhood
I’ve written before about Erv Coppi, the guy who used to host “Horror Nights” on the local PBS station when I was a kid, and how he unwittingly influenced my life.
But what I probably didn’t mention is that every week, the show would begin with a creepy organ music that announced the coming of Erv and his descriptions of the upcoming movie. That creepy organ music meant that good times were coming, and when I would hear it as a child, I knew that it was time to grab the popcorn, plop into the couch and watch Erv.
I loved that creepy organ music. Growing up, I could always hear it in the back of my head whenever I thought of those old scary movies! And as I grew older, I wished I had it to take me back to my childhood days.
I wanted the music so bad that every time I found a Halloween CD, I would buy it in hopes that the mysterious unnamed organ music would be on it. I must have bought more than a dozen cds over the years, but I never found the music. Eventually I gave up on ever finding the tune.
But the other day I was surfing the internet and heard it as a midi music file. I couldn’t believe it! And the site actually listed the name of the music, too!!! So after a few minutes of research, I was able to download the entire song!
The song is called Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor by Bach. You have to make sure to get it in D Minor or it doesn’t sound right. So any of you old Erv Coppi fans out there can find the music too. You know you want to.
The messed up thing about the whole ordeal is that after listening to the whole song, I realized the middle of it is actually the music to my favorite 1980’s video game, Gyrus! I must have played that game a thousand times when I was a kid, never knowing that the music I coveted was literally right beneath my nose.
Go figure.
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