User:Kipellie/The Moon-Rays

User:Kipellie/The Moon-Rays

The Moon-Rays formed in 1990 by Chicago drummer Scott Mensching as a studio project to re-record the theme from the popular Chicago television show "Creature Features" that aired on WGN in the late 1970's. They subsequently recorded four "Halloween" based albums for SVI studios, the first being "Thrills and Chills" which won the "Just Plain Folks" music award in Santa Anna Ca. for best surf album for 2002. That album also produced the song "1313 Mockingbird Lane" written by Mensching that was used in the Paul Scrabo directed film "Dr. Horrors Erotic House of Idiots" and the documentary of television Horror Hosts "American Scary" directed by Sandy Clark. Their second album "The Ghouls Go West" released in 2004 featured songs "Blues For Vampira" and the title track "The Ghouls Go West" which were featured in the film "The Ghost in a Teenie Bikini" directed by Fred Olan Rae. In 2008 the Moon-Rays recorded the title track for Paul Bunnell's upcoming film "The Ghastly Love of Johnny X". Their last album recorded also in 2008 titled "Swingin at the Seance" featured songs originally made popular in the 1920's-40's that all had a spooky Halloween theme. In 2009 Mensching formed the Chicago based band the "Blue Zombies".