Shadows of the Night-Quentin's Theme

From a podline6 of YouTube
A nicely done Dark Shadows theme For BB:

I actually taught myself to play this song on the piano when I was twelve. One of 3 songs I mastered: "Shadows of the Night", "Greensleeves" (yes, I was burgeoning Anglophile even then), and "Chopsticks". None were as proficient as these versions I link yo here...

Notes from YouTube version of Greensleeves posted by eur0tec:

A tune by this name was registered at the London Stationer's Company in 1580 as: "A New Northern Dittye of the Lady Greene Sleeves." No copy of that printing is known. It appears in the surviving A Handful of Pleasant Delights (1584) as: "A New Courtly Sonnet of the Lady Green Sleeves. To the new tune of Green sleeves. "It remains debatable whether this suggests that an old tune of "Greensleeves" was in circulation, or which one our familiar tune is.

The widely-believed legend is that it was composed by King Henry VIII of England (1491-1547) for his lover and future queen consort Anne Boleyn. Anne, the youngest daughter of Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, rejected Henry's attempts to seduce her...

(Gunga D. notes: Well, we all know how well that ended...)

Something for Dark Shadows Fans

This past August, I finally did something I've wanted to do for years and attended a Dark Shadows festival, this year in Tarrytown, NY. What was extra special about it, was that Jonathan Frid, everyone's favorite vampire, Barnabas Collins, came out of retirement in Canada to attend...so of course, having always loved Barnabas, I had to go, especially since--as he even hinted at himself--this would more than likely be his last attendance at such an event.




So, nearly 1,500 fans gathered for the 40th anniversary of his first appearance as Barnabas Collins. Also in attendance, were several of Jonathan's co-stars from the show, Lara Parker (Angelique), Kathryn Leigh Scott (Josette), Marie Wallace (Eve), Betsy Durkin (Victoria Winters #2 and the Irish Spring Girl from the 70s commercial) and Diana Millay (Laura Collins, the Phoenix)It was also at this convention that we learned Johnny Depp was considering taking on the role of Barnabas Collins in a new Dark Shadows movie, which made a lot of people happy as the first Gulf War coverage pretty much destroyed the return of Dark Shadows in the 1991 TV adaptation.

I'm still not proficient with posting pictures, but I'll try my best here.