SCREAM QUEENS: SHADY'S LEADING LADIES! Vol. 1: Guys and Dolls... (and a Cute Little Pup)

I am..... Dracula!

You might remember my band, The Twilights, and our hit record

"Transylvania 6-5000." It was big in our neck of the woods.

Tonight, as the full moon rises, I  command  invite you to

join me as I introduce two charming young ladies.

(Well, one of them is more than 500 years old.)

They hope to win your heart with the songs

they play on S-P-M-M Retrosonic Radio.

I BITE. I SUCK.

THEY DON'T.

Now let us meet and greet these

Shady Bunch deejay apprentices.

Part 1: Wake Up Maggie ...

(Your New Dog's a Killer K-9)

COLD OPEN:

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"Puppy Love" - Barbara Lewis (Feb./Mar. 1964,

highest chart pos. #38 Hot 100 & R&B/#58 Cash Box)

Kicking-off my part of the show,

that was soul singer Barbara Lewis

and "Puppy Love." Released in the

fall of 1963 around the time of the

JFK assassination, Barbara's record

was a crossover hit that made the

top 40 on both the pop and the

R&B chart in late winter, 1964. 

Hello! I'm

Maggie Glenn,

 a single gal, career journalist

and the main character of 

Good Boy...

a 2020 episode of the Hulu

horror anthology TV series

Into The Dark.

 Here's my deal. After effectively placing a glass ceiling directly

over my head and noticing how much it pissed me off, my weasel

boss recommended that I get myself an emotional support dog. 

I found an incredibly cute pup named Reuben...

 a cross-breed between a Dachshund and a Terrier. 

At first, all was well, but ooops! - that doggie in the window...

the one with the waggly tail... turned out to be a killer canine! 

That's right, friends and neighbors. You see, Reuben, or "Reubie," as I call him,

will attack and kill anyone who upsets me, stresses me out or tries to hurt me.

Reuben's got my back... and my misogynist boss's throat in his jowls. 

Now that you've read my

Facebook profile, I want to

welcome you to the new

Shady's Place series

Scream

Queens

and my segment entitled

Wake Up Maggie...
Your New Dog's

a Killer K-9!

The songs I'm playing tell you about my mis-adventures in pet ownership.

Remember what they say: there are no bad dogs... just bad owners. 

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Excuse me a sec. Drop it, Reuben! I said drop it! Oops, too late. He just swallowed

my best friend's nose. Bad dog! Yep, you should see what happens when a date gets

too frisky with me. It's rowdy Reubie to the rescue! Watch out boy, he'll chew you up.

Here he comes. He's a "Maneater." More on the story from Daryl Hall & John Oates! 

"Maneater" - Daryl Hall And John Oates (Dec. 1982/Jan. 1983,

highest chart pos. #1 Hot 100 & Cash Box)

You just saw Daryl Hall and

John Oates doing "Maneater,"

their early 80s chart-topping

hit, and my rowdy rover

Reubie's favorite song.

Well I'll be doggone, my part

of the show is over before I got

a chance to tell you how Reubie

dealt with my money-grubbing

landlord. Maybe next time

when I return to sing the

bow-wow blues on

 

Wake Up Maggie...

Your New Dog's

a Killer K-9!

exclusively here at Shady's Place. 

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To play me off, here's Rod Stewart to sing my theme song, "Maggie May,"

voted one of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. For now, this is

Maggie Glenn along with my killer K-9 Reuben, saying goodbye and take care! 

"Maggie May" - Rod Stewart

(Sept./Oct. 1971, highest chart pos. #1 Hot 100 & Cash Box) 

 

Fangtastic job, Maggie.

I'd like to have you for

dinner sometime soon.

Until then, I'll try to

satisfy my craving

with Adam's apple...

but I'm afraid

your little

hellhound

might beat

me to it.

Hey, Drac --- BITE ME! On second thought... don't. 

Count Dracula, you are so lame. You are nothing but a buzz kill,

a washed up has-been. I dated you in the 18th century. Even then,

you were nothing to write home about, and look at you now -

over the hill. You frighten no one... not even a child. Reuben

the dog is scarier than you. Casper the Friendly Ghost is scarier.

Macaulay Culkin is scarier. The Pillsbury Doughboy is scarier.

The Geico Gecko is scarier, you old puff of smoke...

you shriveled up caped cretin!

Part 2: Hello Dolly...

(Goodbye Blood)

Hello to one and all. I am Ghost Doll Nadja.

... the cute, cuddly, potty-mouth ghost/doppelganger mini-me doll

that belongs to the Romani vampire Nadja of Antipaxos on

What We Do In The Shadows, the FX mockumentary

 comedy horror TV series set on Staten Island.

I will now turn this drab affair into an

out-and-out Balkan blowout as I

bring you my segment called

Party Doll Nadja.

As the Ghost of Nadja, I am more than 500 years old, but I don't look a day over 18.

That is because I have inhabited this cute little doll.

 

 Yes, it is true. I have the ability to inhabit people, animals

and even inanimate objects like Shady Del Knight.

 Inhabiting is what I do. Inhabiting is a hard habit to break. 

I am already getting hundreds of song requests, but only have time

to play three. I am well versed in popular music. Since I have been

around for centuries, I was there at the very start of rock & roll

...the big bang we now refer to as "Milli Vanilli." 

Back by popular demand,

here are the LA-based

Cristea siblings, the

rocking metal band

that adopted the

stage name Liliac,

the Romanian word

for "bat." You see...

their mother and

father come from

Nadja's neck of the

woods - Transylvania.

They "lived" within

spitting distance of

Castle Dracula. 

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Experience the excitement as Liliac covers a song made popular in 1988

by Joan Jett And The Blackhearts-- "I Hate Myself For Loving You!" 

"I Hate Myself For Loving You" - Joan Jett

And The Blackhearts cover by Liliac (Feb. 2021)

As I told you, I once dated count Dracula. I also dated

this handsome devil... and he was a lot more fun.

In fact, he sang me a song in one of his movies!

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Here's Elvis the Pelvis in a scene from King Creole crooning- "Lover Doll!"

"Lover Doll" - Elvis Presley (scene from July, 1958, film King Creole)

Times have changed in

the old country. Romania

today has thriving dance-

pop, hip hop, rock and

metal scenes. Romanian

guitar wizard and music

producer Andrei Cerbu

has several YouTube

channels devoted to

those and other genres

featuring electrifying

performances by

young artists like

the one I picked

to conclude

my segment.

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Behold Rockmina, the banshee frontwoman of Andrei Cerbu's band

The Voodoo Child, performing live at a blues festival in north-eastern

Romania at the crossroads of Central and Eastern Europe, doing

a killer cover of Led Zep's "Rock And Roll." Now this is your

Ghostess With the Mostest, your Romanian Raggedy Ann

Ghost Nadja. See you next time on

Party Doll Nadja!

"Rock And Roll - Led Zeppelin cover by

The Voodoo Child feat. Rockmina (Aug. 2021 perf.

at the Suceava Blues Festival in Bukovina, Romania) 

Dawn is breaking and

our show draws to a close.

Fangs for being here tonight.

 I hope you enjoyed the post.

For me, it was much more

pleasant than a stake.

I'll be lurking for you,

blud, so watch your

back and your neck.

Fare thee well!

 SCREAM QUEENS 

 Howl of Fame: 

 LEADING LADY 

 JUNE KENNEY IN 

 EARTH VS. THE SPIDER (1958) 

Symphony of Destruction! Halloween Rocktoberfest Pt. 2 Featuring G.L.O.W. - the (Gorgeous Ladies of WOW!)

FIRST TO ELEVEN 

KISS 

"I Was Made For Loving You"

Kiss cover by First To Eleven (Oct. 2020) 

Kiss and makeup - that was Audra Miller and her Erie, Pennsylvania,

band First to Eleven with a Halloween hoot, a cool and capable cover

of "I Was Made For Loving You," a discofied hit for Kiss in 1979. 

Hi, I'm Kelly "That's a hard pass" Maxwell... a young woman dragged

into the fight against evil on the comedy horror television series

Ash vs Evil Dead... (not to be confused with Romper Room). 

You've heard of tough love. With Ash, it's chainsaw love.

I've learned that when dealing with the undead it's

best to follow Ash's golden rule - shoot first

 and ask questions never. 

Welcome to Pt. 2 of Shady Del Knight's 

Halloween Rocktoberfest featuring the

gorgeous ladies of rock and metal with

introductions by the gorgeous ladies of

TV and movies that will soon be joining

The Shady Bunch DJ team on S-P-M-M.

If you liked Pt. 1 of this series, you're

 gonna love Pt. 2. You axed for it -

you got it! (See what I did there?)  

I think it's high time to bury

the hatchet... (in some scary

evil dead dude's back), so I

need  to get outta here. 

Join me for my brand new S-P-M-M radio show

Grace Kelly Rear Window,

coming soon to Shady's Place!

I'm Ainsley Whitly from the TV crime drama Prodigal Son. 

I'm the ambitious younger sister of Malcolm Bright, a brilliant police profiler

with the ability to view crimes from the killer's P.O.V. I work as a TV news

reporter and have deep, dark secrets of my own. Come over to my crib

sometime and meet the skeletons in my closet. In the meantime,

join me and other fictional news women on our S-P-M-M

radio show The I-Team, coming soon to this station.

DARYA TYUSHEVA 

KISS

You just heard First To Eleven cover

a monster hit by Kiss. Now, here to

do another Kiss killer is a Gorgeous

Lady of Wow that you met in part 1.

Watch and listen as Russian rocker

Darya Tyusheva performs a guitar

cover of the seductive Kiss klassic

"Let's Put The X In Sex!"   

"Let's Put The X In Sex"

Kiss guitar cover

by Darya Tyusheva

(June 2020) 

Good day (or maybe not), my name is Sarah and my last name is a mystery.

I'm the star of the 2019 horror movie 1BR, the story of an aspiring costume

designer who moves into a one-bedroom apartment in LA, unaware that the

complex is owned by a cult that uses torture to force new residents to join

their community. Hey, as long as the manager cuts me a deal on the rent,

I'm there, dude! I hope you'll join me on the new Shady's Place radio

series Thru the Spooking Glass, coming your way soon!

SONIA ANUBIS &

ESMEE VAN SINDEREN 

POISON 

I have two Gorgeous Ladies

of WOW for you - two more

hot rock guitarists. You met

Dutch guitar siren Sonia

Anubis in part one. Today,

Sonia is joined by Esmée

van Sinderen, also based

in The Netherlands. The

WOW women perform a

guitar cover of a hit by

those rowdy boys from

up Shady's way in PA--

Mechanicsburg to be

exact. They're the glam

metal band Poison, and

Sonia & Esmée do justice

to their nasty nugget--

"Talk Dirty To Me!" 

"Talk Dirty To Me"

Poison guitar cover by

Sonia Anubis & Esmée van Sinderen

(Apr. 2021) 

Hi there, I'm Alice! That's me, bound and  gagged above, in a scene from

the 2019 horror movie The Cleaning Lady. I'm a young woman who made

two big mistakes. One was having a fling with a married man. The other

was hiring a creepy cleaning lady whose face is scarred from severe burns.

Seems the cleaning lady has taken a shine to me. (See what I did there?)

She's become obsessed with me - a new best friend from hell. She wears

my clothes and makeup, and basically wants to trade lives with me. 

BLOOD BATH & BEYOND

All hell breaks loose. Blood is spilled. Yep, it's hard to find good help these days.

Let's put it this way - Norman Bates was safer to be around than this psycho!

Before I get chloroformed in my sleep again and forget, be sure to tune in

for the debut of my S-P-M-M radio show Thru the Spooking Glass...

starting soon exclusively here at Shady's Place Music & Memories!

LILIAC 

MEGADETH 

Alice here, in case you didn't recognize

me without the gag. It's time for me to

introduce the next two Gorgeous Ladies

of WOW! You met these Transylvanian

transplants in part one.  Today they're

back in black and ready to, in their

own words, "rock on and rock hard."

 They're the LA-based family band

Liliac featuring not one but two

G.L.O.W. nominees - lead zinger

Melody Cristea, and sister Abigail

who plays and slays on the drum kit.

The band performs their version of

a song covered in part one by UK

guitarist Sophie Burrell. Here are

the rockin' Liliac siblings doing

Megadeth's "Symphony

of Destruction!"

 

"Symphony Of Destruction"

Megadeth ciover by Liliac

(May 2021) 

ANNA ELISE 

MOTIONLESS IN WHITE 

Ello, hey up and all that rot.

I'm D.I. Kate Bishop from

the BBC comedy-drama

police procedural Vexed,

a TV series set in present

day London. Join me and

my English sisters from

other misters on our new

S-P-M-M radio show

British British Swag...

Our next Gorgeous Lady

of WOW is YouTube drum

sensation Anna Elise. Anna

has been performing since

age ten. She specializes in

doing covers of hard rock

and heavy metal anthems.

Anna's channel is called MistakesHaveBeenMade

but, make no mistake, this

young woman kicks butt.

Behold Anna as she beats

her skins into submission

with a drum cover of the

Motionless In White song

"Necessary Evil!" 

"Necessary Evil" - Motionless In White drum cover

by Anna Elise aka ANNA (Nov. 2020)

Hello! I'm the lady in red (above) - Jess Parker - from the British sci-fi

TV series Primeval. I'm field coordinator of a team that battles prehistoric

and futuristic creatures that emerge from Anomalies, time/space portals,

and attack humans in London town and all around. Madcap hijinks ensue. 

Coming soon, I'll be hosting

a new show here on S-P-M-M

Tyrannosonic Radio called

Primeval Platterpus.

The records I'll play from the

60s, 70s and 80s might seem

like dinosaurs to younger

listeners but, to Boomer

ears, they're the latest

and the greatest. It's

yesterday once more! 

SOPHIE BURRELL 

AC/DC

You met this next Gorgeous lady of

WOW in part one. She's another

fine UK guitarist by the name of

Sophie Burrell. Sophie's back

to rock your world again

with an electrifying

guitar cover. 

Listen as Sophie plays along

to one of AC/DC's great rock

songs-- "Shoot To Thrill!"

"Shoot To Thrill"

AC/DC guitar cover

by  Sophie Burrell

(July 2021)

 

SERSHEN & ZARITSKAYA 

RAY PARKER JR. 

Hi, I'm Meredith Harlow, a burlesque

dancer on Reprisal, the action drama

that follows a relentless femme fatale

who, after being left for dead, leads

a vengeful campaign against a

bombastic gang of gearheads.

Fun for the whole family!

Catch me in my new role as

a DJ on the S-P-M-M radio

show M Squad coming soon!

The last of our Gorgeous Ladies of

WOW is Ukrainian rock goddess

Daria Zaritskaya. Together with

guitarist Sergey Sershen, Daria

formed the dynamic duo Sershen

& Zaritskaya. Recently, the act

expanded to a quartet with the

addition of drummer Dmitry

Kim and Alex Shturmak on

bass. To conclude Shady's

Halloween Rocktoberfest,

S & Z gives a rock make-

over to "Ghostbusters,"

OST theme song of the

1984 blockbuster movie.

"Ghostbusters OST"

Ray Parker Jr.

cover by Sershen & Zaritskaya

feat. Kim and Shturmak (Oct. 2020)

SWEET DREAMS ARE MADE OF THIS.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

G.L.O.W. (Gorgeous Ladies Of WOW!) Pt. 1 of Shady's Halloween Roctoberfest

THE IRON CROSS 

NIGHTWISH 

"Wish I Had An Angel"

Nightwish cover by The Iron Cross

feat. Beatrice Florea (July 2021) 

Kicking off Part 1 of Shady's Halloween

Roctoberfest... one of the greatest videos

of 2021, the Nightwish song "Wish I Had

An Angel" covered by The Iron Cross, the

rock and metal band formed by Romanian

guitar virtuoso Andrei Cerbu. Fan favorite

Beatrice Florea, a regular frontwoman of

Andre's other band Shut Up & Kiss Me!,

sang lead on that performance. She was

joined by Andreea Munteanu, regular

lead singer for The Iron Cross. On

keyboards, a third beauty among

the beasts - Stefania Ana Lastun. 

Hi, I'm Evie Barret. As you recall from

my teaser on Shady's 13th anniversary

back in July, I'm the new sheriff of a

tiny New Hampshire town haunted

by demons, spirits, and witches on

the comedy horror television series

Stan Against Evil. In the near future,

I'll be hosting my own radio show at

Shady's Place. I'll be playing well-

written songs with interesting lyrics

that make you think. My S-P-M-M

show is called Good Verses Evie.

(See what I did there?) 

In this Halloween two-parter, you'll meet The Gorgeous Ladies of WOW! -

zesty female zingers and guitar heroines who will rock your socks off.

They will be introduced by gorgeous ladies from TV and movies who

will soon join The Shady Bunch as DJs on S-P-M-M Retrosonic Radio.

OMG! - supernatural beasties are attacking my town, so I gotta run.

 Be sure to catch my new show Good Verses Evie coming soon

to Shady's Place. Now it's time to rock on and rock hard!

DARYA TYUSHEVA 

MOTLEY CRUE 

Hey, wassup party peeps? I'm Chloe...

the star of the TV sitcom Don't Trust

the B---- in Apartment 23. I'm a hard-

partying, irresponsible, freeloading,

sexually adventurous con artist with

the morals of a pirate. And those are

my good qualities! When it comes to

Gorgeous Ladies of WOW, it takes one

to know one, and I've got just the gal.

From Russia with 'tude, here's rock

guitarist Darya Tyusheva and her

guitar cover of Mötley Crüe's

hit single "Dr. Feelgood!"  

"Dr. Feelgood"

Mötley Crüe guitar cover

by Darya Tyusheva

(May 2021) 

Hi everyone! I'm June Colburn,

an innocent, wholesome, naive,

trusting out-of-towner from the

heartland who made the mistake

of moving in with Chloe, the B

in 23. I suppose you could call

us the millennial Odd Couple,

but it's all good, because Chloe

and I are excited about hosting

our very own S-P-M-M radio

show. Chloe wants to call it

BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA

but I'm leaning more toward

Whiskers on Kittens. Stay

tuned to find out what

our new show will

actually be called.

 ROCKMINA 

AC/DC  

Let there be Rockmina! The gorgeous lady I'd like you to meet is Romina Apostol

aka Rockmina, another exciting discovery of Romanian guitar wizard and producer

Andrei Cerbu. In this incendiary performance, Rockmina sings lead for Andrei's band

The Voodoo Child as they cover AC/DC's "Whole Lotta Rosie." Together they strike

a blow and achieve a victory in the ongoing battle to save authentic classic rock

from extinction. For those about to Rockmina... we salute you!

"Whole Lotta Rosie"

AC/DC cover by Rockmina feat.

 The Voodoo Child (Apr. 2021)  

Hi, I'm Nurse Dolly, a nurse trainee on the psycho thriller TV

series Ratched. Here at Shady's Place, I'll be joining the

cast of The Good Doctor on their new radio show

Good Doctors - Music is Medicine. 

LILIAC 

DIO 

The Wow women I'm presenting are

the Cristea sisters, Melody & Abigail.

Together with their musical brothers,

Melody and Abby make up the LA-

based “Vamp Metal” band Liliac.

In one of the greatest performances

of this or any other year, lead singer

Melody brilliantly channels the late,

great Ronnie James Dio as Liliac

covers-- "The Last In Line!" 

"The Last in Line"

Dio cover (Dio Cancer Fund

Tribute) by Liliac

(July 2021) 

Hello, I'm Paige Jennings, daughter of Soviet KGB intelligence officers

posing as an American married couple in suburban D.C. on the period

spy drama TV series The Americans. I will soon be joining other 

celebrity women to bring you a new S-P-M-M radio show

called All American Girls. My TV show, The Americans,

is set the 80s, the decade that yielded most of the songs

covered by the artists in this Rocktoberfest special. 

SONIA ANUBIS

and JASSY J 

ALICE COOPER 

Now meet two more WOW women

who love to cover rock and metal of

the 80s. Sonia Anubis is a guitarist

and bassist from The Netherlands

who played with the metal bands

Burning Witches, Cobra Spell and

Crypta. Jassy J is a metal guitarist

from Germany who plays for the

rock band Oversense. Together the

gorgeous ladies are double trouble,

rock toxic, as they perform for you

a dueling guitar cover of the hit

Alice Cooper song "Poison." 

"Poison"

Alice Cooper guitar cover + solo

by Sonia Anubis & Jassy J (May 2020) 

Hi, I'm Adalind Schade,

the beautiful but deadly

Hexenbiest on the super-

natural fantasy, FX-rich,

police drama TV series

Grimm. I'll be joining 6

other female celebrities

taking part in the annual

A To Z Challenge,

an April event you won't

want to miss, and it

happens right here

at Shady's Place.

SOPHIE LLOYD 

ALICE IN CHAINS 

Now, our next featured G.L.O.W. girl. She's Sophie Lloyd,

a rock and metal guitarist based in London. Behold

Sophie's virtuosity as she performs a shred

version of Seattle band Alice in Chains'

grunge classic "Man In The Box!" 

"Man In The Box"

Alice In Chains (shred version) guitar cover

by Sophie Lloyd (June 2021) 

I'm Maria from the 2018 Canadian psycho horror film Look Away.

Spelled backward in my magic mirror... my name is "Airam."

Long story short, evil Airam is trying hard to slip thru to

my side of the looking glass and take over my personality.

I guess you could say her bad behavior reflects on me.

Be here for the debut of my new S-P-M-M radio

show Thru the Spooking Glass, coming soon! 

SOPHIE BURRELL 

MEGADETH 

Now, let me introduce the

last gorgeous lady of WOW

in part one of Shady D's

 Halloween Rocktoberfest.

She's another guitar rockin'

Sophie based in the UK,

and her name is Sophie

Burrell. Listen as Sophie

slays her way thru an

early 90s heavy metal 

anthem, the Megadeth

song " Symphony of

Destruction!"

 

"Symphony of Destruction"

Megadeth guitar cover by

Sophie Burrell (June 2019)

Stick Around for Pt. 2 of

 G.L.O.W. (Gorgeous Ladies of WOW!) 

 Coming right up in my next post!