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Wizards In Winter By: Tran-Siberian Orchestra
This rock & roll holiday song is from Trans-Siberian's 2004 Christmas CD The Lost Christmas Eve. Get their CDs now they are awesome. What brought this song to mainstream was Carson Williams, Xmas light enthusiast in Mason, OH, who used it to sequence his lights used in Miller Light's beer commercial in 2005. The beer commercial on his lighting setup sparked huge interest in animated Christmas lighting.
Coca-Cola Christmas Song By: From the Coca-Cola Commercial
Everyone loves this Coca Cola Christmas song commercial which debuted in the 1990s, with a great Christmas feel to it and very uplifting crescendos, which I made great use of with my LED magatree and strobes. The background chorus sings "Holidays are coming, holidays are coming". This song made those big red Coke Christmas trucks famous. We all love to drink Coke. This song really made my light display come alive.
THX "Tex" Robot Trailer Demo By: THX Limited
YouTube currently has this video banned for THX trademark, we are working on getting it back up.
Those of us who buy movies with THX love the awesome THX trailer with rising crescendo that precedes THX movies on DVD. This is one of my favorite THS trialers because half way through, the crescendo stops, "power goes out". Then Tex the robot comes flying out and creates a racket all over the place as he zooms around to make repairs. This 45 second gem is good to show off your home theater, and an even better way to show off your synchronzied Christmas lights!
Star Trekkin' By: The Firm
Star Trekkin'....Across the Universe! You might be familiar with this 1987 classic spoof song of Star trek called Star Trekkin'. I decided to do something completely off the wall and fast paced that would truly exercise my 80 channels. It took me 12 hours to make this sequence! This funny spoof song gets faster and faster as the song goes on, making it an even more difficult sequence to make. Because of the high speed, YouTube looks a teeny bit off at times, but believe me the timing is exact.
"Star Trek Voyager" TV Theme Song
This is the theme song from the 1990's Star Trek Voyager show. I thought this was the best Star trek themse song, full of majesty, and very appropriate for our Christmas lights.
Disney's Main Street Electrical Parade By: Don Dorsey
One of my favorite Disney parks tunes is Main Street Electrical Parade from Disneyland & Disney World in 1970s, 1980s, through mid 1990s. It's the perfect song to have my lights dance to. Right before the song starts, you'll hear the announcement made on the monorail to "Please Stand Clear Of THe doors"
The Most Wonderful Day Of The Year By: Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer Soundtrack
This is one of the all time great quintessential Christmas songs. Anyone with kids has this Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer DVD, your kids will watch it over and over during Christmas.
The Doxology Hymn By: First Presbyterian Church Of Margate, Coral Springs, FL
Our church sang this classic 32 second hymn in December, 2006 as we do every Sunday. Now our entire congregation is driving my lights!
This awesome rock and roll holiday song is from Trans-Siberian's 2004 Christmas album The Lost Christmas Eve. If you don't have this CD you better get it now, along with all their other CDs, they are tremendous. This song quickly gained popularity in 2004 among those of us who cherish Christmas music. But what brought this song into the mainstream was Carson Williams, a fellow Christmas light enthusiast in Mason, OH, who used it to sequence his light setup that was used in Miller Light's beer commercial in December 2005. Virtually every person I ask is aware of that commercial. Some say his Christmas lighting setup and that beer commercial sparked a huge interest in animated Christmas lighting. Ironically, he is the one who shot to instant fame, but many people were already using that song in their Christmas lighting setups. He had the first mover advantage, being first seen by the masses on the internet in a video, which in this day of You Tube viral marketing, did not take long until millions of people sent his video to each other. So hey, send people my videos too!
Halloween Lights Video #2)
The Monster Mash By: Bobby "Boris" Pickett and The Cryptkickers
This is the quintessential American Halloween song, that everybody knows. The song originally hit #1 in 1962, but the version in this video was from the 1972 remake. Bobby Picket was a comedian and band member who always did Boris Karloff impressions in between sets. They decided one day to imitate Boris Karloff in a Halloween song, and the rest is history. It caught on in a flash...
Halloween Lights Video #3)
The X-Files Theme Song (DADO Paranormal Activity Mix) By: DJ Dado
This awesome 1996 song found on the Pure Moods CD, from the awesome Pure Moods Series Of is a high energy club remix version of the theme song for the popular Fox show The X-Files that aired in the 1990s. This was one of my favorite TV shows of all time, with the very best writing, that seemed to outdo itself every week. It was great, like having Halloween every Sunday night! This remix of the song really lends itself well to this type of animated holiday lights, with its high energy pulsing club beat. It's a great Halloween song.
Halloween Lights Video #4)
Werewolves Of London By: Warren Zevon (1947-2003)
This is one of my favorite all time Halloween songs as well as general fun rock and roll, that really evokes a party atmosphere with it's infectious piano background track. This is another quintessential Halloween song, recorded in 1979 for Zevon's awesome rock album Excitable Boy. Another favorite off that album is Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner. No complete CD library should be without this critically acclaimed album. Most of Zevon's songs are cerebral and clever satire, blended with good old rock and roll. Sadly he died young in 2004 at the age of 56 from the same form of lung cancer that claimed Steve McQueen. Warren Zevon's music is now immortalized in my computerized animated Halloween lights.
Halloween Lights Video #5)
This Is Halloween By: Danny Elfman
From The Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack, this awesome Halloween treat has grown in popularity every year since it's release in Tim Burton's 1993 cult classic movie. Danny Elfman is most famous as the composer of the theme song for Fox's long running cartoon The Simpsons. Elfman also does most of Tim Burton's soundtracks, and his huge wall of orchestra sound and complex timing compositions can easily be recognized in movies often without me even seeing the credits. He's done Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Beatlejuice, Batman, other famous movies such as Men In Black, Spiderman, Good Will Hunting, Hulk, and many more.
Halloween Lights Video #6)
Black Blade By: Blue Oyster Cult
One of my favorite tunes of all time, albeit a paganistic tune, is Black Blade from Blue Oyster Cult. Few people are familiar with this song, but I always thought it was perfect for Halloween. Now I'm honored to be the first person to animate it using Light-O-Rama lighting controllers. The song is about a man who owns a sword forged billions of years ago. Although he is it's master, he feels like its slave as it uses him as a tool to kill people across the ages. He laments: "...and the whole world is dying, and the burden's mine, and the Black Sword keeps on killing, until the end of time!" This is a perfect song with high energy and complex timing that lends itself perfectly to animated pagan holiday lighting. This song, along with Disney's Electrical Parade, is my personal favorite Halloween animation lighting sequence that I have made. It took me 7 hours to program up this sequence. This album has lots of BOC favorites you may have forgotten about like Godzilla, Joan Crawford, Don't Fear The Reaper, Burning For You, and others.
Halloween Lights Video #7)
Ghostbusters By: Ray Parker Jr.
Who you gonna call! Who doesn't know and love this classic Halloween tune with it's infectious dance beat, and a crowd favorite. I particularly like how the beat of this song energizes my animated holiday light sequences, I made plenty of good use of fades and pulses. here. Notice in the video when Ray Parker Jr. keeps asking "Who you gonna call?", it pulses the white lighted ghost in my video, so it appears as though the ghost is doing the talking.
Halloween Lights Video #8)
Disney's Main Street Electrical Parade (Includes Monorail safety message at Disney World: "Please Stand Clear Of The Doors") By: Don Dorsey for Disney for Disney Parks
Halloween Lights Video #9)
Under The Sea from The Little Mermaid By: Samuel L. Wright
What kid does not like The Little Mermaid? My daughters watch over and over all the time, and "Under The Sea" is probably one of the best melodies ever to come out of Disney movie. In particular this song works very well my light setup. In this video of our lights, right before the song starts, you'll hear the announcement made on the monorail to "Please Stand Clear Of THe doors", in English and Spanish. This should help you imagine you are at Disney World.
Halloween Lights Video #10)
Festival OF Festivals from Disney's EPCOT (Used in 1990s for Illuminations laser fireworks night time show over lagoon.) By: Don Dorsey for Disney for Disney Parks
Back in the 1990s, Disney's EPCOT ran an awesome laser light fireworks show called Illuminations every single night over the World Showcase Lagoon, that played samples of the best symphonies from around the world, as laser lights danced around. Now you can get this song for your own on this CD "Busted" by Don Dorsey, who has created a lot of music for Disney, Most notably the Main street Electrical Parade. Our light sequence is from track 25, and Dorsey has all 4 songs on the CD used from Illuminations. Don Dorsey also made the all digital Bachbusters, one of the top selling classical albums of all time, and one of the best stereo system testing CDs around, with huge amounts of dynamic range.
Halloween Lights Video #11)
"Cry" By: Godley & Creme
I don't know why I decided to sync my Halloween lights to this song, I was just scrolling though my iPOD one day, and was listening to "Cry" by Godley & Creme, a cool polished song from 1984 that use used in one of my favorite Miami Vice episodes. But this song has an infectious pulsing beat to it that lends itself to dancing Halloween lights.
Halloween Lights Video #12)
"Don't Fear The Reaper"
By: Blue Oyster Cult
I know what it needs, MORE COWBELL! Another classic halloween song is this mellow rock gem from Blue Oyster Cult called "Don't Fear The Reaper". This song should be very familiar to most of you. If you have not seen the funny skit with Christopher Walken gues hosting, you need to watch the More Cowbell SNL Video.
. Get their CDs now they are awesome. What brought this song to mainstream was