Name: Ervin Litkei The Devil Caught Me Napping by ErvinLitkei in What We Do In the Shadows
Duration: 3 min 34 s
Description: A jazzy blues 50's song with a 40's vibe, smoky niteclub in the dark..... by Ervin Litkei, (words by A Litkei) Sung by Marilyn Brown on the album 'Ervin Litkei Song Collection'

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A jazzy blues 50's song with a 40's vibe, smoky niteclub in the dark..... by Ervin Litkei, (words by A Litkei) Sung by Marilyn Brown on the album 'Ervin Litkei Song Collection'

Ervin Litkei The Devil Caught Me Napping

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DRACULA SPECTACULAR 

I am not your Dracula spectacular 
This is not your weekend in Vegas 
This is not your selfie obscura 
I am not your tour guide of Paris 

No vampires remain in Romania 
No vampires remain in Romania 
Don’t walk alone in Transylvania 
No vampires remain in Romania 

This is not West Hollywood on Thursday 
I am not your objet d’art 
I am not your sepia heyday 
This is not the moment we part 

No vampires remain in Romania 
No vampires remain in Romania 
Don’t donate blood in Transylvania 
No vampires remain in Romania 

I am not your pop starlet saviour 
This is not your reference du jour 
This is not your sanctioned behaviour 
I am not the disease or the cure 

No vampires remain in Romania 
No vampires remain in Romania 
Don't sing this song in Transylvania 
No vampires remain in Romania

There are no gnomes in Sweden

No Vampires remain in Romania

No Vampires Remain In Romania (Dracula Spectacular)

I, Swinger

Carnival Of Souls

Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons

For the Damaged

Walkin' My Cat Named Dog

You're Dead

So This Is Love

Little Sad Eyes

From article about Ervin Litkei written by Irv Lichtman, esteemed former editor of Billboard


On July 4, 1991, a page 1 story in The New York Times compared Litkei's patriotic music to works by songwriter Irving Berlin , another immigrant to America who was the writer of "God Bless America." 

Litkei's career in America included the writing and recording of Hungarian versions of such standards as Berlin's "White Christmas," "Sentimental Journey," and the themes from "Love Story" and "The Godfather." He racked the major labels, with a particularly long relationship with Walt Disney audio and video products. 

In recent years, Litkei, in addition to continuing composing efforts, concentrated on his labels, Aurora Records and JazzMania Records, which included a line of about 20 jazz releases, and his music publishing firm, Leona Music (sic)(often mispelled, it is Loena Music). 

In 1991, after the late-'80s opening of Soviet society under President Mikhail Gorbachev, Litkei offered a $500 prize for any Soviet citizen who produced the best lyric in Russian for a march he had written called "Salute To President Gorbachev." Litkei also made a $10,000 donation to the Songwriters' Hall of Fame to establish a prize for the best march or patriotic song composed by a New York high school student. 

In 1995, Litkei recalled that as a young, aspiring composer in Hungary-Litkei's mother was a successful songwriter in that country- he had the famous operetta composer Franz Lehar play for him what would be Lehar's final composition. 

In tribute to Lehar, Litkei created a new arrangement for the tune with a lyric by Litkei's wife, Andrea Fodor, who is a poet/pianist and former ballerina. Now titled "Tonight I'm Not Pretending," the song was sung by soprano Lynn Owen on an album, "From Vienna To Broadway," released on Litkei's Aurora label. 

Ethel Gabriel, the record producer who worked for Litkei for a number of years until his death, met him shortly after his arrival in the U.S. As a producer for RCA Victor, she wanted to make an album of ..Hungarian Gypsy music. A salesman for the local RCA Victor distributor, Bruno New York, said he knew a fellow Hungarian who wanted to get into the music business and could find her the right group. 

"After that, I introduced him to Eli Oberstein, the chief of RCA Victor, who taught him the music business. Eli treated him like a son," Gabriel says. 


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