Jonathan Toubin's dance mixes of original 45s rpm vinyl from his New York Night Train Soul Clap and Dance-Off Top 500 list! Tracklists for each mix with liner notes of sorts with information about the songs and artists, photos, links, and more at http://www.newyorknighttrain.com

NY Night Train Soul Clap & Dance-Off Top 500

The first installment, 481-500, of a list of my 500 favorite original soul 45s from the NY Night Train Soul Clap and Dance-Off party (since 2007) in DJ mix/podcast format. While I assembled each set envisioning a mixtape for a friend, I hope this also feels like one of my live sets and makes ya wanna dance!

The tracklist, details about the songs and artists, and rips of each uncut record can be found on my site: https://www.newyorknighttrain.com/2021/03/14/ny-night-train-soul-clap-dance-off-top-500-first-installment-481-500/ ... My goal here isn't merely to give you something to listen to, but to provide inspiration to start a journey into the lives and music of these often unsung or merely deserving heroes - some of whom are still alive and active and others whose legacy needs to grow. 

Since COVID I've been trying to make some order out of my vinyl, and because one Quixotic project deserves another, I've also digitized thousands of my records and organized them into categories and lists as both an intellectual exercise and a way to locate titles in this mess. I assembled the Soul Clap 500 as twenty-five self-contained entities of twenty tracks. I've only included the original 45s (with a couple of second label pressings from the same year) not only for the distinctive original sound and character but also because I view vinyl DJs as museums of culture and want to present the authentic beautiful artifacts every time and not imitations or substandard bootlegs. I'll try to keep these coming once or twice a week until we achieve the complete list.

Since its been over a year since I've worked, and I assume its gonna be a while before there are dance parties again, I also hope this gives ya something to cut a rug to in the meantime... 

thank you for your kind indulgence, 
jt

NY Night Train Soul Clap & Dance-Off Top 500: 481-500

A party mix, a podcast, and the second installment installment of my NY Night Train Soul Clap and Dance-Off Top 500 list! Numbers 461-480 from the original 45s for your dancing and listening enjoyment! 

The tracklist, details about each song and artist, photos, links, and youtube videos of each entire uncut record can be found here on my site: 

https://www.newyorknighttrain.com/2021/03/22/461-480-track-by-track/  

My goal here isn't merely to give you something to listen to, but to inspire you to start a journey into the lives and music of these often unsung or merely deserving heroes - some of whom are still alive and active and others whose legacy needs to grow. 

Keep checking back as I move up the list! I want to take you higher!

L-U-V, 
Jonathan Toubin

NY Night Train Soul Clap & Dance-Off Top 500: 461-480

A party mix, a podcast, and the thrid installment installment of my NY Night Train Soul Clap and Dance-Off Top 500 list! Numbers 441-460 from the original 45s for your dancing and listening pleasure!  The tracklist, details about each song and artist, photos, links, and youtube videos of each entire uncut record can be found here on my site: 

https://www.newyorknighttrain.com/2021/03/30/ny-night-train-soul-clap-dance-off-top-500-441-460-track-by-track/

My goal here isn't merely to give you something to listen to, but to inspire you to start a journey into the lives and music of these often unsung or merely deserving heroes - some of whom are still alive and active and others whose legacy needs to grow. 

Keep checking back as I move up the list! I want to take you higher!

Yrs, 
Jonathan Toubin

NY Night Train Soul Clap & Dance-Off Top 500: 441-460

A party mix, a podcast, and the fourth installment installment of my NY Night Train Soul Clap and Dance-Off Top 500 list! Numbers 421-440 from the original 45s for your dancing and listening pleasure!  The tracklist, details about each song and artist, photos, links, and youtube videos of each entire uncut record can be found here on my site: 

https://www.newyorknighttrain.com/2021/04/13/421-440/

My goal here isn't merely to give you something to listen to, but to inspire you to start a journey into the lives and music of these often unsung or merely deserving heroes - some of whom are still alive and active and others whose legacy needs to grow. 

Keep checking back as I move up the list! I want to take you higher!

Yrs, 
Jonathan Toubin

NY Night Train Soul Clap & Dance-Off Top 500: 421-440

Jonathan Toubin's 12th Annual NY Night Train "Haunted Hop" Halloween Mix from the original 45rpm vinyl singles! 

Track List:
1. Ralph Emery ‎”Two Minutes To Live” (Liberty, 1962)
2. Brenton Wood “Psychotic Reaction” (Festival, 1968)
3. Senor Soul “Psychotic Reaction” (Double Shot, 1968)
4. Rain “E.S.P.” (A.P.I., 1967)
5. The Jesters of Newport “Stormy” (Solo, 1965)
6. Exuma “Exuma, The Obeah Man” (Mercury, 1970)
7. Screaming Jay Hawkins “Poor Folks” (Providence, 1965)
8. Jay Brinkley “The Creep” (Roulette, 1958)
9. Los Holy’s “Campo De Vampiros” (Sono Radio, 1968)
10. Steve Alaimo And The Redcoats “Blue Fire”(Dickson, 1960)
11. The Ralphs ‎"Mutating Man" (VVV, 1980)
12. R. Ericson & Bleibalien (Roky Erickson) “Red Temple Prayer (Two Headed Dog)” (Mars, 1975)
13. Tony Jackson and The Vibrations “Fortune Teller” (Pye, 1965)
14. Katie Webster “Love Bliss Voodoo” (Goldband, 1974)
15. Louie Ramirez ‎”The Boogie Man” (Mercury, 1967)
16. Mike Evans “Gruesome” (A&M, 1967)
17. The Moontrekkers “Night Of The Vampire” (Parlophone, 1961)
18. Al Perry And The Cattle “It's Your Grave (Can You Dig It?)” (Sympathy For The Record Industry, 1990)
19. The Vibes “A Killer Came To Town” (Rayna, 1962)
20. Desmond Dekker “Dracula” (Black Swan, 1964)
21. Murray Schaff And His Aristocrats “Tombstone Number 9” (King, 1956)
22. T. Tex Edwards “Rubber Room” (Sympathy For The Record Industry, 1989)

NY Night Train Halloween Haunted Hop Mix

Jonathan Toubin's 2021 Haunted Hop Halloween Mix

Good evening my little bats, 

Here you will find my annual Halloween mix! This one was recorded live with the original 45s in one take at 3AM on OCTOBER 22, 2013. Play this at your Halloween parties and. if you live in New York, come on out to SECRET PROJECT ROBOT on OCTOBER 31 to dance to these fine platters and many more at midnight on Halloween at the annual NY Night Train HAUNTED HOP!

Booooo....whahahahaha,
Jonathan Toubin

P.S. With the exception of the unlisted incidental noises, which are all from old Halloween 45s, what follows is a complete listing of the original 1950s/1960s platters (except where noted) that you hear in this DJ set: 
1.	 Mann Drake “Vampire’s Ball” (Bethlehem)
2.	 Lord Sutch “Black and Hairy” (CBS Germany)
3.	Ren Williams “My Very Own (Trash Can)” (Renay)
4.	 Darrell Glenn “Hoo Doo The Voo Doo” (Robbie)
5.	 Randy Fuller “Wolfman” (Mustang)
6.	Lucy Campo “Evil Eye (RCA)
7.	Ivan G. Washabaugh/Jerry Clayton “The Metal Monster” (Big “I” Records)
8.	James “Red” Holloway “A La Carte” (Mad)
9.	Larry Williams “Heebie Jeebies” (Specialty/Juke Box Jam - 2012 was the first time this 1958 masterpiece was released as a 7-inch single! so, while not as old as the other wax that appears here, the first and only issue ever) 
10.	The Phantom “Love Me” (Dot)
11.	 The Driving Stupid “Horror Asparagus Stories” (KR)
12.	 Joe August “The Blob” (Dot)
13.	Ken Nordine and the Fred Katz Group “I Used to Think My Right Hand Was Uglier Than My Left” (Dot)
14.	 Vic Ciro “The Sound” (Jubilee)
15.	 The Last Word “Sleepy Hollow” (Downey)
16.	The Poets “Dead” (Flash)
17.	 Bill James and the Hex-O-Tones “Voodoo Queen and the Medicine Man” (Mun Rab)
18.	The Apollos “It’s a Monster” (Montgomery)
19.	Fumaca Preta “A Bruxa” (Music Soul - the only 100% contemporary recording on this mix! "Brazilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas"' Joel Stones sings The Sonics "The WItch" in Portugese with a heavy international freakbeat band!)
20.	The Clouds “Black Cat” (Gala)
21.	Piney Brown “Ooh You Bring Out The Wolf In Me” (Jubilee)
22.	Curtis and the Creepers “The Thing” (Dauntless)
23.	Screamin’ Jay Hawkins “Ashes” (Chancellor)
24.	The Magics “Zombie Walk” (Bell)
25.	Rebel Rousers “The Zombie Walks” (Memphis)
26.	The Monotones “Zombi” (Argo)
27.	Don DeLugg and His Orchestra “The Munsters Theme” (Epic)

NY Night Train 2013 HAUNTED HOP Halloween Mix

JONATHAN TOUBIN's 2022 New York Night Train HAUNTED HOP Halloween Mix - the 13th edition! Juxtaposed from the original 45rpm vinyl singles! 25 spine-tingling classics and obscurities cobbled together by the mad scientist for your listening and dancing pleasure! The Good! The Bad! And the ugly! Make this and the previous editions (317 spooky records so far!) the soundtrack to your holiday partying and in preparation for the 17th Annual NY NIGHT TRAIN HAUNTED HOP, OCT 31 at KNOCKDOWN CENTER with room after room of madcap multimedia fun with HUNX & HIS PUNX and 30 more bands, 8 DJs, mummy dancers, a horror cinema, creepy art installations, the 1AM $500 COSTUME CONTEST, plus eating, drinking, and dancing from 6:30PM - 2AM! Get tickets now!

Track Listing:
1. Johnny Jenkins “I Walk On Guilded Splinters” (Capricorn, 1970)
2. Rex Garvin and The Mighty Cravers “Strange Happenings” (Chieftin, 1971)
3. Dead Moon “Don’t Burn The Fires” (Tombstone, 1988)
4. Curtis Knight & The Squires “Hornet’s Nest” (RSVP, 1966)
5. Marie Laforêt “Marie Doceur - Marie Colère (Paint It Black)” (Disques Festival, 1966)
6. Fred Harris Red Tops Organ Trio with The Highlighters “The Bull” (New Song, 1958)
7. Linda Vera y su Conjunto Tropical “La Mano Pelua” (CBS Mexico, 1965)
8. Ray Barretto “Babalu” (Tico, 1966)
9. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and The Chicken Hawks “I Hear Voices” (Enrica, 1962)
10. Gate Wesley & Band with Billy LaMont “(Zap! Pow! Do The Batman” (Atlantic, 1966)
11. Donald Height “Three Hundred and Sixty Five Days” (Shout, 1967)
12. Shorty Billups “Black Cats” (Blast, 1965)
13. King Horror “Dracula Prince of Darkness” (Joe, 1969)
14. Thee Midniters “Thee Midnite Feeling” (Whittier, 1966)
15. Los Crazy Boys “La Bruja” (Discos Orfeon, 1965)
16. Johnnie Mae Matthews “The Headshrinker” (Reel, 1962)
17. Alan Knight “Chills” (Tide, 1960)
18. The Run-A-Ways “Night Creature” (Royal Audio Music, 1960)
19. Charlie Ryan and the Timberline Riders “Hot Rod Hades” (4 Star, 1961)
20. R. Erickson & Bleibalien (Roky Erickson!) “Red Temple Prayer (Two Headed Dog)” (Mars, 1975)
21. Miss L.L. Louise Lewis “The Monster’s Bride” (Skyway, 1964)
22. The Couplings “Dill Tickle” (Prism, 1964)
23. Adolphus Bell And The Up Starts “Lafin Gas” (Satin, ?)
24. The Livin’ End “Soul Ghost” (Mistown, 1969)
25. Bob Mitchell “What Then” (Al-Mo, ?)

2022 NY Night Train 2022 Haunted Hop Mix (13th Edition) 

Jonathan Toubin's 2022 NY Night Train Haunted Hop Halloween Mix

Every October DJ / mad scientist Jonathan Toubin retires to his laboratory, digs up a pile of old records, and brings them back to life as the soundtrack of your Halloween season! Each Halloween mix is comprised exclusively of exquisite original 7-inch vinyl singles. If you live in New York City, dance to these and many more in person at the 19th Annual NY Night Train Haunted Hop Halloween party on October 31, 2024 at Knockdown Center!

1. Pantherman, “Pantherman” (Atlantic, France, 1974)
2. Christine Pilzer “Dracula” (Disques Vogue, France, 1966)
3. Bela La Goldstein “Old Boris” (International Recording Co, USA 1962)
4. The Turnpikes “Cast A Spell” (Capitol, USA 1968)
5. The Id “Boil The Kettle, Mother” (RCA Victor, Canada, 1967)
6. R. Dean Taylor ”There’s A Ghost In My House” (V.I.P., USA 1967)
7. Fumeca Preta “Vou Me Libertar” (Music With Soul Records, Holland, 2013)
8. We The People “You Burn Me Up & Down” (Challenge, Promo, USA 1966)
9. Chants R & B “I’m Your Witchdoctor” (Action, New Zealand, 1966)
10. Jackie Burns “The Raven” (Guyden, USA, 1965)
11. The Green Bananas “The Ape” (Agitated Records, UK, 2016)
12. The Mummies “You Must Fight To Live On The Planet of The Apes” (Sympathy For The Record Industry, USA, 1993)
13. Jeff Wayne’s Space Shuttle “Ape’s Shuffle” (Wonderball, Promo, USA, 1975)
14. Bobby James “Fortune Teller” (Lanor, USA, 1966)
15. Brian Auger & The Trinity “Black Cat” (ATCO, USA, 1968)
16. The Moontrekkers “The Bogey Man” (Decca, UK, 1963)
17. Roky Erickson “Bloody Hammer” (CBS, UK, 1980)
18. Wolfman Jack & The Wolf Pack “Wolfman Boogie, (Part 1)" (Bread, Promo, USA, 1965)
19. Danny James ”Devil Made Me Say That” (Goldband, USA, 1970)
20. Zen Fuller “Doomsday” (Acama Records, USA, 1962)
21. Bob And Lucille “Demon Lover” (Ditto Records, USA, 1958)
22. Chuck And Oneda Harding “Graveyard Ghost”(T.R.C. Texas Recording Company, USA, 1962)
23. Rene Hall “Night Fright” (Castil, Promo, USA, ?)

Jonathan Toubin's 2024 NY Night Train HAUNTED HOP Halloween Mix

Jonathan Toubin is up all night in his secret laboratory concocting yet another monstrous annual hour of his uncommon original 45rpm Halloween madness!

If you like this, don't miss his multimedia Haunted Hops, where you can dance to this stuff for hours in a multimedia haunted house...
- OCT 22 CHICAGO - The HideOut
- OCT 28 AUSTIN - The Barracuda
- OCT 29 LOS ANGELES - Festival Supreme (with Tenacious D, Flight of the Conchords, Weird Al, etc)
- OCT 31 NYC - Knockdown Center - combined with ALANA AMRAM'S MONSTER MASH for a huge party with live bands going as their favorite artists, live visuals, installations, go go dancers, performance, costume contest, and of course, a haunted house!

1.	Beauregarde and the Poppers “Creature Feature” (Lurch, 1975) 
2.	Frank Rondell and the Chancellors “The Bat” (Fujimo, 1964) 
3.	Neal Ford and the Fanatics “Shame On You” (Hickory, 1966) 
4.	Roberto Carlos “Negro Gato” (CBS Mexico, 1969) 
5.	Unknown, “Goon River” (Peter Pan, 1973)
6.	Terry Teen “The Hearse” (Gemini, 1962)
7.	Satan and Deciples “Mummie’s Curse” (Goldband, 1968) 
8.	The Verdicts with Al Browne Orch. “The Mummy’s Ball” (East Coast, 1961) 
9.	Dr. Shock “The Bloody” (Cougar, 1970) 
10.	The Sherwoods “El Scorpion” (Maggie, 1961) 
11.	The Connoissurs “Count Macabre” (M-P, 1963)
12.	Geoffrey Holder “The Bottle Imp” (Vik, 1957) 
13.	Diablito “The Jungle” (Parkway, 1961)
14.	Griz Green “Creepy Willy” (Blue River, 1965) 
15.	Miss L.L. Louise Lewis “Monster Miss” (Skyway, 1962) 
16.	Andre Scott “Shadow Knows” (Neely, ?)
17.	Magnificent Montague “The Breather” (1958) 
18.	King Horror “Dracula” (Joe, 1969) 
19.	Count Stephen “Spooky” (Marlin, 1961) 
20.	The Olympics “The Boogler (Part 1)” (Duo Disc, 1964) 
21.	Curtis Knight “Voodoo Woman” (Gulf, 1961) 
22.	Diane Maxwell “Love Charms” (Challenge, 1958) 
23.	Lord Luther with The Kingsmen “(I Was) A Teenage Creature” (Frantic, 1958)
24.	The Tinglers “The Tingler” (Col Pix, 1959) 
25.	Hank Levine and the Blazers “Midnight” (PRI, 1960)

hear the six more of the annual Halloween mixes here
https://www.mixcloud.com/jonathantoubin/

JT's Album

Jonathan Toubin's 2016 Haunted Hop Halloween Mix

For the eighth year in a row, mad scientist / NY Night Train soul proprietor Jonathan Toubin retired to his laboratory to concoct the ultimate score for your Halloween season! Conjured from the dee jay's own original 45s, this year's monster is a dance party full of hits and misses, classics and obscurities, canonical musicians and horror show hosts. The three dimensions, the good, the bad, and the ugly are all Frankensteined together to take you to another dimension. This island of misfit tracks take you and yours on a fantastic voyage deep into nightmares, madness, witchcraft, voodoo, and zombie lifestyle.   Make this and the previous seven Haunted Hop Mixes (avail on MixCloud) the soundtrack to your Halloween party season!

Also, if you're lucky enough to live in the midwest and east coast, 2017 finds Jonathan Toubin's legendary NY Night Train Haunted Hop Halloween Party barnstorming with Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds and virtuosic 16mm loop projectionist Spencer Bewley! It all culminates in NYC with an epic extravaganza at Knockdown Center headlined by Shannon and the Clams featuring multiple rooms of bands, visuals, go go, food, cinema, and way more than we could ever list... Unmissable!

Below find the original sides you're hearing now:

1.	The Madmen  “Haunted” (Cloister, 1963)
2.	The Soul Shakers “Savage A Go Go” (Triangle, ?) 
3.	Ichabod and the Cranes “The Turtle” (Coral, 1964)
4.	Hound Dog Clowns “Wicked Witch” (Uni, 1968)
5.	Whyte Boots “Nightmare” (Phillips, 1966)
6.	Kip Tyler “She’s My Witch” (Ebb, 1958)
7.	Satan’s Breed “Laugh Myself to the Grave” (A-L-M, 1966)
8.	Swamp Rats “Psycho” (St. Claire, 1966)
9.	The Motivations “The Birds” (Pride, 1963)
10.	The Lapels “Bad Luck” (Fortune, 1964)
11.	Wolfman Jack and the Wolf Pack “Don’t You Just Know It” (Bread, 1965)
12.	Suzi Jane Hokom “Need All The Help I Can Get” (MGM, 1966)
13.	Gaitley and Fitzgerald “Séance Day” (Bornwin, 1967)
14.	Sir Julian at The Organ with Orchestra and Chorus “Séance on A Wet Afternoon” (Ascot, 1965)
15.	Dr. Shock “After Midnight” (East Coast, ?)
16.	Roy Brown “Great Casaboo” (Gert, 1965)
17.	Tabby Thomas “Hoodo Party” (Excello, 1962)
18.	Chaos Incorporated “Daktari Ooh-Ah” (S.P.Q.R., 1967)
19.	Big T Tyler “King Kong” (Aladdin, 1957)
20.	Willie Wright and His Sparklers (Federal, 1960)
21.	The Flaming Kings “Hey La-De-Da” (Bru-Cla,?)
22.	Shalimar Thompson “Voodoo Mash, Pt 2” (Del Fi Ascetate, 1962)
23.	Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds “Spider Baby” (In The Red, 2017)
24.	The Weirdos “E.S.P. (Theme for Shock Theatre)” (LAN-CET, 1962) 
25.	Jim Burgett with Don Ralke and His Orchestra “The Living Dead (Columbia, 1961)
26.	The Raves “Everything’s Fire” (Smash, 1968) 
27.	Count Gregore and the Transylvanians “Theme from Nightmare” (Nightmare, ?)

NY Night Train 2017 Haunted Hop Halloween Mix

Jonathan Toubin's 2017 Haunted Hop Halloween Mix

Retiring to his laboratory for the ninth year in a row to concoct the soundtrack for your Halloween season from deep within his 45rpm vinyl treasure trove, mad scientist Jonathan Toubin dug around and Frankensteined the good, the bad, and the ugly to construct yet another non-stop fantastic voyage across monster parties, voodoo rituals, nightmares, and miscellaneous howling at the moon. You won't hear any repros, bootlegs, LP cuts, etc here - but exclusively the original 7-inch vinyl pressings. This year's power hour does the Monster Mash across an island of lost misfit tracks by everyone from the most talented musicians of the post-war era to the most shadowy of unknowns - diabolically uniting time and space and disparate genres to birth this year's monster! Dance novelties, garage punk pounders, rhythm and blues busters, rockabilly rollers, soul shakers, slippery surfers, country crackers, pop peculiarities, and rogue's gallery of ectoplasmic eccentricity! And, if you can't get enough, the other eight mixes are all available to stream on Mixcloud </a>. So far that's now 225 haunted hits and counting! Nine straight hours of pure diabolical NY Night Train party magic for all of your seasonal needs!

Also, if you're anywhere near NYC October 31, witness the world's best Halloween party, the NY Night Train Haunted Hop! This year's 13th edition features a full live performance by the evil one himself from the 13th Floor Roky Erickson! Plus Hank Wood and the Hammerheads, Death Valley Girls, White Mystery, and 14 more bands, room after room of DJs, dancing, eating, drinking, horror cinema, witchcraft, mummies a go go, live visuals, art instillations and a whole lot more! Come early and stay late! Make a night of it!

These are the original vinyl sides Jonathan Toubin fiendishly stitched together and brought back to life for this spooktacular occasion:

1.	Dr. Shock “Eat Your Heart Out Baby” (Black Blue, 1973) 
2.	Larry and The Blue Notes “Night of the Phantom” (20th Century Fox, 1965) 
3.	Muleskinners “Wolfman” (Soma, 1964) 
4.	Johnny Lion “Haunted Heart” (Coed, 1959)
5.	Bobby Bare “Vampira” (Jackpot, 1958)
6.	Tiny Topsy “You Shocked Me” (Federal, 1958) 
7.	The Daylighters “Madhouse Jump” (Bea & Baby, 1959) 
8.	Isaac Rother and the Phantoms (Mock, 2015) 
9.	Johnny C and the Blazes “Inferno” (Chattahoochee, 1963) 
10.	Eddie Perrell “Hex” (Shurfine, 1966) 
11.	Pete Martinez “Haunted House” (Towne House, 1964)
12.	Ray Columbus and the Art Collection “Kick Me” (Colstar, 1967) 
13.	The Shades featuring Lee Cook “Strollin’ After Dark” (Scottie, 1959
14.	Merle Kilgore “Lover’s Hell” (Mercury, 1961) 
15.	Salty Holmes “The Ghost Song” (Decca, 1954) 
16.	Virgil Holmes “Ghost Train” (Atlantic, 1961) 
17.	The Fabulous Continentals “Breakin’ Up” (Rori, 1962) 
18.	Little Esther Phillips “Mojo Hannah” (Atlantic, 1964) 
19.	Silas Paulin “That Old Black Magic” (Prize, 1963) 
20.	Billy Hall “Oo Ga Booga Boo Boo” (Glenn, 1962) 
21.	Count Down and the Moonsters “Hindu On A Honda” (Pocono, ?) 
22.	The Twisters (Bobby Smith Combo) “Run Little Sheba” (Gemini, ?) Another spooky track with mysterious origins and one of the few records on the 
23.	Bobby Darin “Similau” (Atlantic, 1964) 
24.	Toalson Sisters “Mau Mau Mambo” (S.I.N.A., Society For Indecency To Naked Animals, 1959) 
25.	Ella Washington “Nightmare” (Octavia, 1966) 
26.	The Nightmares “Nightmare!” (Fredlo, 1960)

Jonathan Toubin's 2018 Haunted Hop Halloween Mix

Thee 2019 HAUNTED HOP HALLOWEEN MIX IS UP! Jonathan Toubin retired to his laboratory with his original 7-inch vinyl oddities for the  10th year in a row to Frankenstein together an hour of unique haunted hits and misses for Monster Mashing and trick or treating!  The good! The bad! The ugly! The familiar and the strange! Check out the other nine and make this the soundtrack to your Halloween season!

Definitely pop out on Halloween at the New York Night Train Haunted Hop on Thursday, October 31 at Knockdown Center with The Make-Up, Quintron and Miss Pussycat, Protex, Joe Coleman with King Khan, and a cast of thousands!

1. The Caravans "The Spook" (Terra Records, ?)
2. The Tumblers "Scream" (Pocono, 1965)
3. The Tamrons "Wild Man" (Pyramid, 1967)
4. The Kords "Boris The Spider" (Laurie, 1967)
5. Kip Tyler "Shadow Street" (Challenge, 1958)
6. Sam Porfino and His Orchestra "Haunted House" (Heartbeat, 1963)
7. The Elastik Band "Spazz" (Atco, 1967)
8. Marsha Hunt "Walk On Gilded Splinters" (Polydor Germany, 1969)
9. Howlin' Wolf "Evil" (Cadet, 1969)
10. The Lollipop Shoppe "You Must Be A Witch" (UNI,1968)
11. Lee Kristofferson "Dinner With Drac" (Thrust, 1977)
12. Eddie Kirk "Them Bones" (Volt, 1963)
13. Polo "Fuego" (Peerless, 1968)
14. Les Pingouins "Voo-Doo-Twist" (Decca, 1962)
15. Tim Hazel "In Cold Blood" (Lorelei, 1965)
16. Banana "Club De Los Vampiros" (Clave, 1969)
17. Johnny Jay Colonna "The Sea Witch" (Magnet, 1963)
18. Ray Stevens "Laughing Over My Grave" (Mercury, 1964)
19. Little Caesar and The Ark Angels "The Ghost of Mary Mead" (Jack Bee, 1960)
20. The Big Guys "Zombie" (Palette, 1964)
21. Spike Jones And His Sickniks "I Was A Teenage Brain Surgeon" (WB, 1959)
22. Vladimir Brainzoff and the Undertakers "Russian Roulette" (Solid gold, ?)

NY NIght Train 2019 Haunted Hop Halloween Mix

Jonathan Toubin's 2019 Haunted Hop Halloween Mix

My first soul mix in seven years! Chock full o ' some of the most action-packed RAW SOUL, HOT BOOGALOO, and WILD RHYTHM AND BLUES VINYL you dance to at the SOUL CLAP AND DANCE-OFF, SOUL SCREAM, and other signature NY NIGHT TRAIN PARTIES! The ingredients: 100% ORIGINAL RARE 1960s 45RPM 7-INCH RECORDS (all real! no bootlegs! no reproductions! no artificial flavors! no artificial colors!). The distinctive sound and feeling of the NY NIGHT TRAIN rolling down the track! Play loud for maximum dancing and listening enjoyment.... 

Thank you for your kind indulgence,
JT

Track list:
	1.	Otis Riley backed by The Losers "The Zebra" (Sphinx, 1961)
	2.	Johnie Brown & the Fabulous Arcades “Watch Me Work” (Puff, ?)
	3.	Connie Austin “She Made A Mistake” (King 1968)
	4.	Johnny Young “Polly Wolly” (Sumpter, 1968)
	5.	Monguito Santamaria “Hey Sister” (Fania, 1969)
	6.	Isaac Clark “Do The Dog Funk” (Miro, ?)
	7.	Irene & the Scotts “Stuck On My Baby” (Smash, 1967)
	8.	Pete Terrace “Shot Gun Boogaloo” (Pye International, 1967)
	9.	Willie Baby “Hot Buns - Part 2” (Ding Dong, 1967)
	10.	Big Ella “The Queen” (Push, 1968)
	11.	Bobby King & His Silver Foxx Band “Fat Bag” (Mos-Be, ?)
	12.	Vic Lee "Minit Skirt” (Big Beat, 1968)
	13.	John & Carol “Get Your Hat” (Botone, 1964)
	14.	The Bamboos “Tighten Up” (1st part) (Kay-Dee, 2004)
	15.	Sonny Bravo “Tighten Up” (Columbia, 1968)
	16.	The Bamboos “Tighten Up (2nd part) (Kay-Dee, 2004)
	17.	Roosevelt Matthews w/Billy Ball and The Upsetters “Tighten Up” (King, 1968)
	18.	Little Flint featuring Wayne Perry “Pain” (Beast, 1970)
	19.	Bobby Valentin “Bad Breath” (Fania 1967)
	20.	Willie Mae “Big Mama Thornton” (SotoPlay, 1965)
	21.	Gene Holiday “Scratch My Name Off The Mial Box” (Johnson, 1964)

Jonathan Toubin's NY Night Train Soul Clap Classics 2020 Mix

New York Night Train's ANIMAL PRINT Exotic Rock'n'Roll mix is a JONATHAN TOUBIN DJ set of the type of weird, wild, and way out sounds you will find at his Sunday, April 28 ANIMAL PRINT PARTY at Brooklyn's GLASSLANDS GALLERY… Recorded live by Pineapple Studios' Ivan Sunshine from the original 45s.

This collection of peculiar post cards from the more bizarre end of the mid-century modern imagination are middle-American dreams of faraway exotic places - from Middle Eastern deserts to Mexico to African jungles to Hawaiian Islands to outer space - imagining everything from the future to ancient civilizations. A bizarro world music that has less to do with authentic musical cultures themselves than a Hollywood simulacrum - saying a lot about the post-war American view of the world and desire for the curious, the strange, and the novel. The crazy rhythms, unusual melodies, weird harmonies, and uncommon instrumentation, when added to the rock and roll/pop aesthetics of the time, make for much more unusual original music that really holds up. Though there's no shortage of the sound effects, unusual rhythms, elaborate percussion, and pentatonic scales associated with the "exotica" genre, and the danceable drums, heavy rhythm guitar, and sleazy saxophones place many of these songs within the "tittyshaker" genre, this stuff begs for a genre of its own. 

So hey party animals, everyone who turns up in cheetah, zebra, leopard, tiger, or other animal print clothing gets in for FREE - as tonight your attire will be the ambiance. Let's get into it!

New York Night Train ANIMAL PRINT PARTY
dj JONATHAN TOUBIN
go go dancer ANNA COPA CABANNA
APRIL 28, 2013
GLASSLANDS GALLERY
$5 (FREE IF YOU ARE IN ANIMAL PRINT!)

TRACK LIST:
1. Angie Hester "Bump Step" (ABC)
2. The Bikinis "Crazy Vibrations" (Top Rank)
3. Franky Sands "Kahuna" (Protone)
4. The Charts "Ooba-Gooba" (Guyden)
5. The Hightlighters "The Bull" New Song
Leo Quica "Caliente" Liberty
The Kingsmen "Monkey Walk" Sarjo
The Calvaes "Anna Macora" Checker
Felix and His Fabulous Cats "Savage Girl" Enith
The Tammys "Egyptian Shumba" United Artists
Jack La Forge "The Cleopatra Kick" Regina
The Precisions "Cleopatra" Golden Crest
The Astro-Jets "Boom-a-Lay" Imperial
Ronnie Kae "Swinging Drums" Band Box
Chuck Rio and the Originals "Margarita" Jackpot
The Mariners "Zindy Lou" Cadence
Ganimian and His Orientals "Come With Me To The Casbah" Atco
Sandy Nelson "Casbah" Imperial
The Hunters "The Angry Desert" Era
The Social Outcasts "Mad"
The Gimmicks "(Get Off My Trail You) Sneaky Snail" Ensign

Pour Bool

NY Night Train ANIMAL PRINT Exotic Rock and Roll Mix!

LIVE recording of JONATHAN TOUBIN turning his flaming o.g. 45rpm soul platters at the SOUL CLAP and DANCE-OFF at BROOKLYN BOWL - with a train sound added at the beginning to cover the transition into the first song.... RAW AWESOMENESS!

1.	Eddie Kirk “The Hawg” (Volt)
2.	Sinner Strong “Don’t Knock It ‘Til You Try It” (Serock)
3.	Roger Collins “Foxy Girls In Oakland” Galaxy
4.	Jenny Rock “Le Train Pour Memphis” (Citation)
5.	Lorenzo Holden “The Wig” (Cee-Jam)
6.	Little Hank “Mr. Bang Bang Man” (Sound Stage 7)
7.	Maggie Thrett “Soupy” (Dynovoice)
8.	Spyder Turner “Ride In My 225” (Fortune)
9.	Ambertones “Clap Your Hands” (Rayjack)
10.	Erma Franklin “I Don’t Want No Mama’s Boy” (Epic)
11.	What’s Happening “Hot Buttered Buns” (Coreco)
12.	Majestics “Treat Me Like You Want to Be Treated” (Chex)
13.	Lolipops “Busy Signal” (RCA)
14.	Joe Bataan “Too Much Lovin’” (Fania)
15.	Little Jewel “I Want To” (Tay-Ster)
16.	The Light Nites “One, Two, Boogaloo” (Dunwich)
17.	Brenton Wood “Psychotic Reaction” (Festival – from the Australian “Gimme Little Sign 45rpme.p.)
18.	Young Jesse “Mary Lou” (Mercury – 1963 Jack Nitzsche-produced version”
19.	Sherry Taylor “He’s The One That Rings My Bell” (Glorelco)
20.	Lee Moses “Reach Out, I’ll Be There” (Musicor)

NY Night Train SOUL CLAP CLASSICS Volume 3

trick or treat! repost of the missing 2014 halloween mix.... one of the best!

Mad scientist JONATHAN TOUBIN was up late in his laboratory making this monster that will be the soundtrack to 2014 Halloween season… From the soundbites to the tracks themselves, everything on this mix was recorded directly from the original 45s from the 1950s and the 1960s! TRICK OR TREAT!

TRACK LISTING:
1. The Creeps “The Whip” (Ginchee)
2. Kenny and the Fiends “House on Haunted Hill (Dot)
3. Bracey Everett “The Lover’s Curse” (Atlantic)
4. Sonny Richard’s “Panics” with Cindy and Misty “Voodoo Walk” (Chancellor)
5. Jeff Barry with orchestra conducted by Billy Mure “The Face from Outer Space” (RCA)
6. Richie Allen “Goochie Bamba” (ERA)
7. Jack Hammer “Little Bitty Goose Pimples” (Kapp)
8. The Rhythm Rockers “The Cave” (CAL)
9. Ray Stevens “Rockin’ Teenage Mummies” (Mercury)
10. Jimmy Oliver’s Orchestra “The Sneak” (Sue)
11. Nightmares with Jimmy Madden Orchestra “(Ooh I’m Scared) of the HORRORS OF THE BLACK MUSEUM” (American International)
12. The Three D’s “Graveyard Cha Cha” (Square)
13. Carter Brothers “Voodoo Cha Cha Cha” (Rexie)
14. Marlente Willis “Sticking Pins In A Dolly” (ERA)
15. Gary Shelton “The Trance” (Regis)
16. The Bluenotes “Rigor Mortis” (BLUECO)
17. Skipper Ryle “Wolf Gal” (Saxony)
18. Betty Lavett “Witch Craft In The Air” (Lu-Pine)
19. The Monsters Four “Russian Roulette” (VJ)
20. Jan Davis “Watusi Zombie” (Holiday)
21. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins with orchestra under the direction of Leroy Kirkland “There’s Something Wrong With You” (Okeh)
22. The Cadillacs “The Boogie Man” (Josie)
23. Teddy Durant “The Night Stalker” (Impression)
24. The Executioners “The Noose” (ACTION)
25. Screaming Lord Sutch “Monster In Black Tights” (Decca)
26. Steve Berry “The Nightmare” (Verus)
27. Buddy Emmons “Witches Brew” (Emmons)

2014 NY NIGHT TRAIN HAUNTED HOP HALLOWEEN MIX

Jonathan Toubin's 2014 Haunted Hop Halloween Mix

While this is the first year without a New York Night Train Haunted Hop since 2006 (this year we had Amyl and the Sniffers confirmed!), you can use this, my 11th annual Halloween mix, to pretend you're at the party in the comfort of you own home! For a minute I decided against doing one this year. I’ve been wavering for weeks. Since Covid I’ve been both literally and figuratively a bit detached from my records. I moved, they’re half all boxed up, there are no dance parties so I can’t do my job, and frankly, like many of y’all, I’ve had the blues and lack motivation. Also I’ve already put 250 of my favorite Halloween-appropriate songs on previous mixes. So this year I was thinking I wouldn’t be able to come up with enough material, wasn’t feeling it, and decided to sit this one out. But enough of ya asked me and I've been so detached from my work that I forgot I’m in what Wolfman Jack called “The Happiness Business.” I figured both of us probably need this more than ever and I got inspired in the last minute. So I decided to jump in the battle and join all the other soldiers fighting save Halloween 2020. And better late than never, I stayed up all night in the laboratory bringing this beast to life. Digging around my boxes I learned that I hadn’t included a lot of my favorites on a mix before! And while getting it together I realized I really love every track I put on here (accept the last one! ha!) - the good the bad and the ugly - from well-known classics to the deepest obscurities and everything n ‘between. I really had a blast assembling this narrative and am excited for you to let me take you places with a broad combination of punk, funk, country, garage, blues, what the heck, calypso, Halloween novelties, and the beyond. Though delivered a month later than usual, I still have my last-minute homework turned in a day before Halloween…. It may just the early morning delirium but, as someone who’s never satisfied with his mixes or work, I think this is almost what I intended it to be and I pray you get a kick outta this monster. I hope you make the best out of this challenging Halloween… Also make sure that you vote Tuesday!

Here’re the original 45s you’re listening to….

1) POCKET FISHRMEN "THE LEADER IS BURNING" (NOISEVILLE, 1989)

2) THE N' BETWEENS "EVIL WITCHMAN" (COLUMBIA UK, 1966)

3) BOBBY BYRD "BACK FROM THE DEAD" (INTERNATIONAL BROTHERS, 1974) 

4) THE DEVILS "X-SORCIST" (PEOPLE, 1974) 

5) EDDIE MILLER AND HIS BAND "GHOST TOWN" (4 STAR, 1960) 

6) THE TRAITS "NOBODY LOVES THE HULK" (QUEEN CITY, 1969) 

7) JOHN ZACHERLE "IVAN" (CAMEO, 1958) 

8) THE PHARAOHS "THE GREEN WEREWOLF" (IONA, 1961)

9) MAE WEST "SHAKIN' ALL OVER" (TOWER, 1966)

10)THE RAINBOWS "GONNA GO DOWN (TO SEE MY BABY)" (LIL, 1962)

11) GOOGIE RENE "BIG FOOT" (CLASS, 1958)

12) THE ECHOS "HAUNTED" (SAGE, 1960)

13) SCREAMIN' JAY HAWKINS "FRENZY" (FONTANA SWEDEN, 1958)

14) GRIZ GREEN "JAM AT THE MORTUARY" (BLUE RIVER, 1965)

15) DR. SHOCK "LET THERE BE FRIGHT" (GREENTREE, 1970)

16) LITTLE 'GUITAR PICKETT' AND HIS FABULOUS ROCKIN' FENDERS "THE BUZZARD" (JACK, 1966)

17) JOHNNY CALE "SHOCK HOP" (MERCURY, 1958)

18) LORD MELODY "CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON" (COOK, 1958)

19) JUNIOR WELLS "HOODOO MAN BLUES" (DELMARK UK, 1965)

20) THE DYNAMICS "UNCLE WILLIE" (SAA-CE, ?)

21) DEBORAH WALLEY "SOMETIMES IN MY DARKEST HOUR" (DEE GEE, 1965)

22)MOE KOFFMAN QUINTET "THE COOL GHOUL" (PALLETTE, 1963)

23) BILL ANSON "LEECHES" (AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL, 1959)

2020 ny night train halloween mix

Jonathan Toubin's 2020 Haunted Hop Halloween Mix

"This 45 hoarder made soul music fun again with his Soul Clap & Dance Off parties, where five-hour sets of rare grooves and B-sides provided a fleshy alternative to the club scene’s industrial snarl. Instead of bucking the trends of American pop music for some underground alternative, Toubin has made his name by embracing pop’s connective tissue, tracing the rhythm and blues, soul, and rock and roll of the nineteen-fifties and sixties. " (The New Yorker)

"The most-liked man in the soul music scene" (Rolling Stone)

"Jonathan is pretty much the only DJ we actually like." (VICE)

"Particularly chic... one of the most popular spinners in Williamsburg and the founder of the New York Night Train dance parties. His fare is already cleaner and more appreciative of American pop music history than much of the rest..." (NY Times)

Awarded "BEST DJ" in "The Village Voice" 60th Anniversary “Best of NYC”: "We might live in an EDM world, but Jonathan Toubin has no truck with today's musical whims. Since 2007, Toubin's Soul Clap and Dance-Off has brought throwback pizzazz and retro cool to New York's late-night underground. Culled from an endless array of long-forgotten Sixties soul singles, Soul Clap is pure musical dynamite, the kind of after-hours party that exposes today's iTunes-bred, press-play DJs for their relative lack of roots and ingenuity. No fist-bumps or atomic bass drops here... You can try to put your moves to better use, but you'll be hard-pressed to find more cathartic, sweatier fun elsewhere in the city." (Village Voice Critics Choice Award, 2015)

"BEST DJ" (Village Voice "Best of NYC" Readers' Choice Award 2014)

"Jonathan Toubin is the reigning king of the sweaty, non-stop super-fun dance party" (Paper Magazine)

"Jonathan Toubin is a multihypenate in every sense of the word... Toubin fuses obscure rhythm and blues from the '50s and '60s, with rock 'n' roll and soul 45s. His ongoing New York Night Train parties easily draw those typically found sulking in corners of bars out onto the dance floor." (Interview Magazine)

"Jonathan Toubin is New York rock and soul DJ who plays his collection of original 45rpm records to packed dance floors all over the world." (BBC World Service)

"Most fun ever!... Jonathan Toubin is one of our all time favorite DJs who spins rare 45s and travels around the world making people happy" (BUST Magazine)

"The long-running Soul Clap remains one of the sweatiest dance parties to be experienced in New York City. Fueled by his rare and raucous 45s collection, DJ Jonathan Toubin draws on raw soul and the most feral strains of rock 'n' roll from the early 1960s to power the nights." (Wall Street Journal)

"Few people recognize the roaring, crackling songs; even fewer can really dance the blues. It doesn’t matter. The evening’s not about proving you know the most obscure records or looking good; it’s about some kind of soul-shaking alchemy. Before you know it, it’s the opening scene of “Dirty Dancing,” all swerving hips and bare shoulders—you would’ve sworn you’d be the last to dance, but there you are, breathless.... Spellbound bodies slip into the song’s shuffling rhythm, and Toubin reaches for the next bit of black magic." (The New Yorker)

"Soul Clap is the most popular soul dance party in the world, playing to more people in more places than any other... Toubin plays all original soul 45s from the 1960s and uncommon upbeat cuts." (SXSW Music News)



"Indeed, Toubin's 45 r.p.m. record-fueled, rock-and-soul heavy dance parties were some of the best, sweatiest nights we've had in this city." (Gothamist)

"Jonathan Toubin is the only person we can call a "professional DJ" without involuntarily making a jack-off motion with our hand... His parties are like what Ancient Stonehenge was like if it was, as archaeologists theorize, filled with people dressed many times better than you completely losing their shit." (VICE)

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