Dinner WIth Drac Part 1

In the '50s and '60s, John Zacherle served as the host on TV stations in Philadelphia and New York City when they would run horror movies - his program was called Shock Theater. He developed a spooky persona, and delivered this song in the spoken word style he used on television. The song finds Zacherle having dinner with the famous vampire Count Dracula, where he finds out that Dracula plans to eat him.

Zacherle had a recording deal with the Philadelphia record label Cameo. On this track, he was backed by Cameo's house band, Dave Appell And The Applejacks.

Dick Clark played this on his American Bandstand TV show, but made Zacherle record a less violent version. When audiences demanded the Bandstand version, Cameo released the single with the original listed as "Dinner With Drac, Part 1" and the toned-down alternate version as "Part 2."