The Night Shift

Vivienne Vayne
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Vivienne Vayne spins spooky songs, vintage horror trailers, sound effects and station breaks, with a bit of history, a fact or two and a terrible joke between them. From Stupid Potato: 61 free 24/7 channels of classic radio and vintage TV, and 190 podcasts, at stupidpotato.com.

  1. 3d ago

    Midnight Spook Stew

    The Night Shift for November 6, 2026: Midnight Spook Stew. 8 pieces (songs and theme tunes, vintage commercials and promos, sound effects): Midnight Syndicate - Spectral Masquerade, Sound effect: Grave digging, Baha Men - It's Spooky in Here and more, with Vivienne Vayne. In this episode: 0:00 Stupid Potato0:12 The Night Shift opens: Vivienne Vayne welcomes you1:31 Midnight Syndicate - Spectral Masquerade4:13 Sound effect: Grave digging4:46 Baha Men - It's Spooky in Here7:16 The Night Shift on Stupid Potato7:26 McDonald's McNugget Buddies (commercial, 1993) — McDonaldland is a fictional fantasy world created by McDonald's, starting with Ronald McDonald in 1963, and inhabited by him and his friends. Early efforts by the marketing agency Needham, Harper & Steers to expand it were later effectively dropped because of legal issues. Its ongoing elements were developed further through McDonald's projects made with several outside companies, including Data East, Virgin Interactive, Treasure, SEGA, and Klasky Csupo.7:57 Danny Hutton - Monster Shindig9:58 The Night Shift on Stupid Potato10:10 Fantastic Voyage (radio spot) — Fantastic Voyage is a 1966 American science fiction adventure film directed by Richard Fleischer, with a screenplay by Harry Kleiner based on a story by Otto Klement and Jerome Bixby. In it, a submarine crew is shrunk to microscopic size and travels inside the body of an injured scientist, Dr. Jan Benes, to repair damage to his brain. The movie starred Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien, Donald Pleasence, and Arthur Kennedy.10:57 McDonald's Scared Silly (commercial, 1988) — A 1988 Halloween-themed McDonald's commercial featuring Ronald McDonald and Chicken McNuggets characters preparing scary sauces for dipping, promoting McDonald's sauces as a reliable product.11:27 Frankie and Newports - Monster Mash14:42 Vivienne Vayne signs off15:40 More free classic radio at stupidpotato.comStupid Potato restores classic radio and TV audio and runs 61 free 24/7 channels and 190 podcasts: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, vintage TV, Saturday-morning cartoons, Halloween and Christmas. No modern ads. Listen free at stupidpotato.com.

  2. Oct 31

    Adrian Johnston - Remember That Time, Rush - Witch Hunt and Joel McNeely - Patrol Car

    The Night Shift for October 31, 2026: Adrian Johnston - Remember That Time, Rush - Witch Hunt and Joel McNeely - Patrol Car. 13 pieces (songs and theme tunes, short pieces, vintage commercials and promos): Adrian Johnston - Remember That Time, Rush - Witch Hunt, Joel McNeely - Patrol Car and more, with Vivienne Vayne. In this episode: 0:00 The Night Shift on Stupid Potato0:11 Vivienne Vayne opens the show1:46 Adrian Johnston - Remember That Time3:00 Rush - Witch Hunt7:27 Joel McNeely - Patrol Car7:28 Vivienne Vayne on Primus - The Devil Went Down to Georgia7:38 Primus - The Devil Went Down to Georgia12:10 Fatal Beauty (trailer)14:28 Wade Denning and Kay Lande - Halloween17:11 The Night Shift on Stupid Potato17:22 Ted Heath and His Music - Spooky — A big band recording by Ted Heath and His Music, composed by Kenny Graham and Ralph Dollimore. This 1960 instrumental piece captures the playful, jazzy spirit of spooky-themed music popular in mid-century Britain.20:42 Vivienne Vayne on Alan Hawkshaw - Calling of the Aura20:52 Alan Hawkshaw - Calling of the Aura22:42 Shawn Lee - Halloween25:30 Marcia Berman - Halloween27:17 Carter Burwell - Stream Dream28:03 Vivienne Vayne on John Williams - Climbing the Mountain28:13 John Williams - Climbing the Mountain30:36 Jerry Goldsmith - A Place for Everything — Jerry Goldsmith composed the original score for this 1999 supernatural horror film directed by Jan de Bont, featuring orchestral music recorded with the National Philharmonic Orchestra of London.Stupid Potato restores classic radio and TV audio and runs 61 free 24/7 channels and 190 podcasts: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, vintage TV, Saturday-morning cartoons, Halloween and Christmas. No modern ads. Listen free at stupidpotato.com.

  3. Oct 30

    Joel McNeely - Patrol Car, Halloween - Come See What It's All About and Bobby Vee - The Night Has a Thousand Eyes

    The Night Shift for October 30, 2026: Joel McNeely - Patrol Car, Halloween - Come See What It's All About and Bobby Vee - The Night Has a Thousand Eyes. 15 pieces (songs and theme tunes, short pieces): Joel McNeely - Patrol Car, Halloween - Come See What It's All About, Bobby Vee - The Night Has a Thousand Eyes and more, with Vivienne Vayne. In this episode: 0:00 The Night Shift on Stupid Potato0:12 Vivienne Vayne opens the show1:35 Joel McNeely - Patrol Car2:08 Halloween - Come See What It's All About6:24 Bobby Vee - The Night Has a Thousand Eyes8:56 Vivienne Vayne on Fred Mollin - End of a Year9:05 Fred Mollin - End of a Year10:54 Dicky Doo - Flip Top Box12:56 The Paper Magic Group - Finger Cutting13:16 K-Tel International - Black Hole March14:29 Vivienne Vayne on Lalo Schifrin - Why Didn't You Pull The Trigger14:47 Lalo Schifrin - Why Didn't You Pull The Trigger14:58 Horror Charly - Horror Horror Dance17:34 The Night Shift on Stupid Potato17:45 Bob McFadden & Dor - Frankie and Igor at a Rock and Roll Party20:18 13 Cats - Teddy Boy Kung-Fu Weapon24:44 Vivienne Vayne on Captain Dax - Dr. Beezar Soul Frankenstein24:54 Captain Dax - Dr. Beezar Soul Frankenstein29:32 Riichiro Manabe - Crisis In The Container — Godzilla vs. Megalon is a 1973 Japanese kaiju film directed by Jun Fukuda and written by Fukuda and Shinichi Sekizawa, marking the 13th film in the Godzilla franchise. The film was produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka with special effects by Teruyoshi Nakano and distributed by Toho. The cast includes Katsuhiko Sasaki, Hiroyuki Kawase, Yutaka Hayashi, and Robert Dunham, with Shinji Takagi as Godzilla, Hideto Date as Megalon, Kenpachiro Satsuma as Gigan, and Tsugutoshi Komada as Jet Jaguar.29:48 Billy Strange - The Munsters Theme31:34 Ivan Hrvatska - Making Love to Halloween — A holiday novelty song by Ivan Hrvatska from the album Seasons of Love (Party All Year), released in 2005.Stupid Potato restores classic radio and TV audio and runs 61 free 24/7 channels and 190 podcasts: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, vintage TV, Saturday-morning cartoons, Halloween and Christmas. No modern ads. Listen free at stupidpotato.com.

  4. Oct 29

    Lance Warlock - Have A Drink, Angelo Badalamenti & David Lynch - Deer Meadow Shuffle and Stephen Sondheim - Pretty Woman

    The Night Shift for October 29, 2026: Lance Warlock - Have A Drink, Angelo Badalamenti & David Lynch - Deer Meadow Shuffle and Stephen Sondheim - Pretty Woman. 10 pieces (songs and theme tunes): Lance Warlock - Have A Drink, Angelo Badalamenti & David Lynch - Deer Meadow Shuffle, Stephen Sondheim - Pretty Woman and more, with Vivienne Vayne. In this episode: 0:00 The Night Shift on Stupid Potato0:11 Vivienne Vayne opens the show1:36 Lance Warlock - Have A Drink6:41 Angelo Badalamenti & David Lynch - Deer Meadow Shuffle11:12 Stephen Sondheim - Pretty Woman15:19 Vivienne Vayne on Demon Drill15:28 Demon Drill16:39 The Night Shift on Stupid Potato16:50 Danny Elfman - Sleepy Hollow (Main Titles)19:56 Stuart Hamblen - Blood on Your Hands22:15 Fabio Frizzi - Empire State — Zombi 2 is a 1979 Italian zombie film directed by Lucio Fulci that serves as a sequel to George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead (1978), which had been released in Italy as Zombi. The screenplay was adapted by Dardano Sacchetti, and the film was released under different titles in different countries: Zombie in the USA and Zombie Flesh-Eaters in the UK. The cast includes Tisa Farrow, Ian McCulloch, and Richard Johnson, with a score composed by Fabio Frizzi.24:53 Vivienne Vayne on Reijiro Koroku - Godzilla Falls Into Mt. Mihara25:02 Reijiro Koroku - Godzilla Falls Into Mt. Mihara26:36 Paul McCollough - Twin Geeks — A novelty song by Paul McCollough from the 2002 album Night of the Living Dead, fitting the horror-themed catalog of this internet radio station.29:45 Goblin - Pillage — A synthesizer-based instrumental track by Italian progressive rock band Goblin, recorded in 1980 for the film Contamination. The piece exemplifies the band's signature horror and science fiction scoring style.Stupid Potato restores classic radio and TV audio and runs 61 free 24/7 channels and 190 podcasts: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, vintage TV, Saturday-morning cartoons, Halloween and Christmas. No modern ads. Listen free at stupidpotato.com.

  5. Oct 28

    Hans J. Salter - Searching the Castle, Incredible, but True - Wolf on Bald Mountain and Don Redman - Got the Jitters

    The Night Shift for October 28, 2026: Hans J. Salter - Searching the Castle, Incredible, but True - Wolf on Bald Mountain and Don Redman - Got the Jitters. 11 pieces (songs and theme tunes): Hans J. Salter - Searching the Castle, Incredible, but True - Wolf on Bald Mountain, Don Redman - Got the Jitters and more, with Vivienne Vayne. In this episode: 0:00 The Night Shift on Stupid Potato0:12 Vivienne Vayne opens the show1:45 Hans J. Salter - Searching the Castle4:18 Incredible, but True - Wolf on Bald Mountain7:48 Don Redman - Got the Jitters10:42 Vivienne Vayne on Martin Mull - Life Is Better Than Death10:52 Martin Mull - Life Is Better Than Death17:02 The Night Shift on Stupid Potato17:13 Chuck Berry - Trick or Treat18:39 Satan & Satan's Roses - I'm a Devil — A novelty horror-themed song by Satan and Satan's Roses, featuring theatrical villainous dialogue about temptation and danger, recorded for the compilation album The Big Itch, Volume Eight.20:51 Jon Goforth - Monster Mash22:33 Vivienne Vayne on Noctuary22:46 Défago - Noctuary — An instrumental horror synth track by Spanish composer Défago from the album Call of Darkness, released in 2013 on cassette and digital formats by Graveyard Calling Horror Records.25:37 Phil Napoleon - The Cat (A Spooky Novelty!) (1927) — A spooky novelty song recorded by Phil Napoleon Orchestra in 1927, composed by Isham Jones. This humorous Halloween-themed recording captures the spirit of 1920s novelty music.29:24 The Omega Man (spot, 1971)31:34 Doc Mock - Movie Mausoleum ThemeStupid Potato restores classic radio and TV audio and runs 61 free 24/7 channels and 190 podcasts: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, vintage TV, Saturday-morning cartoons, Halloween and Christmas. No modern ads. Listen free at stupidpotato.com.

  6. Oct 27

    The Vampire Hunters Club, Dracula and Warren Zevon - Werewolves Of London

    The Night Shift for October 27, 2026: The Vampire Hunters Club, Dracula and Warren Zevon - Werewolves Of London. 14 pieces (songs and theme tunes, short pieces, vintage commercials and promos): Vampire Hunters Club, Sound effect: Doctor Van Helsing, Warren Zevon - Werewolves Of London and more, with Vivienne Vayne. In this episode: 0:00 The Night Shift on Stupid Potato0:11 Vivienne Vayne opens the show1:50 Vampire Hunters Club (trailer) — A 2001 horror comedy directed by Donald F. Glut featuring a cast of elderly horror and science fiction actors determined to hunt down Dracula. The 30-minute film is notable for featuring veteran genre stars including John Agar, William Smith, Bob Burns, and Forrest J. Ackerman.2:34 Sound effect: Doctor Van Helsing — Dracula is a 1931 American film directed by Tod Browning and starring Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula, a vampire who travels from Transylvania to England to feed on the living. The film was written by Garrett Fort and is based on the 1924 stage play Dracula by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston, which adapted Bram Stoker's 1897 novel of the same name. In the film, Dracula preys on various victims including a young man's fiancée.3:12 Warren Zevon - Werewolves Of London6:47 Vivienne Vayne on Barenaked Ladies - Grim Grinning Ghosts6:58 Barenaked Ladies - Grim Grinning Ghosts8:35 Bruce Broughton - To the Castle10:24 Drive-In Of The Damned - Necromancy11:18 Kiss - Christine Sixteen — "Christine Sixteen" is a song by Kiss from their sixth studio album Love Gun that was released as a single in the US in 1977. The song reached number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart that year and peaked at number 22 in Canada.14:25 Vivienne Vayne on Wendy Carlos - Horror Show (The Shining)14:41 Wendy Carlos - Horror Show (The Shining)15:17 John Carpenter - The Haunted House18:48 The Night Shift on Stupid Potato19:01 Billy Duke & The Dukes - Roland20:44 Joel McNeely - The Car21:37 Vivienne Vayne on The Marketts - Out of Limits21:47 The Marketts - Out of Limits23:43 Goblin - Markos29:41 A Toast To Paganini's Ghost (1939) — A jazz instrumental recorded by Bert Shefter and His Orchestra on May 15, 1939 for Decca Records, featuring trumpet, trombone, clarinet, alto saxophone, vibraphone, piano, bass and drums.Stupid Potato restores classic radio and TV audio and runs 61 free 24/7 channels and 190 podcasts: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, vintage TV, Saturday-morning cartoons, Halloween and Christmas. No modern ads. Listen free at stupidpotato.com.

  7. Oct 26

    The Twilight Zone (theme), Mr. Singer & The Sharp Cookies - Ghost Town and He's in the Street

    The Night Shift for October 26, 2026: The Twilight Zone (theme), Mr. Singer & The Sharp Cookies - Ghost Town and He's in the Street. 14 pieces (songs and theme tunes, vintage commercials and promos): The Twilight Zone, Mr. Singer & The Sharp Cookies - Ghost Town, Alan Howarth - He's in the Street and more, with Vivienne Vayne. In this episode: 0:00 The Night Shift on Stupid Potato0:10 Vivienne Vayne opens the show1:42 The Twilight Zone (theme)4:28 Mr. Singer & The Sharp Cookies - Ghost Town5:31 Alan Howarth - He's in the Street — The Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers soundtrack was composed by Alan Howarth and released on September 28, 1988 through Varèse Sarabande. A limited expanded edition came out in 2011 through Alan Howarth Incorporated. This was the first Halloween soundtrack not produced by John Carpenter.8:27 Vivienne Vayne on Alien8:35 Jerry Goldsmith - It's A Droid — Jerry Goldsmith composed and arranged the score for Alien, which was released in 1979 and became critically acclaimed. The score is known for its bleak and dissonant soundscape rather than traditional themes, with only a few "romantic" cues, and is considered by some to be one of Goldsmith's best and most visceral works. The original motion picture score was released commercially in multiple forms over the following decades.10:18 Dick Jacobs & His Orchestra - The Incredible Shrinking Man13:00 Spike Jones - Teenage Brain Surgeon — Spike Jones in Stereo (1959) is a comedy album by musical-satirist Spike Jones that parodies horror instead of other genres like his previous work. The album mocks everything related to horror through musical satire.14:30 Johnny Whitaker - Monster Rock16:35 The Night Shift on Stupid Potato16:47 Vivienne Vayne on Beware of the Brethren (trailer, 1972)17:07 Beware of the Brethren (trailer, 1972)17:46 Tubular Bells Theme (The Exorcist)22:00 Joel McNeely - Hotel Room — An orchestral composition by Joel McNeely, conducted with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and featured on the 1997 album Psycho.23:01 Mike Hoffman - Halloween Hootchie Koo25:33 Vivienne Vayne on Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Hong Kong25:41 Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Hong Kong27:57 The Paper Magic Group - Lucifer's Choir29:53 Bobby Pickett - Monster MashStupid Potato restores classic radio and TV audio and runs 61 free 24/7 channels and 190 podcasts: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, vintage TV, Saturday-morning cartoons, Halloween and Christmas. No modern ads. Listen free at stupidpotato.com.

  8. Oct 25

    The Clock: Hollywood Heartache, The Detergents - Igor's Cellar and The Corpse Grinders

    The Night Shift for October 25, 2026: The Clock: Hollywood Heartache, The Detergents - Igor's Cellar and The Corpse Grinders. 4 pieces (songs and theme tunes, vintage commercials and promos): The Clock - Hollywood Heartache, The Detergents - Igor's Cellar, The Corpse Grinders and more, with Vivienne Vayne. In this episode: 0:00 The Night Shift on Stupid Potato0:11 Vivienne Vayne opens the show1:40 The Clock - Hollywood Heartache (1947) — The Clock was a 30-minute radio suspense anthology series that aired on ABC from November 3, 1946 to May 23, 1948, narrated by Father Time and created by Lawrence Klee. The show was originally produced in New York under director Clark Andrews with local radio talent, but moved to Hollywood beginning with the March 4, 1948 episode after director William Spier became available following his departure from the Suspense radio program on January 24.25:54 The Night Shift on Stupid Potato26:05 The Detergents - Igor's Cellar28:52 The Corpse Grinders (trailer)29:58 Vivienne Vayne on Dwight Pullen - Sunglasses After Dark30:08 Dwight Pullen - Sunglasses After DarkStupid Potato restores classic radio and TV audio and runs 61 free 24/7 channels and 190 podcasts: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, vintage TV, Saturday-morning cartoons, Halloween and Christmas. No modern ads. Listen free at stupidpotato.com.

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Vivienne Vayne spins spooky songs, vintage horror trailers, sound effects and station breaks, with a bit of history, a fact or two and a terrible joke between them. From Stupid Potato: 61 free 24/7 channels of classic radio and vintage TV, and 190 podcasts, at stupidpotato.com.

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  • Creator
    Vivienne Vayne
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    24
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Show Website
    The Night Shift