Boingboing.net posted a link to this yesterday. (Warning: It'll probably get stuck in your head for at least a few days)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73dLjgw62XA

Anyone know anything about this song? The info page that the BoingBoing entry (http://www.boingboing.net/2007/05/15/funky_horror_mp3s_fr.html) doesn't explain much about it. Typing "hot blood soul dracula" into Google brought up a page that says it's from France, but I wasn't able to find too much else.

Might it have some kind of euro-cult connection, however tenuous? It has a slight Goblin/Claudio Simonetti flavor, and the harmonica almost sounds like it could be from a spaghetti western or Italo-crime soundtrack.

I actually have this song on my iPod. All I know comes from the blog The Essential Ghoul's Record Shelf which was maintained by Dr. Mysterian, and all it says is that it was a minor club hit, and that it comes from an album titled Disco Dracula which also featured the songs "Baby Frankie Stein" and "Even Vampires Fall in Love."

I haven't had this much fun since the mid seventies. Thanks!

Another site (discogs.com) reveals more credits info for the original 45 release, including authors:
Label: Carrere
Catalog#: 49.115
Format: Vinyl, 7"

Country: France
Released: 1975
Genre: Electronic
Style: Disco
Notes: L.Melwing- M.Ambruster


[if my info is to be trusted, the first initials should fill out as Larry (Melwing) and May (Ambruster) and some web listings also include 'P. [Peny...or Penny] Duc' as collaborator, as well as a mysterious character known only as 'Brains' programming the synth, I think. PS Further perusal of the discogs site brings to light the alleged musical 'brains' of the organization: Stefan Klinkhammer, a prolific euro-disco maestro who worked with famous groups of the day like Boney M. and Silver Connection. Discogs characterizes Hot Blood as a 'German studio act'. As to euro-cult connections: the main one is that many, many Italian and French and German movies of all genres ca.1975-1977 had soundtracks doing some version of the 'Munich Hustle', German disco sound often helped along with reminiscences of T(he)S(ound)O(f)P(hiladelphia) and doses of Simonetti-like prog]

and here's a link to the original sleeve (won't let me post the pic here directly)

Soul Dracula