Son of Dracula (1974 Film) - Soundtrack Album

Soundtrack Album

The Son of Dracula album includes Nilsson songs that were showcased in the film, as well as portions of dialogue used as bridging sequences. All the song tracks bar one are from the previously released Nilsson Schmilsson and Son of Schmilsson albums.

The only new song, "Daybreak", was recorded in London sometime in September '72, during a break in filming. Joining Nilsson and Starr on the sessions at Trident Studios were the likes of Voormann, Frampton, Keys and Price, once again, as well as George Harrison on cowbell. Jim Price, along with pianist Gary Wright and orchestral arrangers Paul Buckmaster and Del Newman, also provided new, incidental music, some of which appeared in the movie only.

The LP release of the soundtrack included a T-shirt iron-on advertising the movie, and a companion songbook included a reproduction of the movie poster. The single version of "Daybreak" edited out the words "it's pissing me off" (referring to daylight), repeating the lyric "it's making me cough" instead, and the fadeout is longer than on any LP or CD release of the song. The single peaked at number 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 but did not chart at all in the UK. The album itself fared even worse, non-charting in Britain and climbing no higher than number 106 in America.

"Daybreak" was later covered by Nilsson friend and former Monkee Micky Dolenz.