Can You Dig It?

This YouTube video plays the original vocal recording Vincent Price did for Michael Jackson's "Thriller."

That version includes a middle stanza that was left out, and listening to it that makes a lot of sense; it's nowhere near as strong as those that the song includes.

On the other hand, it also leaves out Vincent Price asking. "Can you dig it?" It's a phrase that ranks up there with "y'all's neighborhood" and "without the soul for getting down" as ones you might never think of Vincent Price saying but once you've heard them you understand no one else can ever say them as well.

Oh well. Halloween's over, which means we can get away from the manufactured "horror" from Hollywood and get into the real horror of the way local TV news stations behave during sweeps weeks.