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Don't Fear) The Reaper" charted even higher in Canada, peaking at number 7. [19] The single edit was released in the UK in July 1976 (CBS 4483) but failed to chart. However the unedited album version was released as a single (CBS 6333) in May 1978, where it reached number 16 on the UK Singles Chart .
During 1996 the Mutton Birds contributed a cover version of Blue Öyster Cult's 1976 single, "(Don't Fear) The Reaper", to the soundtrack of Peter Jackson's film The Frighteners. Their version reached the ARIA Singles Chart top 50 early in the following year.
The Frighteners is the soundtrack album to the 1996 film of the same name directed by Peter Jackson. [1] The film's original score composed by Danny Elfman, featured 14 tracks in the album with a cover of Blue Öyster Cult's "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" performed by New Zealand alternative rock band The Mutton Birds, accompanied the soundtrack. [2]
"Don't Fear the Reaper" peaked at No.48 on the Australian ARIA singles charts, the only Mutton Birds single to chart in Australia. Several tracks from the sessions at Rockfield Studios in Monmouthwere were included on the 1997 limited release rarities collection, Too Hard Basket. Track listing
Horrible reference to the Blue Oyster Cult, I know.
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"(Don't Fear) The Reaper" was also used in writer/director John Carpenter's horror film classic, Halloween (1978), [97] the opening sequence of the miniseries adaptation of The Stand (1994) by Stephen King, and covered by The Mutton Birds for Peter Jackson's horror-comedy film The Frighteners (1996). [98] "
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