Wax museum

A wax museum or waxworks usually consists of a collection of wax sculptures representing famous people from history and contemporary personalities exhibited in lifelike poses, wearing real clothes.

Some wax museums have a special section dubbed the 'chamber of horrors' in which the more grisly exhibits are displayed. Some collections are more specialized, as for example collections of wax medical models once used for training medical professionals. Many museums or displays in historical houses that are not wax museums as such use wax figures as part of their displays. The origin of wax museums goes back to the early 18th century at least, and wax funeral effigies of royalty and some other figures exhibited by their tombs had essentially been tourist attractions well before that.

History before 1800

The making of life-size wax figures wearing real clothes grew out of the funeral practices of European royalty. In the Middle Ages it was the habit to carry the corpse, fully dressed, on top of the coffin at royal funerals, but this sometimes had unfortunate consequences in hot weather, and the custom of making an effigy in wax for this role grew, again wearing actual clothes so that only the head and hands needed wax models. After the funeral these were often displayed by the tomb or elsewhere in the church, and became a popular attraction for visitors, which it was often necessary to pay to view.

Wax Museum (Jay and the Americans album)

Wax Museum is the eighth studio album by Jay and the Americans released on February 28, 1970. The album went to #105 on The Billboard 200. It reached #68 on the Cashbox charts. The album was the group's last charting album. Be sure to listen for the unexpected imitation of a raven: "Caw! Caw! Caw!, which happens a few seconds after the last track on side two.

The group's remake of The Ronettes song "Walkin' in the Rain" hit #19 on The Billboard Hot 100 in 1970.

Track listing

  • "Walkin' in the Rain" (Barry Mann, Phil Spector, Cynthia Weil)
  • "Do I Love You?" (Peter Andreoli, Vini Poncia, Phil Spector)
  • "Johnny B. Goode" (Chuck Berry)
  • "Message to Martha (Kentucky Bluebird)" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David)
  • "Room Full of Tears" (Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman)
  • "A Lover's Question" (Brook Benton, Jimmy T. Williams)
  • "Some Kind of Wonderful" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King)
  • "This Is My Love" (Billy Dawn Smith)
  • "Let It Be Me" (Gilbert Bécaud, Mann Curtis, Pierre Delanoë)
  • "I Don't Want to Cry" (Luther Dixon, Chuck Jackson)
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    Wax Museum

    by: I.C.P.

    Greetings
    Welcome to the gypsy of fortunes
    Your coin was very much appreciated
    And now I shall grant you your future
    It seems my cards of tarot have dealt you a very odd hand
    A hand of six jokers card, this is very rare
    And suggest something neusant is approaching
    You should be visited by a dark circus
    A circus that holds pain and anguish
    This travelling mass of evil will leave you corpse to rot
    While entrapping your soul to displayed at future stops
    Oh yes, you should also be aware that it is your own evil doings
    That have brought about this carnival's visit
    All of the sins and hatred you have cast during your life
    Have whipped and spun into form, the form of one
    One who leads this gruesome parade of pain into your life
    One sinister beast, one known only as RINGMASTER
    Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the museum, the wax museum
    Thousands of dead souls covered in wax
    All of the rare exhibits you are about to encounter
    Are strange and wonderous creations of the one and the only
    Leader of them all
    So both dead and undead please welcome the R-r-r-ringmaster
    "Purpose, question, kill"
    The ICP is of the Ringmaster
    And the Ringmaster's of the attutes of mankind
    G-ya, motherfucker, now you gotta face your worst enemy
    And that's yourself
    Every wicked thing you've ever done
    Has come back now
    And it's gonna whip your little ass, bitchboy
    Us, we're just clowns
    We just work for the Ringmaster
    With the wave of his magic wand
    I step forward, wind back
    And swing this battle axe
    Upside your motherfucking head
    Hoooo!!!
    So step right up cause the R-r-r-ringmaster
    Takes you on the ride of your life
    Horror and fear, smiles and tears
    And oh everso over do
    The Ringmaster rises up and lifts across the sky
    Through the forest and down the river
    Along the valley, over the hill
    And down the trail and up the sidewalk
    Only to surprise you and yours
    At your very front door




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