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Showing posts with label Halloween music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halloween music. Show all posts
Here's a haunting melody from Grace Jones on my Halloween Countdown.
"Libertango" is here for your Mischief Night -- or as we called it back in Paterson, NJ when I was growing up -- Goosey Night, meaning you might get "goosed;" that is, your butt might get pinched or tickled as a prank while you're on the street.
Today, Patti Page croons the title tune from the film Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) on our Halloween Countdown. The movie starred Bette Davis and Olivia DeHavilland, who is 99 this year.
Close encounters of the third kind are scary, especially since those who claim to have been abducted by aliens from another world usually tell us they were given rectal probes. Were the aliens, perhaps, searching for their brains?
The Carpenters -- Karen and Richard -- knew the aliens just want to be close to you. The song, written by Klaatu a year earlier, was covered by The Carpenters in 1977. I'm pretty sure Klaatu is of this planet, but who knows?
Enjoy this song and video as Halloween Countdown continues into its final week. Note the Phil Spector influence, especially toward the end.
Lon Cheney Jr as The Wolfman; Henry Hull as The Werewolf of London
Here's a catchy, Halloween-appropriate song from 1978. Warren Zevon's single, "Werewolves of London," off the album, Excitable Boy, was a major radio hit and a hit at record stores as well back in '78.
Mick Fleetwood and John McVie are featured in Zevon's band on this song.
Make Halloween your night to howl as my Halloween Countdown carries on!
Yes, Bette Davis goes twistin' the night away with this rock number from What Ever Happened to Baby Jane!
This was a rare release to promote the movie at the time.
Enjoy it on my 2015 Halloween Countdown!
You may recognize the music as the number Davis' obnoxious next-door teenaged neighbor (played by Davis' daughter) blasts on her record player in the film).
Let's see what's on the slab today on our Halloween Countdown!
"St. James Infirmary Blues" is an American folk song. It became something of a jazz standard with Louis Armstrong, though my fave rendition is Cab Calloway's.
My Halloween Countdown continues with three of my favorite ladies: The Puppini Sisters!
This jazz tune has always been hep and feelin' kind of groovy. It's been covered by many great recording artists, perhaps most notably Dusty Springfield.
The Puppini Sisters make this song their own in their '40s-styled jazz/big band style. Wonderful harmonies!
The ladies are especially cute in the music-video version of this song.
In light of posting Judy Garland singing "The Purple People Eater" yesterday on my Halloween Countdown, here's another sci-fi-based novelty tune from the same era.
"Little Blue Man" (1958) was a cute, little diddy sung by Betty Johnson, best known for her 1957 version of "Little White Lies." I guess colors and the word "little" were her lucky charms.
Johnson's voice is very Doris Day-cum-Patti Page. This single was a radio and commercial hit in its day.
As a kid, I loved it. My Mom bought the 45 to play at home. She liked the song herself and would sing me to sleep at bedtime with this as she gently ran her fingers through my hair.
The scariest thing about this record is what the singer does to the Little Blue Man in the end. "I don't wub you any more!" Schizophrenic delusion or close encounter of the third kind?
Here is a unique cover song performed by Judy as part of her act at the Coconut Grove. It's presented and arranged as a satire of the then emerging sci-fi genre of movies.
"The Purple People Eater" was originally written and performed by Sheb Wooley. It was a pop novelty hit in 1958, both on the radio and in stores. I was six at the time of its release. My Mom bought me the 45 and I think I wore it out.
Ironic are Judy's lyrics about "red people, blue people" as we've now identified states and people that way demographically and for political purposes.
Hear how Ms Garland makes this song her own and in her inimitable style on my Halloween Countdown!
This is, simply, a terrific song done by Eartha Kitt in the Fifties. The lyrics are brilliantly playful and Ms Kitt sounds like she truly enjoys singing this, attacking it with great, growling relish.
It's already tailor-made for the Season of the Witch, but the video here adds an extra kick!
Bette Midler sings on today's Halloween Countdown (see link below)! A custom-made version of "Hocus Pocus," both song and film have become Halloween perennials. And Bette claims it's her favorite film to date.
Yes, as indestructible as the Count himself, my Halloween Countdown carries on with the eternal, perennial 1977 classic disco cult hit, "Soul Dracula" by Hot Blood!
From the Scream movie soundtrack, the song "Whisper to a Scream" by SoHo on today's Halloween Countdown! Only 10 Days till Halloween (Countdown will end on October 30).
