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Platypus wrote:Nothing like a dollop of murder, madness, and the devil. Adds to the feeling that I am NOT doing something my mother would approve of.

I always assume that no matter what I do, I'm doing something my mother would not approve of.

Tina

*bump*

I love this forum for songs lists like these.

How about-

Artie Shaw - "Don't Fall Asleep"

Will Bradley - "Strange Cargo"

Billie Holiday - "Gloomy Sunday" aka The Hungarian Suicide Song

Charlie Barnet - "Murder At Peyton Hall"

A few more:

Death Came a Knockin' - Ruthie Foster
Sing you Sinners - Valaida Snow or Alex Pangman
Too Darn Hot - Ella Fitzgerald
See See Rider - various
All of Me (it IS about having your lover take your body parts one by one) -I like Duke Ellington's version
Sinner's Prayer - Ray Charles (blues)
Evil Gal Blues - Aretha Franklin
Dirty No-Gooder's Blues - Amina Claudine Myer's version
Jailhouse BLues - Amina Claudine Myer's version

There is a community college station here that Al Barnes DJ's every Thursday morning, he specializes in music from the 20's and 30's. I'm on his mailing list and I got a kick out of these selections; I don't expect a lot of folks to have any of this (with the exception of Charleston Charlie) but I thought it was worth posting:
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Borrah Minnevitch & His Harmonica Rascals - Ghost Walk (The)
Duke Ellington & His Cotton Club Orch. - Haunted Nights
Lee Morse & Her Blue Grass Boys - Tain't No Sin
New Orleans Owls - White Ghost Shivers
Red Nichols & His Five Pennies - Bug-A-Boo
Glen Gray & The Casa Loma Orch. - House Is Haunted (The)
Bessie Smith - Blue Spirit Blues
Sid Peltyn & His Orch. - Hell's Bells
Eva Taylor with Clarence Williams' Harmonizers - Ghost Of The Blues (The)
Emmett Miller acc by His Georgia Crackers - Ghost Of The St. Louis Blues (The)
Bob Howard & His Orch. - Ghost Of Dinah (The)
Washboard Rhythm Kings - A Ghost Of A Chance
Barney Brothers with Novelty Orch. - Ain't It Grand To Be Bloomin' Well Dead
Alex Bartha & His Hotel Traymore Orch. - It Must Be Swell To Be Laying Out Dead
Noble Sissle & Band (Film Soundtrack) - That's The Spirit
Gene Kardos & His Orch. - Zombie
Don Redman & His Orch. - Got The Jitters
Frank Trumbauer & His Orch. - Shivery Stomp
Red Nichols & His Five Pennies - Haunting Blues
Louis Prima & His New Orleans Gang - Mr. Ghost Goes To Town
Todd Rollins & His Orch. - Boogie Man (The)
Ma Rainey & Her Tub Jug Washboard Band - Black Cat, Hoot Owl Blues
Nat Gonella & His Georgians - Skeleton In The Closet (The)
Radio All-Star Novelty Orch. - Mysterious Mose
Snooks & His Memphis Stompers - Swamp Ghost
Glen Gray & The Casa Loma Orch. - Goblin Band (The)
Dan Russo & His Oriole Orch. - Tain't No Sin

gatorgal wrote:

Platypus wrote:Nothing like a dollop of murder, madness, and the devil. Adds to the feeling that I am NOT doing something my mother would approve of.

I always assume that no matter what I do, I'm doing something my mother would not approve of.

Tina

Link: Fourthly, I hate Halloween because young people don't need it. They need God!

Awesome. Great list. Much improves my last halloween list.

Devil's Cadillac - Watermelon Slim
Ghosts of Swing - Dr Zoot
Haunted - Molly Johnson
Heebie Jeebies - Hot Head Swing Band (bonus track on their Bootleg album)
Hell - Squirrel Nut Zippers (there's also the Simpson's mix version)
Little Red Riding Hood - Sinister Dexter
Minor Swing: To Django - Children of the Revolution
Murder on Highway 99 - HB Radke & The Jet City Swingers
Shadowman - Lee Press-On and the Nails
Who Do Da Voodoo - Wes Mackey
Who's That Creepin' - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Zombie Love - Smiling Jack Smith

We were just mentioning that it was time to start cracking out the Halloween swing, so bringing this back up to help refresh our memories...

One song that I thought would make a good Halloween number is:
Song of the Volga Boatmen - Glenn Miller

It's time to get ready again.

I'm looking for tracks that sound spooky or mention spooky things in the lyrics, rather than tracks that have spooky titles only. Some examples, mostly taken from this very thread:

Excellent spooky sounding:
Duke Ellington, "Saturday Night Function"
Duke Ellington, "The Mooche"
...well, lots of the early Duke stuff works
Glenn Miller, "Song of the Volga Boatmen"
Artie Shaw, "Mysterioso"
Artie Shaw, "Nightmare"
Tommy Dorsey, "Satan Takes a Holiday"

Fairly good spooky-ish lyrics:
Louis Armstrong, "Spooks!"
Lionel Hampton, "Lavender Coffin"
Delta Rhythm Boys, "Dry Bones"
Count Basie, "Walking Slow Behind You"
Harlem Hamfats, "Hoodooin' Woman"

Fine recordings, but they only have a spooky name, so I'm not that interested:
Dicky Wells, "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea"
Slim, Slam, Rex, etc., "Hellzapoppin' Jam"

And are there any pumpkin songs? I keep thinking of "Jumpin' Punkins"...

Celery Stalks at Midnight! (Doris Day with Les Brown's Orch... dunno the year as I only have a dodgy copy from an itunes album called 'Sentimental Journey').

The lyrics always make me laugh. Mostly because I have somewhat ambivalent feelings about celery.

I have a CD called Halloween Stomp

http://www.amazon.com/Halloween-Stomp-H ... B000008B4Z

You can see what's on it by going to that page. It's frighteningly fun !

Gene Krupa - The Walls Keep Talkin'
Glenn Miller - Swingin' at the Seance
Chick Webb - Midnight In a Madhouse
Eddy Duchin - Old Man Mose (Is Dead)

It's a bit of a stretch, but I really love Oogie Boogie's song from Nightmare Before Christmas for Halloween dances... the piano just moves me