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05 Sep 02 - 09:14 AM (#777418) Subject: Need Hallowe'en songs From: Bullfrog Jones The Beloved and I have a gig on Oct 31st and would like to include a few appropriate songs. Our set is a mix of close harmony old time and country (self-composed and covers) with a few standards. We've got the usual suspects like That Old Black Magic, It's Witchcraft and Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered, but could use some more suggestions, particularly in a country vein (as it were). Thanks in an.....ticipation BJ |
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05 Sep 02 - 09:49 AM (#777437) Subject: RE: Need Hallowe'en songs From: Dave Bryant Tam Lin - even mentions Hallowe'en Head tucked underneath her Arm The Rosemarie Where will we be in a hundred years from now Ain't it grand to be bloody well dead |
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05 Sep 02 - 09:59 AM (#777443) Subject: RE: Need Hallowe'en songs From: Hecate lyke wake dirge is good, but probably not your sort of thing. Black magic woman? Songs mentioning witches Pendle Burning times Witch of the westmoorland. Bear in mind that traditionally this is the night when the dead return to walk the earth - so ghost songs are good, and there's loads of them. The wife of Ushers well, the unquiet grave, ..... |
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05 Sep 02 - 10:21 AM (#777454) Subject: RE: Need Hallowe'en songs From: masato sakurai There're two long threads:
And Google's search result of "pumpkin carols". ~Masato |
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05 Sep 02 - 12:30 PM (#777511) Subject: RE: Need Hallowe'en songs From: Nigel Parsons A history of Hallowe'en Here Nigel |
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05 Sep 02 - 12:33 PM (#777517) Subject: RE: Need Hallowe'en songs From: Nigel Parsons Personally, I like "When the night wind howls" (Gilbert & Sullivan- Ruddigore) Nigel |
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05 Sep 02 - 12:55 PM (#777541) Subject: RE: Need Hallowe'en songs From: The Walrus at work "Vampire Rag" always seems a good one to me. W |
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05 Sep 02 - 02:05 PM (#777596) Subject: RE: Need Hallowe'en songs From: Mudlark Vampire Rag made me think of Michael Smith's chilling Vampire song...also a great bluesy number called Haunted House...I first heard it on Leon Redbone's On The Track album. |
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05 Sep 02 - 02:21 PM (#777604) Subject: RE: Need Hallowe'en songs From: EBarnacle1 You might call Rick Nestler at 845-434-0340. He is the singing gravedigger at the local Renfair and has just come out with a CD of songs that might just be your cup of tea. Enjoy! |
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05 Sep 02 - 03:31 PM (#777650) Subject: RE: Need Hallowe'en songs From: Bullfrog Jones Thanks for all the suggestions, guys (and gals). Only three links Masato? Tsk tsk! ;-) Mudlark, I think I've got the Leon Redbone album somewhere in the Vinyl Vault. I'll dig it out. Keep 'em coming! BJ |
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06 Sep 02 - 12:43 AM (#777915) Subject: RE: Need Hallowe'en songs From: mack/misophist It may not really fit, but Zombie Jambouree is great. |
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06 Sep 02 - 03:42 AM (#777966) Subject: RE: Need Hallowe'en songs From: open mike there is a kids song about hunting for dracula done by a canadian woman Charlotte Diamond- it is an action song with capes, fangs, tromping sounds, bats, etc-but you are probably not doing a kids gig.. |
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06 Sep 02 - 04:46 AM (#777973) Subject: RE: Need Hallowe'en songs From: Nigel Parsons As mentioned above When The Night Wind Howls with lyrics and MIDI Nigel |
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06 Sep 02 - 05:17 PM (#778280) Subject: RE: Need Hallowe'en songs From: Genie Mentioned in some of the other threads, but a few may bear repeating: Dry Bones (Ghost) Riders In The Sky Monster Mash Witchy Woman Ding-dong! The Witch Is Dead He Had A Long Chain On Spooky Flying Purple People Eater Long Black Veil The Happy Land (Scots children's song that tells of a ghost Miss Bailey's Ghost. I might even throw in Stray Cat Strut or The Cat Came Back. And I think Zombie Jamboree is perfect! Aren't there any songs about vampires? I know there are a number of werewolf folk songs.* Maybe songs about silkies would be appropriate, too. Genie *i.e., folk songs sung by werewolves * |
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06 Sep 02 - 07:54 PM (#778370) Subject: RE: Need Hallowe'en songs From: GUEST "The Carter, or Faery Pie" on Bob Franke's 'In This Night' CD, wherein a simple carter eats some fairy food & has a Rip Van Winkle experience; also on the same CD, "Invasion of the Money Snatchers" - kinda cute. Glade |
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06 Sep 02 - 07:59 PM (#778373) Subject: RE: Need Hallowe'en songs From: Susan of DT Mrs. Ravoon Try a search for @myth in the blue DT searchbox for an assortment of wiches, devils, ghosts, unicorns, dragons, etc. Also try @ghost |
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06 Sep 02 - 08:00 PM (#778374) Subject: RE: Need Hallowe'en songs From: greg stephens Soul Cake Song.In Penguin Book of English Folksongs.Not macabre in any obvious way but I find it chilling. Ive seen the soul-cakers out in that part of Cheshire and its great. |
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06 Sep 02 - 08:05 PM (#778376) Subject: RE: Need Hallowe'en songs From: GUEST,Glade Almost forgot: "Here in Arkansas" complete with open graves; from Robert Earl Keen, Jr.'s "Bigger Piece of Sky'. Glade |
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06 Sep 02 - 08:25 PM (#778385) Subject: RE: Need Hallowe'en songs From: GUEST,Glade Omigosh, "The House Carpenter!" How could I forget that one. It's the blood-chillinest IMHO. Glade |
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12 Sep 02 - 04:33 AM (#781841) Subject: RE: Need Hallowe'en songs From: Nigel Parsons AND I LOVE HIM (or "A Hard Day's Bite") Words: Lissa Allcock (c)1995 Music: "And I Love Her" by Lennon and McCartney I give him all my blood That's all I do And if you saw my love You'd donate too. He's a vampire. I give him everything And tenderly The bite my lover brings He brings to me He's a vampire. A love like ours Could never die As long as I Don't eat garlic.. (Fancy a steak love? - oops, sorry...) By night we love and play Under the moon We're back in bed by day Coffin for two. He's a vampire. Bright are the stars that shine Dark is the sky I know this love of mine Will never die. He's a vampire... Note: Have you ever seen a flash photograph of my husband??? |
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12 Sep 02 - 05:18 AM (#781860) Subject: RE: Need Hallowe'en songs From: Dave Bryant If you want a round there's always "The Ghost of Tom". Many years ago at Bracknell FF, I heard a hilarious song about a girl who is seduced by a goul. I can remember a line about having sex on a grave going something "Strange to have a man on top and another one down below". It finished of with the line "I should have asked my mummy but she was too wrapped up to know". Anybody know it ? - I think it was written by a girl. |