Halloween Songs [2]

Subject: RE: BS: Halloween Songs
From: Peg
Date: 26 Sep 00 - 12:13 PM

I think Loreena McKennitt's a cappella version of "She Moved Through the Faire," just for variety's sake...it is haunting as all get out (she does it with harp in concert for some reason)...

my additions to your wonderful compilation:
"Hammer Horror" by Kate Bush
"Raven in the Storm" by John Gorka
"The Witch's Promise" by Jethro Tull
"Season of the Witch" by Donovan
"I But a Little Girl" by Bob Franke
"You Will Burn" by Steeleye Span
"Twa Corbies" by Maddy Prior
"The Fabled Hare" by Maddy Prior

Subject: RE: BS: Halloween Songs
From: Margaret V
Date: 26 Sep 00 - 12:08 PM

I refreshed a "Favorite Fall Songs" thread from last year that might be of interest. Margaret

Subject: RE: BS: Halloween Songs
From: L R Mole
Date: 26 Sep 00 - 11:20 AM

Well, there's all the death-teen songs ("Teen Angel" by Mark Dinning, etc.) and a lot of Walter (Wendy) Carlos' score from Clockwork Orange.

Subject: RE: BS: Halloween Songs
From: Mbo
Date: 25 Sep 00 - 11:52 PM

Yep Ely, we were just discussing that song back in the "Kid's Stuff" thread. It's actually in the DT, believe it or not, under "Sandy Toy."

--M

Subject: RE: BS: Halloween Songs
From: Ely
Date: 25 Sep 00 - 11:41 PM

Isn't there one, it's sort of a chant, like those clapping games kids play, and I can't really remember the words, but it ends something like "and when the [?] began to crack, was like a penknife in my back, and when my back began to bleed, I was dead and dead, indeed."

[See A MAN OF WORDS AND NOT OF DEEDS. --Mudelf]

Subject: RE: BS: Halloween Songs
From:
Date: 25 Sep 00 - 11:14 PM

Tam Lin, by Fairport Convention

Subject: RE: BS: Halloween Songs
From: richlmo
Date: 25 Sep 00 - 10:38 PM

"PUMPKIN HEAD HARVEY"

Subject: RE: BS: Halloween Songs
From: Hotspur
Date: 25 Sep 00 - 10:36 PM

With 'er 'ead tucked underneath 'er arm
She waaaaaaaaaaaaalks the Bloody Tower
With 'er 'ead tucked underneath 'er arm
At the midnight 'our.
(That's from The Ballad of Anne Boleyn, of course.)

Subject: RE: BS: Halloween Songs
From: Kara
Date: 25 Sep 00 - 09:29 PM

The Irish Ballad (Rickerty tickerty tin) by Tom Lehrer
Long Black Veil
Kara

Subject: RE: BS: Halloween Songs
From: Ely
Date: 25 Sep 00 - 08:52 PM

"Purple People Eater" (1958? around there) was written and recorded by Sheb Wooley (Pete Nolan on "Rawhide").

How about "Ghost of John [or Tom]" (long white bones with no skin on/oooo, ooooo/ wouldn't it be chilly with no skin on?). I loved that one when I learned it in kindergarten. I was always a bit of a morbid child.

Subject: RE: BS: Halloween Songs
From: rabbitrunning
Date: 25 Sep 00 - 07:50 PM

Me too -- I should know better than to try to proofread after I've hit the submit button.

Ghost Riders in the Sky

Did anyone ever put James Whitcomb Riley's "Little Orphant Annie" to music? That's a great Halloween read.

Subject: RE: BS: Halloween Songs
From: Mbo
Date: 25 Sep 00 - 07:46 PM

All the songs 7 music from Disney's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" including The Rakes of Mallow...sung by Bing Crosby.

Subject: RE: BS: Halloween Songs
From: BeauDangles
Date: 25 Sep 00 - 07:34 PM

Whoops! I got the hiccups!

Of course, there is always Bad Moon Rising by CCR.

Subject: RE: BS: Halloween Songs
From: BeauDangles
Date: 25 Sep 00 - 07:31 PM

Hey Rabbit!

I belive that little snippet is sung to the tune of the Irish Washerwoman.

BeauD

Subject: RE: BS: Halloween Songs
From: Gary T
Date: 25 Sep 00 - 07:31 PM

There's "Haunted House"--I forget who did the original (even though I have it on 45), but the chart version was by Jumpin' Gene Simmons, now of Kiss.[*]

"Marie Laveau" recorded by Bobby Bare would qualify. There are also other songs about this voodoo queen, some perhaps with the same title.

[* Jumpin' Gene Simmons (actually Morris Eugene Simmons, born 1937) was not the same person as Gene Simmons (born Chaim Witz in 1949) of Kiss. The latter chose his stage name to honor the former. --A Mudelf]

Subject: Lyr Add: AN IRISHMAN'S SHANTY^^
From: rabbitrunning
Date: 25 Sep 00 - 07:16 PM

Oh, O'Leary is dead and O'Riley don't know it
O'Riley is dead and O'Leary don't know it
They're both of them dead and they're in the same bed
And neither one knows that the other one's dead.


Found it in a book when I was a kid. Have no idea what the right tune is. I sing it to a bit that got used a lot in old movies to indicate that someone was from Ireland.

Subject: Halloween Songs
From: BeauDangles
Date: 25 Sep 00 - 07:03 PM

Ahh, it's that time again! The Wheel of the Year has turned nearly a full cycle, and it is nearly time for my favorite holiday. Halloween! Who doesn't thrill secretly at the stealthy approach of the Great Pumpkin? And as is usual for me at this time of year, I begin to muse on my list of all time favorite songs that I would feature at the bestest of all Halloween Parties. Over the years I have compiled what I think to be a very spooky menu of songs to stir the hairs at the back of the neck. I thought I would open it to public consumption and see what you 'Cats could add to it. Don't limit yourself to any one genre of music. Your songs can be vocal or instrumental, serious or comical, electric or acoustic. But they must all be scary. Here's what I have so far:

1. Anything and everything from Alice Cooper's Welcome to My Nightmare.
2. Of course, we must have all of Bobby "Boris" Pickett's Halloween songs, especially the Monster Mash.
3. Spooky (preferably the version by Atlanta Rhythm Section).
4. I Put a Spell on You, by CCR.
5. Witchy Woman, by The Eagles.
6. Black Magic Woman, by Santana.
7. Love Potion No. 9.
8. Don't Fear The Reaper, by Blue Oyster Cult.
9. Werewolves of London, by Warren Zevon (for that matter, Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner by Zevon)
10. Tales of Mystery & Imagination, by the Alan Parsons Project.
11. One-Eyed, One-Horned, Flying Purple People Eater, by Sheb Wooley.
12. Rare's Hill, Mary Black.
13. She Moved through the Fair, by...hmmm...Who would be the best?
14. Sympathy For the Devil, the Stones.
15. The soundtrack to Halloween, the movie. Also, Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield, soundtrack to the Exorcist.
16. Sleepwalk (instrumental)
17.... That’s all I can remember. Now, it's your turn. Let's make this the Mother of All Party Compilation Tapes!

BeauDangles

[Many song titles in this thread have been converted to links by a Mudelf.]