"Ghostbusters" by Ray Parker Jr. on America's Best Music. Which is not exactly America's best music right now.
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Special music for Halloween
- Thread starter vchimpanzee
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"Monster Mash" on America's Best Music.
Monster Mash was also on the Weather channel forecast today.
"Witchy Woman" was on WEZV.
And WDUV. Which also played "I Don't Have the Heart" by James Ingram. That title could have a whole new meaning at Halloween.
Nothing on Easy 93.1 in the last several hours, though "Hotel California" is kind of spooky. Speaking of which, Classics IV is in the normal playlist for America's Best Music. I think the ARS version is better.
Madonna's "Holiday" is probably not related. I forget which station played it.
The second song after the news was a special song for Halloween on America's Best Music at noon and 2:00. I wasn't paying close attention at 1 and 3 but they could have done something appropriate that wasn't out of the ordinary. At 4, Sinatra sang "Witchcraft".
Halloween-themed songs that NYC's Lite FM is playing today:
WARREN ZEVON - Werewolves Of London
RAY PARKER JR. - Ghostbusters
ATLANTA RHYTHM SECTION - Spooky
BOBBY BORIS PICKETT - Monster Mash
EAGLES - Witchy Woman
CLASSICS IV - Spooky
CLIFF RICHARD - Devil Woman
MICHAEL JACKSON - Thriller
Years ago I heard another AC station also play Neil Diamond / Barbra Streisand - "You Don't Send Me Flowers", Melanie - "Brand New Key", and Helen Reddy - "Angie Baby" as what they called "scary songs" on Halloween.
WARREN ZEVON - Werewolves Of London
RAY PARKER JR. - Ghostbusters
ATLANTA RHYTHM SECTION - Spooky
BOBBY BORIS PICKETT - Monster Mash
EAGLES - Witchy Woman
CLASSICS IV - Spooky
CLIFF RICHARD - Devil Woman
MICHAEL JACKSON - Thriller
Years ago I heard another AC station also play Neil Diamond / Barbra Streisand - "You Don't Send Me Flowers", Melanie - "Brand New Key", and Helen Reddy - "Angie Baby" as what they called "scary songs" on Halloween.
They're not even trying. They just played this.
WDRC-FM Hartford (oldies/classic hits) used to trot out Redbone's "Witch Queen of New Orleans," the Fifth Estate's "Ding! Dong! The Witch Is Dead" and Donovan's "Season of the Witch" every Halloween, in addition to the hits you heard in NYC today.
WQXR has fun with "decomposers" on Hallowe'en, reminding us that "all of the composers are DEAD!!"
In addition to workhorses like "A Night on Bald Mountain" and "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," selections from today's playlist included the following:
In addition to workhorses like "A Night on Bald Mountain" and "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," selections from today's playlist included the following:
- Anton Rubinstein: The Demon
- Heinrich August Marschner: Der Vampyr
- Felix Mendelssohn Hexenlied (Witches' Song)
- William Bolcom: Graceful Ghost
- Giuseppe Verdi: Witches' Chorus
- Stanislaw Moniuszko: The Haunted Manor
- Andre Caplet: The Mask of the Red Death
WFCR Amherst, Mass., had a full hour plus of Halloween warhorses this afternoon. Preston Trombley was also playing some on Sirius XM.
our 50kw AC Variety/Jack FM type locally programmed station ran a halloween themed song or two every hour today
"Candyman" but it's a day late.
"Alice's Restaurant" still gets a spin on some classic rock stations. I can't think of another song that's ever been played only around or on Thanksgiving. It's quasi-religious holiday (We are supposed to be thanking a deity.) with few religious trappings, and that includes music.
"I've Got Plenty to Be Thankful For" is the only thing I can find by Bing Crosby. He's singing something on a TV commercial. I naturally assumed it was a Christmas song.
There's "I Thank You" by Sam and Dave and "Thank the Lord for the Nighttime" by Neil Diamond and "Thank You Girl" by the Beatles, but those songs are all saying thanks for sex, which while it might be a fun way to finish off a festive Turkey Day, probably wasn't what the Puritans were counting among their blessings back in the day.
What about that song swagger like us where Kanye West raps
Swagger on a hundred thousand, trillion
Hey yo I know I got it first
I'm Christopher Columbus, y'all just the pilgrims
Thanksgiving do we even gotta question
Hermes Pastille I pass the dressing.
Two more serious songs from Johnny Cash and Mary Chapin Carpenter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egIB7tYW80M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NSQLMPUK-8
I;m not a major country music fan but I like both of these.
And two funny ones from Bob Rivers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq-fIZY82NU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_MBALN0h8k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egIB7tYW80M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NSQLMPUK-8
I;m not a major country music fan but I like both of these.
And two funny ones from Bob Rivers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq-fIZY82NU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_MBALN0h8k
I meant to post this yesterday and forgot to come here. I didn't hear any Veterans Day songs, and I didn't listen to WNAM yesterday, but I have heard "God Bless the U.S.A." by Lee Greenwood, "America the Beautiful" by Ray Charles and "Ballad of the Green Berets" on other Veterans Days if I was in the car at the right time.
And of course, the instrumental medley of the songs with the words "into the wild blue yonder", "anchors aweigh", "from the halls of Montezuma" and "caissons go rolling along".
And of course, the instrumental medley of the songs with the words "into the wild blue yonder", "anchors aweigh", "from the halls of Montezuma" and "caissons go rolling along".
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