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Classic Halloween Hits on WCBS-FM 2025

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AlNYC

WCBS-FM played Michael Jackson's Thriller at 4:33AM & 12:31PM, Ray Parker Jr.'s Ghostbusters at 6:31AM, Hall & Oates' Maneater at 11:15AM & 6:35PM, Oingo Boingo's Dead Man's Party at 5:26PM and to name a few.

If you go to 100 Greatest Halloween Party Songs you'll find the 80's Halloween songs of all time.

Do you know what surprise is going to bring the #1 Billboard song only for Halloween on WCBS-FM of all time?

And where, and where, and where, It's Batdance by Prince!!!, because batman or batgirl is part of Halloween.


So enjoy your Halloween next week of all time on October 31, 2025.
 
AlNYC said:
Do you know what surprise is going to bring the #1 Billboard song only for Halloween on WCBS-FM of all time?

And where, and where, and where, It's Batdance by Prince!!!, because batman or batgirl is part of Halloween.
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I'll bet against that.
 
Holiday music is probably the one time stations can break ranks with the range of years their playlists cover.

Out here in Los Angeles, KRTH modernized its oldies playlist with each passing decade, but for however long it continued running its much beloved annual "24 Hours Of Christmas" special, holiday cuts dating as far back as the 1950s always remained in the shuffle.
 
Are there any commercial FM stations in the US that go all-Halloween on 10/30-10/31, much like the hundreds each year that go to Christmas music? Last year I taped an hour of WWKX 106.3 in Rhode Island, but that was a stunt out of one format (rhythmic) to a new format (classic rock).
 
yeoldeschool said:
Holiday music is probably the one time stations can break ranks with the range of years their playlists cover.

Out here in Los Angeles, KRTH modernized its oldies playlist with each passing decade, but for however long it continued running its much beloved annual "24 Hours Of Christmas" special, holiday cuts dating as far back as the 1950s always remained in the shuffle.
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The Eighties Channel™ has 37 songs in its regular Christmas library. Of those, 25 were actually recorded and released in the 1980s (about half of which came from the first "Very Special Christmas" CD which supported Special Olympics). Another seven songs are by artists from the 80's, recorded for the second CD in that series in 1992. Three more were recorded in 1995 (Belinda Carlisle), 2002 (Brian Setzer) and 2009 (Tommy Tutone). And when Billy Idol released his Christmas album in 2021, although recorded in the 80's, I added two songs from there as well.

On Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, we also play a dozen of the most timeless Christmas songs.

And Freddy Snakeskin has a small library of 15 New Wave Christmas songs which are included in a special edition of Flashback Weekend that follows a replay of Casey Kasem's "Top 60 Christmas Songs" special from 2005 which Premiere makes available to all of the affiliates that run classic American Top 40 shows on the weekends.

Is that enough of a playlist broadening for ya?
 
crainbebo said:
Are there any commercial FM stations in the US that go all-Halloween on 10/30-10/31, much like the hundreds each year that go to Christmas music? Last year I taped an hour of WWKX 106.3 in Rhode Island, but that was a stunt out of one format (rhythmic) to a new format (classic rock).
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iHeart has a 'Halloween Radio' channel that's pretty good and the average turnover for most songs on the channel seems to be less than two hours.

I know some stations will do a Halloween themed hour or two but doing it for an entire day would be a big stretch. My favorite Halloween special every year is the Halloween edition of Time Warp with Bill St James
 
yeoldeschool said:
Holiday music is probably the one time stations can break ranks with the range of years their playlists cover.

Out here in Los Angeles, KRTH modernized its oldies playlist with each passing decade, but for however long it continued running its much beloved annual "24 Hours Of Christmas" special, holiday cuts dating as far back as the 1950s always remained in the shuffle.
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The holiday classics by Andy, Bing, Johnny, the Carpenters. Brenda Lee. etc still test great with ALL age groups. Christmas is about memories and its why these songs endure. Each generation continues to have these artists as part of the holiday celebrations because its what they were exposed to by their parents. And they continue the tradition. 100 years from now these songs will still be part of holiday celebrations.
 
coreynj2461 said:
I know most are pissed about the changing playlist getting rid of 60s and most 70s, but I do like the introduction of more late 90s and 2000s. Good selection with some Nickelback, three doors down, Kelly Clarkson
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As the year 2000 is now 25 years ago, the entire 90s are fair game to pull tunes from. You can probably get away with early tunes from the 2000s as well. It's when you get to 2010 and later when things get dicey.
 
Halloween countdowns are more fun when they include not just scary songs, but creepy ones as well, such as "Angie Baby", "Brand New Key", and "You Don't Bring Me Flowers Anymore".
 
radiofan2023 said:
Those versions won't still be popular in 100 years.
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As long as they are dragged out annually, I believe you are incorrect in your predictions.

One of the "timeless" songs we play on Christmas Eve/Day is the oldest song in the library ... "White Christmas" by der Bingle, which we cleverly announced as "fitting in on The Eighties Channel™" the first year we aired it, because that was the song's 80th anniversary year.

If that Bing Crosby song hangs on until 2042, it will prove you wrong.
 


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