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Cold and wet here in Ontario. Let’s see some of your Oct 31st tunes …

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  9. There’s a fair few Alice Cooper tunes that spring to mind, here’s a couple (hopefully not the obvious ones) , one from the group and one from the solo years

    The Ballad of Dwight Fry

    The Nightmare Returns

  11. My 2025 Halloween mix features original 78rpm discs from the 20’s to the 50’s with twists of Country, Blues and Big Bands.

    Harlem Wildcats : Zombie
    Preston Love & His Orchestra : Voodoo
    Broadway Dance Orchestra : Haunting Blues
    Paul Whiteman with Jack Teagarden : Jeepers Creepers
    Nat Gonella & His Georgians : The Skeleton In The Cupboard
    Hank Williams : Howlin’ At The Moon
    Lonnie Johnson : Blue Ghost Blues
    Bessie Smith : Graveyard Dream Blues
    Jack Ross & His Orchestra : Bogie Man Boogie Part 1
    Cliff Jackson & His Krazy Kats : The Terror
    Gene Kardos & His Orchestra : Zombie
    Woody Herman & His Orchestra : Mr. Ghost Goes To Town
    Henry Hall & His Orchestra : Hush, Hush, Hush, Here Comes the Bogeyman
    Douglas Williams : Slow Death
    The Arkansas Travellers : Boneyard Shuffle
    Fess Williams Royal Flush Orchestra : Phantom Blues
    Artie Shaw & His Orchestra : Nightmare
    Alvina Rey & His Orchestra : Picnic In Purgatory
    Ozzie Nelson & His Orchestra : The Black Cat
    Atlanta Syncopators : That Wicked Stomp

    mixcloud.com/Gardener/halloween-78s/

  16. German Hair Metal time … if you’re going to call your band Halloween, be sure to include some pumpkin imagery, and have a song that includes the name
    (the full version is 13 minutes of German Hair Metal screeching, this being the radio edit)

  19. The Damned have a number of possible inclusions for this thematic trot through all things end-of-October-ish.
    And this fits too .. latest release is a cover of There’s A Ghost In My House

  20. I had a great Halloween synchronicity moment when I was living in Tokyo. It was back in the days of iPods, and mine was on shuffle when I emerged out of the Metro station into my neighbourhood on October 31st. The place was full of little Japanese kids in costume, sheets over their heads, vampire fangs, the lot. So I was navigating past all this lot, barely any of whom reached my hip, smiling at their parents in my usual haha I’m an idiot gaijin way, when the gods of randomness started this up in my ears

  21. The best song, and the best video, from one of the biggest artists of all time: Jacko’s Thriller. I remember the hype when this was released, and fortunately it really lived up to it. What a performer he was.

    Carrying on the Michael Jackson theme, here’s the Spanish group Broken Peach and their mash-up of Bad and Ghostbusters, with all the Halloween make-up you could want.

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