The Moontrekkers

Night of the Vampire

From the album Deutschland Compilation, which I about on vinyl in 1981:

Anakona - Der Moderne Man

Der KFC - Wer Hat Lilli Marleen Umgebracht? [Who murdered Lilli Marleen?]

Not strictly Halloween music, but I think they are both scary.

Charles Gounod - The Funeral March of a Marionette (Marche funèbre d'une marionnette)

AKA, the theme from Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Cream - Strange Brew

Live version, available by link only

Der Plan - Deutschland bleiche Mutter

Here are some of the lyrics:

Toter Vater, du bist nicht da, Man sieht dich nicht...

Monitore schön wie der Staub
Puppenkörper schön wie der Tod
Tote Schönheit ausgebrannt
Eingesperrt in Edelstahl

Click here for translation

Salty Holmes - The Ghost Song

He sounds like Hank Williams Jr to me a bit.

Surprised no one thought of this one. Scary 70's outfits :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsy4_ZF0fcw

maybe stretching it here...

Haha elton, I did think of Edgar Winter, then I promptly forgot 😄

Some more...

3 versions...

This one's my fave - the grooviest Mr. Ghost 😃

Any song with "devil" in it qualifies! I posted "Devil in Disguise" earlier. Here's a Werewolf song, unexpectedly by Paul Simon:

Here's a non-Halloween song with a Halloween style video:

This one just sounds like Halloween to me:

Lamantino - Sandro Brugnolini - a lot of his music has a Halloween sound.

Anck-Su-Namun

More freaks...

The Horror Movie Trifecta...

That's it for me. Happy Halloween to all!

Some more Voodoo music from Dr. John

Plus some more zombie music

Any mention ...? I'm feeling mellow on a Sunday evening, so " ... even brother Satan has to sleep ....."

Wow this topic has been a popular one! Not sure if anyone posted this one yet, but since it's about serial murder, I figure it fits...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8iPUK0AGRo

Mack the Knife

As many times as I've heard "Mack the Knife" from the 1960s on, I never suspected that it was about murder or that Mack was a murderer, and I did not know that the lyrics were taken from Bertold Brecht's Die Dreigroschenoper, which I have both read and seen. I always thought "mack" was something you were supposed to do to a knife, similar to stropping. Now I'll never hear that song the same way again! Thanks, I guess👿

Here's a silly song, from the 1950s, I think:

Not a great song, but on topic.

I think that there are a lot of songs here that don't fit into other themes (so far), and I do like this time of year. Parties in San Francisco would start almost two weeks before Halloween when I lived there in the 1970s-80s, although in the late 1960s, New Year's Eve was the most popular holiday there, and that's when the best concerts used to happen.

Okay, here are my last ones:

The Moontrekkers did The Munsters theme song also.

Some final music for Midnight (It's 7:23 on the West Coast now)

Did anyone share this one yet?

Boogie Man

No, and I did not realize that they had done a Halloween video for this song.

I did go to see KC and the Sunshine Band in New Orleans the year that there was a police strike (possibly 1979), and that was scary. The concert was in the Superdome, and Doug Kershaw opened the show, which meant that they crowd was very mixed and did not get along. The atmosphere was very tense, but thankfully there was no violence.