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Here's another Halloween favorite o' mine. We've all seen the Disney "Skeleton Dance" B&W cartoon ... here's the sequel (sort of).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXkQSiJG7fk

Here's an incredible old-fashioned animation featuring an incredible old-fashioned spooky song by the inimitable Jill Tracy. If you haven't given her music a try, you prolly oughta.

The Fine Art of Poisoning

For me, this is the one that started it all.

One year while I was in college, the local classic rock station began promoting their Halloween night broadcast of the musical version of the War of the Worlds. I didn’t know what to expect … perhaps the original Orson Welles broadcast? With some musical accompaniment thrown in for good measure? I fired up the tape recorder to get it tape it off the radio (anybody ...

Here’s a fun YouTube video of one of my favorite old-time Halloween songs. The puppetry is brilliant, the animation is a hecka lotta fun. There are several versions of the song, but Harry Reser & His Radio All-Star Novelty Orchestra did it best.

Mysterious Mose

Another blog with some Halloween Slaylists that you might like ... Music You (Possibly) Won't Hear Anyplace Else . I've monitored his slaylists over the years, and while there is some repetition from one year to the next, each track is an old, old, OLDIE that you seriously might not find again. And he probably won't offer these tracks again until (perhaps) next Halloween, so get 'em while they're hot.