Scary songs to play in the dark
How a drunkenly recorded Halloween song invented shock rock, American parenting dread, and the best spooky songs.
“On a hot summer night, would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?”
“Yes!”
“I bet you say that to all the boys.”
Easily the best Halloween-themed song — aside from the 7 second 30 Rock gag song “Werewolf Bar Mitzvah”1 — is Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ 1956 classic “I Put a Spell On You.”
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