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The annual Halloween show, Songs include: At the Devil's Ball, I Got the Jitters, Bloody Razor Blues, You Got Me Voodooed, Punky Punkin and What's Halloween?

Performers include: Rosemary Clooney, The Peerless Quartet, Helen Gross, Don Redman, Mary Ann  McCall and Mel Torme.

Direct download: Halloween_2023.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:45pm CDT

The werewolf skit from the 1957 Stan Freberg radio show.  Also; the Witches' Sabbath movement from the Symphonie Fantastique and a holliday poem by Carl Sandberg.

Direct download: Halloween_2022_Part_2_Werwolves_and_Witches.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:32pm CDT

Songs include: Spooky Spook, The Halloween Dance, Spider Web Blues, I Want To Be Evil, The Spell of the Blues, Haunted Nights, The Nightmare and Everything Is Scary Now.

Performers include: Bing Crosby, Ray Noble, Victoria Spivey, The Casa Loma Orchestra, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway & Joshua Castro.

Direct download: Halloween_2022_Part_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:31pm CDT

Songs include: The Skeleton Rag, Mr. Ghost Goes to Town, Ghost Riders in the Sky, The Halloween Dance, Is the Rope Around Your Neck? and Devil's Gonna Get You.  Also, a Halloween-themed poem read by the host.

Performers include: Bessie Smith, Glenn Miller, Rev. J.M. Gates, Woody Herman, The American Quartet and Stan Jones.

Direct download: Halloween_2020.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:55pm CDT

Our annual Halloween show, featuring: Bessie Smith, Bing Crosby, Lena Horne, Borrah Minevitch, Patsy Montana, Cyril Smith and the Victor Military Band.

Songs include: The Ghost Walk, The Headless Horseman, Haunted Town, Cemetery Blues, Zombie and With Her Head Tucked Under Her Arm.

Direct download: Halloween_2019.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:24pm CDT

Our annual look at spooky music for Halloween. Songs include: Mr Ghost Goes to Town, Skeleton in the Closet, The Halloween Dance, Music For Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Graveyard Blues and Mysterious Mose.

Performers include: Helen Gross, Wingy Manone, Bob Dunn, the Hudson-DeLange Orchestra, the Los Angeles Chamber Symphony, Nat Gonella and Harry Resser.

The episode concludes with the host reading, Haunted, by Siegfried Sassoon.

Direct download: Halloween_2018.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:42am CDT

The annual Halloween show!  Music includes: My Friend the Ghost, The Halloween Dance, Undertaker's Blues, Haunted Heart, The Nightmare, The Goblin Band, The Walls Keep Talking and Mysterious Mose.  The host also reads, The Sleeper, by Edgar Allen Poe.

Musicians include: Tommy Dorsey, Helen Gross, Bessie Smith, Perry Como, Anita O'Day, Ozzy Nelson, Wingy Manone, Cab Calloway and The American Symphony Orchestra.

Direct download: Halloween_2017.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:10pm CDT

Music for Halloween.  Including: The Halloween Dance, Blue Ghost Blues, Bloody Razor Blues, Spellbound soundtrack, The Richest Guy In the Graveyard, Skeleton Rag, Lonesome Graveyard and Catacombs. Plus, the host reads, The Sleeper, by Edgar Allen Poe.

Performers include: Helen Gross, Etta Jones, Miklos Rozsa, Big Joe Turner, The American Quartet and Lonnie Johnson.

Direct download: Halloween_2016.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:54pm CDT

Our 500th episode!  In celebration, here's highlights from some of the most downloaded shows of the past 10 years, including: sacred harp singing, Dixieland revival. guitar and harmonica music, a Halloween song, western swing and polka music.

Direct download: 500th_Show.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:16pm CDT

The annual Halloween show featuring Ghost Walkin Blues, Mr. Ghost Goes to Town, Witch Doctor, The Halloween Dance, Bloody Razor Blues, Chopin's Funeral March and I'm Scared.

Performers include: Ina Rae Hutton, Sarah Vaughn, Fred Astaire, The 5 Jones Boys, Adrian Boult, Helen Gross and the American Symphony Orchestra.

Direct download: Halloween_2015.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:24pm CDT

The annual Halloween show.  Songs include: The Halloween Dance, Mr Ghost Goes to Town, Riders In The Sky, Coffin Blues, The House is Haunted and Music For Stings, Percussion and Celeste.  Performers include: Bing Crosby, Ida Cox, Fred Astaire, the Mills Blue Rhythm Band, Bessie Smith, Russ Colombo and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.

The podcast concludes with a reading of Dream-Land by Edgar Allen Poe.

Direct download: Halloween_2014.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 10:23am CDT

The annual Halloween show.  Songs include: My Friend the Ghost, The Halloween Dance, Ghost Riders In the Sky, I'd Rather Be Dead and Buried and Here Comes the Boogie Man.  Performers include: Louis Armstrong, Tommy Dorsey, Henry Hall, Peggy Lee and Eugene Ormandy

Direct download: Haloween_2013.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 8:47am CDT

Songs include; Mr Ghost Goes To Town, The Halloween Dance, At the Devil's Ball. I'm Scared and Devil Got My Woman.  Performers include: Bessie Smith, The Peerless Quartet, Peggy Lee, Skip James, Maxine Sullivan, Judy Garland and the Mills Blue Rhythm Band.  The host also reads Edgar Allen Poe's poem, The Conqueror Worm.

Direct download: Halloween_2012.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 6:16pm CDT

Songs include; Ghost Walkin Blues, Haunted Heart, Riders In the Sky, Funeral March of a Marionette and Satan Takes a Holiday.

Performers include: Burl Ives, Billie Holiday, Perry Como, Tommy Dorsey, The Casa Loma Orchestra and The Royal Albert Hall Orchestra.

Direct download: Halloween_2011.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:41pm CDT

Songs include: Haunted Heart, Mr. Ghost Goes to Town, Haunted By the Blues and My Old Flame. Also, the host reads Eldorado by Edgar Allen Poe.

Performers include: Maxine Sullivan, Jo Stafford, Spike Jones, Vaughn Monroe and Victoria Spivey.

Direct download: Halloween_2010.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:26pm CDT

Music for Halloween, plus a tribute to Edgar Allen Poe.  Songs include: The House Is Haunted, Mr Ghost Goes to Town, Danse Macabre, The Ghost of Smokey Joe and Them's Graveyard words. 

Performers include: Cab Calloway, Gracie Fields, Lonnie Johnson, Tommy Dorsey and the Cleveland Orchestra.

Direct download: Trick_or_Treat.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:51am CDT

Music for Halloween, including: Haunted House Blues, The Skeleton in the Closet, Mr Ghost Goes to Town and Graveyard Blues.

Performers include: Helen Gross, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Jimmie Davis and Woody Herman.

Direct download: Halloween_Show.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:23am CDT

Spooky songs for Halloween.  Songs include:  Ghost Walking Blues, Haunted House Blues, Halloween Dance, The Ragtime Goblin  Man and Mr. Ghost Goes to Town.
Artists include: Bessie Smith, Louis Prima, Collins and Harlin and Helen Gross.
Direct download: halloween_Songs.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:48pm CDT

Episode 26: Celebrating the beginning of the fall season.  Songs include: Shine on Harvest Moon, The Halloween Dance and I'll Be Home at Harvest Time.
Direct download: autumn_songs.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:02am CDT