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It’s always tempting to give all the traditional Halloween monsters equal representation in a Halloween playlist.

If that’s not an option, of course, you can always go for a one-stop-shop song that puts all of the monsters in one place. Usually at a party. And usually in the late 1950s.

And thanks to Bert Convy, you don’t have to always rely on Bobby “Boris” Pickett for that.



Then again, it’s probably Bobby “Boris” Pickett’s fault this song (and a few dozen more cash-ins like it) even exists.

Monsters ball,

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A couple of songs back, we heard about the dangers of dating Dracula’s daughter.

Presumably, of course, dating any female vampire is potentially dangerous – but very hard to avoid once she sets her sights on you. As The Dickies will now demonstrate.



See what they did there?

The daughter of the devil and the mother of pearl,

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Just like you can't have a Halloween without vampires or Dracula, you can't have a Halloween playlist without Screaming Lord Sutch.



PRODUCTION NOTE: Not to be confused with the recent Redd Kross song of the same name.




She gave me a peck that left me a wreck, 

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Cars are also scary. 

Just ask Keith Gordon.

Or James Brolin.



I don’t wanna go to the Devil,

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It’s an unwritten rule that if yr going to do a song about Vampira, you should do it rockabilly style.



Ooo buddy what she do to me,

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Indeed you do.



We’re counting down to Halloween, by the way.

That voodoo you do,

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Halloween has arrived. 

And so we’ll end this year’s playlist with a nice Halloween story from Deadbolt – the Scariest Band In The World™ – about a man, a gun and a cursed guitar.




Guns and guitars don’t mix,

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Continuing our countdown to Halloween:

As we mentioned last episode, dead girls are easy. But vampire girls are popular.

At least with Jonathan Richman.



Evil now, scary now,

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Speaking of Halloween costume ideas …

The key is to think outside the box. I’m not saying to avoid the classics: witch, vampire, zombie, etc. But it pays to put a creative twist on a familiar theme.

For example: why go as a zombie when you can go as a bondage goat zombie?

Which is a great choice because it comes with its own theme song.



Getting yr goat,

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Continuing our music countdown to Halloween, we haven’t mentioned vampires yet. 

And interestingly, one of my favorite vampire songs doesn’t mention vampires at all.

It’s an instrumental, you see. Produced by Joe Meek, yet.



FUN FACT: The footage in the video is not from a vampire film, or even a horror movie. It’s from The Last Laugh, a silent film from FW Murnau (of Nosferatu fame, so okay, there's sort of a vampire connection here) and one of the biggest films of the German Expressionist movement in the 1920s. It’s about a doorman at a posh hotel who gets demoted to lavatory attendant, and he lives in dread of everyone finding out the truth. Which they do.

I knew that film history class I took at grad school would pay off one day.

Don’t tell a soul,

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