This Is Halloween

Cast in The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993).

Happy Halloween!

Thriller

Michael Jackson in Thriller (1983).

This was linked to on the day MJ died, but I thought it deserved its own post. I recommend watching it in full-screen mode.

One Year!

Happy Birthday to the Musical Madness blog! Here's to many more!

The Skeleton Dance

Disney studio musicians in The Skeleton Dance (1929).

Welcome to My Nightmare

Alice Cooper and the Muppets on The Muppet Show (1978).

Ghostbusters

Ray Parker, Jr. and a whole pile of 80s celebrities in the music video for the theme song to Ghostbusters (1984).

Dry Bones

Fred Gwynne on The Munsters, Season 2 Ep. 12 (1965).

1,2,3

The Groovie Goolies in The Groovie Goolies (1971)

Day-O

Harry Belafonte performing via the cast of Beetlejuice (1988).

Mean Green Mother From Outer Space

Levi Stubbs & Rick Moranis in Little Shop of Horrors (1986).

Jack's Lament

Danny Elfman in The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993).

The Addams Family Theme

Vic Mizzy (composed and performing) on The Addams Family (1964).

Composer of "Addams Family" theme song dies at 93

Grim Grinning Ghosts

Thurl Ravenscroft, Chuck Schroeder, Bob Ebright, Jay Meyer, and Verne Rowe perform this song (and appear as the busts) in The Haunted Mansion at Disneyland, recorded in the late 1960's.

The Devil Went Down To Georgia

No embeddable video, so please click this link to view The Devil Went Down To Georgia music video from Festus Clamrod and the El Sobrante Twangers (aka Primus) (1996). Great song and a really nice stop-motion animated video.

Remains of the Day

Danny Elfman and cast in Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (2005).

The Batty Bat

Jerry Nelson on Sesame Street (1985).

Trick or Treat

The Mellomen in Trick or Treat (1952).

(The link says 1954; it's lying.)

The Headless Horseman

Bing Crosby in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, originally released as The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949).

The Rowing Song

Gene Wilder in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971).

Frankenstein

The Edgar Winter Group on The Midnight Special (1973).

Goodbye Blue Sky

Pink Floyd in Pink Floyd The Wall (1982).

Surfin' USA

Michael J. Fox in Teen Wolf (1985).

(Don't know why this is only available on You Tube in Spanish, but couldn't pass up this Halloween classic!)

I Put a Spell on You

Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy in Hocus Pocus (1993).

Night On Bald Mountain

The Philadelphia Orchestra in Fantasia (1940).

Hellfire

Tony Jay and cast in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996).

Forest of No Return

Cast of Babes in Toyland (1961).

Minnie the Moocher

Cab Calloway and his orchestra in Minnie the Moocher, a Betty Boop Talkartoon (1932).

It's the Mummy

Phyllis Diller & cast in Mad Monster Party (1968).

Rent

Anthony Rapp, Adam Pascal, Jesse L. Martin, and cast in Rent (2005).

My son will start singing this without warning, and as today is his birthday, I thought it appropriate to post one of his favorite songs.

Witch's Egg

Susan Tyrrell, The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, Hervé Villechaize & cast in Forbidden Zone (1980).

Oogie Boogie's Song

Ken Page and Ed Ivory in The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993).

Here I Am

Happy October! It's not too early to post Halloween-themed numbers on the first, is it?



Cassandra Peterson & cast in Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (1988).

Possibly NSFW, if your workplace objects to pastie-twirling.