Name That Halloween Song

NAME THAT HALLOWEEN SONG

1) "Darkness falls across the land
The midnight hour is close at hand
Creatures crawl in search of blood
To terrorize y'all's neighborhood"

"THRILLER""THIS IS HALLOWEEN""A NIGHTMARE ON MY STREET""DEAD MAN'S PARTY"

In the "Thriller" music video, Michael Jackson becomes a zombie and performs a dance routine with a horde of the undead.

2) "She's a witch
(Help this blackbird, there's a stone around my leg)
Ha, damn you, woman
(Help this blackbird, there's a stone around my leg)
What say you, good people
(Guilty, guilty, guilty)

"WITCH'S PROMISE""LAVENDER MOON""BOTTOM OF THE RIVER""WAKING THE WITCH"

"Waking the Witch" is the first in a series of three songs by Kate Bush about the hallucinations experienced by a woman slowly drowning in the aftermath of a shipwreck.

3) "I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand
Walking through the streets of SoHo in the rain
He was looking for a place called Lee Ho Fook's
Gonna get a big dish of beef chow mein"

"HUNGRY LIKE THE WOLF""WOLFMAN JACK""WEREWOLVES ON WHEELS""WEREWOLVES OF LONDON"

After Phil Everly (of The Everly Brothers) watched the 1935 film Werewolf of London, he suggested that Warren Zevon adapt the title for a song and dance craze. Zevon and his bandmates wrote "Werewolves of London" in about 15 minutes, but none of them took it seriously until it started climbing the Billboard Top 40 chart and stayed there for over a month.

4) "Raven hair and ruby lips
Sparks fly from her fingertips
Echoed voices in the night
She's a restless spirit on an endless flight"

"WITCHY WOMAN""SEASON OF THE WITCH""BLACK MAGIC WOMAN""SMALL TOWN WITCH"

The inspiration for "Witchy Woman" about a seductive enchantress came from a number of women, although Don Henley had one particular woman in mind -- Zelda Fitzgerald, whose biography he was reading while writing the song.

5) "Immortal fear
That voice so clear
Through broken walls
That scream I hear"

"LOST IN THE SHADOWS""DON'T LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON ME""CRY LITTLE SISTER""TO THE SHOCK OF MISS LOUISE"

Despite appearing on the soundtrack to The Lost Boys, "Cry Little Sister" does not specifically reference vampires, as it was composed before songwriter Gerard McMahon had seen any footage from the film. After hearing the track, director Joel Schumacher commented: "You nailed my theme song to The Lost Boys! I can't believe you wrote this without seeing a frame of film!"

6) "From my laboratory in the castle east
To the master bedroom where the vampires feast
The ghouls all came from their humble abodes
To get a jolt from my electrodes"

"FEED MY FRANKENSTEIN""MONSTER MASH""MARCH OF THE MAD SCIENTIST""ARTIFICIAL MAN"

"Monster Mash" is narrated by a mad scientist whose monster, late one evening, rises from his slab to perform a new dance.

7) "Then my teeth turned into fangs
And my nails into claws
And I nearly dropped the Torah
When my hands turned into paws"

"YIDDISH WEREWOLF""WEREWOLF ALTAR BOY""WEREWOLF BAR MITZVAH""WEREWOLF SABBATH"

Robert Carlock and fellow 30 Rock writer Tami Sagher are to thank/praise/blame for "Werewolf Bar Mitzvah". Carlock wrote the episode "Jack Gets in the Game" which features the eight second video (yes, only eight seconds of the song made it into the actual episode) and Sagher wrote most of the lyrics.

8) "I'll do what you want me to do
You're a vampire
I'm a vampire too"

"VAMPIRES IN THE SUN""VAMPIRES WILL NEVER HURT YOU""WE SUCK YOUNG BLOOD""VAMPIRES"

Some critics have interpreted the Pet Shop Boys "Vampires" as a narrative of brotherhood among people living difficult lives. Or maybe they're just vampires.

9) "It smelled like turpentine, it looked like Indian ink
I held my nose, I closed my eyes, I took a drink"

"LOVE POTION NO. 9""BLACK MAGIC WOMAN""I PUT A SPELL ON YOU""WITCH'S BREW"

The song describes a man seeking help to find love, so he talks to a gypsy who determines, by means of palmistry, that he needs "love potion number 9".

10) "I ain't afraid of no ghost
I hear it likes the girls
I ain't afraid of no ghost
Yeah yeah yeah yeah

"THE GHOST IN YOU""GHOST TOWN""GHOST TRAIN""GHOSTBUSTERS"

"Ghostbusters" was nominated at the 57th Academy Awards for Best Original Song, but lost to Stevie Wonder's "I Just Called to Say I Love You".