With Halloween this month we will give you the top 5 Halloween songs of the week (4 weeks in all). Let me know in the comments below what songs remind you of Halloween and maybe I'll include them.

1. Mr. Crowley by Ozzy Osbourne

This song is about Aleister Crowley, a British practitioner of black magic in the early 1900s. Known as "The Wickedest Man Alive," one of Ozzy Osbourne's first singles after leaving Black Sabbath, "Mr. Crowley, did you talk to the dead? Your lifestyle to me seems so tragic/With the thrill of it all," sings Ozzy. "You fooled all the people with magic/You waited on Satan's call."

 

2. Bela Lugosi's Dead by Bauhaus

This was the first single from Bauhaus, which was an early Goth band. This, which is a very dark 9-minute epic on the death of a vampire, is considered the true start of the Gothic subculture. The song's horror-esque lyrics along with the many eerie effects and monotone sound were standards for the rise of Gothic music. Bela Lugosi was an actor famous for his portrayal of Dracula. Among other things, this song helped associate Goths and vampires.

3. I Walked With A Zombie by Wednesday 13

This song was inspired by the 1943 movie I Walked With A Zombie, which is a favorite of Wednesday 13's. Explaining how the song came to him, Wednesday told us: "I was reading about it in a book, and I was just looking through this book and I was playing guitar. Somehow I just started singing what I was reading, and it just turned into that song. It turned out to be so catchy, and I did a demo of it immediately. I went, 'Whoa, this is like super horror pop punk,' or whatever you want to call it."

4. Season Of The Witch by Donovan

One of the first songs to fit the "psychedelic" genre, Donovan recorded it in May 1966, shortly before his highly publicized arrest for possession of marijuana. During Led Zeppelin's soundchecks, they often warmed up by playing this. The song allows for lots of jamming when played live, which makes it a popular cover for many bands.

5. Clap For The Wolfman byThe Guess Who

Burton Cummings explained that the song began as a jam and was originally called "Clap For Napoleon." As they were appearing on NBC's Midnight Special a few times in 1973 (they hosted the show in '74), they changed the lyric as a tribute to the show's host, the late Wolfman Jack (real name: Robert Smith). Wolfman Jack even did a couple of live dates with the group, adding his trademark "vocal" rap, which was usually done live by Cummings. The Wolfman legend began in the 1960's when the DJ manned an unregulated Mexican radio station with the capacity to transmit 250,000 watts of power. His husky voice howled across the United States after the midnight hour and inspired artists like Todd Rundgren ("Wolfman Jack") and the Grateful Dead ("Ramble on Rose").

 

Let me know in the comments below what songs remind you of Halloween and maybe I'll include them next week. [H/T Songfacts]

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