I've Got a Skeleton in My Closet!

It's Halloween month and when it's Halloween month, I switch all the music in my CD player over to Halloween themed music. I have a huge Halloween Music Collection with all styles of music being represented. One of my favorite genres of Halloween music however, is 'vintage' Halloween music by big band greats like Glenn Miller and Louis Armstrong. Nothing puts me in more of a Halloween mood than Kay Starr singing "Swinging at the Séance" or Louis Armstrong singing "Skeleton in the Closet". (Note that I managed to say 'Halloween 6 times in just 4 sentences....ha!)

As most of you can see from my sidebar, I have a link to a Halloween CD also called "Swingin' at the Séance". This CD is a compilation of remakes of those fab old vintage Halloween tunes, and the swanky band is the mondo talented Moon-Rays. Now I know that I've blogged on them before, and I've also gifted their CD's in several Give Aways. You can see the video for "Swingin' at the Séance" here on the Give Away blog post I did last year. My connection to the CD is that I'm the artist who had the big fun of doing all the artwork for the 12 page CD Cover/Booklet. I get no kick backs from pushing their CD at all mind you....I just think it's a fabulous CD that everyone should have in their Halloween Collection.

So the band just recently released a new video from "Swinging" for the remake of the Louis Armstrong tune "Skeleton in the Closet". They actually styled the video to mimic the styling that was used when Louis himself sang the song. It incorporates the use of Halloween shadows and imagery for some ghostly fun!

* * But shhhh......I have a special little secret to share with you all about this song. As a musical 'thank you' and nod to me for doing the artwork, the band threw a special lil' surprise onto the CD for me while recording it, which was very cool indeed. In this song, there is a verse that says, "All the witches, were in stitches, as their steps made rhythmic thumps, and they nearly dropped their broomsticks, when they tried to do the bumps." So their surprise was that they changed this verse for ME! The revised verse says, "All the witches, were in stitches, as their steps made rhythmic thumps, then WENDY dropped her broomstick, when it tried to do the bump!!!"
(It's at 1:21 in the video.)

Ha Ha....ain't that just the niftiest lil' 'shout out' ever?! I was so surprised and so honored to be immortalized in a recording! That will be my one and only claim to fame in this life...ha! Of course my kids love to hear that part of the song almost as much as I do! So I thought I'd share my secret here with the rest of you Halloween Heads, along with The Moon-Rays new video for "Skeleton in the Closet", from their Halloween CD, "Swingin' at the Séance."
(You'll want to turn my music player off so you can hear the song.)

Also, at the top of this post is a poster that the band had me do for them so they could send it out with the CD's. I used those old 'Spook Show' posters of yesteryear as my inspiration. When you could spend an evening at a good ole' fashioned Séance and Midnight Jamboree for entertainment! And you were usually guaranteed to see a specter or two. It's a shame they don't hold these anymore....I'd be the first in line! :o)
Artwork © 2008 Wendy A. (All Rights Reserved)