Step back in time with 13 spooky Halloween songs from the 1920s and 1930s, featuring Cab Calloway, Bessie Smith, Al Bowlly and more.
- “Hush, Hush, Hush” — Henry Hall (1932)
- “Heebie Jeebies” — The Boswell Sisters (1931)
- “The Haunted House” — New Mayfair Dance Orchestra (1931)
- “Dancing the Devil Away” — Arden and Ohman Orchestra (1930)
- “Mysterious Mose” — Rube Bloom and His Bayou Boys (1930)
- “Minnie the Moocher” — Cab Calloway (1931)
- “Spell of the Blues” — Frederick Vettel (1929)
- “Ghost of a Chance” — Ted Fio Rito (1933)
- “Them’s Graveyard Words” — Bessie Smith (1927)
- “The Nightmare” — Cab Calloway (1931)
- “Ghost Walk” — Borrah Minevitch (1933)
- “Got the Jitters” — Don Redman and His Orchestra (1933)
- “Midnight, the Stars and You” — Al Bowlly with Ray Noble and His Orchestra (1934)
A spooky final note: “Midnight, the Stars and You,” recorded by Al Bowlly with Ray Noble and His Orchestra, gained an entirely new and unsettling association decades later when it was memorably used during the final moments of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980). Its dreamy 1930s ballroom sound became eerily perfect for the film’s mysterious closing shot.
