Haunting Music for Halloween SEATTLE, WA (KPLU) - Have you purchased your Halloween candy yet? Got a costume in mind for the big day? If not, perhaps this will help you get in the mood. KPLU's Nick Morrison has compiled a list of five Halloween songs for our Web site, kplu.org. Nick talked about some of the songs with KPLU's Kirsten Kendrick.

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Nick Morrison's Halloween Music Picks:

	Haunted House (Blue Ghost Blues) By Lonnie Johnson w/Elmer Snowden Blues And Ballads Fantasy/Prestige In 1961 ,blues guitarist/vocalist, Lonnie Johnson, along with his old friend, bassist, Elmer Snowden updated Blue Ghost Blues,' a song Johnson originally recorded in the late 1920's. This time around he called it Haunted House.'
	The Skeleton In The Closet By Louis Armstrong Heart Full Of Rhythm Decca/UMG From the 1936 Bing Crosby film, 'Pennies From Heaven'. View a portion of the film below.
	The House Is Haunted By The Echo Of Your Last Goodbye By Holly Cole Holly Cole KOCH This haunting' update of Mel Torme's 1958 recording is on Holly Cole's latest CD.
	The Ghost Of Smokey Joe By Cab Calloway New York, 1938-1939, Volume 2, Disc 3 JSP Records Eight years after Cab Calloway's massive hit Minnie The Moocher,' he was still coming up with hit songs about her. In this one, we find out what became of Minnie's boyfriend, Smokey Joe.
	Marie Laveau By Dr. John N'walinz-Dis Dat or D'udda Blue Note The story of The Voo-Doo Queen of New Orleans, told by the Crescent City's own, Dr. John.

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