Guess the Halloween Songs

Our friend, Tim Lawson, got bored one Saturday about this time last year and spent the day creating a Halloween music collage. It is snippets of pop songs from the 60's, 70's and 80's (with a few TV theme songs). The songs all have a Halloweenish "things that go bump in the night," mystic, magical, ghoulish, neurotic kind of themes (yes, there is an America song).

There were 39 brief song segments in the audio file that he created. There were 4 TV theme songs, 3 well known album tracks and the rest are all Top 40 hits from the 60's, 70's and 80's (OK 2 are from the late 50's).

This was a fun Halloween contest, trying to guess the songs and the artists (there was no need to guess the artists of the TV theme show snippets). The answers are at the bottom of this page.



Clip# Title Artist Peak Chart# Chart Date
1. Witch Queen of New Orleans Redbone #21 11/71
2. You Can Do Magic America #8 07/82
3. Frankenstein Edgar Winter Group #1 03/73
4. Black Magic Woman Santana #4 11/70
5. Sympathy for the Devil Rolling Stones Album Track
6. Witchy Woman Eagles #9 09/72
7. Gypsy Woman Brian Hyland #3 09/70
8. Helter Skelter Beatles Album Track
9. Spooky Classics IV #3 12/67
10. Magic Carpet Ride Steppenwolf #10 03/68
11. Maniac Michael Sembello #1 06/83
12. Evil Woman ELO #10 11/75
13. Angie Baby Helen Reddy #1 10/74
14. Who Can It Be Now? Men At Work #1 7/82
15. Bad Moon Rising CCR #2 05/69
16. Magic Olivia Newton-John #1 05/80
17. Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft Carpenters #32 10/77
18. Werewolves of London Warren Zevon #21 03/78
19. Thunder and Lightning Chi Coltrane #17 09/72
20. The Devil Went Down to Georgia Charlie Daniels #3 06/79
21. Come Sail Away Styx #8 09/77
22. Devil Woman Cliff Richard #6 07/76
23. Magic Pilot #5 04/75
24. Maneater Hall and Oates #1 10/82
25. Mama Told Me (Not To Come) Three Dog Night #1 05/70
26. Strange Magic ELO #14 03/76
27. Maxwell's Silver Hammer Beatles Album Track
28. Spiders and Snakes Jim Stafford #3 11/73
29. These Dreams Heart #1 01/86
30. Addams Family Theme from TV Show
31. Munsters Theme from TV Show
32. Twilight Zone Theme from TV Show
33. Dark Shadows Theme from TV Show
34. Dark Lady Cher #1 01/74
35. Monster Mash Bobby "Boris" Pickett #1 09/62
36. The Purple People Eater Sheb Wooley #1 06/58
37. Ghostbusters Ray Parker Jr. #1 06/84
38. Witch Doctor David Seville (Chipmunks) #1 04/58
39. Thriller Michael Jackson #4 02/84


Last Revised: 16 February 2020