Halloween 2020 may be behind us now, but it’s weirdness will forever remain.
Here’s all the tunes from our 2020 Halloween episode of Shindig Radio, Happy Halloweird, condensed into one, easy to listen to and bullshit free playlist. Enjoy everyone!
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Episode 16: Happy Halloweird
Shindig Radio is back and we’re celebrating the weirdest year in recent memory by loading your pumpkin with the weirdest Halloween songs you can imagine.
You’ll hear holiday classics from the likes of The Shaggs, Jan Terri, Butch Patrick, The Ghostbusters and more!
And for the first time ever, Shindig Radio is picking up The Creep Phone to listen to your calls!
Join Mikey Rotella, Paul Lynde, Graham C. Schofield, Salsa’s Kamar de los Reyes, Matt Mastrella, The Old Gray Goose, Joe Piscapo and Jeff Baloney for the weirdest Halloween Special since Pinky Tuscadero sang Disco Baby with KISS!
So put on your masks, grab a fistful of pumpkin boys and get ready for some football, cause anything can happen on a Halloween episode of Shindig Radio, and this one’s a disaster!
It’s…
Happy Halloweird!
Sweet Transvestite
TRACK #194:
Sweet Transvestite by Tim Curry
And since we’re talkin’ about sweet songs and everything, nothing quite says “Halloween” without saying “Halloween” at all, like The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Poor Tim’s been sitting in the Shindig Bullpen for years now, just waiting for the right opportunity to provide some relief.
And rowing away from Camp Arawak aboard Dr. Frank-N-Furter’s transsexual canoe seems as good a place as any for him to step in at last and provide a nice hanging curve-ball.
So here, at number #194, it’s Tim Curry’s trash-camp classic, Sweet Transvestite.
Has anybody Seen My Tambourine?
Has anybody seen my tambourine?
Chroma Key Master
Tim Curry: Chroma Key Master
Soul Thief
Tim Curry: Soul Thief
Tim Curry and a Weird Ass Pumpkin
Here’s Tim Curry and a weird ass pumpkin
Anything Can Happen On Halloween
TRACK #90:
Anything Can Happen On Halloween by Tim Curry
If you thought you’d only get Tim Curry singing as Dr. Frank-N-Furter here on the Shindig, then boy are you in for a treat.
From the 1986 shot-on-video oddity The Worst Witch comes this ridiculous tune about Halloween itself, sung by Grand Wizard (did they seriously call him Grand Wizard?) Tim Curry to Mrs. Cackle’s Academy for Witches.
Anything Can Happen On Halloween reassures us that anything can happen on Halloween, like a dog turning into a cat, or a toad appearing in your bass guitar. You know, crazy shit. Demonic shit.
A YouTube viewing of this drug-induced mass hallucination is definitely advised. Here it is if you’re feelin’ lazy.
Crazy gif-blast to follow. They’re good ones too.
Oct. 7th: The Worst Witch (1986)
Years before J.K. Rowling stole her main character’s name from John Buechler, Jill Murphy was busy crafting more material for Ms. Rowling to pilfer.
First published in 1979, Murphy’s children’s series The Worst Witch concerned the young Mildred Hubble and her misadventures at Miss Cackle’s Academy For Witches.
Yep, that’s right. A British woman wrote a series of kid’s books about a witch school. In the 80’s.
In 1986, British television produced the first novel into this 7th night entry for our Halloween festival.
The Worst Witch stars a young Fairuza Balk, British Avenger and Bond Girl (and Bond Wife) Diana Rigg, and creepster extraordinaire Tim Curry.
It’s an odd piece of shot-on-video 80’s weirdness that actually gave me the the creeps in my youth, when I would catch it around Halloween on HBO.
That’s mostly thanks to Mr. Curry and his Halloween visit to the Academy, where he sails in on the biggest cape this side of a Spawn comic and sings the weirdest fucking Halloween song you can imagine, all to some of the greatest chroma key effects 1986 could muster.
If you’ve never seen The Worst Witch, or that sequence, I highly recommend its viewing. The impatient souls among you can visit it on YouTube. I have yet to master the art of hot linking from my phone, so simply copy the text: Anything Can Happen On Halloween – into a YouTube search.
Make no mistake, although it hasn’t showed up yet, Anything Can Happen On Halloween makes it’s appearance on the playlist a bit further down the road. I’ll post some gifs of that madness when the time comes, as currently my laptop is doing its best impression of HAL-9000.
Until then, celebrate the 7th with a little Halloween gold called The Worst Witch.