TRACK #410:

Halloween by Number One Ensemble

Exactly 50 songs ago, when another Disco Block was coming to an end, I lamented that there weren’t any true-blue Halloween Disco songs.

But I did name drop a band called Number One Ensemble and alluded to them getting their day on the playlist. Well, we’re at the end of another Disco Block and that day is today.

Number One Ensemble was an Italy Disco/Italo-Disco band from the late 70’s and early 80’s. And it’s true, they have a decidedly Disco-enough sound to be considered as such. Unfortunately, their ode to the holiday, simply titled Halloween, does not seem to have that same disco sound. It’s plays more like a standard sort of early 80’s rock song, honestly, not that that’s a bad thing, it’s just maybe not what you wanna end a Disco Block with. But, as mentioned, this is pretty much it for Halloween specific “disco” songs, from what I can tell anyway. I’d love to be treated one day to an awesome, previously unaware to me Disco Halloween banger.

But that’s ok though, this song doesn’t really need to be an out and out Disco tune for our purposes here, and besides, I like this song! It’s been available our our YouTube page for a few years now and it’s been hanging out in the bullpen for what seems like forever, so here it comes.

Plus, it’s a good way to kick off the next Block’s theme, which is Hallo-Women! We’ve got an 11 track run coming at ya of songs either performed by women (8) or specifically about spooky women  (the other 3.)

I’m pretty pumped for this upcoming block, as it contains my favorite addition of the season, 2 awesome title tracks,  1 Halloween mistress we haven’t heard from in years, several long suffering benchwarmers and the first Song-Poem to hit The Shindig!

I’m running a little behind schedule this season, but we’re gonna try to slam all of these in before the big day. So let’s drop the needle of Number One Ensemble and get this thing going, cause we got 7 days to clear 11 songs before Halloween!