by Julian Spivey As we welcome October with its cool breezes, and - now socially distanced - festivities, we often think of scary movies, pumpkin patches and killers in masks. Rarely, if ever, do you hear anyone say what they’re looking forward to most about the season, is the music. Granted, Halloween music has nowhere near the mega-market that Christmas music has, but it seems that quality trumps quantity in this particular situation. With songs like Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” and Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition” Halloween season is a heavy hitter when it comes to music! That’s why we’re celebrating 31 Days of Halloween Hits here at The Word for the entire month of October. Every day we’re going to bring you a great song that fits right in on your Halloween playlist. Some are songs specifically written for the holiday, but others are great selections you can listen to year-around but have a great theme for the spookiest of all holidays. Some of these songs you’ve certainly heard and some are lesser known that we hope to familiarize you with. ![]() As we’re now almost 10 months into the year from Hell that has been 2020, doesn’t it seem like the visuals of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s apocalyptic 1969 hit “Bad Moon Rising” could occur at pretty much any moment? Like if someone just stopped me on the street and said: “Don’t go around tonight/Well it’s bound to take your life/There’s a bad moon on the rise.” I’d be like, “Yeah, that figures!” That’s probably how things felt in the late ‘60s too when CCR frontman John Fogerty wrote the song following the Hell that was 1968 in America with the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Presidential candidate Robert Kennedy, the civil rights struggles and the protests revolving around the Vietnam War. Or maybe Fogerty simply got the idea from watching a movie, as he told Rolling Stone in 1993. Fogerty reportedly wrote “Bad Moon Rising” after watching the 1941 film “The Devil and Daniel Webster” and being inspired by a scene involving a hurricane. He told the magazine the song was about: “the apocalypse that was going to be visited upon us.” Maybe he was 50 years too early?
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