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. ![]() If you’re looking for a song for a Halloween playlist that you’d also find pretty far up on a list of Greatest Songs of All-Time look no further than Stevie Wonder’s 1972 Billboard No. 1 hit “Superstition.” Rolling Stone magazine ranked “Superstition” as the 74th greatest songs of all-time in 2004. Seriously, is there a better lyric for Halloween than: “when you believe in things that you don’t understand then you suffer.” “Superstition” was the first single off Wonder’s Talking Book album in late 1972 and truly kicked off a decade of sheer dominance for the soulful singer that included Grammy Album of the Year wins for Innervisions, Fulfillingness’ First Finale and Songs in the Key of Life. “Superstition” was a collaboration between Wonder and Rock Hall of Fame guitarist Jeff Beck, who was an admirer of Wonder’s work. The spooky lyrics about struggling with superstitions were Wonder’s, but the music for the song came out of the opening drum beat created in studio by Beck with Wonder improvising on top of it and coming up with most of the song on the spot.
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