It's 10:31 on 10/31

One of my favorite tracks from this years Halloween mix. For me , it encapsulates that feeling at 10:31 on 10/31. The holiday night is winding down.The pillow case emptied of its candy. The horror movie comes to a screaming close on the television.All while the melancholy finality of the end of the holiday sets in.:

Frantically
Searching for the keys
Jamie Lee
Please wake up Tommy

HazelRahs Halloween Mixtape 12 : "TRACK" or TREAT !

                                             It's HazelRah's Halloween Mixtape #12! 

                                                       "TRACK" OR TREAT !!

It's that time again.
The year is winding down. 

And the cold dark nights are coming.

  It is certainly looking to be the darker half of the year with the way this world is spinning. No amount of bonfire burning dance offs or guising will keep the ghosts of past at bay. 

 This year has seen the loss of many talented performers. Prince,Bowie, Wilder,to name a few.As a small nod of tribute , each make an appearance,in their own way on tonight’s mixtape. Prince leaves us with something spooky with an unreleased track from 1985.  Gene Wilder puts on a favorite costume and tries his best to look like Gary Cooper in an entertaining mashup that blends of all things Freddy,Fresh Prince and Young Frankenstein. And Bowie takes a bow in the form of Mike Nelson from MST3K fame , turn to the left, FAME, turn to the right.......OoOoOOOOHHH aHHH as he does his best “Lets Dance” era singing about the Little Shop of Horrors. 

 Speaking of the gloved one, it wouldn't be a HazelRah Halloween mix without an appearance or two from the A Nightmare on Elm Street world.This year the treats come from one of the two video games that were created based on the child killing character.Mmmm Mmmmm 8-Bit bites of nougaty goodness. 

Scared of Child’s Play? You need an analyst. No horror movie can scare Elvira's and her two big pumpkins when she takes the stage at Knott's Scary Farm to perform a horror themed parody of a popular tune. 

As things wind down for the night,Vincent Price reads us a short bedtime story to help us slip into a spooky slumber.

All weird things must come to an end, and as the candle inside the pumpkin slowly burns out, and we drift off into a sugar induced coma as the sadness of the nights end slips in, on the television we catch a glimpse of John Carpenter's movie Halloween flickering ...... 

 Frantically, 

Searching for the keys, 

Jamie Lee, 

Please wake up Tommy! 

 But before we can call it a night ,John Carpenter makes his yearly appearance in this once in a lifetime live recording of his classic “Halloween Theme” from the very same performance I was privileged enough to see. Still am stunned this was even a thing. The 9yo in me who fell in love with John Carpenter's soundtracks and music oh so many years ago still has a smile on his face today.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN !

1) "1...2....Freddy's coming for you" in glorious 8-bit sound in this tune taken from the soundtrack to the Nintendo Entertainment System
    Nightmare on Elm Street Game from 1990
2) William Castle introduces you to some information that is sure to make you ....tingle
3) Oingo Boingo know that the monsters and mayhem come alive "When the Lights Go Out"
4) Dr Loomis knows "We are all afraid of the darkness inside ourselves" in this Halloween II mini treat
5) Through a grimy window that she can't keep clean, Anne Clark can see "Our Darkness"
6) The great voice of Paul Frees welcomes the listener to the newest attraction at Disney, "The Haunted Mansion"
7) The Emergency "Haunt You" with this synth pop-(corn ball)
8) Tangina  knows that "to us, he is the Beast" in this spooky Poltergeist mini sound"bite" .
9) Prince sings of "Other's Here With Us" ....and we wish he was still
10) Of course "Betelgeuse" can be scary, he's seen the Exorcist 167 times.
11) Nash the Slash and his "Children of the Night" come out to play
12) His name is "Norman Bates" he's just a "normal guy, according to The Landscape
13) Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers, or "C.H.U.D" are coming up to town in this Trailer
14) "Subterraneans" want Flesh for Lulu
15) Lucy can not believe that her little brother is once again writing to The Great Pumpkin
16) Fear Condition don't suffer from Samhainaphobia as they sing of-" Halloween"
17) The Trailer for Lady Frankenstein. Playing with the dead is big in this family.
18) "Bring Frankenstein Back To My Street"- Gene Wilder meets the Fresh Prince and mix it up with Evanescence in this g4gorilla mashup
19) Brian Evans is the "Creature at the Bates Motel" .....in the room next to yours.
20) "The Couch Song" from the Simpsons Treehouse of Horrors XXVI
21) Homer doesn't want to alarm Lisa so he whistles a happy tune:...John Carpenter's Halloween Theme
22) Brainkrieg ,from the land of HomestarRunner, have a sour treat in the shape of "Decomposing Pumpkins"
23) ATTENTION ALL SHOPPERS!! ATTENTION ALL SHOPPERS!! It's the Sprites singing of their hero "George Romero". It will have you craving Craven and crowing for Cronenberg
24) "That Girl, that Strode girl.She's Michael Myers Sister" And he thought her night was already strange.
25) "Laurie (Strange Things Happen)" -Dickie Lee has seen things,beautiful and strange things.
26) "Don't Keep Satan Waitin" for Love (is) at Stake in this witchy sound"bite"
27) "I'm Not Scared " (of Horror movies) sings Elvira,Mistress of the Dark when she takes the stage at Knott's "Scarry" Farms in this live performance
28) The Rifftones implore you to "Eat Me"  in their best David Bowie impersonation
29) Vincent Price reads us a little bed time store about "All Saints' Eve"
30) It's now 10:31 on "Ten Thirty One" - and The Ghost in You have returned home from a night of Trick or Treating. The pillow case is emptied of its candy.The last half of the horror movie is coming to a close on the television.The sadness sets in. It's all over for another year.
31) It wouldnt be a HazelRah Halloween mixtape without an appearance of John Carpenter's "Halloween Theme". This time it comes to us from a LIVE recording via the show where I saw him perform at a concert in Pittsburgh this year.
32) Now, It's "The End,Freddy's Dead" in this track from the original soundtrack for the NES A Nightmare on Elm Street game.