Gord’s Gold 1: Welcome My Gentle Listeners to the Gord’s Gold Halloween show, dedicated to ghoulies and ghosties, and long-leggedy beasties And things that go bump in the night. The special opening music was a selection from Tchaikovsky’s Sérénade mélancolique, played by the great thereminist, Clara Rockmore. She was the aunt of my late friend, Bob Sherman, the host of Woody’s Children. I love every show, but the Halloween, Winter Holiday, and baseball shows are my favorites. I can’t do a Halloween show without playing the dark deities of Gothic Folk, Charming Disaster. As great as their records are, their live shows are even better. Most of their songs are appropriate for the holiday but I had to choose one, here’s Haunted Lighthouse.
Charming Disaster – Haunted Lighthouse
Robert Sarazin Blake – Happy Halloween
Hungrytown – Footprints
Gord’s Gold 2: Are you in an eldritch mood yet? After Brooklyn’s Charming disaster we moved to the most northwesterly city of the most northwesterly state, Bellingham Washington the home of Robert Sarazin Blake. I had to play his Happy Halloween. We finished with Footprints, the just released Halloween Single by Gord’s Gold favorites, Hungrytown.
Now let’s hear from the man whose name sounds Martian, Gurf Morlix. Is the title Between Midnight and Dawn ominous enough for you?
Gurf Morlix – Between Midnight and Dawn
Hannah Rose Baker – Stretched On Your Grave
Gord’s Gold 3: After Gurf Morlix we heard the eerie Stretched On Your Grave by Hannah Rose Baker. That creepy song inspires cognitive dissonance in me as Hannah is adorable. You know what’s scary for a DJ? Programming two songs longer than six and a half minutes back to back. It shows how much faith I have in My Gentle Listeners.
You know how much I love the Whiskey Charmers. They released a Halloween single this year, The Day is Long, a sequel to their song Vampire. I’m bringing it a guest DJ to do justice to the introduction, take it away Bela. [The Children of the Night, what music they make.]
The Whiskey Charmers – The Day is Long
Jonathan Coulton – Creepy Doll
Paul and Storm – Live
Dan Bern – The Undead Are On Mainstreet
Amy Kucharik – Dread Cthulhu
Gord’s Gold 4: After The Whiskey Charmers we heard a quartet of funny songs, starting with Creepy Doll by Jonathan Coulton. Paul and Storm frequently opened for Jonathan and decided to write a song in the style of JoCo and succeeded with Live. Dan Bern always marches to the beat of a different drummer as he does with The Undead are On Mainstreet, from his Halloween Songs album. Dan specializes in songs for my theme shows, He also has a Hannukah album and several about Baseball. We finished with the delightful Amy Kucharik. If I didn’t already love her, writing a musical about Cthulhu at a Luau would have won my heart. That was Dread Cthulhu.
Why do so many of my friends write Halloween songs? Because I’m a freak. Phil Henry wrote a scary song about a witch, which flips the subject on its head. Extraordinary Woman is about a woman burned as a witch, the horror comes not from the witch but from the townspeople that committed the atrocity.
Phil Henry – Extraordinary Woman
Nicole Mish – I Talk to Ghosts
Guy Davis – I Thought I Heard The Devil Call My Name
Gord’s Gold 5: Looking under my transom I found I Talk to Ghosts by Niccole Mish a singer/songwriter from San Francisco. We finished with the great Guy Davis singing I Thought I Heard the Devil Call My Name. Tomorrow, give out candy to trick or treaters but for tonight, unpleasant dreams. Tchaikovsky let you and his Swan Lake will see you out. I have to apologize to My Gentle Listeners and to Nicole Mish, I mistranscribed the name of her song and on air said, Talk to Ghosts instead of I Talk to Ghosts.
Wise Madness 