Looking for some good Halloween records to search out for your holiday listening? Why not start with this list of Teens and Twenties Halloween Records!
We know that some of these songs have been done by others at different times, but these are some of the best recordings of each. Enjoy your Halloween...
Hallowe'en Dance - American Symphony Orchestra (1909) - Edison Standard Record: 10132
The Skeleton Rag - The American Quartet (1911) - Edison Standard Record: 10575
That Syncopated Boogie-Boo - The Premier Quartet (1913) - Edison Blue Amberol: 1646
Spookville Chimes Fox Trot - The Victory Military Band (1914) - Victor 35419
The Ghost of the Terrible Blue - The Peerless Quartet (1915) - Victor 17944
Spooky Spooks - One Step - The Victory Military Band (1917) - Victor18252
Graveyard Blues - Earl Fuller's Rector Novelty Orchestra (1918) - Columbia A2523
Skeleton Jangle - Original Dixieland Five (1918) - Victor 18472
I'm a Jazz Vampire - Marion Harris (1921) - Columbia A3328
Haunted House Blues - Bessie Smith (1924) - Columbia 81466
Dead Man Blues - Jelly Roll Morton (1926) - Victor BVE-36284
White Shivers - New Orleans Owls (1926) - Columbia W143112
Heebie Jeebies - Louis Armstrong (1926) - OKeh 9534
Ghost Dance - Truett and George (1927) - Columbia W144744
Dancing the Devil Away - Vaughn De Leath (1927) - Edison 11640
Devil's Gonna Git You - Bessie Smith (1928/9) - Columbia W146888
Bogey Wail - Jack Hylton and His Orchestra (1929) - His Master's Voice B 5607
Shoo Shoo Boogie Boo - Ethel Waters (1929) - Columbia W148673
Blue Spirit Blues - Bessie Smith (1929) - Columbia W149134
The Ghost of the St Louis Blues - Emmett Miller (1929) - OKeh W402934
The Boogy Man Is Here - Tom Gerun Orchestra (1929) - Brunswick 4430
The Spell Of The Blues - Frederick Vettel (1929) - Victor BVE-49633
Shivery Stomp - Frank Trumbauer’s Orchestra (1929) - OKeh W401961
Tain't No Sin, (To Take Off Your Skin And Dance Around In Your Bones) - Fred Hall (1929) OKeh W403611Haunted Nights - Duke Ellington (1929) - Victor BVE-55847