#andrew gold

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Andrew Gold - Spooky, Scary Skeletons 1996

Andrew Maurice Gold was an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and record producer who influenced much of the Los Angeles-dominated pop/soft rock sound in the 1970s. Gold performed on scores of records by other artists, especially Linda Ronstadt, and had his own success with the US top 40 hits "Lonely Boy" (1977) and "Thank You for Being a Friend" (1978) (which was later used as the opening theme for The Golden Girls), as well as the UK top five hit "Never Let Her Slip Away" (1978). In the 1980s, he had further international chart success as one half of the new wave duo Wax. During the 1990s, Gold produced, composed, performed on and wrote tracks for films, commercials, and television soundtracks.

"Spooky, Scary Skeletons" is a Halloween song, first released on Gold's 1996 album Halloween Howls: Fun & Scary Music. It was one of nine original songs on the album, released to fill a void of availability of fun and scary Halloween original songs according to Gold on his 1996 liner notes. He produced, mixed, sang and played all the instruments on the track. It prominently features a xylophone to represent the sound of skeletal bones rattling.

In 1998, Disney included the song on their VHS tape Disney's Sing-Along Songs: Happy Haunting: Party at Disneyland! (which was released on DVD as Disney's Sing-Along Songs: Happy Haunting in 2006). They paired the song with the 1929 animated short film The Skeleton Dance by Ub Iwerks. The video has garnered over 31 million views since it was recreated and uploaded by a Youtube user. On October 31, 2013, the Youtube band The Living Tombstone created an electronic dance-like remix of the song with a faster tempo than the original. Their upload of the remix to YouTube has garnered over 102 million views. By 2022, there were over 5 million TikTok videos featuring the song. “Spooky, Scary Skeletons” was adapted into a children's picture book by Random House Children's Books featuring the lyrics to the song on August 27, 2024.

"Spooky, Scary Skeletons" received a total of 90% yes votes!

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Halloween Song Bracket

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One Good Scare

Spooky Scary Skeletons

[myimaginaryradio]

Lonely Boy - Andrew Gold

[bipperdances]

SPOOKY SCARY SKELETONS‼

(Do you think I won't put up a real classic before Halloween?

[the-90s-music-colosseum]

The Halloween edition.

Listen to both songs before voting, and define "better" any way you wish!

[happybirthdaymrbaskets]

If I told small me from a decade ago that we would one day get to work on a collab with The Living Tombstone, small me would lose their mind.

[iwasonlydancing]

Song of the Day #130

"Spooky, Scary Skeletons - Undead Tombstone Remix" by Andrew Gold from Halloween Howls: Fun & Scary Music (Deluxe Edition), 2019

[inkstainedpalettes]

Inktuneber Day 5

Spooky Scary Skeletons (Undead Tombstone Remix) - Andrew Gold

An absolute staple of the Halloween season at this point. Is it really Halloween without someone saying "spooky scary skeletons send shivers down your spine". No. It's not.

[arctic-hands]

Whoever flagged the Andrew Gold--as in, the singer who wrote for the Golden Girls and died fifteen years ago--Wikipedia page with Shinigami, that's not the right andrew gold, the podcaster

[modernmanblues]

aren’t they just the cutest little eskimos??

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Colin Wright: I'm coming from this classical liberal side where, and I thought we were achieving a lot of success in this idea that we were correctly identifying that there was a lot of variation in the degree to which people conform to sex stereotypes - there's masculine and feminine girls, masculine and feminine boys.

And we were at least going in the direction as a society of saying, that's completely normal, if you don't like that, deal with it. Like, these people exist and we should accept them.

And now we've kind of just gone the complete opposite. We're saying, well the boy who's very feminine, you're no longer a boy, you're actually a girl, you're stuck on the wrong body and we need to change you.

I'm just for the hands-off principle. Like, these are just normal people, these are just-- this is just natural variation and we need to let them be who they are. But then they would interpret "be who you are" as like, well they're born in the wrong body, so being who they are is modifying.

Andrew Gold: It's sort of-- I feel like there's authoritarianism coming from a benevolent dictator...

Wright: It was on the right path and then it just somehow, just totally got derailed and that's when I jumped off the train before it went off over the cliff.

Gold: Humans in big groups, they're just always going to do that, they're always going to start telling people they're in the wrong body, they're in the wrong thing, there's something wrong with who they are.

Both the right and the left have a really big problem with gender non-conforming individuals. You had the people on the far Christian right who don't like their feminine sons potentially being homosexual, and so they tried to change their brains to match your body, you know try to change your behaviors.

And then on the far left we have just the opposite, where they're, you know, they claimed to be accepting of it but now they're saying, well we need to change your body to match your brain.

It's just two ways to achieve the same end result basically.

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Halloween Song Bracket

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Spooky Scary Skeletons

Ghosts Just Wanna Dance

[the-summer-sun-au]

Andrew Gold - Thank You For Being A Friend (Official Music Video)

[gaykarstaagforever]

This song went to No 11 in 1978.

It was of course covered by Cynthia Fee in 1985, as the theme song of The Golden Girls.

Here is Cher singing that version, in tribute to Betty White, because I am a gay.

FUN FACT!: The original "Spooky Scary Skeletons" from 1996 is also an Andrew Gold original.

[bipperdances]

WITCHES! WITCHES! WITCHES ON HER BROOMS!

(real good remixx, do you think TLT will release something for Spooky Month?)

[gayboss-too-close-to-the-sun]

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American Pie, The Sound of Silence, and Jesus of Surburbia fit in a way I can’t articulate

The Chain, Carry on Wayward Son, and Fortunate son… Lonely Boy, Rebel Rebel, Beat It…