#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

[blisteronthemoon]

with being into 10cc, you also have to find out about the side projects. in this case, this band has me in a headlock. wax didn't NEED to go this hard, but they did, and i thank them

(photo by michael putland)

[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!

[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??

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Halloween Song Bracket

Please listen to both songs before voting.

Spooky Scary Skeletons

Ghosts Just Wanna Dance

[blisteronthemoon]

hi, waxposting because i miss andrew a lot this morning

the chemistry these two have is absolutely amazing, and you can hear that in the music

[the-summer-sun-au]

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

[bipperdances]

WITCHES! WITCHES! WITCHES ON HER BROOMS!

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

[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.

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

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