Showing posts with label Vintage Halloween Songs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vintage Halloween Songs. Show all posts

Saturday, October 28, 2023

Mysterious Mose

Mysterious Mose, first performed by Walter Doyle and his Orchestra in early 1930. Click on the pic for the original cartoon, starring an early version of Betty Boop! 

Whoooooo!

There's a man of mystery, roaming through this land
Ooo-Ooo-Ooo-Ooo-Ooo!
Far and near you'll hear of him, he's found on every hand
Ooo-Ooo-Ooo-Ooo-Ooo!

Every city, town and village knows this boy by now
There's a way to recognize him, let me tell you how!

If you're past that midnight dark beside a graveyard goes
And someone whistles...
Whoooooo!
That's Mysterious Mose!

Or on some dark and stormy night, while the tempest blows
If someone whistles...
Whoooooo!
That's Mysterious Mose!

He sees all, knows all, gets in everywhere
Some night, he might wait for you upon the stair![Chorus]


So if you're going down the cellar, walk upon your toes
And if someone whistles...
Whoooooo!
That's Mysterious Mose!

Whoooooo!

He sees all, knows all, gets in everywhere
Some night, he might wait for you upon the stair!

So if you're going down the cellar, walk upon your toes
And if someone whistles...
Whoooooo!
That's Mysterious Mose!

If you're past that midnight dark beside a graveyard goes
And someone whistles...
Whoooooo!
That's Mysterious Mose!

If someone whistles...
Whoooooo!
That's Mysterious Mose!

Saturday, October 21, 2023

Swingin' at the Seance

Lyrics and music by Al Avey, Ernie Carnice and Eddie Stone
Dorothy Claire with the Glenn Miller Orchestra 
 
In a house up on a rock 
along the countryside
At precisely twelve o'clock
the spooks begin to rise

Swingin' at the seance
twelve ticks
Swingin' at the seance
hot licks
With the medium in trance 
How that horn began to dance 
 

Swingin' at the seance 
five men
Swingin' at the seance 
jive men 
When the trumpet blasted out
All the spooks began to shout
 
That music came through so sweetly low-down 
Yet nobody knew who was riff-riff-riffin' around
 
Swingin' at the seance
black coats
Swingin' at the seance
blue notes
 
While the trumpet could have won a cup
Its jivin' broke the seance up 
And who do you think was a-riffin' away? 
No one else but Billy May

Listen to this lively tune played by The Glenn Miller Orchestra here.