Crooner's Beatover-Promptober
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Words from Crooner: “I tell ya’ what, there ain’t nothin’ to be had from this ‘tag-me’ game if you don’t have the right inspiration.
That’s the reason ya’ do these ‘prompt-tober’ challenges, isn’t it? You want something to INSPIRE ya’ don’t cha? You’re gonna need some musical motivation. Thankfully, I know my way with oldies.
Draw up the images that come to mind when you hear these swinging beats sung by the gods off swing and jazz themselves’.
Bettye Lavette - “Witchcraft in the Air”
Cab Calloway - “Nightmare”, “Minnie the Moocher”, “The Ghost of Smokey Joe”
Ray Charles - “Hit the Road Jack”
Nina Simone - ”I Put a Spell on You”, “Sinnerman”, “Pirate Jenny”
Todd Rollins - “The Boogieman”
Andy Williams - “Spooky”
Frank Sanatra - “Blue Moon”, “Witchcraft”
Sarah Vaughan - “I’m Afraid the Masquerade is Over”
Billie Holiday - “Gloomy Sunday”, “What a Little Moonlight can Do”
Ozzie Nelson - “Strange Enchantment”
Julie London - “This October”
Screamin Jay Hawkins - “Little Demon”, “Whistling Past the Graveyard”, “Alligator Wine”
Stevie Wonder - “Superstition”
Jo Stafford - “Haunted Heart”, “Old Devil Moon”
Rosemary Clooney - “The Wobblin Goblin”, “Pumpky Pumpkin”
Jelly Roll Morton - “Dead Man’s Blues”, “Creepy Feeling”
The Treniers - “One of the Bushes”, “Devil’s Mambo”
Eartha Kitt - “I Want to be Evil”, “I’d rather be Burned as a Witch”
Anita O’Day - “Bewitched, Beguiled and Bewildered”, “The Walls Keep Talkin”
Johnny Cash - “I walk the Line”, “Ghost Riders in the Sky”
Peggy Lee - “Bewitched”, “He’s a Tramp”
Bing Crosby - “Halloween”, “The Headless Horseman”
Steve Cook - “The Legend of Dogman”
Ella Fitzgerald - “Lullaby of the Leaves”
Louis Prima - “Mr. Ghost goes to Town”, “Old Black Magic”
Nat Gonella - “The Skeleton in the Closet”
LaVern Baker - “Voodoo Voodoo”
Louis Armstrong - “This Black Cat”, “Jeepers Creepers”
Glen Miller - “Swinging at the Seance”
Duke Ellington - “Haunted Nights”
Artie Shaw - “The Nightmare”
Draw em’ good, and don’t forget to sing-along along. I swear I’m not listening…”