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No tricks just treats
Halloween as it's celebrated in the USA isn't much of a thing in Australia. The candy companies try to sell it but it isn't widely accepted. But here at the Down Under Hour we enjoy Halloween, especially as All Hallows Eve, so this is our Halloween All Hallows Eve special edition program.
The Zombie - C.W. Stoneking, off his 2014 album Gon' Boogaloo. (The C.W. is for Christopher William.)
Rattlin' Bones - Kasey Chambers, the title track of her 2018 album. It is labeled a Kasey Chambers album but her husband at the time, Shane Nicholson, is a prominent contributor.
Red Right Hand - the Nick Cave song, featuring a fella who goes by the name of Kram, whose day job is singing and drumming for the venerable Aussie band Spiderbait, from a Nick Cave tribute concert tour called Straight To You that went around Australia in 2012, presented by a national radio network. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds did it in 1994 on an album titled Let Love In.
Date With A Vampyre - The Screaming Tribesmen, part of a 1985 EP. It was singer-guitarist Mick Medew's band and at various times included Chris Masuak (Radio Birdman), Mark Kingsmill (Hoodoo Gurus), and Ron Peno (Died Pretty).
Keep Your Monster On A Leash - Grand Wazoo, from a 2008 live album titled Soul Monster. Huey Lewis co-wrote the song and Tower of Power recorded it in 1991.
Howlin' At the Moon - Bondi Cigars, it was on their album Down In the Valley, a 2001 release. The band's name comes from Australian slang for a piece of excrement (i.e. turd) found floating in the sea, originally coined by swimmers and surfers at Bondi, a beachside suburb of Sydney.
Late This Night - Neil Murray, from his 2009 album the Wondering Kind. Murray was a founding member of the Warumpi Band, the first Aboriginal rock group to achieve mainstream success; it had a mix of Indigenous and non-Aboriginal members.
Even Witches Like To Go Out Dancing - Graveyard Train, from their 2010 album The Drink, the Devil & the Dance.
Werewolf - Felicity Cripps, from her 2024 album Chasing Volcanoes.
Three-Headed Dog - Jungle Jim Smith, the song was on his album This Is Ghost Country, a 2024 release.
Speak of the devil
Devil Inside - INXS, it was on their 1987 album Kick.
Playing With the Devil - Mr Brown, from their 1998 album Four Foot Head.
The Devil Drives - Broderick Smith's Big Combo, from their self-titled 1981 album. As a singer and harmonica player, Brod Smith was ubiquitous and beloved on the Australian music scene playing in such influential bands as Carson and the Dingoes.
From spiritual to swing
Spirit Got Lost - Mental as Anything, it was on their album Creatures of Leisure, which came out in 1983.
I'm Not Afraid of the Dark - Paul Kelly with a song from 2025, the album titled Seventy, his 30th album, released the year he turned 70.
Another World -, by Hoodoo Gurus, it was on their 1989 album Magnum Cum Louder.
Dom Mariani and the Majestic Kelp start us off, move us along, and tell us when we're done.
