Winslow Leech

A song by horror rock band – There are so many to pick from, like pumpkins in a haunted pumpkin patch on Halloween night, how about: Be My Ghoul by The Undead (featuring The great Bobby Steele) from the lp The Morgue the Merrier

A song with a great scream or shriek – ‘Till the Following Night by Screamin’ Lord Sutch

https://youtu.be/o5Kp_DbKjtI

Song about death or dying- Wow, there are so many to pick from! Punk and metal abound with songs about death and dying, entire subgenres like Horror Punk, Gothic and Death Metal are totally about it! Just between Alice Cooper and the Misfits I can think of several dozen great songs. I almost picked Death Walks Behind You by Atomic Rooster (Great 70s metal/prog song)… or even earlier, Leader of the Pack by the Shangri-La’s (boyfriend gets killed in a motorcycle accident)… My runner-up is 1965’s Laurie(Strange Things Happen) by Dickey Lee (a very odd pop song about meeting a girl at a dance and it turns out that she’s really dead, he finds the sweater that he loaned her on her grave in the cemetery!)… But my final pick is a song with not just one death, but one that chronicals over a dozen deaths …
People Who Died by the late, great Jim Carroll band!

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Song in a horror movie soundtrack- He’s Back (man behind the mask) by Alice Cooper, theme to Friday the 13th VI- Jason Lives

Day 29: Single vs LP version – The liners to the original 2 LP Nuggets set state that this version, released on 45, was a different take from the “album version”. While that is somewhat true, it’s not quite that simple. The single version ended up becoming the album version as well. Some copies (that I assume to be first pressings) of the “Gloria” LP have a different version that the one I posted and the song’s title is spelled “Oh Yea” like the Bo Diddley original. Other copies have the song spelled “Oh Yeah” and have a yellow oval added to the front cover containing the words “Oh Yeah”. These copies have the same version as the single. The version I’m posting is the “single” version which is much stronger due to a Joe Kelley lead guitar part that isn’t present on the take that was included on some LP copies.