Merry Cryptmas

I am now officially starting a recurring, but not necessarily annual, tradition here at Spook Central of posting one or two holiday songs that aren't quite your normal holiday songs. I unofficially christened this new feature back in 2005 with the posting of two Rugrats holiday songs (I retrofitted that post to be part of this new series), and sewed the seeds of it about ten years ago with this year's songs, which I sent around via e-mail at that time to my friends. I could have sworn that I also posted them here, but since I apparently didn't, they become the official first in the new tradition.

I currently have enough material for several more years of holiday song posts. After that....well, I'll just have to see if I can find anything - assuming the Mayans are wrong and we're all still here after 2012. Maybe I'll take user submissions to help make this a continual annual tradition. I guess I'll see how this goes and what the reception is from you guys to this being a recurring feature.

We start with two oldies but goodies that demonstrate the special bond between Halloween and Christmas (and New Years). They come from the 1994 album Tales From The Crypt: Have Yourself A Scary Little Christmas, which is available for download at RapidShare, Megaupload, Rapidshare, Megaupload, and Rapidshare. (links courtesy of Vinnie Rattolle and the Universal Horror Sounds blog).


If you want something that's also humorous, but less creepy, to listen to tomorrow, check out Frank Welker's A Totally Ridiculous 12 Days of Christmas from 1986. Also, Amazon has many free MP3s available for download, including 25 special holiday ones which you can find via the banner link below. Please note that not all of the free holiday songs are on the 25 Days of Free page, so use the link in the previous sentence to see everything that's available. I personally recommend Rasheeda Azar's "Eight Days of Hanukkah", Sara Groves' "Toy Packaging", Big Bad Voodoo Daddy's "Mr. Heatmiser", Los Straitjackets' "Deck The Halls", Keyshia Cole's "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas", Sixpence None The Richer's "Silent Night", and if you don't mind something overtly sexual for the holidays Lady GaGa's "Christmas Tree".