Halloween Audio Sources – Archived & Seasonal Radio Broadcasts

[RadioJonD]

The WXPN, 88.5, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania FaceBook page announced that this Friday's (October 30, 2015) "Mixed Tape" radio show is all Halloween! Best I can tell, "Mixed Tape" is also called "WXPN Music Mix." It comes on from 3am to 5am ET on Friday mornings.

From the page:

Since Halloween is on Saturday, the theme for this week's Friday Morning Mixtape is SCARY MONSTERS (AND SUPER CREEPS)! Let's get freaky.

 

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From the webpage:

Great News for Your Halloween Spirit!
You will be able to be in the Halloween spirit all week long with RadioHalloween.com! This is by far the best Halloween radio station available for many reasons. Besides playing the best in Halloween music, RadioHalloween.com also plays scary stories, Halloween poems and old time horror radio shows, with eight different radio shows! (see below) And you can even choose on demand programming right on site. These include additional Halloween songs, poems, radio shows, and videos!


You Can Be on RadioHalloween.com
RadioHalloween.com has a call in phone number that you can get on the air by calling in and giving a Halloween greeting, telling a scary story or making a Halloween dedication to someone special to be played on the air! Their number is: PHONE CALL IN LINE: 615-241-6787

Here is a list of all the RadioHalloween.com programs and times. Have a great Halloween week!


Program Schedule:


Top Halloween Songs playing the top Halloween songs (5:00 AM)



Season of The Witch with Alexa Lynn (7:00 AM & 1:00 PM)



The Jack O. Lantern Show (8:00 AM & 3:00 PM)



Monster Mania with Bob MacCabre (9:00 AM & 4:00 PM)



Mostly Ghostly with Grogoch MacBlair (10:00 AM & 5:00 PM)



Zombies on Parade with Caesar Zoran (Noon)



Halloween Jazz with Kent Kingston (8:00 PM)



Hard Rock Halloween with Hector the Headless Horseman (9:00 PM & 1:00 AM)



The Witching Hour with Glennelda (Midnight)

*all times are US Central Standard Time

 

[RadioJonD]

A.V. Club has 13 OTR Halloween themed shows up as embedded YouTubes. I guess the've added graphics for each show.

From the webpage:


“Lights out, everyone”: 13 old radio shows to creep you out for Halloween
By Gwen Ihnat@gwenemarie
Oct 26, 2015 12:00 AM

Think of them as podcasts from decades ago: Horror masters like Stephen King have pointed to the rich imagination of radio shows as offering more appropriate terror than the page or screen. In the era before television (just imagine), purely audio suspense was provided by not only by the writers, actors, and the listeners’ own imaginations, but the sound-effects engineers, in an art form that has now been lost to the ages. Gruesome shows like Inner Sanctum and Lights Out!helpfully provided health precautions with their intros for faint-hearted listeners. But the era’s premiere radio drama, Suspense, also offered lots of scary moments for the thrill-bound, as did the more adventure-based Escape and the sci-fi-themed X Minus One. Then the sound-effects guys would go to town, cracking walnuts to indicate bones and using ripe melons to depict bodies falling from buildings: the squishier the better. For Halloween this year, try one of our selections below, with mournful organ chords, creaky doors, and various screams by some names you’ll recognize, as many film stars flocked to the popular radio medium in an attempt to get further exposure. That’s only if you dare, of course.

1. Suspense, “The House On Cypress Canyon”
2. Lights Out!, “Cat Wife”
3. Escape, “Three Skeleton Key”
4. Suspense, “Ghost Hunt”
5. Lights Out!,“Murder Castle”
6. Inner Sanctum, “Black Seagull”
7. Lights Out!, “The Dark”
8. Suspense, “On A Country Road”
9. Mercury Theatre, “The Hitchhiker”
10. X Minus One, “Mars Is Heaven”
11. Suspense, “The Ten Years”
12. Lights Out!, “Valse Trieste”
13. Suspense, “The High Wall”
__________


A synopsis of each program appears under the each YouTube.

 

[RadioJonD]

Found this on Bloodshot Records FaceBook Page. Looks like we missed the the first airing, but a repeat airs Saturday, October 31, 2015.

From the page:



Bloodshot Records
October 24 at 12:31pm ·
Tune in to Radio Harbor Country WRHC-LP 106.7FM (via radio or online) today from 4-6PM ET to hear Bloodshot Rob himself spin 2 HOURS of obscure, scary and downright weird Halloween tunes. Stream it via the link below!

It re-airs next weekend as well, for the occasion.

Need more Bloodshot Halloween action? Check out our Songs ofHalloween playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/…/…/playlist/5kDOrncQG2d9lvS9OgYXcI

 

[RadioJonD]

Two things that seemingly go well together; Wolfman Jack & Halloween. And KOPA, 91.3 in Pala, California has them both!

Pala Rez Radio owned and operated by the Pala Band of Mission Indians will air six hours of Halloween shows starting with a Wolfman Jack Halloween show this Saturday, October 31, 2105 beginning at 6 pm, PT.

Check 'em out on FaceBook too.

 

[RadioJonD]

Traditionally RHC has aired an annual Halloween Spooktacular show for many years. I'm sure 2015 will not disappoint!

Find a station for October 31 and set a bookmark!

From the webpage:

Hear the show every week on these
public radio stations:
Kansas Public Radio - Saturdays @ 7:00pm
and Fridays @ 10:00pm
WESA 90.5 Pittsburgh, PA - Fridays @ Midnight
WKMS 91.3 Murray, KY - Fridays @ 11:00pm
Northwest Public Radio - Saturdays @ 6:00pm
KJEM 89.9 Pullman, WA/Moscow, ID - Saturdays 8:00pm


RHC also syndicates special shows via PRX as well. So stations aren't limited to the above.

The Retro Cocktail Hour Halloween Spooktacular will air this Saturday, October 31, 2015 on Kansas Public Radio. Other stations will air the same program at different times. Check the quoted post for times.

 

[RadioJonD]

On tonight, Tuesday, October 27, 2015, at 9PM PT.

From the webpage:

TONITE IT'S THEE 2015 INTOXICA RADIO HALLOWEEN SPECIAL! JOIN US IN THEE CHATROOM OR IN THEE FUTURE FOR THIS AMAZING EVENT! HOLLOW YOUR WEENERS, FILL 'EM WITH CANDY & STICK 'EM WHERE THEY FIT BEST! I BUSTED OUT A WHOLE LOTTA NEW PHANTOM PLATTERS, SOME MOLD FAVORITES & EVEN AN APPEARANCE BY ZACHERLEY HIMSELF!!! SO SLAP ON YOUR DROOL CUPS, PLUG IN YOUR iTARDS, STRAP YOURSELF INTO THEE SPINNING CHAIR & GET READY TO SPIN TILL DIZZIFIED! IT GONNA BE A REAL ROCK N ROLL GHOST A GO GO SHOW! MUSICK WITH THE-EE BEAT! 9PM KARLOFFORNIA TIME TONITE AT http://www.luxuriamusic.com/programs/intoxica
Art by Karl Kaos

 

[RadioJonD]

Cheeze Pleeze #591 - The 2015 Halloween Show

Show 591 Weekend of Oct 31st -Nov 1st, 2015
Total Time: 29:47 Talk Time: 09:24

Song List Halloween 2015

Night Of The Vampire-Moontrekkers
He’s a Vampire-Archie King
The Monster Hop-Bert Convy
Coolest Little Monster-John Zacherle
The Mad Scientist-The Zanies
The Mummy’s Bracelet-Lee Ross
Rockin In The Graveyard-Jackie Morningstar
The Night Before Halloween-Bill Buchanan

 

[RadioJonD]

GTown NET Radio's "Listen Up" show hosted by Tom Casetta will air a Halloween show for 2015.

From the FaceBook page:

The 4th annual Listen Up! cool ghoul party is happening with a brand new dose of slimy, zany obscuro rock and roll, graveyard stompers, and assorted other tricks and treats of a Halloweeny nature happens this Wednesday (Oct. 28th) from 2-4pm EST.

Miss it? The Listen Up Cool Ghoul Party is archived on Mixcloud!

"This show originally aired 10/28/15. The 4th annual Listen Up! cool ghoul party is happening with a brand new dose of slimy, zany obscuro rock and roll, graveyard stompers, and assorted other tricks and treats of a Halloweeny nature."

 

[RadioJonD]

WXPN, 88.5 FM - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

In less than 30 minutes form this post!

"Highs In The 70's" at 6PM ET will feature all 'Halloween-y' tunes.

 

[RadioJonD]

An RJD recommended show anytime! Halloween show is this afternoon.

Pete Clark has the playlist posted on the show FaceBook page.

The Orphanage Of Rock And Roll

As you can see from the new cover photo, I've been dieting. Actually, I'm preparing for the Halloween show next Friday. Tune in, turn on, creep out.

So says host Pete Clark on his FaceBook page! This is one of my weekly must hear radio shows. RJD recommended!

Fridays 3-6 pm ET on 91.3 WVKR and online at WVKR,org.

More from the WVKR webpage:

The Orphanage of Rock and Roll has been a home for homeless rock and pop records on 91.3 WVKR in Poughkeepsie, NY since 1995. ---- Join rock historian Pete Clark as he uncovers the deep tracks that fell between the cracks in the top-secret back room of the W-V-K-aRchives. ---- Footnotes in the history of rock and roll, along with vaguely familiar tracks you thought you’d never hear on the radio again.

 

[RadioJonD]

My pal Scott at Time Capsule Audio Network is airing Orson Welles’ original “War of the Worlds” this evening at 8 PM ET tonight, October 30, 2015, on the NTE radio station.

From the TCAN FaceBook Page:

TONIGHT!!! 8 PM EST-as it aired 77 years ago…Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater on the air “WAR OF THE WORLDS” scaring up a Halloween offering as it was intended to be…but it wasn’t! Scaring a lot of people. Listen by clicking on the links below:

http://tcanlowfi.listen2myradio.com/ (AM quality for retro sound)

http://tcan.listen2myradio.com/

 

[RadioJonD]

Coming up in just scant munutes (October 30, 2015) at 9:00 ET! A RadioJonD recommeded show!

Shake the Shack on KEXP 90.3 Seattle, Washington.

About the show from webpage:

Leon Berman
Rockabilly
Friday
6-9pm PT

Please join Rockabilly Hall of Famer, Dr. Leon Berman, "Cousin Mike" Fuller, the mysterious woman known only as “Red” and our youthful ward, Johnny Lignite, every Friday night for the best in rockabilly, boogie, rhythm & blues, country, western swing, surf and primitive rock & roll!

If names like Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Deke Dickerson, The Mezcal Brothers, Los Straitjackets, Ronnie Dawson, Wayne Hancock, Johnny Horton, Dale Watson and Speedy West don't get you excited, you're probably dead! Better get that checked out

From the Shake The Shack FaceBook Page:

Shake the Shack on KEXP

The aliens will be invading Earth tonight at 6, as the Shake the Shack Radio Theatre presents its adaptation of "The War of the Worlds"! You can follow along right here, with original work by acclaimed artist, Thom Head! 90.3 FM, kexp or the KEXP iPhone and Android app.

 

[RadioJonD]

KSER 90.7-FM, Everette, Washington

I'm betting that most, if not all, shows tonight and tomorrow will be Halloween themed.

Host Jim Hilmar had this to say about his show "Frettin' Fingers" FaceBook page:

On tomorrow's Halloween edition of Frettin' Fingers - you'll hear this Frettin' Fingers Favorit


I'm doing 'double duty' at KSER this Halloween Saturday (October 31st). Of course I'll be hosting Frettin' Fingers at 11:00 AM Pacific Time but I'll also be filling in for my good friend and KSER colleague Jeff Hofman on his classic soul music show - Dusties - at 5:00 PM Pacific Time.

Coming up on Frettin' Fingers - Peggy Lee, Uriah Heep, The Blasters, Rockin' Ryan And The Real Goners, Sue Moreno & Chris Casello, Joe Montgomery, Eilen Jewell, The Fireballs, Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps, B.B. King and plenty more! 11:00 AM Pacific Time on KSER - 90.7 FM - Everett, WA. Or listen online at kser.org.

 

[RadioJonD]

Most terristrial, NET, and satellite radio stations as well as podcasts and other online sources are featuring Halloween now through tomorrow night. I've been posting some that I find and some shows that I like. Add yours anytime!

After the season has past I'll try to remember to post a new archived source at least every Great Pumpkin Day. You are encouraged to post what you find anytime!

 

[RadioJonD]

Hope some of you found some Halloween shows to enjoy! There is still a little time left for 2015!

Meanwhile, back to the archives.


Basic Hip Digital currently has three vinyl albums ready to stream or download.

Time sensitive!! Download links stay up only a week. Streams are up for one year.

From the webpage:

Nightmare!!

Kenyon Hopkins
MGM SE-4104 Stereo
Total Time: 27:11

Track List
The Tell-Tale Heart
Invasion of the Locusts
The Loft
Ghost Ship
The Watery Grave
Chamber of Horrors
The Red-Eyed Rats
The Shaft
Werewolf
Living Tomb
The Chase
Tara's Theme
Monster Meet

Stream | Download

Day 302 | October 29, 2015


The Haunted Mansion

Thurl Ravenscroft and Cast
Disneyland 3947 Stereo
Total Time: 24:44

Track List

The Haunted Mansion - Part One
The Haunted Mansion - Part Two

Credits

Music by Buddy Baker
Narrated by Thurl Ravenscroft
Illustrated by Collin Campbell
Ghost Host: Pete Renoudet
Karen: Robie Lester
Mike: Ron Howard
Madam Leota: Eleanor Audley

Stream | Download

Day 303 | October 30, 2015

Terror Tales

The Old Sea Hag (Martha Wentworth)
Liberty LST-7025 Stereo
Total Time: 38:57

Track List

Terror Train
Mice from Outer Space
Devil Octopus
Shipwreck
The Spooky Wheer
Slumber Nice

Stream | Download

Day 304 | October 31, 2015

Unless otherwise specified, streams are available all year long. Downloads are available for one week only.

 

[RadioJonD]

The Retro Cocktail Hour Halloween Spooktacular will air this Saturday, October 31, 2015 on Kansas Public Radio. Other stations will air the same program at different times. Check the quoted post for times.

Miss the RCH Spooktacular? Now the scream is a stream! Show number 693.

 

[RadioJonD]

2016

"Those Were The Days"

From the webpage:

Tune in to our weekly program of vintage radio shows, with producer/host Steve Darnall, broadcast live every Saturday from 1 to 5 pm (Central time) on WDCB 90.9 FM in the Chicago area and world-wide on the Internet at www.wdcb.org.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29 - ANNUAL HALLOWE’EN SHOW

INNER SANCTUM (9-20-48) “Hangman’s Island” starring Mason Adams and Elspeth Eric. A treasure hunter travels to an island that contains a fortune in gold and a series of deadly traps. Cast includes Santos Ortega, Lawson Zerbe. AFRS rebroadcast. (25 min)

THE SHADOW (1-15-39) “Ghosts Can Kill” starring Bill Johnstone as the Shadow (alias Lamont Cranston) and Agnes Moorehead as the lovely Margot Lane. A convicted killer threatens to come back from the dead and kill again. The Shadow investigates. Ken Roberts announces. Blue Coal, MBS. (29 min)

SLEEP NO MORE (1-23-57) Nelson Olmsted dramatizes two stories and reads all of the parts in this anthology series. In Christopher Isherwood’s “I Am Waiting,” a man discovers he has a strange power; in A.M. Burridge’s “Browdean Farm” two men move into an English house with a murderous past. Ben Grauer announces. AFRTS rebroadcast. (30 min) Read the article about Sleep No More in the Autumn 2016 issue of Nostalgia Digest.

LIFE WITH LUIGI (10-30-51) Starring J. Carroll Naish as Luigi Basco, with Alan Reed as Pasquale, Mary Shipp as Miss Spaulding, Hans Conried as Schultz, announcer Charles Lyons. Hallowe’en is coming and Luigi is buying candy to give to the neighborhood trick-or-treaters. Wrigley’s Gum. CBS. (30 min)
HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL (8-23-59) John Dehner stars as Paladin, with Ben Wright as Hey Boy, Virginia Gregg as Miss Wong. Paladin is hired to track down the mysterious ghosts that have scared off the workers at a silver mine. Participating sponsors, CBS. (24 min)

WEIRD CIRCLE (2-20-44) “Frankenstein” is a radio adaptation of the classic story by Mary Shelley, about a scientist working on an experiment designed to create new life. Syndicated. (26 min) This year marks the 85th anniversary of the release of the classic movie version of this story.

Today’s show will be heard on our ghost-to-ghost network and over the internet in screaming audio. Don’t miss it!

 

[RadioJonD]

If you are on Spotify.

Here's a raw dump Spotify Halloween playlist containing tunes that would go into annual smaller Halloween playlists if I made them. (I also stash tunes there as reminders for the Halloween edition of my weekly radio show)

 

[RadioJonD]

My pal Scott at Time Capsule Audio Network is airing Orson Welles’ original “War of the Worlds” this evening at 8 PM ET tonight, October 30, 2015, on the NTE radio station.

From the TCAN FaceBook Page:

TONIGHT!!! 8 PM EST-as it aired 77 years ago…Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater on the air “WAR OF THE WORLDS” scaring up a Halloween offering as it was intended to be…but it wasn’t! Scaring a lot of people. Listen by clicking on the links below:

http://tcanlowfi.listen2myradio.com/ (AM quality for retro sound)

http://tcan.listen2myradio.com/

Time Capsule Audio Network online will once again air the original Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" from 1938 starting at 8:00 PM, Eastern on October 30, 2016.

War Of The Worlds with Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater (1938) Oct 30th, 8 pm. (preempts regular programming)