Halloween Special: A Dark and Lonely Night -- Haunted Love Songs for Halloween

From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow: Jazz and American Popular Song
Length: 59:01

An hour-long Halloween Special featuring jazz and American popular song. Read the full description.

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Perfect for the week or weeks leading up to Halloween: Afterglow features a different take on haunted music for Halloween, with evening laments and anguished odes to lost and longed-for love from Julie London, Kay Starr, Duke Ellington, Cassandra Wilson and more, including June Christy's performance of a song co-written by Kurt Weill and poet Langston Hughes. Elvis Costello does "Gloomy Sunday" (aka "The Hungarian Suicide Song"--you'll get the story behind it), Charles Brown stares into a black night, Al Hibbler's got a strange feeling, Nancy Wilson's haunted by a man who doesn't exist... it's a dark and lonely night of popular song for those in love on this Halloween edition of Afterglow.

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Piece Description

Perfect for the week or weeks leading up to Halloween: Afterglow features a different take on haunted music for Halloween, with evening laments and anguished odes to lost and longed-for love from Julie London, Kay Starr, Duke Ellington, Cassandra Wilson and more, including June Christy's performance of a song co-written by Kurt Weill and poet Langston Hughes. Elvis Costello does "Gloomy Sunday" (aka "The Hungarian Suicide Song"--you'll get the story behind it), Charles Brown stares into a black night, Al Hibbler's got a strange feeling, Nancy Wilson's haunted by a man who doesn't exist... it's a dark and lonely night of popular song for those in love on this Halloween edition of Afterglow.