They paired the song with the 1929 animated short film The Skeleton Dance by Ub Iwerks. In 1998, Disney included the song on their VHS tape Disney's Sing-Along Songs: Happy Haunting: Party at Disneyland! (which was released on DVD as Disney's Sing-Along Songs: Happy Haunting in 2006). It prominently features a xylophone to represent the sound of skeletal bones rattling. Andrew produced, mixed, sang and played all the instruments on the track. 'Spooky, Scary Skeletons' was one of nine original songs on the album Halloween Howls, released, according to Gold on his 1996 liner notes, to fill a void of availability of fun and scary Halloween original songs. In 2021, Alexandra Petri of The Washington Post ranked the song number two on her list of the 50 best Halloween songs of all time. Dickson referred to the song as the 'Halloween meme' of Generation Z. In 2019, Intelligencer 's Brian Feldman called the song 'the Internet's Halloween anthem', and that same year, Rolling Stone 's E. Since the 2010s, the song has received a resurgence in popularity online as an Internet meme. ' Spooky, Scary Skeletons' is a Halloween song by American musician Andrew Gold, first released on his 1996 album Halloween Howls: Fun & Scary Music.
1996 song by Andrew Gold 'Spooky Scary Skeletons'įrom the album Halloween Howls: Fun & Scary Music
