"Spooky Scary Skeletons" | |
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Song by Andrew Gold | |
from the album Halloween Howls: Fun & Scary Music | |
Released | August 20, 1996[1] |
Genre | Halloween, novelty |
Length | 2:08 |
Label | Craft |
Songwriter(s) | Andrew Gold |
Producer(s) | Andrew Gold |
"Spooky, Scary Skeletons" is a Halloween song by American musician Andrew Gold, first released on his 1996 album Halloween Howls: Fun & Scary Music.[2]
Since the 2010s, the song has received a resurgence in popularity online as an Internet meme.[2][3] In 2013, The Living Tombstone created a dubstep remix of the song. In 2019, Intelligencer's Brian Feldman called the song "the Internet's Halloween anthem",[2] and that same year, Rolling Stone's E. J. Dickson referred to the song as the "Halloween meme" of Generation Z.[4] 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.[5] “Spooky, Scary Skeletons” will be adapted into a children's picture book by Random House Children's Books featuring the lyrics to the song on August 27, 2024. [6]