The Happy Fits Get Classical With Their Exclusive Song Picks For ‘The Sound Of Halloween’ Playlist

Boo! It’s Halloween! Throughout October, HollywoodLife is running The Sound Of Halloween, where immoderate of your favourite fiends of music, movies, television, and popular civilization prime songs that should beryllium connected your Halloween 2022 playlist. As we bask the past afloat week earlier Halloween, we’re doubling your joyousness by adding a full-size dainty of TSOH. Today, it’s a treble measure of awesomeness arsenic The Happy Fits drops by, up of their circuit with Phoneboy.

(Rahil Ahsruff)

The Happy Fits – cellist Calvin Langman, guitarist Ross Monteith, and drummer Luke Davis – are enjoying the afterglow of releasing “Little Ones,” the astir caller azygous from their 2022 album, Under The Shade Of Green. Following “Around And Around,” Dance Alone,” and Changes,” “Little One” is an ode to the band’s aboriginal children, inspired by singer-songwriter Tom Rosenthal’s galore songs dedicated to his daughter. When Calvin has kids, expect him to spell all-out erstwhile October rolls around.

“So my parents didn’t bargain maine sweets increasing up. I retrieve for my day I’d get to spell to the market store and prime retired 1 container of “sugary cereal” for my present; astir ever Trix. Halloween was the 1 time of the twelvemonth that was my loophole,” helium tells HollywoodLife. While sharing his emotion of Count Chocula/Frankenberry/Booberry, Calvin besides selected immoderate classical tracks for The Sound Of Halloween and which modern fearfulness movie volition haunt his thoughts connected his band’s upcoming circuit (dates below.)

The Happy Fits’ Halloween Playlist Songs

Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett, “The Monster Mash by Bobby Pickett”

This is the eventual Halloween Jam successful my opinion. It includes each the ghoulies and goblins AND it’s sang by existent vampire?!? It doesn’t get much Halloween than that.

[Editor’s Note: Since we person the Bobby Pickett, Vincent Price, Misfits, and Don Hinson & The Rigamorticians’ versions connected TSOH playlist, we’ll adhd John “Zacherley” Zacherle’s rendition.]

Carnival of the Animals – Fossils by Camille Saint-Saens

Besides Carnival of the Animals being a wholly epic opus, Saint-Saens creativity utilizing the Xylophone to mimic the sounds of skeletons is unmatched. I perfectly emotion this portion and it ever gets maine Jonesing for immoderate candy.

Bach, “Toccata and Fugue successful D Minor”

I deliberation it’s the information this portion was written similar 400 years agone that makes it truthful damn haunting. If you perceive this euphony playing retired of someone’s location portion trick-or-treating you conscionable KNOW they mean business.

HollywoodLife: What is your astir salient Halloween memory? Like, erstwhile idiosyncratic says “Halloween,” what’s the archetypal happening that jumps into your caput from your past?  

So my parents didn’t bargain maine sweets increasing up. I retrieve for my day I’d get to spell to the market store and prime retired 1 container of “sugary cereal” for my present; astir ever Trix. Halloween was the 1 time of the twelvemonth that was my loophole. I would get truthful into Halloween and stockpiling candy, I would virtually representation my way astir municipality to get the astir candy successful the shortest magnitude of time. The houses with cauldrons (unattended bowls) are the ones you’d privation to deed ASAP. Cauldrons with king-size candy bars were the cream-of-the-crop. One twelvemonth I ended up collecting 14 pounds of candy. I thought it would past maine the full twelvemonth but it was fundamentally gone by December.

What bash you deliberation volition beryllium the astir popular Halloween costume this year? What SHOULD be, successful your mind?   

I deliberation Vecna from Stranger Things volition astir apt beryllium the astir fashionable Halloween costume. If I had to take what SHOULD beryllium the astir popular, I would astir apt spell with a Nudist connected Strike. My person and I did it 1 twelvemonth erstwhile we were lazy and didn’t privation to formal up- and I deliberation lazy Halloween is the vibe this year. The costume is simple- conscionable deterioration clothes.

Do you person immoderate peculiar October/Halloween traditions?  

Every twelvemonth we spell and enactment astatine our friends, the Policastro’s. I deliberation they walk astatine slightest 2 weeks decorating their spot truthful thing matches the vigor of their crib this clip of year.

If fixed a fund and escaped scope to bash whatever, what fearfulness movie would you prima in? You tin remake immoderate movie of the past, oregon you could make your own. 

I perfectly LOVED It Follows. For me, that would beryllium the astir amusive fearfulness movie to recreate. I similar to deliberation since I’m connected circuit each the time, It would person a hard clip pursuing me.

What’s connected pat for October for you — and the remainder of the year?  

We conscionable finished up our first-ever UK / EU circuit and are astir to caput retired connected a 6-week circuit crossed the US. We conscionable dropped a euphony video that I produced for 1 of my favourite tracks ‘Little One’ connected our newest medium Under The Shade of Green. We person a follow-up euphony video coming retired precise soon that I besides produced for our opus “In The Lobby,” which is astir apt my favourite way we’ve ever made.

(Rahil Ahsruff)

Tour Dates
November 8 – Burlington, VT – Higher Ground
November 9 – Hamden, CT – Space Ballroom
November 11 – Washington DC – Union Stage
November 12 – Pittsburgh, PA – Spirit Hall
November 13 – Columbus, OH – Newport Music Hall
November 15-  Detroit, MI – El Club
November 16  Indianapolis, IN – Deluxe
November 18 – St. Louis, MO – Delmar Hall
November 19 – Chicago, IL – Metro
November 20  -Minneapolis, MN – First Ave
November 22 – Denver, CO – Summit Music Hall
November 23 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Complex
November 25 – Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom
November 26 – Seattle, WA – Neptune Theatre
November 29 – San Francisco, CA – August Hall
November 30 – San Diego, CA – House of Blues
December 1 – Los Angeles, CA – The Fonda
December 5 – Dallas, TX – Trees
December 6 – Austin, TX – Scoot Inn
December 7 – Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall
December 9 – Orlando, FL – The Plaza Live
December 10 – Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade
December 11 – Nashville, TN – Basement East
December 13 – Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle
December 16 – Boston, MA – The Paradise Rock Club
December 17 – New York, NY – Webster Hall
December 18 – Philadelphia, PA – TLA