It was recorded - by Raffi. I sang that song in assembly in grade two.
For me it was:
Sweet Dreams
Hall of the Mountain King
That sounds similar to the song that scared me so much when I was a kid. I don’t know if it has a title but it goes: “Have you seen the ghost of John? All white bones and the rest is go-o-o-one! Oooo-ooo-oooo! Wouldn’t it be chilly with no skin on?”
Scared me to death when I was in the kindergarten/first grade age range.
“Dry Bones”, made me think of the scary picture of a skeleton in my mom’s home medical handbook.
Another DOA vote. I had such a bad reaction to this song I can’t explain it here.
I know this is a zombie, but if you want creepy, Bob Rivers recorded a version of the carol “O Little Town of Bethlehem” to the tune of “House of the Rising Sun” with a dead-on imitation of Eric Burdon and the Animals.
I got two:
The theme from the original “Dark Shadows” still creeps me out;
A “Night Gallery” episode–The Tune in Dan’s Café–had a song on the jukebox that played over and over and abruptly stopped at the same spot every time (…'til death…). The creepy part is, a year or so after that was on TV the first time, my mother is playing the local country station loudly while doing some housework and HERE COMES THAT DAMN SONG! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa… .
ELO’s “Fire on High” scared me because there is a ride called the Astrosphere at a theme park in Maine I went to called Funtown Splashtown USA, and the song was played on the ride. The ride is a regular Scrambler ride, but it’s in the dark and there’s laser lights being projected. I was having fun, until the part where everything goes dark and I look up at the ceiling (this ride was indoor) and see A HORRIFYING SKULL FACE THAT LOOKS LIKE THE DEMONIC LOVECHILD OF ADMIRAL ACKBAR AND THE CREEPY ALIEN FROM THE STAR TREK CREDITS being projected on the wall. They projected that goddamn face a few more times and it just freaked me out. What’s worse is later that night when I was going home, Fire on High came on the radio and I could not stop thinking about that face at the beginning. Fuck you Funtown.
the song is actually about an aircraft crash, but at least one video shows a car crash.
“Puff the Magic Dragon.” When I was 5 I hated that song. I thought the dragon died in the end and I didn’t want to hear about it.
Little drummer boy. The song still creeps me out.
Well, if you need an antidote…
I can never hear “Dem Bones”/“Dry Bones” without thinking of one of my absolute favorite classic Peanuts Sunday strips. (From the sixties, maybe?)
Lucy’s putting together a dinosaur skeleton model and Linus asks if he can give a hand. She says sure, you can do the legs. So Linus (with Snoopy looking on–don’t ask me why he’s at the Van Pelts’ place) starts on the skeleton, muttering, “The toe bone connects to the foot bone…and the foot bone connects to the ankle bone…and the ankle bone connects to the leg bone, right?” He and Snoopy start dancing wildly and singing a version of “Dem Bones” that gets more mixed-up (and louder) as it goes along. By the time Linus gets to “The knee bone connects to the wrist bone!” we see Lucy in the background with a look of I-HAVE-ONE-NERVE-LEFT-AND-YOU-ARE-STOMPING-ON-IT…
…and the last panel shows Linus and Snoopy being HURLED out of the front door, with Charlie Brown in the background with a look of “dafuq?” on his face.
To the extent that it is reasonable to have reopened a 15-year-old thread, we can at least shuffle it off to a forum that did not yet exist back in the frontier days. Relocating thread from IMHO to Cafe Society.
This is so funny…or is it eerie? Just yesterday I got my daughter to record some tunes for me, and among them was DOA. I was born in 1970 but had never heard it, and this thread, way back in 2001, was the impetus that made me search it out.
I love scary stuff, and find DOA very interesting. 
I liked DOA, didn’t scare me at all, Timothy was disturbing.
Even though I never saw the movie, this Tubular Bells used to give me chills
I know eh, 15 years has to be a new record.
“Sweet Dreams” by The Eurythmics still gives me the creeps.
What always strikes me is that there’s only about twenty seconds of this piece in the film, but it’s considered synonymous with the movie.
We must have had other threads about this because I’m sure I’ve answered this yet I didn’t see a post from me. I was absolutely freaked out by the opening organ music in Elton John’s Funeral for a Friend. Another creepy opening is Wings’s Silly Love Songs. It’s this industrial, clangy sound that was freaky to me for some reason. Then there’s Tell Me Something Good with the weird panting sounds just before the chorus. One I didn’t hear until a few years ago, even though it’s from the '60s is the Chambers Brothers Time Has Come Today. It has this weird sequence where they just keep shouting “time” while the music slows down and it’s just disorienting and disturbing as hell. A girl in the office used to bring in her mp3 player that had all kinds of music from different eras, which was fun, and one day this song came on and it was not fun. I asked “what the heck is this?” and she told me it used to scare her when she was little. I told her “well it’s scaring me now!”.
I like zombie threads. They give us an insight into the past of this place.
The song, not a popular one, is that old kids song that starts…
“Did you ever see a hearse go by…”
It was a top 40 hit.