Family Halloween

Hey, the world's scary enough without traumatizing the tots on Halloween. That's why we came up with Family Halloween, a grab bag of musical treats that will introduce your lil' pirates and princesses to the sounds of the season in a fun and age-appropriate way. We kick it off with the time-honored and much-loved "Monster Mash" from Bobby "Boris" Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers, before prowling through everything from kid-specific ditties — the Hipwaders' "Howling At the Moon" — to parent-friendly rockers like Edgar Winter's instrumental monster "Frankenstein."

"This Is Halloween," sing the Citizens of Halloween, so keep the family fun going in Next Steps.

Halloween should be a good time for everyone, so we made sure our Family Halloween tunes were not just appropriate for your mini-monsters and wee witches but pleasing to the parental ear as well. Which means that, alongside freaky-fun story-songs like David Fair & Jad Fair's "Mummy," or Two of a Kind's sing-along "Hey Hey It's Halloween," you've got the happy hip-hop of MC Hammer's "Addams Groove," and Michael Jackson's all-time spooktacular smash, "Thriller." And when your tiny Spiderman is buzzin' on a major candy rush, just pump up Zombie Nation's "Sport Chant Stadium Remix" of "Kernkraft 400" and all join in to help him dance it off!

Halloween is our favorite stress-free holiday — there are no gifts to buy, no extended-family feasts to prepare, just the goofball fun of dressing up, hittin' the 'hood, and blowing our diets on chocolate bars and sweet, sweet candy corn! It's the perfect time for easy family fun, and we've just made it that much simpler with Family Halloween, our long-playing parade of terror-free tunes, from Charlotte Diamond's sing-along vampire hunter "Looking for Dracula," to the magical swing of Nicholas Hooper's "Wizard Wheezes," to the boppin' moppet glee of Doctor Noize's "The Monster Dance." With folky frolics ("Harry's Haunted Halloween Circus" from Ralph's World), to classic Disney ("Grim, Grinning Ghosts") to the ever-popular sounds of The Wiggles ("Dressing Up"), it's all treats and no tricks.