Tasked with the somewhat difficult task of finding ways to do Halloween-week shows, we still managed to cook up new episodes that debut on Wednesday afternoon, as The AIR brings you new installments of Curtain Call and Beatles Blast, each of which try to get a little scary.  You can tune in at the website, or just stay right here and  listen to the convenient embedded radio player lurking elsewhere on this page.

At 2 PM (EDT) Beatles Blast brings you a musical collage of spooky-sounding songs and dialogue produced by The Beatles, together and solo.

As to what that entails…well, I’m not going to tell you. I will let you know that you will hear chunks of “Revolution 9” and some of the soundtrack album for the movie Son of Dracula, which starred Ringo as Merlin the Magician, with Harry Nilsson as the son of the prince of darkness. Woven into this bizarre fabric are songs and snippets of songs by each of the Fab Four solo, as well as a group number or two.

It’s a little different, but it was either do this, or try to build a show around heavy metal covers of Beatles’ tunes.

Beatles Blast can be heard every Wednesday at 2 PM, with replays Thursday at 11 PM, Friday at 1 PM,  and Saturday afternoon.

At 3 PM (EDT) on Curtain Call, Mel had a bit of an easier time assembling a Halloween-appropriate show, also a mixtape, but she had a lot more spookiness from which to choose.

You will hear songs from Broadway, off-Broadway, London, animation, concept albums and we even have one from The Lyric Opera of Kansas City. In case you were wondering what an Opera based on Stephen King’s The Shining would sound like.

Check out the list of songs, in order…

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“La Mort de Marie Laveau” from the World Premiere Recording of Witch Hunt
“Night of the Living Dead” from the Original concept recording Night of the Living Dead: The Musical
“Hell Is Forever” from Hazbin Hotel
“Spooky Mormon Hell Dream” from The Book of Mormon
“These Woeful Days” from The Shining
“Baptism of Blood” from Dreams of Dracula (Original Off-Broadway Recording)
“How To Recognize A Witch” from The Witches OLC
“Til the Day We Die” from Helluva Boss
“50,000 Pounds of Power” “My Futura” from Metropolis (Demo)
“Take Off Your Mask” “Immortal” from Wicked Clone or How To Deal With The Evil (Off-Broadway Cast)
“The Plan” “If You Want Perfection” from Death Becomes Her
“Car Crash Ballet” from Dusk: A Bite-Size Love Story
“Haunted German Wood” “Might As Well Go To Hell” from Gutenberg! The Musical OBC

Curtain Call can be heard on The AIR Wednesday at 3 PM, with replays Thursday at 8 AM, Friday at 10 AM, Saturday at 8 PM and Monday at 9 AM. A six-hour marathon of classic episodes can be heard Sunday evening starting at 6 PM, and an all-night marathon of Curtain Call episodes can be heard Wednesday nights, beginning at Midnight.