The Costume Shop Playlist

Our Bonus Playlist for Year Three has arrived and for this special treat, we’re taking a trip to one of our favorite places ever!

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If you’ve been with us over the past few years, I’m sure you know that the Monday of Halloween Week brings a seventh playlist for the year – no show’s complete without an encore, right? And this year, we decided that the perfect curtain call for Music Monday would be to pay tribute to one of our favorite places to go during Halloween time – The Costume Shop, of course!

Honestly, it should be no surprise I grew up to be such a Halloween fanatic with an affinity for special events because when I was just a few years old, one of my favorite places in the whole world was the costume and party supply store just up the street from our house. My family even asked them to put a “Happy Birthday, Andrew!” sign in their display window one year around my birthday! (They did and I was beside myself.) There was just something so fun and enchanting about that little shop, and if I think hard enough, I can still remember even the smallest details about it: from the big red entrance doors to the aisles filled with costumes, the masks that lined the back wall and even the parrot animatronic that greeted you as you walked in.

In short, it was a magical place full of mystery, intrigue and possibility; which is exactly what I tried to capture with this year’s bonus playlist. Of course, most costume shops aren’t open year round anymore, popping up in late summer and shuttering by the first week of November, but the music they play has remained largely the same. Costume store soundtracks are this wonderful mix of novelty Halloween classics, modern songs with a spooky twist, and mood-setting instrumentals (usually horror movie and TV themes) that just so perfectly capture the essence of Halloween. Putting The Costume Shop playlist together took me back to the Halloweens of my childhood more than any of our others, and I hope it does the same for you.

Now before we turn the page on Music Monday for Year Three, I just want to say a special thank you to all of you who have been so enthusiastic about our playlists over the last three years – it’s crazy to think that we’ve now got 21 of them! They’ve become one of the (many!) highlights of doing our blog each year, and we’re so grateful that they’ve found such an audience. Thank you so, so much and again, enjoy our trip to The Costume Shop!

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