Here’s the last Halloween song for this October. Pet Sematary was a terrible movie, but the Ramones’ song has a catchy hook: “I don’t want to be buried in a pet sematary.” Well, no, of course not — it’s for pets. (It’s spelled sematary in the book and film because the sign for the cemetery…

Continuing a Halloween theme this October — The recording of Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead by Marion Hutton and Glenn Miller and His Orchestra was made on August 10, 1939. Although Judy Garland had sung portions of the song during recording sessions for The Wizard of Oz, Miller and Hutton’s version was the first standalone recording. (Ella…