Songwriting couple get Spooky

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

— Spooky is the title of the new CD of children’s songs from Little Rock singersongwriters Brian and Terri Kinder.

The album’s 16 Halloween-inspired songs include “Bump in the Night,” “Squeaky Rocking Chair” and “Zombie Hop.”

Kinder says he started writing Halloween songs a year ago in the spirit of the season, remembering his own childhood nights of watching creaky old blackand-white monster movies on TV.

“He got into it,” Terri Kinder says, “and he kept writing.”

Some of the songs are especially apt for a creepy Halloween night in Little Rock. “How Do You Like Them Apples” tells an eerie tale about a tree best avoided, “way in the back” at Little Rock’s historic Mount Holly Cemetery.

And “Ghost” could be the theme song of any number of old and said-to-be-haunted mansions in the Quapaw Quarter and around the state:

Oh, it’s a spooky old house;

It could scare you to death almost.

When he tells his young listeners that only the brave can stand to hear a spooky song, Kinder says, “they practically line up to prove they’re not scared.”

But as happens in his song, “Spooky Movie Marathon,” he expects some of his audience will end up huddled under the covers with mom and dad.

More information is available at kindersongs.com.

Family, Pages 31 on 10/31/2012