While listening to Holiday Hits selections on Stingray Music over the past week, I was puzzled. Initially, I thought, "It's close enough to Halloween. Why aren't they playing continuous Halloween music? Why are they just sprinkling it in here and there between pop hits from various decades?"
The more I thought about it, though, I saw the logic. Halloween isn't like Christmas. There aren't a wealth of Halloween-themed songs from which to choose, and there are only so many truly good Halloween tracks to play. If they'd played a four-hour loop of the same Halloween songs repeatedly, listeners might have tired of the repetition quickly. By dropping a Halloween song in every now and then, listeners are kept guessing--and they might listen longer than they would have otherwise.
When it comes to Halloween-appropriate music, though, I still think these are some of the best choices.
