{"id":11466,"date":"2022-10-22T09:15:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T13:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/millheiser.com\/hokeyblog\/?p=11466"},"modified":"2022-10-27T16:12:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T20:12:42","slug":"buttkickin-halloween-songs-mysterious-mose-rube-bloom-1930","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/millheiser.com\/hokeyblog\/2022\/10\/22\/buttkickin-halloween-songs-mysterious-mose-rube-bloom-1930\/","title":{"rendered":"Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Mysterious Mose” — Rube Bloom (1930)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"When your path at midnight dark by a graveyard goes
\nAnd someone whistles: Ley-de-dooo?
\nThat’s Mysterious Mose!<\/em><\/p>\n

On some dark and stormy night, while the tempest blows
\nIf someone whistles: Ley-de-dooo?
\nThat’s Mysterious Mose…<\/em><\/p>\n

If a bopping 1930 jazz\/swing tune prominently features a slide whistle, I’m so in. SO in. You have no idea.<\/p>\n

Modern audience best remember Mysterious Mose<\/strong> — if indeed it is in ANY way remembered — as the title of a Fleischer Brothers’ animated short, in which the exquisite Betty Boop <\/em>sings the signature tune amidst some wondrously entertaining 1930s black-and-white animation. Rather conveniently, the short resides in the public domain so you can check it out online, if you’re so inclined.<\/p>\n

Accordingly, the song itself isn’t anything too deep, but it’s entirely great fun; a bouncy warning to beware the nefarious graverobber of the same name. Or perhaps, a mischievous spirit of some kind. Maybe even a poltergeist. I’d like him to be a poltergeist. Let’s just use poltergeist, shall we?<\/p>\n

Unless he’s a graverobber.<\/p>\n

Well anyway, as far as I can ascertain a man named Walter Doyle composed and published Mysterious Mose<\/strong> in 1930. That very same year, the multi-talented Rube Bloom (pianist, singer, songwriter, bandleader, etc.) recorded a version that we are featuring today, and it’s a crackerjack of an old-timey spooktacular. In other words, perfect for Halloween.<\/p>\n

Seriously, give Mysterious Mose<\/strong> an immediate listen. If you are not utterly charmed by its swingin’ rhythms and Bloom’s gleeful “ley-de-doos”, you may or may not be a turnip. Or a graverobbber. Whatever. This is quintessential Halloween material. Did I mention that it’s got a slide-whistle?<\/p>\n

He sees all, he knows all; he’s just been everywhere
\nSome night, he might wait for you upon the stair!<\/em><\/p>\n

So when you’re going down the cellar, walk upon your toes
\nAnd if someone whistles: Ley-de-dooo?
\nThat’s mysterious mose!<\/em><\/p>\n