Late singer/songwriter Andrew Gold is also back in the top 40 on the Hot 100 for the first time since the 1970s with "Spooky, Scary Skeletons."

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Andrew Gold ’s long-viral hit “Spooky, Scary Skeletons (Undead Tombstone Remix)” makes its Billboard Hot 100 debut this week, as the spooky-fun song bows at No. 35 on the chart dated Nov. 14. The latest list’s tracking week ran Oct. 30-Nov. 5, thus, capturing activity around Halloween .

The song’s popularity pushes its parent album, Andrew Gold’s Halloween Howls: Fun & Scary Music , to the top of the Kid Albums chart, marking the late artist’s first-ever Billboard No. 1.

“Spooky, Scary Skeletons” was performed, written and produced by Gold and first released in 1996. The track was popularized in 2010 when a YouTuber paired it with the 1920s Disney cartoon The Skeleton Dance . The song gained another life when it was remixed in 2013 by electronic duo The Living Tombstone.…