Witchcraft and Magic Playlist

Witchy music playlist for Halloween


Be inspired for the season of the witch with this playlist of witchy music and magic themed songs, divided into different decades.

1940s

You’ve Got Me Voodoo’d – Louis Armstrong
That Old Black Magic – Glenn Miller 

1950s

Mad Witch – Dave Gardner
Witch’s Brew – Darla Hood
I'd Rather Be Burned As A Witch - Eartha Kitt
Castin’ My Spell – Johnny Otis
She’s My Witch – Kip Tyler and The Flips
That Old Black Magic - Sammy Davis Jr./Frank Sinatra
Witchcraft – Frank Sinatra/Sarah Vaughan 
Spellbound by the Moon - The Enchanters
Voodoo - The Ivies
Voodoo Woman – Sam Smiley
Voodoo Voodoo – Lavern Baker
Castin’ My Spell – Johnny Otis
I Put a Spell on You - Screamin’ Jay Hawkins

1960s

Season of the Witch – Donovan / Julie Driscoll
I Put a Spell on You – Nina Simone/Screamin’ Jay Hawkins/The Animals/Audience
  Witches Brew – Janie Jones
  Bewitched – Peggy Lee
It’s Your Voodoo Working – Charles Sheffield
Voodoo Woman - Curtis Knight
That Old Black Magic - Ella Fitzgerald/Frank Sinatra
Bewitched, Bothered, Bewildered - The Mohawks
The Witch – The Sonics
Love Potion No. 9 – The Searchers
She Put A Hex on You – Them 
Wicked Annabella – The Kinks
Magic Carpet Ride – Steppenwolf
Black Magic Woman – Fleetwood Mac
Crimson Witch - The Moving Sidewalks 
Voodoo Child – Jimi Hendrix
   Strange Brew – Cream
It’s Alright Ma, It’s Only Witchcraft – Fairport Convention
Tam Lin – Fairport Convention
The Gloucester Witch - John Allison
Do You Believe In Magic – The Lovin’ Spoonful
Voodoo In My Basement - The Lovin' Spoonful
My Girlfriend is a Witch – October Country



1970s

Witchy Woman – The Eagles
Black Magic Woman – Santana/Fleetwood Mac
Rhiannon – Fleetwood Mac
Suspiria - Goblin (from the soundtrack to Dario Argento's Suspiria)
Witches Promise – Jethro Tull
Alison Gross – Steeleye Span
The Witch - Mark Fry
Lady Eleanor – Lindisfarne
The Witch of Westmoreland – Archie Fisher/Stan Rogers
Swamp Witch – Jim Stafford
Marie Laveau – Bobby Bare
Witch Queen – Redbone, another song about Marie Laveau the famous Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.
Magic – Pilot
Witch's Wand - Luv Machine

1980s

Witch Hunt - Rush
Abracadabra – The Steve Miller Band
Lady Evil – Black Sabbath
Mr Crowley - Black Sabbath
Moonchild -  Iron Maiden, another song inspired by the work of the famous occultist Aleister Crowley
It’s Your Voodoo Working – Charles Sheffield
Witchcraft - Book of Love
You Can Do Magic - America
Dance of the Witches – John Williams, from The Witches of Eastwick
A Kind of Magic - Queen
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic – The Police
Voodoo Dolly - Siouxsie and the Banshees

1990s

Witches Rave – Jeff Buckley
  

2000s

Wicked Old Witch - John Fogerty
Double Trouble – John Williams, from the soundtrack to Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban
Fortune Teller – Robert Plant
The Wizard - Bat For Lashes



 

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