![]() ![]() if not created, by TikTok creator minecrafter2011, a 16-year-old whose version of the dance appears to have been posted last month ( TikTok does not currently have a timestamp feature), which has garnered nearly 5.2 million likes. From what we can tell, the choreography appears to have been popularized. The origin of the actual Spooky Spooky Skeleton choreography that we currently see trending on TikTok remains something of a mystery. He also wrote “Final Frontier,” the theme for the Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt sitcom, Mad About You. Unbelievably, “Thank You for Being a Friend” is not Gold’s only contribution to the NBC sitcom theme song canon. (That version was performed not by Gold, but by jingle singer Cynthia Fee.) Nonetheless, it officially entered the pantheons of pop culture history when it was selected as the theme song for the 1980s sitcom The Golden Girls, where it can be heard on TV Land reruns to this day. When it was first released in 1978, “Thank You for Being a Friend” was conceived by Gold as a mellow yet sunny soft rock ditty in one interview, he said he considered it something of a “throwaway,” and that it took him about an hour to write. His most significant contribution to pop culture history, however, is probably writing and performing the original version of “Thank You for Being a Friend” - which is now best known as the theme song for The Golden Girls. ![]() Gold had some minor pop radio hits in the 1970s, most notably “Lonely Boy,” which was later covered by the Foo Fighters and used to heartbreaking effect in the movie Boogie Nights (and, to significantly less heartbreaking effect, in Adam Sandler’s The Waterboy). ![]() ![]() The son of Hollywood composer Ernest Gold and legendary Hollywood ghostsinger Marni Nixon, Andrew Gold started his career in Linda Ronstadt’s band (that’s his guitar work, by the way, on her landmark 1974 album Heart Like a Wheel) before launching his own solo career. Who sings “Spooky Scary Skeletons”? “Spooky Scary Skeletons” is a 1996 children’s novelty hit by pop musician Andrew Gold. Below, a brief history of the meme itself, as well as an official introduction to the man responsible for sending many a shiver down TikTokers’ spines. While “Spooky Scary Skeletons” has only been blowing up TikTok relatively recently, few know the backstory behind the meme, let alone the artist behind the song itself, who spent his career playing a backseat yet key role in shaping many watershed pop music moments. An 11-second segment of the song has been featured in about 2.2 million videos, and the #spookydance hashtag has about 243.1 million views. Some, such as Ellen Show staffers who recently posted a version on the show’s TikTok, are attempting the dance in full-blown skeleton costume others take a more minimalist approach. For the past few weeks, the #teens have been posting TikToks of themselves doing a highly choreographed dance to an insanely catchy dubstep remix of a song called “Spooky Scary Skeletons.” The dance itself is a bit comparable to the Chicken Noodle Dance, albeit jauntier, sexier, and more spasmodic. ![]()
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