![]() ![]() Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. MORGAN: (As Tracy Jordan, rapping) Werewolf bar mitzvah - kooky.Ĭopyright © 2021 NPR. SAGHER: They played it at my nephew's bar mitzvah, but I think that was because Aunt Tami was there. SIMON: And she likes to hear the song in its native habitat. SAGHER: The fact that it is listened to and remembered is amazing. SIMON: Does she think it's a Halloween song that will last? SAGHER: Honestly, like, we get into it about what a bar mitzvah is - like, Temple Beth Emanuel and the haftarah. SIMON: Tami Sagher thinks one of the strengths is the song's attention to detail. I just feel like it's nice that we - there's so much going on in the werewolf experience that isn't just about, you know, gazing at the moon and baying. ![]() PETRI: These werewolves - like, they have a faith tradition that means a lot to them. SIMON: Alexandra Petri says she appreciates that the song features a holistic appreciation of werewolves. PETRI: And it's such a great tribute to, like, you know, Bobby Pickett and all the novelty - like, it has that vibe while also having its own story. 3 Halloween song of all time in a list published last week, behind only Andrew Gold's "Spooky Scary Skeletons" and, of course, "Monster Mash." SIMON: That's Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri. And I continue to feel that way about it. So Donald went in and recorded some stuff as Tracy.ĪLEXANDRA PETRI: I heard the song before I actually watched the episode, and I'm just like, this stands on its own merits. ![]() SAGHER: But then also - there was a change in lyrics, or there was some stuff that Tracy just didn't record. Donald Glover, then a "30 Rock" writer and now a Grammy-winning musician, Childish Gambino, added lines as Tracy's friend. They brought in Tracy Morgan to record the full track. MORGAN: (As Tracy Jordan) This whole premise is sweaty. It doesn't - it seems a little sweaty now so. ![]() GLOVER: (As character) I don't - I just don't think this - the idea of the song can sustain itself for that long. It's Tracy so it has to, like, fall apart and go off the rails. SAGHER: His notes on it were, it's too straightforward. She wrote more lyrics and shared them with Robert Carlock. SIMON: Then it fell to Tami Sagher to flesh out the werewolf song, if you please. MORGAN: (As Tracy Jordan, rapping) I was working late on my haftarah when I heard a knock on my bedroom doorah (ph). (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "WEREWOLF BAR MITZVAH")ĭONALD GLOVER: (As character) Aw, man, Tray, look up at the sky. SIMON: So they expanded the snippet to a full song. And I think the episode was right before Halloween, and we were like, how do we capitalize on this? So it was, like - we knew right away this was really big. So it was on this NBC site, and they - people would watch, like, a full-minute commercial to watch this 15-second clip. And it was also a time where, like, things were not on YouTube or, if they were, NBC would take them down. SAGHER: It got a lot of attention, which we were very excited about. SIMON: Better to attack the dessert table. SAGHER: And the whole inspiration for that is just what happens at a bar mitzvah. SIMON: That's Tami Sagher, a writer on the show. TAMI SAGHER: So my contribution was just boys becoming men, men becoming wolves. SIMON: That's Tracy Morgan as Tracy Jordan on the NBC sitcom "30 Rock." Showrunner Robert Carlock wrote the first line. TRACY MORGAN: (As Tracy Jordan, rapping) Werewolf bar mitzvah - spooky, scary. SIMON: Not Bobby Pickett's 1962 classic "Monster Mash." Well, yes, Bobby Pickett's 1962 classic "Monster Mash," but also another novelty song of later vintage from 2007 and originally just seven seconds long. UNIDENTIFIED SINGERS: (Singing) The monster mash. UNIDENTIFIED SINGERS: (Singing) He did the mash.īOBBY PICKETT: (Singing) He did the monster mash. Halloween means costumes, candy, ghosts, green monsters and a novelty song to top them all. ![]()
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