Most of the songs you hear every Halloween, from “Monster Mash” to the Cramps’ catalogue, don’t come from New Orleans. Here’s our attempt the remedy that, with 10 ghostly gems from Louisiana-associated artists:

Louis Armstrong, “Skeleton in the Closet”

This 1936 gem, which Armstrong sang in the film Pennies from Heaven, has it all: Dancing skeletons, giggling goblins, witches dancing with their broomsticks and a nifty horn solo. Plus Satchmo shouting “Don’...