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"Dead Man's Party" 
Single by Oingo Boingo from the album Dead Man's Party Released April 29, 1986 Format 7" Recorded August 1985 Genre New Wave Length 6:23 Label MCA Writer(s) Danny Elfman Producer Danny Elfman, Steve Bartek Oingo Boingo singles chronology "Just Another Day"
(1986)"Dead Man's Party"
(1986)"Stay"
(1986)"Dead Man's Party" is a song by American New Wave band Oingo Boingo released as the third single from their fifth studio album Dead Man's Party.
The lyric "I hear the chauffeur coming to my door/Says there's room for maybe just one more" is a reference to the "The Bus-Conductor," a short story involving a hearse driver by E. F. Benson, published in The Pall Mall Magazine in 1906. The story has been adapted several times and spawned an urban legend, with each version using the catchphrase, "Room for one more."
The song is perhaps best known for its appearance in the 1986 film Back to School and its accompanying soundtrack; Oingo Boingo appears in the film performing the song.
The song is listed on Clear Channel's infamous list of "songs with questionable lyrics" following the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Track listing
- 7" single
- "Dead Man's Party"
Danny Elfman · Steve Bartek · Johnny "Vatos" Hernandez · Sam "Sluggo" Phipps · Dale Turner · Leon Schneiderman · John Avila · Warren Fitzgerald · Doug Lacy · Marc Mann
Kerry Hatch · Richard Gibbs · Carl Graves · Michael BacichStudio albums Only a Lad · Nothing to Fear · Good for Your Soul · So-Lo (as Danny Elfman) · Dead Man's Party · BOI-NGO · Dark at the End of the Tunnel · Boingo (as Boingo)Live albums Compilations Boingo Alive • The Best of Oingo Boingo: Skeletons in the Closet • Stay • Best O' Boingo • Anthology • The Best of Oingo Boingo: 20th Century Masters: The Millennium CollectionExtended plays Singles "You Got Your Baby Back" • "Only a Lad" • "Wake Up (It's 1984)" • "Weird Science" • "Just Another Day" • "Dead Man's Party" • "Stay" • "Pain" • "Not My Slave" • "Winning Side" • "Flesh 'N Blood" • "Out of Control" • "When the Lights Go Out" • "Insanity" • "Hey!"Related articles Discography • List of members • Richard Elfman • Dead Bands Party: A Tribute to Oingo Boingo • Drink to Bones That Turn to Dust • Forbidden Zone (soundtrack) • Tito & Tarantula • Psychotic Aztecs
Categories:- 1986 singles
- Oingo Boingo songs
- Halloween songs
- 1980s single stubs
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