This is a difficult one for me. I can’t remember the actors. I can’t remember the movie’s name. I believe it was in color. All I remember is this… It’s a very OLD movie at its youngest it may be from about 1951, and it’s oldest it may be from the late 30s or early 40s. One of the main characters encounters a GHOST (which with my crappy memory I can’t remember if ithe ghost was unseen or if there was some form of animation to convey that there was a ghost in the movie) but it clearly sings about where “my bones here lay”-those are the actual lyrics… and the thing that makes this voice stand out, is it was an early version of voice modulation that made the unaccompanied solo MALE vocals sound otherworldly like a flute, or as though it was being sung through a phase shifter or a Leslie organ speaker or very possibly an early version of a Vocoder. Musician readers or fans of disco know what a Vocoder is… it does a robotic voice. After the ghost sang the quick shanty about where its beepity-blanking bones were, the main character had the crap scared out of him and it was a CLUE to some mystery this movie was based on.
At first I thought it was from Abbot and Costello, or maybe a Bob Hope movie, but who knows?! My research led me to nothing. My roommate watches TONS of old movies and we watched (in my case HALF watched) this movie TOGETHER and even he is stumped on what TF I am talking about. HELP!!! 
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The Ghost Breakers?
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Have a look at this list Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "ghost", "singing" - IMDb I used the keywords ‘ghost’ and ‘singing’ with a year range of 1800-1955 and it came up with 28 titles.
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