Halloween is the best season for novelty holiday songs, and “Monster Mash,” Bobby “Boris” Pickett’s 1962 smash hit, has long been the gold standard. Not only did Pickett book an all-star lineup of ...

Bobby “Boris” Pickett, whose dead-on Boris Karloff impression propelled the Halloween anthem “Monster Mash” to the top of the charts while cementing his place as one of pop music’s most enduring ...

There was an actual monster mash. It was a real dance. From what I understand, you’d do the mashed potato, except you’d leave your arms dangling out in front of you, like you were a zombie. If time ...

Halloween has arrived, and somewhere between the pumpkins and fake cobwebs, a familiar beat crawls back from the dead. Monster Mash slips into the air again, as it has every October since 1962, a ...

A Halloween conspiracy theory going viral on Twitter has social media users coming to a startling realization about Bobby Pickett’s beloved perennial hit “Monster Mash.” “Very troubling that the song ...

If you watch the Billboard charts closely, there’s a good chance you’ll see a 50-year-old single sneak into the Hot 100 as we get nearer and nearer to October 31st. With the new rules in place ...

No song sums up Halloween more than “Monster Mash.” Bobby “Boris” Pickett was an aspiring actor in LA when he recorded it in 1962. It was just a novelty tune, but it spent the week before Halloween ...

“Monster Mash” was originally written as a parody of several pop fads that have faded away, but the song is an American novelty song that lives on like a vampire. In the early 1960s two cultural ...

On the 25th anniversary of the release of the classic Halloween song “Monster Mash,” creator Bobby Pickett posed for photographer Robert Gabriel. Times staff writer John Voland reported on the ...

Bobby "Boris" Pickett, the auteur behind 1962 Halloween hit "MonsterMash," succumbed to leukemia over the weekend. The world has lost theman whose career made Weird Al possible. And yet I think ...

Bobby “Boris” Pickett, whose dead-on Boris Karloff impression propelled the Halloween anthem “Monster Mash” to the top of the charts while cementing his place as one of pop music’s most enduring ...