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The Number Ones: Bobby “Boris” Pickett And The Crypt-Kickers’ “Monster Mash”

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 ...
KCRW

‘Monster Mash’: Bobby Pickett combined cultural crazes to make the hit Halloween song

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 ...
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‘Monster Mash’ Receives Major Accolade 63 Years After Its Release

“Monster Mash” by Bobby “Boris” Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers has just been crowned the biggest Halloween song of all time by Billboard! The iconic hit was first released in August 1962, and spent two ...
The Hollywood Reporter

‘Monster Mash’ singer Bobby Pickett dies

Bobby "Boris" Pickett, whose dead-on Boris Karloff impression propelled the Halloween anthem "Monster Mash" to the top of the pop charts in 1962, making him one of pop music's most enduring one-hit ...
Variety

Bobby Pickett, 69, singer

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 ...
Slate

Have a Spooktacular Halloween With Bobby “Boris” Pickett’s Increasingly Desperate Follow-Ups to “Monster Mash”

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 ...
Stereogum

Bobby Pickett Heads To The Great, Big Graveyard Party In The Sky

Today we mourn the passing of Bobby "Boris" Pickett, who died of leukemia earlier this week. You know Bobby's novelty hit, "Monster Mash," which topped the charts in October 1962, and again, ...
Los Angeles Times

From the Archives: ‘Monster Mash’ was a monster hit

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 ...
Paste

Beyond the Mash: Bobby “Boris” Pickett’s Lesser-Known Monster Novelty Songs

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 ...
Los Angeles Times

Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett, 69; co-wrote and performed novelty hit ‘Monster Mash’

Bobby “Boris” Pickett, whose Boris Karloff impersonation was immortalized in the novelty hit “Monster Mash,” which has become a Halloween perennial, has died. He was 69. Pickett, a longtime resident ...
Variety

Bobby Pickett, 69, singer

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 ...