“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 ...

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 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Bobby “Boris” Pickett and The Crypt-Kickers’ “Monster Mash” is the best Halloween song, no ...

The Monster Mash is coming to the big screen. By Aaron Couch Monster Mash is coming to the big screen. Universal is developing a musical to be directed by Matt Stawski, The Hollywood Reporter has ...

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 ...

For much of my life, Halloween playlists have been disappointing. Every Halloween party in an elementary school had the same handful of songs on repeat: “Monster Mash,” “Thriller,” “Ghostbusters,” ...

Thirty-eight-year-old Jersey City, New Jersey native George Van Orsdel likes to think that he has learned a thing or two. At first glance George seems like a dip-chewing, cantankerous drunk.