Pickett asked his pal Melody what Elvis thought of his novelty song. “Well,” she told him, “he hates your record, Bobby. He thinks it’s the stupidest thing he ever heard.” Pickett could ...

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 ...

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 ...

The magic of “Monster Mash,” what makes it entertaining, is that Bobby Pickett’s record parodies “Mashed Potato Time” by turning it into a song about the movie monsters craze.

Released under the name Bobby “Boris” Pickett and the Rolling Bones, the song “The Monster Swim” barely attempted to gloss over their carbon-copy efforts by working in references to The ...

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 ...

Bobby "Boris" Pickett was one-half of the minds behind "Monster Mash," but that's barely half his life story Every Halloween, Robert George Pickett rises from the grave. (Figuratively.) The song ...

Ever since the song topped the charts in 1962, its Somerville co-creator and vocalist Bobby “Boris” Pickett has been hailed as the Guy Lombardo of Halloween and “Monster Mash” has become ...

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 ...

The big influence was the dance fad at the time that brought songs about dances such as The Twist and Mashed Potato to the top of the charts. Bobby Pickett was an aspiring actor looking for work ...