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Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett’s Monster Mash

October 31st, 2007 4 comments

Happy Halloween

Well, it’s that time of year again – my least favorite holiday! I started noticing back in NYC how Halloween was slowly changing several years ago. It went from a day for children to have a bit of fun by dressing up and enjoy some candy and some fun, and it suddenly became a day where degenerates of allegedly adult age would dress up and act like complete morons.

Well, the truth is that most of these folks normally act like complete morons, so the only true departure from the routine is the manner of dress. These folks have taken a fun day for children and have made it into another night where they can act irresponsibly, get drunk, and cause mayhem.

The women, on the other hand, have taken the opportunity to use Halloween to find their inner slut and dress up real trashy, leading them to make all sorts of mistakes. But at least these chicks live up to the Halloween tradition of serving up frights: one look at the rolls of fat about the midsection of the typical ‘naughty nurse,’ or of the cellulite ridden derrière of the average ‘sexy policewoman,’ and most observers do indeed experience genuine terror.

Nope – this is kids stuff. If you over-21 year old children are wondering why your personal lives are a mess, why you live in a small apartment with 5 people you barely know, and why your life isn’t coming together for you, start looking at your habits and start making better decisions. And most of all, start acting like an adult.

But that’s not to say we can’t have some fun today! Earlier in 2007 we lost one of the greats, Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett, who gave us the classic novelty tune, ‘The Monster Mash.’ Well, ‘Monster Mash’ is one of my favorite songs, so I poked around a bit and found a video of Bobby performing his song about one year ago.

So sit back and enjoy!

So Long, Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett

April 26th, 2007 3 comments

He Did The Mash

Just got the sad news that the creator of the famous ‘Monster Mash’ song passed away earlier today.

monstermash So Long, Bobby Boris Pickett

Born Robert George Pickett in 1938, he would find fame about two decades later as a one-hit-wonder musician under the name Bobby “Boris” Pickett.

It was in 1962 that he co-wrote and performed the classic novelty song, “Monster Mash,” performing the song using an impersonation of veteran horror film stars Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi (the latter only in the one line “Whatever happened to my Transylvania Twist?”).

The song, credited to “Bobby “Boris” Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers,” would go on to become a million seller, as well as reaching the coveted number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song re-entered the U.S. charts twice, in 1970, and again in 1973 when it again reached the number one spot.

Thanks for the memories, Boris! ‘The Monster Mash’ will live forever!

BONUS

I found this great live performance of Bobby doing his ‘Monster Mash’ in 2005! Enjoy!