"Monster Mash" singer Bobby "Boris" Pickett dead at 69

Cafe Society
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/26/obit.pickett.ap/index.html

Let’s all dance a round in his honor

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Now he can do his crypt-kicking from the inside.

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He’ll be the graveyard smash.

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Dang, now I feel old. I loved that song as a kid, as an adult, I still love it.

I love his sense of humor.

from CNN,

ha!

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He was only 24 when he recorded that song? I always just assumed he was ancient already.

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Apparently Boris Karloff himself did a version of it on Dick Clark’s American Bandstand. I’d loved to have heard that.

But we had a 45 of Bobby Pickett’s version. Shows how old I am. MilliCal loves this song. Some things are timeless.

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Elvis supposedly hated the song Monster Mash. I don’t know why, but I’ve always found that amusing. (The quotation appears on Pickett’s official website, but I don’t know if it’s true or not.)

For you, the living, this Mash was meant, too
When you get to the door tell them Boris sent you!

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As opposed to…???

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As opposed to…???
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The Transylvanian Twist.

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The Transylvanian Twist.
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Whatever happened to that, anyway?

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[QUOTE=Otto]
The Transylvanian Twist.
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Whatever happend to that?

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:shakes fist: MOBO!!!

OK, here’s another Halloween song (sorta).

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[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy]
As opposed to…???
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Number 2 is surely “Haunted House.” While I wouldn’t have been surprised if there were no #3, this guy lists seven.

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I guess no one remembers “Popeye the Gravedigger”,“Hurry Bury Baby”,or “Gravy(with some Cyanide)”

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The Transylvania Twist?

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Whatever happened to that, anyway?
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[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy]
Whatever happened to that?
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It’s now the Mash.

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Did you hear the version of the song he had put out a couple years back, decrying the current leadership’s disregard of the environment? He titled it “The Monster Slash” R.I.P. Bobby. :frowning:

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Damn. That was the second 45 I ever bought, the first time it came out.

Grr, Mash Good!

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Didn’t he have an extramarital fling with Tami Faye Bakker once upon a time?

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My parents had a 45 of his somewhat less popular follow-up, the “Monster Motion.”

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Didn’t he have an extramarital fling with Tami Faye Bakker once upon a time?
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Answering my own question: No, he didn’t. I was thinking of Gary Paxton who was co-producer/co-recorder of Monster Mash. Sorry, and retractions with apologies to the Pickett family for implying he ever did the churchyard smash with Tami Faye.