"Monster Mash" - Bobby "Boris" Pickett" (1962) Monster Mash" is a 1962 novelty song by Bobby "Boris" Pickett. The song was released as a single on Gary S. Paxton's Garpax Records label in August 1962 along with a full-length LP called The Original Monster Mash, which contained several other monster-themed tunes. The "Monster Mash" single was number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on October 20–27 of that year, just before Halloween. It has been a perennial Halloween favorite ever since. In 20

Bobby “Boris” Pickett and his immortal Halloween anthem, “Monster Mash.” Released in 1962, the song was recorded by Bobby Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers and became an instant graveyard smash — climbing all the way to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 just in time for Halloween. Pickett’s spot-on impersonation of Boris Karloff, mixed with a ghoulishly catchy beat, made “Monster Mash” the definitive Halloween novelty hit. It reappeared on the charts several times over the decades — in 1970, 1973, and even