“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 ...
The scientists at Miramax have apparently been working in the lab late at night coming up with an idea for an eerie sight. And what they’ve come up with is adapting someone else’s. The studio is ...
Halloween hit song 'Monster Mash' is being adapted into an animated film by Miramax. More than six decades after its 1962 debut, the iconic Halloween hit "Monster Mash" is getting its own animated ...
This "graveyard smash" seriously slaps. The spooky season is comprised of a few time-honored traditions: jack-o-lanterns, people debating the merits of pumpkin spice lattes, and most importantly, “The ...
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 ...
What's not to love about Halloween? It's a holiday chock full of spooky delights like crafting a fabulous costume to impress your friends, carving pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns and listening to ...
On the 25th anniversary of the release of the classic Halloween song “Monster Mash,” creator Bobby Pickett posed for photographer Robert Gabriel. Times staff writer John Voland reported on the ...
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 ...