Tedium:
We all know the story—some guy was working in a lab, late one night, when he begins to see several movie monsters doing a fancy dance. Sung with a perfect Boris Karloff impression by the one and only Bobby “Boris” Pickett, “The Monster Mash” really did become the hit of the land. Since its debut in 1962, the seriously goofy novelty song has been a perennial hit, scaring its way onto the airwaves and into the hearts of generation after generation. There’s more to the song and its singer than one might expect. Just in time for Halloween, today’s tedium does the Mash; the Monster Mash.
As awful as it is, as much as it may make you want to pull your own ears off, “The Monster Mash” is the quintessential Halloween song.
I gained new respect for the song watching the video of Bobby sing it live. Nice.
Although it’s not a “halloween song” I’ve always loved Warren Zevon’s Werewolves of London.
I like the Brobdingnagian Bards version https://brobdingnagianbards.bandcamp.com/album/brobdingnagian-fairy-tales
Voltaire has a more romantic horror song: https://youtu.be/bcON9ZmGDBc
I’ll always have a fondness for that song; it was one of the handful that my junior high school typing teacher used to play a 45 of while we did our keyboard drills. I got a 95 in the course.
That and Michael Jackson’s Thriller.
Boo!?