Happy Halloween, everybody! May your candy day be filled with rich people’s houses that give out whole bars of candy – or bags as the case may be. I hope you all get fattened with Snickers and the like.
Speaking of which, this time of year always reminds me of a few songs. Specifically, the Monster Mash. The Monster Mash is one of the highest charting and selling novelty songs of all time. It was recorded by Bobby “Boris” Pickett after he did an impression of Boris Karloff while singing ‘Little Darlin’ and it caught on. To the point where the band, The Cordials decided that it’d be a good idea to record a novelty song with an impression of Boris Karloff. I don’t know how popular something has to be before you decide it’s a good idea, but goddamn, I would never thing my band’s popularity hinged on me impersonating a veteran horror actor.
The song was and will get instantaneously stuck in your head. It wound up on the charts that year, despite the assertion that the subject matter was ‘too morbid’. Yeah, 1962. If only you could hear what we’re listening to now in 2010. You’d probably die.
….of horror.
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