
Person
Bobby Pickett
Acting
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Feb 11, 1938
- Died
- Apr 25, 2007
- From
- Somerville, Massachusetts, USA
Bobby "Boris" Pickett (born Robert George Pickett, February 11, 1938 – April 25, 2007) was a Somerville, Massachusetts-born musician and actor, best known for singing and co-writing the 1962 hit novelty song "Monster Mash". Pickett performed the track in an impersonation of veteran horror film stars Boris Karloff, and Bela Lugosi (as in the line "Whatever happened to my Transylvania Twist?"). Bobby Pickett co-wrote the song along with Leonard Capizzi. It became a million seller, as well as reaching Number One on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song was styled as being by Bobby "Boris" Pickett & The Crypt-Kicker 5. In Britain it took until October 1973 for the tune to become popular, but it then pinnacled at Number 3 in the UK singles chart. A Christmas themed follow-up, "Monster's Holiday", was also released in 1962, and it became a minor hit. After releasing a variety of other Halloween-based songs as well as trying his hand at script-writing, Bobby died of leukemia on April 25, 2007, at age 69.
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T. J. Hooker

Strange Invaders

Petticoat Junction

Sister, Sister

Lobster Man from Mars

Frankenstein General Hospital

Dr. Kildare

Monster Mash: The Movie

It's a Bikini World

The Baby Maker

The Boneyard Collection

Deathmaster

Chrome and Hot Leather

Splitz

Hot Money
Witch's Dungeon: 40 Years of Chills

Three's a Crowd

Spooky World