Demento, whose long-running program celebrates offbeat tunes. The hit single ensured Pickett’s place in the pantheon of pop music obscurities, said syndicated radio host Dr. “Our next artist is considered a one-hit wonder, but his one hit comes back year after year,” Dylan noted. The novelty hit’s fans included Bob Dylan, who played the single on his XM Satellite Radio program in October. The resurrections were appropriate for a song where Pickett gravely intoned the forever-stuck-in-your-head chorus: “He did the monster mash/It was a graveyard smash.” 1 the week before Halloween and spending two weeks there again briefly in summer 1970 and for a third time in spring 1973, when it peaked at No. “Monster Mash” hit the Billboard Hot 100 three times: when it debuted in 1962, reaching No. His daughter, Nancy, and his sister, Lynda, were at Pickett’s bedside. Pickett, dubbed “The Guy Lombardo of Halloween,” died Wednesday night of leukemia at the West Los Angeles Veterans Hospital, said his longtime manager, Stuart Hersh. NEW YORK - 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 wonders, has died.
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