Bobby Pickett Crypt-Kickers Original Monster Mash RCA LP Transylvania Twist RARE

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The Original Monster Mash Bobby (Boris) Pickett And The Crypt-Kickers 12" Vinyl Record Album
Description: Cool cover illustration of Dracula rising from the crypt by Mike Kaluta. The vinyl record is in very good condition, some light lines/scuffs, plays fine, no skips. The cover is in very good condition, minor surface wear, no seam splits. Please see pictures. Check out our store listings for a wide variety of LP's. We ship worldwide in very secure packaging and shipping costs will be combined on multiple purchases. Any questions, please ask.

Tracklist: Monster Mash
Graveyard Shift
Blood Bank Blues
Rabian The Fiendage Idol
Monster Holiday
Monster Minuet
Transylvania Twist
Sinister Stomp
Me & My Mummy
Monster Mash Party
Bella's Bash
Let's Fly Away
Robert George Pickett (1938-2007) aka Bobby "Boris" Pickett was an American singer, songwriter, actor, and comedian known for co-writing and performing the 1962 hit novelty song "Monster Mash". Born in Somerville, Massachusetts, Pickett watched many horror films as a result of his father's position as a local movie theater manager. He started improvising impressions of Hollywood film stars at a young age. At a turning point in his career, Pickett was a vocalist for local swing band Darren Bailes and the Wolf Eaters. He would later serve from 1956 to 1959 in the United States Army, stationed in Korea for a period of time. He co-wrote his signature song, "Monster Mash", with Leonard Capizzi in May 1962 as a spoof of popular contemporary dance crazes. Pickett's performances include impersonations of Boris Karloff (The Mummy) and Bela Lugosi (Dracula), and although major labels declined to distribute the song, Gary S. Paxton finally agreed to release it across the United States. "Monster Mash" became a million seller and peaked at number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in October 1962, including Halloween. Though Pickett never achieved the same success as he did with "Monster Mash" on the charts, he continued to lend his voice to further parodies and other songs throughout the rest of his life. Pickett also made appearances as on television, film, and radio as a guest star, narrator, actor, and disc jockey. He released Monster Mash: Half Dead in Hollywood, an autobiography, in 2005. Pickett died of leukemia on April 25, 2007, at age 69. Pickett was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, on February 11, 1938. His family lived in the Winter Hill neighborhood and he attended Somerville High School. His father was a theater manager and as a nine-year-old, he watched many horror films. He would later incorporate impressions of them in his Hollywood nightclub act in 1959. An aspiring actor, Pickett began his musical career as a vocalist for a local swing band, Darren Bailes and the Wolf Eaters. Pickett served in the United States Army from March 9, 1956, to March 13, 1959, and was stationed in Korea for an unknown period of time. Pickett co-wrote "Monster Mash" with Leonard Capizzi in May 1962. The song was a spoof on the dance crazes popular at the time, including the Twist and the Mashed Potato, which inspired the title. The song featured Pickett's impersonations of veteran horror stars Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi the latter with the line "Whatever happened to my Transylvania Twist?". Every major record label declined the song but after hearing it, Gary S. Paxton agreed to produce and engineer it. Among the musicians who played on it were pianist Leon Russell and The Ventures drummer Mel Taylor. Issued on Paxton's Garpax Records, the single became a million seller. It was styled as being by "Bobby (Boris) Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers". The tune remains a Halloween perennial on radio and on iTunes. A Christmas-themed follow-up, "Monster's Holiday" was also released in 1962. This was followed by further monster-themed recordings such as the album The Original Monster Mash and such singles as "Werewolf Watusi" and "The Monster Swim", the latter of which made it to No. 135 on the Bubbling Under chart and was credited under "Bobby Pickett and The Rolling Bones". In 1973, Pickett rerecorded "Me and My Mummy" for a Metromedia 45. Then in 1985, with American culture experiencing a growing awareness of rap music, Pickett released "Monster Rap", which describes the mad scientist's frustration at being unable to teach the dancing monster from "Monster Mash" how to talk. The problem is solved when he teaches the monster to rap. In 1975, Pickett recorded a novelty spoof on Star Trek called "Star Drek" with Peter Ferrara, again performing some of the various voices, which was played on Dr. Demento's radio show for many years. He also performed a duet with Ferrara in 1976 titled "King Kong (Your Song)" spoofing the movie by the same name that was released that year. In 2004 and 2005, Pickett provided vocals for two Flash cartoons, "Monster Slash" and "Climate Mash", featuring new versions of his hit single. In 1962, it was reported in the December 1 issue of Cashbox that Pickett along with Ned Ormand and R.B. Chris Christensen had formed Nico Records. Christensen had been a partner and professional manager in Buck Owens' Bluebook Music Publishing co. They had acquired an instrumental from the Daco label which was to be their first release. The instrumental was by The Revels of "Church Key" and "Six Pak" fame. In 1967, Pickett and television author Sheldon Allman wrote the musical I'm Sorry the Bridge Is Out, You'll Have to Spend the Night. It has been produced by local theaters around the United States. They followed it with another musical, Frankenstein Unbound. In 1995, the co-writers of Pixar's Toy Story, Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow, produced a movie of it, originally titled Frankenstein Sings, but later released in the United States as Monster Mash: The Movie. Pickett starred in it with Candace Cameron, Jimmie Walker, Mink Stole, John Kassir, Sarah Douglas, Anthony Crivello, Adam Shankman and Carrie Ann Inaba. On ABC-TV, he appeared on a segment of The Long Hot Summer, with Roy Thinnes and Nancy Malone, on January 26, 1966. (wiki)


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