MONSTER MASH LP FEATURING JOHN ZACHERLE
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John "the Cool Ghoul" Zacherle started his monster shtick hosting old horror movies on a Philadelphia TV station in the late '50s. In 1958 he released the hit single "Dinner With Drac," a twangy guitar mid-tempo rocker filled with Zacherle's bad "monster" puns (part 1 of the single is on the Monster Mash LP).

1n 1962, to cash in on the ongoing monster craze, he released Monster Mash on the Parkway label. The cover version of Bobby "Boris" Pickett's "Monster Mash," is not bad, but not as good as the original. The rest of the album contains "monster" versions of hit songs by artists on the Philadelphia based Cameo/Parkway label, most of them penned by Mann & Appell. They include: "Hurry Bury Baby," "The Pistol Stomp" (The Dovells' "Hully Gully Baby" and "The Bristol Stomp," respectively); "Gravy (with Some Cyanide)" (Dee Dee Sharp's "Gravy (For My Mashed Potatoes)"); "The Weird Watusi" (The Orlons' "The Wah Watusi"); "The Ha Ha Ha" (Bobby Rydell's "The Cha-Cha-Cha" -- this cut makes far too much of Zacherle's "ghoulish" laugh); "The Ghoul From Wolverton Mountain" (Jo Ann Campbell's "(I'm the Girl On) Wolverton Mountain" -- this one is pretty weird); "Let's Twist Again (Mummy Time is Here)," "Popeye (The Gravedigger)," and "Limb From Limbo Rock" (Chubby Checker's "Let's Twist Again," "Popeye The Hitchhiker," and "Limbo Rock," respectively. The last is my favorite -- Zacherle gets torn apart to a limbo beat!

One other interesting note about this album is that there are strange electronic sound effect intros to all the songs -- as if it all wasn't weird enough already.


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