I was just an adolescent (yet ruggedly handsome) only two months from my 12th birthday. On this day one of the most auspicious events in music took place. “Monster Mash,” a tune destined to the anthem of a lost generation, hit #1 on The Billboard Hot 100 charts!
Bobby “Boris” Pickett delivered a tune that shook the country to its core. I can recall this monumental event as if it were only 10 or 20 years ago. Let me paint you a word picture of just how this music influenced a politically divided country, much like today’s political landscape:
- From his lab Dr. Boris gave life to a Frankenstein type monster who immediately did the mash, the Monster Mash!
- It caught on in a flash and was a graveyard smash!
- Zombies were having fun as the party had just begun.
- The guests included Wolf-Man, Dracula, and his son.
- The scene was rocking, all were digging the sounds of Igor on chains, backed by his baying hounds
- The coffin-bangers were about to arrive with their vocal group, The Crypt-Kicker Five.
A stunned world was left to ponder the still-unanswered question: What ever happened to the Transylvania Twist?
(**Ed. Note: If you are one of the few that lived a sheltered life or were raised on a lonely tropical island and never heard the life-altering tune “Monster Mash” I suggest you get on YouTube and listen to it now. Should our country choose to be led by a lunatic because the price of eggs was 50 cents cheaper 4 years ago, the iconic song may be destroyed along with our Constitution.)