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Me-TV<\/a> presents 13 Intriguing Facts About the 1962 Graveyard Smash the Monster Mash<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n THE CRYPT-KEEPERS FEATURED SOME KEY FIGURES.<\/strong> THE BEACH BOYS LOVED TO PLAY IT LIVE. PICKETT APPEARED IN FILMS OF VARIED CLASSIC GENRES. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Me-TV presents 13 Intriguing Facts About the 1962 Graveyard Smash the Monster Mash.\u00a0 Here are three of my favorites… THE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,53,63,54,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-humor","category-movies","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19013"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19015,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19013\/revisions\/19015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cThe Crypt-Kickers\u201d band behind the original \u201cMonster Mash\u201d recording featured Gary S. Saxton, who wrote the 1960 smash hit \u201cAlley Oop\u201d that Pickett said inspired his song. The flip side of the record featured Leon Russell (whose \u201cA Song for You\u201d has been covered by more than 200 artists) on \u201cMonster Mash Party.\u201d Russell played piano, which he also did on songs for bands like the Beach Boys and Jan and Dean. Elton John calls Russell a mentor. Considering this track record, it makes even more sense why the \u201cMonster Mash\u201d single took off.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Several successful cover versions of \u201cMonster Mash\u201d exist, including a memorable version by the Beach Boys. They made it a feature of their live show, where Mike Love came out of “his cage” to step up on vocals and the audience would flip out. Later the punk band the Misfits would revive the song again for audiences in 1997, as it was a favorite childhood song of the band\u2019s bassist, Jerry Only, who said the decision to cover it was a \u201cno-brainer\u201d for the heavily Halloween-themed band who performed on the holiday every year. We wonder whose fans loved it more. Hear Beach Boys fans lose their minds screaming in response to the song below. (Click over to see the video<\/a> of the Beach Boys playing the Monster Mash.)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>When Pickett wrote “Monster Mash,” he was also an aspiring actor. He went on to appear in a handful of films that matched his heavy sense of genre, including the beach party movie It’s a Bikini World (1967), a foray into biker culture in Chrome and Hot Leather (1971) a horror movie (of course) Deathmaster (1972), and a novelty sci-fi film, Lobster Man From Mars (1989). Additionally, he wrote a bunch of musicals like Frankenstein Unbound.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n