Three days after it was released, the Monster Mash single was a Nation-wide Hit. In four short weeks, it had reached the number one position on every Best Seller chart, sold over 5 million copies, and established Bobby Pickett as one of America's top novelty recording sensations.

Coast-to-Coast personal appearances and network television shows, including Dick Clarke's American Bandstand, followed in quick succession.

Bobby Pickett (who, incidentally, was a far cry from the horror monsters he so ably portrays)finally achieved his acting goal and has starred in numerous films including "Frankenstein Sings" AKA "Monster Mash - The Movie".

But thanks to the nation's record buyers, Bobby added another fact to his cinematic career as having recorded what famed novelty DJ Doctor Demento called "The biggest novelty record of all time!" A song that has re-entered the Billboard Top 100 three different times, a feat that only two other recordings have accomplished.

Bobby "Boris" Picket was known as "The Guy Lombardo Of Halloween" and had performed "A medley of his hit" at major Halloween events around the world. Songs on this CD are:

IT WAS A GRAVEYARD SMASH!

The year was 1962. The world was about to face a potential nuclear disaster with the Cuban missile crisis. All over the airwaves, DJs were spinning a new novelty record that would reach the top of the charts in a mere eight weeks and, over the next four decades, become the national anthem of Halloween.

No surprise that ˜Monster Mash (which Elvis Presley once called, the dumbest thing I ever heard!), co-written with the late Lenny Capizzi and performed by Bobby ˜Boris" Pickett, was proclaimed by the venerable, off-beat DJ, Dr. Demento, to be arguably, the Number 1 Novelty Record of All Time.

In this memoir are Pickett's reflections, nightmares (just kidding) and recollections, from and idyllic New England childhood to his pursuit of fame and fortune in Hollywood, New York, and many points beyond and in between.

To quote the lyrics performed by the man some have come to think of as the Guy Lombardo of Halloween, For you the living, this ˜Mash" was meant too, when you get to my door, tell them Boris sent you!â€�