Bobby Pickett grew up watching horror movies and doing impressions of those characters. His Boris Karloff impression would lead to a perennial Halloween favorite. This is the story of Bobby (Boris) Pickett’s The Original Monster Mash, from 1962.


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Bobby (Boris) Pickett - The Original Monster Mash

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Bobby (Boris) Pickett - The Original Monster Mash

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