Bobby Pickett

Bobby Boris Pickett born Robert George Pickett February 11 1938 April 25 2007 was a Somerville Massachusettsborn musician and actor best known for singing and cowriting the 1962 hit novelty song Monster Mash Pickett performed the track in an impersonation of veteran horror film stars Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi as in the line Whatever happened to my Transylvania Twist Bobby Pickett cowrote the song along with Leonard Capizzi It became a million seller as well as reaching Number One on the Billboard Hot 100 chart The song was styled as being by Bobby Boris Pickett The CryptKicker 5 In Britain it took until October 1973 for the tune to become popular but it then pinnacled at Number 3 in the UK singles chart A Christmas themed followup Monsters Holiday was also released in 1962 and it became a minor hit After releasing a variety of other Halloweenbased songs as well as trying his hand at scriptwriting Bobby died of leukemia on April 25 2007 at age 69