Memory Palace episode about Bobby "Boris" Pickett, the guy who sang "Monster Mash

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Dinner With Drac is the patrician’s choice of novelty Halloween tunes

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“Vhatever happened to my Transylvania Tvist?”

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I prefer the sequel

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Early in Frank Zappa’s career he was involved in a similar novelty 45 called “Dear Jeepers” that was more or less a ripoff of “Dinner With Drac.” He produced and played on it, but I gather it was done for a local TV personality who had a horror movie show on Saturday nights.

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The Beach Boys, of all groups, did a pretty good cover of the MM. Behold Mike Love going absolutely nuts:

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My favorite parody:

wow. I think the label art is the best part.
the channel 20 horror movie show in Detroit – Thriller – used the psycho-breakdown of Zeppelin’s Whole Lotta Love for the theme music in the intro and ads. I always loved it but it wasn’t until I was a teenager obsessed with Zep that I found out where it was from. bit of a mindfuck.

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