Just days ago, GT’s Chief Cheddar correspondent Rowan wrote this comment in response to our request for a fave song.

I think mine must be the Monster Mash by Bonzo Dog Do Dah Band / Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett a mad song from the sixties.. I just think its funny and obviously composed through that weird world of LSD. Even funnier that the BBC banded it cos it was too morbid

Well, sadly we announce that Bobby Boris Picket died Wednesday of leukemia just a few days after Rowan’s comment.

He was considered a one-hit wonder – the Guy Lombardo of Hallowe’en – yet his brilliant song Monster Mash wouldn’t go away. It kept coming back over and over. It’s first appearance was 1962 and it reappeared every year at Hallowe’en, reaching the hit parade in the seventies.

Even Bob Dylan liked the tune.

RIP Mr. Pickett. Everyone loved ya and it was great to know ya.

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