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American singer, songwriter, and actor whose lifelong fascination with horror star Boris Karloff led him to co-write and record "Monster Mash" with Leonard Capizzi and the Crypt-Kickers in 1962. The novelty single hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and became a perennial Halloween standard, despite an 11-year BBC ban for being "too morbid" for broadcast.
Greatest of All Time!Bobby 'Boris' Pickett built a career-defining No. 1 out of his own Boris Karloff obsession, recorded it with the Crypt-Kickers in under an hour, and watched the BBC ban it for 11 years as 'too morbid' for broadcast.
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