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[โ€“] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

The Nerd of Mouth podcast recently did a dive into the history of The Monster Mash. Apparently after it got successful Bobby Boris Pickett went on to release basically the same song several more times, like Monster's Holiday, Monster Swim, and Werewolf Watusi.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I didn't know that but there is a related running joke on the Comedy Bang Bang podcast. Comedian Nick Wiger comes by on Halloween and plays the writer of Monster Mash Leo Carpazzi (a spoof of the real writer Leonard Capizzi).

    He claims the studio didn't like the first version of the song so he had to rewrite it. The first Halloween on the show, he sang it and it turned out to be called Monster Fuck and was a filthy song about monsters having an orgy.

    For many years after that, he returned on Halloween to sing a "completely new song"... which always turned out to be the same song with a couple words changed.

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