My first draft of this post was started on October 26, in hopes of rushing through the next 5 entries in time for Halloween. Obviously, I missed that deadline. But the reason I wanted to write about “Monster Mash” on or by Halloween wasn’t just so I’d have a cute tie-in. There’s an inherent difference [...]
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79) Bobby “Boris” Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers – “Monster Mash”
Posted in 05, 1962, tagged bobby "boris" pickett and the crypt-kickers, bobby "borris" pickett, gary s. paxton on January 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
31) The Hollywood Argyles – “Alley Oop”
Posted in 07, 1960, tagged gary s. paxton, kim fowley, the hollywood argyles on January 16, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Novelty records have a mostly deserved reputation for being one-joke “wonders” that age poorly. “Alley Oop,” based on an old caveman comic strip I’ve never read, doesn’t seem at first blush to be a likely candidate to break this pattern. Written in 1957 as a country tune by Dallas Frazier (whose “Elvira,” as performed by The [...]
