#Lenny Capizzi

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♫ Monster Mash ♫ 👹

HAPPY HALLOWE’EN!!!  🎃  I was thinking that I needed something spooky 👻  for today’s music post, so I flipped back through my archives to see what I had done in years past, and I found this one that I have played only once, fittingly on Hallowe’en 2022!  It’s a fun song and most people seem to like it well enough, so don the ear buds or headphones, and get ready to tap your toes just a…

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Ultimate Playlist: Men’s Names, H–I

This will be a short installment in the series, as there are only three names that start with H and one that starts with I. After that, we get to the most popular letter for men’s names, which will be broken into multiple posts.

Harrison Ford by Christine Lavin In this live recording at the Caffe Lena in Saratoga Springs, Lavin relates a chance encounter with the movie star as she and a friend were leaving The Snake River Grill.

Harvey the Wonder Hamster by “Weird Al” Yankovic Harvey was Al’s pet hamster, whom I first saw on ALTV (when he took over MTV with is pirate satellite). Al sang his theme song a cappella and then got mad when Harvey wouldn’t sing along, so he pounded the hamster flat with a big mallet. He later apologized, showed that Harvey wasn’t actually dead, and then ate him.

I’m Henry the VIII, I Am by Herman’s Hermits Originally written by Fred Murray and R. P. Weston in 1910, it became the fastest-selling song in history when Herman’s Hermits revived it over 50 years later. At only a minute and fifty seconds, it’s also one of the shortest songs ever to hit number one in the U.S.

Monster Mash by Bobby “Boris” Pickett & the Crypt-Kickers Pickett was imitating Boris Karloff while performing the Diamonds’ “Little Darlin’” with his band, The Cordials. The audience loved it, and his bandmate, Lenny Capizzi, encouraged him to do more, so they wrote this song. It now generates $1 million annually in royalties. I filed this one under “Igor.”

Justice And Independence ’85 by John Mellencamp This extended metaphor features a man who was named Independence Day, because he was born on the fourth of July. Nobody seems to understand what exactly Mellencamp was trying to say in this song, which he acknowledged when he told Creem “I don't think people are getting the idea of what the song’s about, so I must’ve not done a very good job.”

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20 Facts That Shocked, Surprised, And Spooked Me This Week

20 Facts That Shocked, Surprised, And Spooked Me This Week

While recording “Monster Mash,” Bobby Pickett and Lenny Capizzi used household items to make the spooky sound effects: the cauldron sound was achieved by blowing bubbles into a glass of water, and they replicated the sound of a coffin opening by scraping a rusty nail. Despite the song’s success in America, it wasn’t as well received in England. The BBC elected not to play the song because they…

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In case you may have missed it the first time around...

http://www.bunzandkatz.com/2013/10/25/monster-smash-pg1

...or would like to sing along again, Bunz & Katz present the Robot Smash! (sung to the tune of "Monster Mash", with apologies to Bobby (Boris) Pickett and Lenny Capizzi)... Just click the link and get ready to dance...

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Monster Mash -Bobby Pickett

Monster Mash -Bobby Pickett - " Monster Mash " es una canción novedosa de 1962 de Bobby "Boris" Pickett . Su fama la hace, una de las más escuchadas durante Halloween.

Una noche mientras actuaba con su grupo Pickett, Bobby Pickett, improvisó una imitación de Boris Karloff en la mitad de un tema. Al público le encantó, algo que no pasó desapercibido a uno de sus compañeros de banda, un tal Lenny Capizzi, que muy avispado recomendó a Pickett a no dejar de hacerlo. Juntos Capizzi y Pickett escribieron un tema en el que el vocalista tomaba el punto de vista de un…

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Music History Today: October 9, 2020 October 9, 1962: Britain's BBC bans Bobby 'Boris' Pickett's "Monster Mash" under a catch-all regulation prohibiting the broadcast of anything deemed "offensive." Pickett was a nightclub entertainer. He wrote "Monster Mash" with his friend Lenny Capizzi. They were both big horror movie fans. The lyrics are based on the story of Frankenstein. In this song, the monster throws a big dance party, which is enthusiastically attended by many other creatures of lore. Pickett is imitating Boris Karloff, but is narrating the story as Dr. Frankenstein, not the monster that Karloff famously portrayed. Read more: https://www.olafsings.com/2020/10/music-history-today-october-9-2020.html

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♫ Monster Mash ♫

♫ Monster Mash ♫

Well, it IS Hallowe’en, after all … what did you expect, a sappy love song? Bobby “Boris” Pickett was a nightclub entertainer who performed with a group called The Cordials. He wrote Monster Mash with his friend Lenny Capizzi. They were both big horror movie fans, and Pickett would do an impression of the actor Boris Karloff (known for playing the monster in many Frankenstein movies) during the…