One-hit wonder Bobby Pickett

No. 1 on the charts just prior to Halloween 1962 was the song Monster Mash, sung in his best "Bois Karloff does Frankenstein's Monster voice" by Bobby Pickett, known as "the Guy Lombardo of Halloween" inasmuch as this spooky single gets dug up every year at about the same time. And for years, Pickett liked to quip at concerts that he would now "perform a medley of my hit." The record was produced by the colorful Gary S. Paxton, who earlier had performed in the recording of another one-hit record, Alley Oop, performed by The Hollywood Argyles in 1960. Boris Karloff himself is said to have liked Monster Mash, which came complete with a creaking door and strange lab noises. Picket never managed to repeat his success and died of leukemia in 2007 at age 69.