This Day in Halloween: “Monster Mash” by Bobby “Boris” Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers ends a two-week run at number one on the charts in 1962. / Illustration by David Ford
“Monster Mash” by Bobby “Boris” Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers finishes its two-week run at number one on the Billboard charts in 1962, a run that infamously coincides with the Cuban missile crisis. The song would make the U.S. charts again in August 1970 and May 1973.
