“Monster Mash” was originally written as a parody of several pop fads that have faded away, but the song is an American novelty song that lives on like a vampire. In the early 1960s two cultural ...

This was also the era when novelty dance songs were multiplying at a staggering rate following the success of Chubby Checker’s rendition of “The Twist” two years earlier. By 1962, it had been ...