It's "Monster Mash" Time!

It seems like it has always been around, especially at Halloween time.

Every year at this time leading up to Halloween, Bobby "Boris" Pickett's "Monster Mash" is played on radio stations across the country. It is even being played several times a day on the local Navajo Country (KYAT) station originating from Gallup, New Mexico and Window Rock, Arizona.

Strange at it may seem, it only debuted in August 1962. It seems much longer than that.

In the song, Pickett does imitations of horror stars Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi and Peter Lorre.

From Wikipedia:

"Monster Mash" is a 1962 novelty song by Bobby "Boris" Pickett. The song was released as a single on Gary S. Paxton's Garpax Records label in August 1962 along with a full-length LP called The Original Monster Mash, which contained several other monster-themed tunes. The "Monster Mash" single was number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on October 20–27 of that year, just before Halloween. It has been a perennial Halloween favorite ever since. Nearly 60 years after its release, "Monster Mash" re-entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart at number 37.

Did Boris Karloff like "Monster Mash"?  Yes, it turns out he did and even did his own version on Shindig.

According to American Songwriter:

“One of the London Records promotion men, a guy named George Sherlock, ran into Boris Karloff at Wallach’s Music City as he was buying a copy of the Monster Mash album,” Pickett said. “Karloff told him he loved the record. Karloff later did his version of the ‘Monster Mash’ on Shindig for their Halloween show of 1965.”