{"id":21157,"date":"2022-10-31T10:23:11","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T14:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/?p=21157"},"modified":"2022-10-31T11:37:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T15:37:09","slug":"the-most-popular-halloween-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/blogs\/afternoons\/2022\/10\/the-most-popular-halloween-song\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Popular Halloween Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is YOUR favourite Halloween song?\u00a0 I do love Thriller.\u00a0 That video Michael Jackson made was a small horror film in itself.\u00a0 Ghostbusters is a whole lotta fun to sing along with too.\u00a0 &#8220;Who you gonna call?\u00a0 Ghostbusters!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But THE BIGGEST Halloween song of all time?<\/p>\n<p>Monster Mash!<\/p>\n<p>It was this day in 1962,\u00a0 The &#8220;Monster Mash&#8221; ruled the airwaves, becoming the most popular Halloween song of all time.<\/p>\n<p>According to Songfacts.com &#8220;The spooky song is by Bobby &#8220;Boris&#8221; Pickett, a nightclub performer who does a great impression of Boris Karloff, known for his role as Frankenstein&#8217;s monster. In &#8220;Monster Mash,&#8221; Pickett portrays Dr. Frankenstein, but when his monster comes alive, instead of rampaging the village, he throws a party.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The song would spend two weeks in the top spot on the charts and would sell over a million copies, making it the most popular Halloween song of all time and one of the most popular novelty songs ever recorded.<\/p>\n<p>Why Monster MASH?\u00a0 Because at the time the song was written, the &#8220;Mashed Potato&#8221; was a popular dance trend at the time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AxcM3nCsglA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What is YOUR favourite Halloween song?\u00a0 I do love Thriller.\u00a0 That video Michael Jackson made was a small horror film in itself.\u00a0 Ghostbusters is a whole lotta fun to sing along with too.\u00a0 &#8220;Who you gonna call?\u00a0 Ghostbusters!&#8221; But THE BIGGEST Halloween song of all time? Monster Mash! It was this day in 1962,\u00a0 The","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":16310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[5545,5546,5544,5548,5547,3433,5549,5543,726,829],"class_list":["post-21157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afternoons","tag-bobby-pickett","tag-boris-karloff","tag-boris-pickkett","tag-charst","tag-frankenstein","tag-halloween","tag-mashed-potato","tag-monster-mash","tag-music","tag-songs"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 20:09:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/foxfm.com\/blogs\/afternoons\/2022\/10\/the-most-popular-halloween-song\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21157"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21162,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21157\/revisions\/21162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}