Boris Karloff sings Monster Mash on Shindig! Recreated!!

Back in October of'65 ABC's Shindig! broadcast their Halloween episode and showed a clip of the Monster Mash performed by Boris Karloff. The clip was lost somehow, but with scenes from that show that still remain, I was able to assemble a music video of what it might have looked like. I've been searching for the Karloff clip for years, and until the original is found, this will have to do. Thanks to Jason at Scar Stuff for the great remix of the Monster Mash vocal by the GRRREAT Bobby Boris Pickett!

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• Mash
• Shindig
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• 1965
• October
• Bobby
• Pickett

[siys]

I'd always heard there was a version of Monster Mash by Boris Karloff, but I've never been able to find it and I'm Mr. Halloween of Nightmare City Halloween, the oldest running Halloween radio program!! Thanks for this share!

[godzzla]

Great site! I have it under my favorites and check it out regularly.

The hero here is Lionelatwill for finding the original audio of the Shindig episode where Boris actually sang the song. He taped the audio with his reel to reel next to the TV. Genius! I put it to video recreation and is under the video responses on this page. Glad you liked it and I'm looking forward to check out more on your site in the next few weeks, with Halloween season coming, the best time of the year!!!@siys

[wompeter1]

I agree that it does reinforce the idea that Karloff did this, but I wonder if the man could have carried it off at his age anyway. Did he nail it?

[godzzla]

It would have been great if he would have released his own studio version, but the clip has been found, and although very short at under a minute, I think he nails it. You can hear the missing minutes of the Shindig episode and see my other video recreation by clicking the link above under video responses.  It even has the classic Lurch segment, also missing. This clip was taken from the show "Shivaree".

[libraryjim59]

It would have been nice to have Karloff's voice instead of Picket's, (the soundtrack is out there somewhere). Still, nice effort.

[godzzla]

I made a second clip with the actual Karloff audio, along with the rest of the missing songs from the Shindig episode once it was discovered. It's above under video responses. This video was made a couple years ago when all I had was Bobby's version.

[kcope001]

Boris Karloff was grace, talent, elegance, and just general awesomeness personified!

[garebear1015]

That's I gore.

[orangehornet57]

I heard that Boris Karloff did sing it himself. He said that he didn't have the lisp from Pickett's version.

[michaux6000]

allways love this song , got the 45 rpm.

[virgy45]

Great work! This is EXACTLY what I was looking for. Thanks.

[shatros]

Thank you so much I knew Boris Karloff did a version of this. I was in first grade and remember watching this on TV it was in fact the first time I heard this song and thought this was the original until a few years later when everyone I knew insisted that only Bobby Picket did this. I thought for years that I must have remembered it wrong. Seeing your video just brought back into focus my actual memory of this very cool version. I hope someone digs up the whole video of this some day.

[boomerang905]

I just love it. This is soooo cute and makes me miss old Boris. I saw it on Shindig back in the day......as long as it had a great beat it was cool and clean. We did the 'mash' real fast off of this....fun! Great Halloween party music for kids or adults I think. : )

[Tonithenightowl]

Another reason I love Boris Karloff.

[kwassagirl]

Isn't YouTube a wonderful joy - enabling everyone to revisit the wonderful past world of music! How else would we see and hear these wonderful oldies! Thanks so much for posting.

[Jcolinsol]

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