Customer Reviews

The Monster Mash Rock 'n' Roll Party

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This is a fun cd and the songs are good, but don't be fooled like I was into thinking these songs will be the originals that we've all heard on the radio all these years. One of them is,"Haunted House". The others come very close and this is a very good album despite that flaw the songs come very close.

Monster Mash Rock and Roll Party is a very good and fun Halloween CD. It will really get you in the Halloween party mood. I took it to work and played it at our Halloween party, and it really set the tone. Everyone really enjoyed it. The songs are classics that we've enjoyed for years, even though some of them are not by the original artists. And they're fun, light-hearted Halloween songs, not eery or spooky. I would recommend this CD to anyone who likes to cut loose and have fun.

I purchased two CD's to use in a skit; this was the better of the two. It had the orginal artists for the Monster Mash.

This CD is the real thing, not by some unknown artists. I was looking for the Monster Mash by Bobby "Boris" Pickell. So many of the albums I found claimed to be song by him, but they obviously were not once you listened to it. I'm pleased with this CD.

love this CD! Bought it for a friend's son whose BD is in Oct.

The Monster Mash Rock 'n' Roll Party is twenty-six minutes and fifteen seconds long and was released on August 25, 1998. All the songs on this CD are stereo recordings with the exception of Doin' The Zombie by Chubby Checker and Witch Doctor by Sha Na Na. Those two songs are original recordings. Some of these songs that are listed on this CD are ones you don't hear at the Halloween season. Doing The Zombie-Chubby Checker, In The Midnight Hour-Martha Reeves, Haunted House-Jumpin' Gene Simmons, and Dead Man's Curve-Jan n' Dean are songs that are not played on the radio during the Halloween season. Also there seem to be two version of this CD if you buy the one with the orange cover to it; there are only ten songs on it. Over at Frankenstein's Place, Love Potion No. 9 by The Searchers, Devil with a Blue Dress On/Good Golly Miss Molly [Version] by Mitch Ryder, and Supernatural Thing by Ben E. King are not included. The Monster Mash Rock 'n' Roll Party get a B.

Orange version

The Monster Mash-Bobby (Borris) Pickett
#30 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
#18 U.S. Billboard Hot Rhythm & Blues Sides
It's My Party-Lesley Gore
#1 U.S. Billboard Pop Singles (two weeks at #1)
#1 U.S. Billboard Hot Rhythm & Blues Sides (three weeks at #1)
Doin' The Zombie-Chubby Checker
Witch Doctor-Sha Na Na
The Purple People Eater-Sheb Wooley
#1 U.S. Billboard Pop Singles (six weeks at #1)
#18 U.S. Billboard Rhythm & Blues Records
In the Midnight Hour-Martha Reeves
Haunted House-Jumpin' Gene Simmons
#11 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
Dead Man's Curve-Jan & Dean
#8 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
#9 U.S. Cash Box Magazine Top Singles
Lil Red Riding Hood-Sam `The Sham' and the Pharoahs
#2 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
Spooky-The Classics IV featuring Dennis Yost
#3 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles

Let me tell ya, this is a CD for any halloween parties what so ever. This is by far the best halloween CD ever made, especially with notable singers such as Ben E. King, Martha Reeves, Jan and Dean and others.

I was surprised at how good musically most of the songs on this CD are, since most could stand up on their own even if you ignored the Halloween theme. A couple of the songs I could live without, but overall it's quite enjoyable, and fun rather than spooky. I agree with everything my fellow Tennessean below had to say in her good review, so I'll just add that this music is quite mellow too - all soft rock and R & B. A few of the songs have some Halloweeny sound effects or voices added in, but more of that would have added to the fun. I've been collecting Halloween classical music for years (such as "Night On Bald Mountain" by Mussorgsky, "Totentanz" by Liszt, "Dance Macabre" by Saint-Saens, "Isle of the Dead" by Rachmaninov, "Dance Symphony" by Copland, etc.), so I'm glad to have this CD of popular music to add variety to my collection. Most of it has very good sound quality too. And although the CD cover doesn't affect the music, I love the funny spoof of the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper" album.