While recording “Monster Mash,” Bobby Pickett and Lenny Capizzi used household items to make the spooky sound effects: the cauldron sound was achieved by blowing bubbles into a glass of water, and they replicated the sound of a coffin opening by scraping a rusty nail. Despite the song’s success in America, it wasn’t as well received in England. The BBC elected not to play the song because they thought it was “too morbid.”

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