Maybe the most perplexing is "Me & My Mummy," which isn't styled after "Monster Mash" at all. It's just Boris doing a different song but once again stuck in the Halloween novelty genre:Â
However, all of those follow-ups came in the years immediately following the 1962 original. To really marvel at Boris Pickett trying to wring some life out of a corpse, you have to hear what he recorded in 1985. By the '80s, the fad known as the mash was long forgotten (its greatest legacy is in fact its role in inspiring "Monster Mash"). A new craze had emerged called "rap," and "rap" sounds kind of like "mash," so Boris clearly had to bring Igor and the scientist back to educate the monster on this new musical styling: