Just a tribute :(

I started reading this as Bobby Picket and then transitioned to JB.

For a moment I thought that GIF had sound, but it was just in my head.

Same for the Crocodile Rock

Edit: and The Bird
Edit: and the Twist

Factually wrong. It's both a song and a dance

"The scene was rockin', all were digging the sounds
Igor on chains, backed by his baying hounds
The coffin-bangers were about to arrive
With their vocal group, 'The Crypt-Kicker Five'

They played the mash, they played the monster mash
The monster mash, it was a graveyard smash
They played the mash, it caught on in a flash
They played the mash, they played the monster mash"

False.

It's a blitz.

... a ballroom blitz.

Fun fact, Soulja Boy ripped off the Monster Mash when he created the dance that shares his name

Then years later revealed that the song "Tribute" is about was "Beelzeboss" from their movie. Beelzeboss was quite a good song but they could never have met the expectations they made for themselves in Tribute.

Nothing that can't be fixed by getting Dracula to sing

It’s now the Mash.

I believe that's called the monster fuck

I didn't know that but there is a related running joke on the Comedy Bang Bang podcast. Comedian Nick Wiger comes by on Halloween and plays the writer of Monster Mash Leo Carpazzi (a spoof of the real writer Leonard Capizzi).

He claims the studio didn't like the first version of the song so he had to rewrite it. The first Halloween on the show, he sang it and it turned out to be called Monster Fuck and was a filthy song about monsters having an orgy.

For many years after that, he returned on Halloween to sing a "completely new song"... which always turned out to be the same song with a couple words changed.

Their monster mash would kill you, traveler. You can't handle their monster mash.