This just in...

Bobby "Borris" Pickett, singer of The Monster Mash, is dead... he was 69, and succumbed to leukaemia...

Those of you in Kurume who head to karaoke nights with that ragtaggle swathe of Novaites will know that the song in question is my juu-hachi ban (十八番）, or number 18, or "go-to song"... the big bash on May 15th will see a rendition in tribute, no doubt...