R.I.P. Bobby Pickett

[dfan.livejournal.com]

Somerville native and singer of "Monster Mash", at the age of 69.

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070426/obit_pickett.html?.v=1

Anyone know what neighborhood he lived in?

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[ad-lib.livejournal.com]

not sure what neighborhood he lived in, but i know he graduated a few years before my dad in high school. he was always one of my dad's many claims to "fame". haha. that's too bad he passed away, pretty young, too. :(

[ron_newman]

And I'm curious which theatre. (In the 1940s, when he was a kid, we had at least eight)

[hauntmeister.livejournal.com]

Oh, darn. I like that song. (Not too surprisingly!)

[ron_newman]

Did you use it in any of the Boys & Girls club haunted houses?

[heliograph.livejournal.com]

In Conway Park (Somerville Ave past the Elm merge) there's a series of plaques about famous locals, and there's one with info about his local ties.

[one-skill.livejournal.com]

"From my laboratory in the castle east,
To the master bedroom where the vampires feast"

That's somewhere off Broadway, right?

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

lol, well played.

[abilouise.livejournal.com]

I think that I remember from one of the Illuminations tours that he lived sort of Union-Square-ward

you do?

[cthulhia]

I never got that info in my Illuminations Tour Guide guide.

R.I.P. Bobby Pickett

[m-mazza.livejournal.com]

Hello. My uncle grew up with Bobby Pickett. Bobby lived on Irving St, the 2nd house up from Broadway on the odd side. My uncle grew up on Wallace St (where we still live). He didn't "hang" with Bobby because apparently back then the Irving St. kids and the Wallace St. kids were rivals so there wasn't too much socializing (this was back in '48-'49), but I guess they hung out enough to watch movies on the side of the garage. Bobby's father managed the Somerville Theater at the time (he later managed the theater that used to be in Teele Square) and Bobby would borrow a reel projector from his father, hang a sheet on the side of our garage, and charge the neighborhood kids a nickel to watch cartoons. He was friends with the boy who lived in the house next door so their backyard and our garage made a great theater. This was before television so according to my uncle it was a popular event for all the kids in the area. Anyway, he was telling me the stories this morning after he saw the obit and I thought I would pass them along.