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His bandmates laughed so hard that they decided to build an entire song around the voice. The result was \"Monster Mash,\" a bouncy little tune about a mad scientist whose laboratory creation rises from the slab and invents a brand-new dance craze. You can practically hear the creaky door and the clanking chains in the background, all set to a cheerful early-rock beat. It is silly, spooky, and completely harmless, which is exactly why it worked.  \nThat harmless silliness is precisely what made the song a hit, because in 1962 dance crazes were everywhere. Teenagers were doing the Twist, the Mashed Potato, and a dozen other fads, so Pickett's joke was that even monsters wanted in on the fun. The record climbed to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in late October 1962, arriving just in time for Halloween. Radio stations loved it, kids loved it, and Pickett suddenly had a smash hit built on an impression he had done for a laugh. Not bad for a song that reportedly took only a couple of hours to write.  \nA couple of hours of work turned into a lifetime of Halloweens, and that is the strange part of the story. Most number-one songs burn brightly and then fade, but this one refused to disappear. Every October it returns to the airwaves, streaming playlists, and school dances, as reliable as pumpkins on porches. It even re-entered the British charts more than once in the years after its release, a rare feat for a novelty record. Historians of pop music point out that very few songs become permanent seasonal fixtures the way \"Silent Night\" belongs to December.  \nBelonging to a season is what separates a hit from a tradition, and this is where the song earns its odd immortality. A regular pop song competes against every other song ever made, but a holiday song only has to be the best at its one job. Because Halloween produces very little new music each year, an old favorite faces almost no competition and simply keeps winning. Think of it like a small store on a street with no other shops: it does not have to be perfect, only present. That is why a 1962 recording can still out-haunt songs written decades later.  \nPresent every October, it now shares the playlist with a small family of  \nHalloween favorites that families sing together. There is the theme from \"Ghostbusters,\" Michael Jackson's\"Thriller,\" and the wobbly organ music people associate with old horror films. Retailers pay close attention to this, and a National Retail Federation survey has found that Americans spend billions of dollars on Halloween each year, including on parties where such songs play. Unlike scary movies, these songs invite everyone in, from toddlers in costume to grandparents handing out candy. That welcoming quality is the thread connecting nearly every song on the October playlist.  \nThat welcoming spirit is also the real secret behind a monster who learned to dance. Pickett spent much of the rest of his career tied to that one song, performing it and even recording playful sequels, though  \nnone matched the original. He once joked that he was the Bing Crosby of Halloween, the way Crosby owned\"White Christmas. \" The comparison is sharper than it sounds, because both men proved that a single seasonal recording can outlast almost everything else an artist makes. Somewhere out there, a song about a dancing laboratory monster has now survived longer than the careers of most serious rock stars who came after it.  \nThe Monster Mash  \nName:  \n\n| Solve each problem.\u003Cbr>Use the article to answer the question.\u003Cbr>1) According to the passage, how did \"Monster Mash\" first come about?\u003Cbr>A. Bobby Pickett was doing a Boris Karloff impression and his bandmates built a song around it\u003Cbr>B. A radio station asked Pickett for a Halloween novelty tune |  |  |  |  | Answers\u003Cbr>1.  \u003Cbr>2.   |  |  |  |  |  |\n| --- | ---","cbCaiocZHqtLtnvE","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiocZHqtLtnvE","pdf",103836,"English","# Reading Comprehension\n## Questions","[{\"question\":\"How did “Monster Mash” first come about according to the passage?\",\"answer\":\"It began when Bobby Pickett did a Boris Karloff impression and his bandmates laughed so hard that they built an entire song around his voice.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the passage say the song keeps returning every October?\",\"answer\":\"Halloween produces very little new music each year, so an old favorite faces almost no competition and continues winning. 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