Bobby (Boris) Pickett "Monsters' Holiday" 1962 Gary Paxton Leon Russell

From Bobby Pickett's 1962 album The Original Monster Mash, here is "Monsters' Holiday." It was the last track on the sixteen-song album. It was released on a single opposite "Monster Motion" in November 1962. Gary Paxton did the arrangements for Charles Underwood's composition that was eerily close to Paxton and Leonard Capizzi's "Monster Mash,” and ended up with this Yuletide offering. Underwood also co-wrote "Graveyard Shift" with Paxton, Pickett and Fred "Johnnie" MacRae.
There have been many discussions as to whether Leon Russell played piano on "Monster Mash." Paxton claimed Leon was late for the session and that Paxton himself played the piano on "Monster Mash," and admitted Leon was on the rest of the album. There is no "Monsters' Holiday" on any of the four contracts for the Original Monster Mash album sessions held August 31 and September 1, 1962, but there is a piano in the song. Were the basic tracks cut from an alternate take of "Monster Mash," leaving Leon out of the mix as per Paxton's claim? The contract for the 5:00-8:00 pm session for "Monster Minuet," "Monster Mash" and "Monster Mash Party" has Paxton, Ray Pohlman, R. W. Hamilton, Steve Douglas, Leon, Jesse Sailes and Billy Riley as the players. Assuming the songs were tracked in the order they appear on the contract, "Monster Mash" was the second of the three songs tracked. There are keyboards on the other two songs, and Paxton said Leon played on "the rest of the album," so how could he not be on "Monster Mash?" Food for thought music lovers!