Dinner with Drac is a 1958 novelty song by American radio and TV presenter John Zacherle, released on Cameo-Parkway Records.
Zacherle later released several LPs mixing horror sound effects with novelty songs, like 82 Tombstones, Monster Mash, Lunch with Mother Goose, I Was a Teenage Caveman and Dinner with Zach, none of which enjoyed the same succes.
Dinner with Drac was originally the B-side to another song by Zacherle, Igor about the stereotypical hunchbacked assistant in many Dracula and Frankenstein movies.
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[3][full citation needed] Dinner with Drac was banned by the BBC in 1958 for being too scary for young listeners.