Local songwriters getting ‘batty’

Two local songwriters, Bill Dann and Jack Servello, composed a new Halloween song that’s getting some decent airplay on some internet radio stations. The inspiration for “Do the Batula” came from Dann’s desire to have a new Halloween dance, since Bobby Pickett & the Crypt Kickers’ “Monster Mash” is “really overplayed,” he said. Dann said he wrote lyrics for the song and sent them to Servello, who composed “a real fun dance number to it.” The song is about a pet bat, whose owner mimics its movements and dances as Dracula, hence the “Batula” name,…