tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67668692024-03-05T03:29:12.875-08:00Mark Harvey's WorldMark Harvey is the owner/operator of Nobody Records, Pumpkinland Studios and 13thTrack.com Halloween Radio.
In my world it tends to be Halloween much of the time. Strange most of the time. Busy all of the time. Join in on the fun, leave a comment and enjoy your stay...Mark Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18083279182547524998noreply@blogger.comBlogger994125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6766869.post-25861859211170233792022-10-31T10:31:00.001-07:002022-11-02T12:55:10.968-07:00October 31st, 2022...HALLOWEEN!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well folks...we made it! Another FULL month of blogging and blog posts. I've got plans to carve some pumpkins today and then tonight the kids will go Trick or Treating with some friends. I love wandering the streets and seeing decorations and the kids in costumes. After how weird the last few years have been I'm looking forward to whatever 2022 brings in the way of Halloween.<br />
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If you're not already aware of it, you can surf over to 13thTrack.com Halloween Radio and stream Halloween music for your party, for trick or treaters, to play in the dark or just to vibe out to. Surf on over!
There are a few songs that resonate with me on Halloween night specifically.<br />
First up is "Candy" from Rain Station's "DARK RIDE" CD. Jay created a fantastic video for this track - <a href="https://youtu.be/Hpy8gEpSsjw" target="_blank">here </a>- and I just LOVE this tune. Have a listen...<br />
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Next up is another track from "DARK RIDE" that is perfect for Halloween night. Jay created a video for this track as well - <a href="https://youtu.be/pFZuH1Xgr2c" target="_blank">here</a>. Have a listen to "Trick or Treatin'"...<br />
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Last up tonight is a FREE download of "It's Halloween" which is an unreleased song from Rain Station. Jay made a video for "It's Halloween" and you can watch it <a href="https://youtu.be/GOm1EauG5xs" target="_blank">here</a>. Have a listen to the song before you download it.<br />
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Download "It's Halloween" <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/listen/yqlp8wc3dwy8yb6/It's_Halloween.mp3">here</a>.<br />
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OK, enough treats for now - go out and have a safe Halloween!<br />
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<br />Eighteen years ago today I married my wife. We both would have preferred to pick a different day for our wedding anniversary since there's always so much to do to get ready for Halloween (if you're like me) and our anniversary doesn't get the attention it deserves.<br />
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This year isn't unique as there's always lots going on. Halloween on Monday and the need to recharge for a new week, a Sunday anniversary poses some challenges. I'm sure we will find a way to celebrate our 18 years of married life together. Thankfully we seem to be almost done with a pandemic so we'll likely go out for dinner.<br />
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I love you honey, Happy Anniversary.<br />
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So since we're talking October brides...have a listen to "October's Bride" off Rain Station's DARK RIDE CD. <br />
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If you've not taken the time to check out the DARK RIDE videos, please do. Visit <a href="http://jackolantern.org/">JackOLantern.org</a> or click the links below....<br />
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<a href="https://youtu.be/U3KqEjmVNuw" target="_blank">DAY OF THE DEAD</a></div>
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<a href="https://youtu.be/6fj_Vub6c40" target="_blank">TOMB OF DOOM</a></div>
<a href="https://youtu.be/cuOSz81hXMw" target="_blank">HAUNTED MAN</a><br />
<a href="https://youtu.be/R_OSd8aIr0o" target="_blank">MONSTER HUNTER</a><br />
<a href="https://youtu.be/uwgiRD3yLa8" target="_blank">DARK RIDE</a><br />
and the BONUS track <div>"<a href="https://youtu.be/Hpy8gEpSsjw" target="_blank">IT'S HALLOWEEN</a>"<br />
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Happy Anniversary to my lovely wife and Happy 30th of October. TOMORROW is THE day! HALLOWEEN PEOPLE!!!!<br />
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What classifies a song as a Halloween song? It is words. It is feel. It is unmistakable. Almost every genre of music has a Halloween representative, although I have yet to find a Gospel or Christian Halloween song in my searches. Much of this music must be sought out since it will never make it onto a Halloween compilation CD or onto commercial radio. As Halloween approaches, my never-ending search for new Halloween sounds reaches a higher level while stores stock current offerings. Each year I find something new. Each year I find more of the same old usual suspects. Let us start with the stories about the songs that you have most likely heard.</div>
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<strong>Sheb Wooley and A Thing with One Big Horn and One Big Eye</strong> </div>
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<strong>Mr. Pickett and THE song</strong> </div>
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<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7453/382/1600/Monster%20Mash1.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7453/382/200/Monster%20Mash.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a>In about an hour and a half, Lenny Capizi and Bobby Pickett worked out The Monster Mash. Halloween music was forever changed. These two members of the singing group the Cordials decided to take advantage of the novelty song craze happening in the early sixties. They brought the song to producer Gary Paxton (singer of the Hollywood Argyles hit Alley Oop). After the session, Paxton dubbed the band "Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett and the Cryptkickers." On October 20, 1962, after eight weeks on the charts, the record hit Number 1 just in time for Halloween. It re-entered the Billboard Hot 100 on August 29, 1970 peaking at Number 91 and again on May 5, 1972 when it went all the way to Number 10. Over the years, The Monster Mash has sold over four million copies, received three gold records, and is easily one of the most popular novelty records of all time. <br />
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<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7453/382/1600/Jumpin%20Gene.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7453/382/320/Jumpin%20Gene.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a>Haunted House was first recorded in the late 1950s by Johnny Fuller (Specialty 655) but failed to chart. In 1963 Domingo Samudio (a.k.a. Sam The Sham) was performing Haunted House live clubs and on television. People went nuts when he performed the song. Jumpin’ Gene and Sam the Sham were playing clubs together in the early sixties. Gene saw how folks were reacting to that song. Ray Harris at Hi Records asked Gene to see if Sam would record Haunted House for Hi Records. Sam declined and said he wanted to cut the record on his own. Harris wanted to proceed with their recording of the song and asked Jumpin’ Gene if he would cut the record. Simmons has said the session was not like his others in that "everyone involved had fun." By August 1964, Haunted House (Hi 2076) had made it to Number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100. After years of unsuccessful releases Haunted House would be Jumpin’ Gene Simmons first hit and would launch him on his first world tour. <br />
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<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7453/382/1600/Screamin"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7453/382/200/Screamin%27%20Jay.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a>Many years ago I was fortunate enough to catch Screamin’ Jay Hawkins at a small nightclub in San Francisco. The show was weird, excellent—but weird. I Put A Spell on You was THE signature song. Hawkins crept around the stage in a cape, brandishing the smoking skull on a stick he named ‘Henry.’ He was a crazed cannibal, a voodoo jive master. What I did not realize at that time was his immense impact on macabre music, especially on the presentation of that music. Inspired by being dumped by a girlfriend after she caught him cheating, Screamin’ Jay cut the original version of I Put A Spell On You for Grand Records in 1949, but the record failed to make an impact. Recorded with producer Arnold Maxon for Okeh (Epic) in 1956, the song soon became his signature hit. Maxon insisted that Jay’s recording needed to live up to the strange title and suggested that they turn the session into a huge party. Maxon supplied Jay and the musicians with barbecued ribs and chicken, yams and sweet potato pie, wine, beer and whiskey. After a while, he turned on the tape. A week later Screamin’ Jay was brought a copy of the recording. He was shocked and refused to believe that the recording was of him. After some Scotch and some practiced mouth contortions, he accepted it as his own. I Put A Spell on You was banned from radio airplay across the country due to his "cannibalistic" delivery. It was eventually edited for radio with moans, grunts and groans removed. I Put A Spell On You was Screamin’ Jay’s only big single, selling over a million copies, but it never made the charts. To date there are over three dozen versions by such popular artists as Credence Clearwater Revival, Nina Simone, Atlantics, Pete Townsend, The Animals (with Eric Burdon), Bryan Ferry, Manfred Mann, Robben Ford, Van Morrison, John Fogerty, Etta James, Bette Midler, Sarah Vaughan, Nick Cave, and Marilyn Manson.<br /><br /></div>
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<strong>Dah-dah-dah-dum! Snap! Snap!</strong> </div>
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<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7453/382/1600/Addams%20Family.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7453/382/320/Addams%20Family.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a>In 1964 Vic Mizzy gave us one of the best known pieces of music, The Addams Family Theme, but this legendary theme might not have happened at all. David Levy, a close friend of Mizzy’s and an executive with Filmways Studio (NBC’s television production division) asked him to patch in some stock music for the soundtrack of a pilot for a series based on the Charles Addams cartoons in the New Yorker. Vic offered to write a score for free so long as he could keep the publishing rights. Levy agreed and Mizzy wrote the theme. Not only did he write the title theme, but he also composed themes for most of the main characters, played the harpsichord, and directed the opening sequence. Vic was the vocalist on the track and his voice was overdubbed three times. Whenever you hear Lurch playing the harpsichord, it’s actually Vic. From 1964—1966 Mizzy composed themes and weekly scores for the TV show. His 1965 Ghost and Mr. Chicken soundtrack has some of his best work. He is known best in Hollywood for being an excellent source for silly and fun music and has composed for films, radio and television. <br />
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<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7453/382/1600/Spooky1.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="291" src="https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7453/382/320/Spooky1.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 224px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 216px;" width="279" /></a>Spooky was originally an instrumental by saxophonist Mike Sharpe. A regional hit in the Atlanta, Georgia area, J.R. Cobb of The Classics IV and producer Buddy Buie decided to re-record the song with lyrics. In 1967 Spooky was released on the Imperial Label. A radio station in Louisville, Kentucky began to spin the record. By early 1968 the song’s popularity had spread nationally as it reached Number 3 and achieved a gold record. It reached Number 46 in the UK. In 1974, Cobb and Buie, along with some members from The Classics IV and Roy Orbison’s Candymen band, formed the Atlanta Rhythm Section. Their 1979 remake of the original 1967 hit reached Number 17. Though it was the bands last hit, it put the song back on the Halloween map for good. <br />
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<strong>Phil Everly wants a dance song</strong> </div>
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<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7453/382/1600/zevon1.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7453/382/200/zevon.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a>In the early 70s Warren Zevon played with the Everly Brothers and by 1975, he and his wife were living in Phil Everly’s guesthouse. Phil asked Warren and songwriting partner Leroy "Roy" Marinell to write a song for his upcoming solo album. He asked them to write him a dance song. "Something like ‘Werewolves Of London’" is what Phil said. Later, at Roy’s house as they began writing, guitarist Robert ‘Wadded’ Wachtel joined them to add the "Aah-Ooh Werewolves of London". According to Zevon, the first verse was written spontaneously and entirely by Waddy. The three finished the song in 20 minutes. The track was recorded with Waddy, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie (of Fleetwood Mac fame) and produced by friend Jackson Browne. Werewolves of London hit Number 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 and Number 15 on the Cashbox charts in April 1978. The song eventually reached Number 8 and went gold. As a result, his album Excitable Boy became a Top Ten record and remains his best-selling album to date. Thanks to Phil. <br />
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I hope you have enjoyed the stories behind the songs. As familiar as many of these songs are, they still remain some of my favorite songs of all time. Sometimes hearing the story behind the song brings new life to old tracks. In the next issue of Happy Halloween Magazine I will talk about the more eclectic side of Halloween music, covering genres and rarities. <br />
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Mark Harvey is a Halloween music enthusiast and archivist. Mark owns and operates <a href="http://www.nobodyrecords.com/">NobodyRecords.com</a>, <a href="http://www.hauntscapes.com/">HauntScapes.com</a>, <a href="http://www.pumpkinlandstudios.com/">Pumpkinland Studios</a> and <a href="http://www.13thtrack.com/">13thTrack.com Halloween Radio</a> plus a number of Halloween and non-Halloween related websites. His own Halloween releases include the Pumpkinland Halloween ‘HauntScape’ Trilogy, Rain Station’s DARK RIDE and FLESHROT: Songs from the Dead. </div>
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Article from Happy Halloween Magazine Volume 4/Issue 4 – Winter 2002<br />
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It was back in 2012 that this Rain Station cartoon video was brought to life. Jay pulled an all nighter... all morninger to put this video out. Here's the video - <a href="https://youtu.be/sze2Wp1Kcdg" target="_blank">SCIENCE!!!</a><br />
"Science!!!" by Rain Station was recorded on 10/02/10 (hard to believe it was over 12 years ago). Here's the back story: "Jay and I got together so I could record vocals on a new song, "Complicated Man?", but I knew we needed to try and get a new Halloween track done. After trying to program drums for the new track Jay took a look at some of the drum beats he had recorded.<br />
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The process for "Criminal Goat" and our upcoming CD starts with Jay recording drum beats and then I'll add bass, guitar, keyboards and whatever else the tune needs. Jay will write lyrics and record other instruments and then we'll see what else we need to do. After hearing Jay's drum beat yesterday I recorded keyboards, guitar and then started thinking about what to write lyrically. Jay suggested that the song reminded him of a mad scientist and my mind took off - the pencil hardly keeping up with my mind. I recorded vocals and then Jay and I recorded some "weird" vocals to back up the track. We always have fun recording, but we get a kick out of the strangeness that comes out when we're recording a Halloween track.<br />
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So, the tradition continues with "Science!!!" a Rain Station Halloween track for 2010."<br /><br /></div><div><br />
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and check out the tune below...<br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Happy haunting!<br />
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We put the movie on early in the month and made it through the "Toad portion" of the show, but it was time for my little guy to go to bed so we didn't get to watch "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". This is another "must watch" Halloween special for me and as Halloween approaches I'll likely binge watch the remaining movies and specials. Funny how watching what I consider "Halloween fare" past October 31st strange and it doesn't/won't happen. It may be why I'm so bummed when I see the shelves empty of Halloween stuff and filled with Christmas stuff.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Who doesn't love this story? From Wikipedia (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Ichabod_and_Mr._Toad#The_Legend_of_Sleepy_Hollow" target="_blank">here</a>), "In October 1790, Ichabod Crane, a lanky, superstitious yet charming dandy arrives in Sleepy Hollow, New York, a small village outside Tarrytown that is renowned for its ghostly hauntings, to be the town's new schoolmaster. Despite his odd behavior, appearance, and effeminate mannerisms, Ichabod soon wins the hearts of the village's women and forms good friendships with his students. Brom Bones, the roguish town hero, does his best to pull pranks to Ichabod. However, he is very good at ignoring these taunts and continues to interact with the townspeople. One day, Ichabod meets and falls in love with Katrina van Tassel, the beautiful daughter of the wealthy Baltus van Tassel and Brom's unofficial fiancee. Despite being obsessed with Katrina's beauty, Ichabod mainly desires to take her family's money for himself. Brom, who has never been challenged like this, proceeds to compete with the schoolmaster, but Ichabod wins Katrina over at every opportunity. Unbeknownst to both men, Katrina is only using Ichabod to make Brom jealous and force him to try harder for her affections.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz47CG207NzKSweBoOOhpNMFCiI8ZFgna-UzQiNQZRFS6MvnqUiXhKftXjocVatFKOBM3XYHXNsC2ZF3vMkQF4SM051D3s2RCe0xN3xxGXdjMfTT4sljZ59P7QjHfMyHK4VyOfX9Cv7xZAdIu_tLRSM2363I_n1m3qhtG_S45zFZzvP9ufAQ/s3616/IMG_0908.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2795" data-original-width="3616" height="154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz47CG207NzKSweBoOOhpNMFCiI8ZFgna-UzQiNQZRFS6MvnqUiXhKftXjocVatFKOBM3XYHXNsC2ZF3vMkQF4SM051D3s2RCe0xN3xxGXdjMfTT4sljZ59P7QjHfMyHK4VyOfX9Cv7xZAdIu_tLRSM2363I_n1m3qhtG_S45zFZzvP9ufAQ/w200-h154/IMG_0908.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>The two love rivals are invited to the van Tassel Halloween party. Brom attempts to get Ichabod to dance with a plump woman instead of Katrina, and later attempts to have him fall through a cellar door, but both attempts backfire. While both men dine, Brom catches Ichabod accidentally knocking the salt shaker over and nervously tossing salt over his shoulder. Discovering that Ichabod's weakness is superstition, he decides to sing the tale of the legendary Headless Horseman. The horseman supposedly travels the woods on Halloween each year, searching for a living head to replace the one which he has lost, and the only way to escape the ghost is to cross a covered bridge. Everyone else, including Katrina, finds the song amusing, while Ichabod on the other hand starts to fear for his life.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBFK5-35bQDuHfkv8EYhdR1kdY4wJGK3Bb05KSMbgckg65WizyCun3A70IqrT04h-tEgWhhf-4Txu0A4X82EoVQ7ShPYJPXlLT3CV2bTbWuB7cmInkvaWZXEYj9rOIOJQdBtwYmH1wAQRLeZ4jrfCy7KKsCi1yERD4A6WgRcOFBCm1X6rKiA/s3484/IMG_0919.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2608" data-original-width="3484" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBFK5-35bQDuHfkv8EYhdR1kdY4wJGK3Bb05KSMbgckg65WizyCun3A70IqrT04h-tEgWhhf-4Txu0A4X82EoVQ7ShPYJPXlLT3CV2bTbWuB7cmInkvaWZXEYj9rOIOJQdBtwYmH1wAQRLeZ4jrfCy7KKsCi1yERD4A6WgRcOFBCm1X6rKiA/w200-h150/IMG_0919.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Riding home from the party, Ichabod becomes frightened of every sound and sight which he hears in the dark woods. While traveling through the old cemetery, Ichabod believes he hears the sound of a horse galloping toward him, but discovers the sound is being made by nearby cattails bumping on a log. He and his horse begin to laugh – however, their laughter is cut short by the appearance of the Headless Horseman, wielding a sword and riding on the back of a black horse. After being chased through the dark forest, Ichabod, remembering Brom's advice, rides across the covered bridge to stop the ghost's pursuit. The horseman stops and throws his flaming head, revealed to be a jack-o'-lantern, right at Ichabod's face.</div><div><br /></div><div>The next morning, Ichabod's hat is found at the bridge next to the shattered jack-o-lantern, but Ichabod himself is nowhere to be found. Sometime later, Brom takes Katrina as his wife. Rumors begin to spread that Ichabod is still alive, married to a wealthy widow in a distant county with children who all look like him. However, the superstitious people of Sleepy Hollow insist that he has been "spirited away" by the Headless Horseman."</div><div><br /></div><div>Happy Haunting,</div><div><br /></div><div>Mark Harvey</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHExvvjXHm5q0JtjjSu2iQSnCDKR3-FHofzU9kS_yAuvOBECmZwFk-FWxMzOwsUkDQ4qmkXq9zTRutYV0AE2rxpEcFSiLAowrLH6QpE8camxzcbfSCn0pjbkEroNVYafy2oZLCsF_d-pYWjnDExFX8jlOqR3XfpHbjls9n2X_TitFU75vYJA/s176/CtH2022-Badge_250px-x-250px_01.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="176" data-original-width="176" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHExvvjXHm5q0JtjjSu2iQSnCDKR3-FHofzU9kS_yAuvOBECmZwFk-FWxMzOwsUkDQ4qmkXq9zTRutYV0AE2rxpEcFSiLAowrLH6QpE8camxzcbfSCn0pjbkEroNVYafy2oZLCsF_d-pYWjnDExFX8jlOqR3XfpHbjls9n2X_TitFU75vYJA/s1600/CtH2022-Badge_250px-x-250px_01.png" width="176" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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I remember watching this when I was a kid as I was a big fan of KISS and it was a big deal that they were going to be on the show. I have this on DVD now and even though the special is pretty impossible to show to my kids (they don't get it and Paul's humor is...well, 1976ish) I try and put it on every few years or so. Tonight my 12 year old watched it with me and I got the expected groans.</p><p>From Wikipedia, "The Paul Lynde Halloween Special is a Halloween-themed television special starring Paul Lynde broadcast October 29, 1976 on ABC. It featured guest stars Margaret Hamilton in a reprisal of her role as the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz. Also guest starring are Billie Hayes as Witchiepoo from H.R. Pufnstuf, Tim Conway, Roz Kelly, Florence Henderson, rock band Kiss, Billy Barty as Gallows the Butler, Betty White and, in an unbilled surprise appearance, Donny and Marie Osmond."</p><p>If you need a FULL recap of the show, Wikipedia does a great job...</p><p>"In succession, Paul (as himself) begins singing to celebrate Christmas, Easter and Valentine's Day but is interrupted each time when his housekeeper Margaret (Margaret Hamilton) tells him it is none of these and prods him into admitting it is a holiday he dreads, Halloween. The opening credits roll, and Lynde gives a stand-up monologue explaining, among other jokes, that his childhood obesity had traumatized him into hating the holiday. In keeping with a promise to Margaret to enjoy the holiday, he sings a special version of his signature song "Kids" in which he actually claims to like them until a group of kids in devil costumes (among them Donny and Marie Osmond) torment him.</p><p>Margaret offers to take Paul away from the kids and drives him to Gloomsbury Manor, where her sister (Billie Hayes) resides. When they arrive, Paul realizes that both are witches, Wilhelmina Witchiepoo and the Wicked Witch of the West. A third witch, "good witch" Miss Halloween (Betty White) arrives, disappointed that Margaret had brought Lynde instead of the promised Paul Newman (or, for that matter, any other person named Paul), then departs. Believing that they have been unjustly given a bad reputation, they commission Paul to serve as a public relations expert to improve their image. To seal the deal, they offer him three wishes.</p><p>In his first wish, Paul wishes to be a trucker and is reinvented as "Big Red," a crass, red-haired, CB-slang-talking, rhinestone-studded trucker engaged to waitress "Kinky Pinky" Tuscadero (Roz Kelly). He soon finds that Pinky has two-timed him and has also promised another trucker (Tim Conway) her hand in marriage; the two, along with Pinky's boss (Billy Barty), soon enter a battle to prove their worth to her, which Paul wins with his large wad of money from a movie advance. Big Red and Pinky marry as the diner turns into a raucous hoedown.</p><p>He returns to the manor, and after KISS performs "Detroit Rock City" and Paul and the witches sit through a boring game of Monopoly, Paul offhandedly wishes he were in the Sahara Desert and is transformed into a "chic sheik" lusting after snow queen Lady Cecily Westinghouse (Florence Henderson). After a difficult seduction, just as he wins her over with a cockatoo, his nemesis Seymour of the foreign legion (Conway) reveals the lady was bait for a trap and takes the sheik away. He trades the cockatoo for his freedom and comes back to her, a deal Seymour accepted because "a man gets mighty lonely in the foreign legion."</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb3KF--lcBvnNeSAIceVO3BDvvcpxS7q4R23K4F9fq-BvY3JmE6csvryw7uurtxBLkjTuie3kthaifLB4ennwBvFoX4QhOXGLqlfpN0BHRHt_ZofxhTM04UuNgQm7q1pgrc6GxO_udkAY8GEA0wW3huf--8QdKlTD2xaIAxO5KDLK04JvF1Q/s3745/IMG_0864.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3005" data-original-width="3745" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb3KF--lcBvnNeSAIceVO3BDvvcpxS7q4R23K4F9fq-BvY3JmE6csvryw7uurtxBLkjTuie3kthaifLB4ennwBvFoX4QhOXGLqlfpN0BHRHt_ZofxhTM04UuNgQm7q1pgrc6GxO_udkAY8GEA0wW3huf--8QdKlTD2xaIAxO5KDLK04JvF1Q/w200-h161/IMG_0864.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Pleased with his two wishes, he offers his third wish to the witches, who wish to go to a disco. With Paul as host and Henderson as guest performer ("That Old Black Magic"), the manor turns into a swinging discotheque. Kiss returns and performs two more songs, "Beth" (Peter Criss solo at the piano) and "King of the Night Time World." The show's finale has the entire cast assembling as Paul and Pinky sing Johnnie Taylor's "Disco Lady" (gender-neutralized to "Disco Baby"). Paul thanks the audience and home viewers "for making (him) feel wanted" and implies that he might not appear in another special for a prolonged period of time, before reprising "Disco Baby" with the cast as a perplexed KISS looks on from the rear."<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhZvrrB0QppGmo6hC7JsnNXUdRUnXqirMeA4OjoC-PNpUoPb6sOFPAnBq1pAjaqMK6QTBqwKLO-VIs8iNRBobUeB34lcylG-6uoWXnAcGrhllHOf4tpe35lkbuyd40-Z5jcrjoruhl6vT6N0UcaiLik5SeB-Wrp0rUFbQ0XnBJljhYuSdg_w/s3173/IMG_0870.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2184" data-original-width="3173" height="138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhZvrrB0QppGmo6hC7JsnNXUdRUnXqirMeA4OjoC-PNpUoPb6sOFPAnBq1pAjaqMK6QTBqwKLO-VIs8iNRBobUeB34lcylG-6uoWXnAcGrhllHOf4tpe35lkbuyd40-Z5jcrjoruhl6vT6N0UcaiLik5SeB-Wrp0rUFbQ0XnBJljhYuSdg_w/w200-h138/IMG_0870.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>If you are a 70's kid like me you can probably make it through this show. It's fun to see KISS and my daughter enjoyed that part the most.<p></p><p>Happy Haunting,</p><p>Mark Harvey</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfoy1gbisKgvGFHIrb9qNueXMsVReX4rN8L6GBPXBGDZ7IeNia4vMJT-L7gykgUwiFsCPvN0lSUK8yXMrTAn1Mon87DLIuDNypDLUrl33QhCN_DsCa5GGxVxuHTN_19ufFLpo9WckrlooURjdi7EXDAptOqQKzPCEiSoghrqKREuOPPbPiMQ/s176/CtH2022-Badge_250px-x-250px_01.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="176" data-original-width="176" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfoy1gbisKgvGFHIrb9qNueXMsVReX4rN8L6GBPXBGDZ7IeNia4vMJT-L7gykgUwiFsCPvN0lSUK8yXMrTAn1Mon87DLIuDNypDLUrl33QhCN_DsCa5GGxVxuHTN_19ufFLpo9WckrlooURjdi7EXDAptOqQKzPCEiSoghrqKREuOPPbPiMQ/s1600/CtH2022-Badge_250px-x-250px_01.png" width="176" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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An interview I did with <a href="http://www.PumpkinlandStudios.com">Ghoul Skool</a> :<br />
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If you haven't heard <a href="http://www.13thtrack.com/">13th Track Halloween Radio </a>or listened to the music of <a href="http://www.nobodyrecords.com/">Nobody Records</a> then your missing the best part of Halloween. Read along and check out the links as we interview <a href="http://www.markharveyworld.com/">Mark Harvey</a>, the Master of Music Macabre!</div>
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<strong>Q:</strong> The <a href="http://www.13thtrack.com/">13th Track</a> is the Premiere <a href="http://www.13thtrack.com/">Halloween Radio Station</a>. Why Halloween?</div>
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<strong>A:</strong> Halloween is my favorite holiday. For years I would put together mixes of Halloween (and Christmas) music and give it to friends. A sort of music to live your holiday by. As the years went on I started collecting anything and everything Halloween audio related. As my collection grew I decided I wanted to share my collection with a broader audience so I started <a href="http://www.13thtrack.com/">13thTrack.com Halloween Radio</a>.</div>
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<strong>Q:</strong> Your collection of Halloween related songs is staggering, how long have you been collecting them? Do you have a favorite find? Is there a favorite song associated with Halloween?</div>
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<strong>A:</strong> I've been collecting Halloween related audio for around 22 years (I'm 34 now). My favorite find is a recent one. I finally located The Munsters LP in excellent condition. This LP features the Munsters theme with lyrics. Of course now that I found one, they've been showing up left and right on eBay. It'd be tough to pick just one favorite song since I've got so many. I'm into the more fun, party side of Halloween music. Music that is good to dance to. Something to get the girls dancing!</div>
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<strong>Q:</strong> You split your record selections for the <a href="http://www.13thtrack.com/">13th Track</a> between classics (pre-70s) and modern (post 70s), in your opinion was there a shift in the music at that time? Where do you see Halloween music headed in the future, will it be darker, more Culdee or could there be another "Monster Mash" looming on the horizon?</div>
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<strong>A:</strong> There seems to be a shift from the pre-70s to the post 70s. Music from the 70s fits better with newer music. Music from the 60s and earlier tends to fit together. I've been DJing for many years and figured that 70s and before and 70s and beyond would be the logical place to split the broadcasts. Earlier Halloween music tends to be more whimsical, while newer Halloween music a bit darker (not in all cases). As far as the future of Halloween music? I think musicians will continue to record whatever inspires them. I know there are lots of new whimsical Halloween tunes, but with society getting a bit darker I also feel that Halloween music will emulate what's going on, so it should also get darker.</div>
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Really, people record for whoever they think their audience is, even if it is just for themselves. When I record my music I record the music for myself and hope that there is someone out there that can relate to what I'm doing. So far so good. As far as another "Monster Mash" on the horizon, I doubt it. Songs like that one come around once in a lifetime. Of all the emails I get, "Monster Mash" is still the most requested song. I'm still trying to write a song that rivals it. Hopefully someday I'll succeed!</div>
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<strong>Q:</strong> <a href="http://www.nobodyrecords.com/">Nobody Records </a>is a unique name, oft times there is a special meaning linking the name to the owner is it so in your case? How long has <a href="http://www.nobodyrecords.com/">Nobody Records</a> been in business? Where are you located?</div>
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<strong>A:</strong> Back in the late 80's my band, <a href="http://www.nobodyrecords.com/gallery.htm">The Screaming Paisleys</a>, needed a record label name to release our debut LP "EXIT" on. I had a band mascot (if you will) that I called Nobody - a no eyes, nose or mouth doll. I liked the name and it seemed to fit and it has stuck now for 16+ years. The label is located in Northern California near Oakland.</div>
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<strong>Q:</strong> The artists on your label are truly talented, how do you find them or do they find you? Do you solicit material from new acts or do you create them?</div>
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<strong>A:</strong> I've found most of the artists on my label. I do accept unsolicited material and I've signed acts who've submitted demos. Much of what is on my label has some connection to me - either I am the band or part of the band or good friends with the band. My goal is to be able to someday add many more artists to the label and get affiliated with a major label.</div>
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<strong>Q:</strong> Have you been associated with providing music for the dark ride industry? If so, in what fashion?</div>
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<strong>A:</strong> I've created many custom tracks for the dark amusement industry. People from all over the world contact me for specialized tracks. It helps that I am a haunter and dark rider. I understand what it takes to put on a good show. Music, in my opinion, is the least considered, but the most effective aspect of any dark attraction. I like to see floor plans, understand the themes or gag in each space. Then I create a track that immerses the visitor in the desired location. Right now I am working with a dark ride company in the Middle East. Another goal of mine is to work for an amusement company putting together tracks for rides, theme parks and events.</div>
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<strong>Q:</strong> Do you do anything special for Halloween such as parties, haunts or charitable functions?</div>
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<strong>A:</strong> Yes. Each year I put on a haunt for children called "<a href="http://www.nobodyrecords.com/haunt.htm">Pumpkinland</a>" (named after my <a href="http://www.hauntscapes.com/">CD </a><a href="http://www.hauntscapes.com/">series</a>). Children enter free and I collect canned goods or small donations for an entrance fee from the adults. All proceeds benefit the <a href="http://www.davisstreet.org/">Davis Street Community Center</a> in San Leandro, CA. Last year I wasn't able to put "<a href="http://www.nobodyrecords.com/haunt.htm">Pumpkinland</a>" together, but plan on getting it back up and running this October. I've got many new pneumatic props (built by Brent Ross, <a href="http://www.deviousconcoctions.com/">Devious Concoctions</a>) and look forward to putting on a professional show for the kids this year.</div>
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<strong>Q:</strong> Is there a special Halloween memory that remains with you?</div>
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<strong>A:</strong> Yes. Trick or Treating as a kid. I have many fond memories of combing the hillsides in San Carlos, CA with my friends in search of candy and good scares. It was safe back then to wander around until all hours of the night with your friends. We'd come home with pillow cases full of candy. I also loved carving Jack-O-Lanterns, visiting <a href="http://www.miramarevents.com/pumpkinfest/">Half Moon Bay, CA</a> and decorating the house for Halloween. The new fond memories of Halloween include meeting <a href="http://www.robzombie.com/">Rob Zombie</a>, <a href="http://www.horror-wood.com/black.htm">Karen Black</a>, <a href="http://www.choptopsbbq.com/">Bill Moseley</a> and Alyson Hannigan at <a href="http://themeparks.universalstudios.com/hollywood/website/index.html?__source=RGMN">Universal Studios</a>. They all did radio spots for <a href="http://www.13thtrack.com/">13thTrack.com Halloween Radio</a> and received copies of my <a href="http://www.13thtrack.com/pumpkinland/">Pumpkinland</a> CD and my band,<a href="http://www.nobodyrecords.com/RainStation.htm"> Rain Station's CD</a>, <a href="http://www.13thtrack.com/dark-ride/">DARK RIDE</a>. I also enjoy visiting local haunts and hearing the tracks I've created for them in action.</div>
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And that's it folks...repost du jour...hope you enjoyed it and keep visiting Mark Harvey World each day during the month of October.</div>
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Mark Harvey</div>
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Such a perfect time of year to celebrate Richard's life (see what I wrote about him in a previous post by clicking <a href="http://halloweenradio.blogspot.com/2008/09/thank-you.html">here</a>). Such a perfect song for the Halloween season. His spirit lives on in my memory and his determination to be THE *Star Vocalist* that he was inspires me everyday to live my life to the fullest.<br />
Your comments are appreciated.<br />
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Enjoy!<br />
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Mark Harvey<br />
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Click<a href="http://www.mediafire.com/listen/i49uscoxxi1vq6k/Witchcraft.mp3" target="_blank"> here</a> if you can't figure out where you're supposed to click to download the song.<div>
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<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7453/382/1600/Scooby%20Doo.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7453/382/200/Scooby%20Doo.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a>The original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? was my favorite cartoon, and its theme one of my beloved songs. CBS first aired Scooby-Doo September 13, 1969. Fred Silverman, head of Children’s Programming at the time, was looking for a show to break the network’s superhero cartoon rut and move into cartoons with more comedy and adventure. He was seeking a combination of the popular 1940’s radio show I Love a Mystery and the 1959-1963 sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. Silverman and Joe Barbera, of the Hanna-Barbera team, came up with the working title "House of Mystery" and took the idea to Hanna-Barbera writers, Ken Spears and Joe Rudy. Spears and Rudy worked on characters, plots and story lines. Initially the story line involved four teenaged detectives who traveled the country in a van called the Mystery Machine solving mysteries. A Great Dane was the fifth member of the crew, but did not play a large role in these plots. Originally titled ‘Mystery’s Five’ the name was changed to ‘Who’s Scared?’ and presented to CBS management as a new Saturday morning cartoon. CBS president Frank Stanton rejected the show because he felt the artwork was too frightening for younger viewers. Still trying to salvage the idea, Silverman flew back to Los Angeles that night, and while listening to airline music on the flight back he was struck by the phrase "Scooby-dooby-doo" from Frank Sinatra’s Strangers in the Night. "We’ll call the show Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? and we’ll make the dog the star of the show," he told Hanna-Barbera. And the show as we know it was created. The theme music for the first two aired episodes was composed by legend Hoyt S. Curtin, theme composer of The Flintstones, The Jetsons and many memorable television and cartoon themes. The more notable "Scooby-Dooby-Doo" theme song, written by David Mook and Ben Raleigh and sung by Larry Marks was recorded on Wednesday and aired the following Saturday, September 27, 1969. The Scooby-Doo format changed in 1972 and Hanna-Barbera created the Scooby-Doo movies, which aired on ABC, and featured guest stars such as the Addams Family, Phyllis Diller, Jonathan Winters, Don Knotts, and Laurel and Hardy. After seven years at CBS the Scooby-Doo series moved to ABC in 1976. ABC wanted a new theme song that reflected the current music scene so Hoyt Curtin worked with Hanna-Barbera to compose the disco theme for The Scooby-Doo Show. There are many versions of the Scooby-Doo theme recorded for various shows and movies by Mathew Sweet, The B-52’s, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Billy Ray Cyrus and Third Eye Blind. But my favorite version is the Mook/Raleigh version we all have come to know as the original Scooby-Doo theme.<br />
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<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7453/382/1600/MunstersLP.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7453/382/200/MunstersLP.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a>I love The Munsters. Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher, creative forces behind The Amos & Andy Show and Leave It to Beaver, developed, wrote and produced The Munsters which debuted on CBS September 24, 1964. Jack Marshall, one of Capitol’s top producers in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s wrote the theme song, which was nominated for a Grammy, with little known lyrics by Bob Mosher. An influential Hollywood guitarist, arranger, composer and conductor, Marshall scored music for television and was an arranger for Peggy Lee and Judy Garland. There are a few versions of The Munsters theme arranged by Marshall, including the pilot theme, the first 1964 arrangement and the final 1964-1966 arrangement. Marshall’s untimely passing at age 51 prompted a scholarship fund for young guitarists to be created in his name at the University of Southern California, where he is credited with starting their guitar program. Billy Strange, Comateens and Los Straitjackets have recorded versions of this classic television theme. This theme is one of the best Halloween instrumentals of all time.<br /><br />
<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7453/382/1600/BewitchedDVD3.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7453/382/200/BewitchedDVD3.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a>Don Kirshner was president of Columbia Pictures-Screen Gem’s (CP-SG) music division when he assigned Jack Keller and Howard Greenfield to view the pilot for Bewitched and write the theme in 1964. The pilot used Frank Sinatra’s Witchcraft but (CP-SG) didn’t want to pay Sinatra for rights to the Witchcraft recording. Keller and Greenfield needed to write something with the same vibe, and they had only a week to write the song, record the demo and get it form California to New York. The song was readily accepted and the decision was made to use an instrumental rather than vocal version to enhance the Hanna-Barbera animated main title sequence. The first instrumental version was a light orchestral arrangement by series composer Warren Barker. The xylophone signature for Samantha’s trademark nose-scrunch was Barker’s idea and was incorporated into the main title for the second season. Talk of a vocal version was squashed when the studio didn’t want to spend $2,500 to pay crooner Jerry Vale. The animation and music for Bewitched changed slightly during its 1964-1972 ABC Primetime run. Alternate versions of the Bewitched theme have been performed by Peggy Lee, Steve Lawrence, The Earl Klugh Trio and 60’s Hammond organ master Jimmy Smith, to name a few. Bewitched is always a crowd pleaser with its fun, jazzy vibe and smooth feel.<br /><br />
<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7453/382/1600/hitchcock1.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7453/382/200/hitchcock1.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a>Alfred Hitchcock presents, the 30-minute television series that aired October 2, 1955 to September 6, 1965, was the brainchild of Hitchcock’s friend and ex-agent Lou Wasserman, president of MCA. Alfred Hitchcock presents was one of the longest-running shows in television history, winning two Emmys and receiving 17 Emmy nominations. Hitchcock chose the classical novelty Marche Funèbre d'une Marionnette (Funeral March of the Marionette) composed in 1873 by French composer Charles Gonoud. The song was adapted and arranged over the years by many composers starting with Stanley J.Wilson, Music Director of MCA-Revue Studios (the TV wing of MCA-Universal Studios). Stan Wilson was a key figure in Hollywood’s music industry in the 1950s and 1960s and started the careers of several young composers including Dave Grusin, Quincy Jones and Lalo Schifrin. In 1960 the theme was credited to arrangers Dave Kahn and Melvyn Lenard. Kahn became music supervisor for the Filmways TV shows and Lenard was the pseudonym of publisher David Marvin Gordon, who wanted a piece of the royalties. In the fall of 1962 episodes expanded to an hour, and the title was changed to The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. The theme was adapted and arranged by Lyn Murray (the pseudonym of Lionel Breeze). Murray had scored Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief. The Lyn Murray Orchestra played with Bing Crosby, the Dorsey Brothers and Louis Armstrong. His personal diary detailing the New York and Hollywood Film and TV social scene was published in 1987: Musician – a Hollywood Journal. Bernard Herrmann arranged and adapted the theme a fourth time in 1964 opening the second hour-long season. In Herrmann's arrangement the melody was transposed up a diatonic third. He also composed music for many of Hitchcock’s films including Psycho, Vertigo, North by Northwest, The Trouble with Harry, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Marnie and Torn Curtain. Hitchcock’s choice of theme song shows his self-amused attitude toward the joke that was his public persona. Funeral March of the Marionette will forever be linked to the fun and frolic of Halloween.<div><br />
<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7453/382/1600/Outer%20Limits.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7453/382/200/Outer%20Limits.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a>"There is nothing wrong with your television set…" those chilling words were first heard September 16, 1963. Outer Limits terrified audiences on ABC Primetime from 1963 until 1965. Leslie Stevens, president of Daystar Productions, and Joseph Stefano, scriptwriter for Hitchcock's Psycho and Marnie, developed Outer Limits in 1962 in attempt to compete with CBS’s The Twilight Zone. Composer and leading jazz accordionists Dominic Frontiere penned the first theme for the series. This was Frontiere’s first major achievement as a composer. He was also a production executive for the show. Frontiere’s main title theme and the music he wrote for the series are some of the most incredible and innovative scoring ever on television. It is also some of the creepiest. Frontiere is known for his film scores Hang ‘Em High (which Booker T & the MGs made into a top ten hit) and television scores like The Invaders. He, Stefano and Stevens left the series in 1964 after a crippling time-slot change and serious issues regarding funding. Frontiere became head of Paramount’s music department and won a Golden Globe his composition for The Stunt Man. Harry Lubin replaced Frontiere as series music director and replaced the main theme music and spooky melodies. A Lubin composition called ‘Weird’ had been used in Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond and this replaced the Outer Limits theme to save money. The track is almost unaltered from its original version used on One Step Beyond. Lubin is probably best known as composing for The Loretta Young Show and for the motion pictures Disaster, Wyoming Mail, Waterfront at Midnight, Mr. Reckless, Caged Fury and Tibet. Frontiere and Lubin’s compositions helped achieve that extra level of fright that Outer Limits enjoyed.<br />
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Whether you enjoy cartoons, sit-coms, murder mysteries or aliens and paranormal exploits, television themes are part of our musical Halloween celebration. Creating music that will be heard week after week, season after season isn’t easy. A successful theme song will outlast syndication and transcend the show it represented. A memorable theme song is a true work of art, a stroke of genius. I hope you have enjoyed learning about of these geniuses. <a href="http://www.markharveyworld.com/">Mark Harvey </a>is a Halloween music enthusiast and archivist. Mark owns and operates <a href="http://www.nobodyrecords.com/">NobodyRecords.com</a>, <a href="http://www.hauntscapes.com/">HauntScapes.com</a>, <a href="http://www.pumpkinlandstudios.com/">Pumpkinland Studios</a> and <a href="http://www.13thtrack.com/">13thTrack.com Halloween Radio</a> plus a number of Halloween and non-Halloween related websites. His own Halloween releases include the Pumpkinland Halloween ‘HauntScape’ Trilogy and Rain Station’s DARK RIDE.<br />
Article from Happy Halloween Magazine Volume 5/Issue 2 & 3 – Autumn 2002<br />
Visit <a href="http://www.halloweenalliance.com/">Halloweenalliance.com</a> for magazine information<br />
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I hope they bring you as much joy as they do me!<br />
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HAPPY HAUNTING!<br />
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Mark Harvey<br />
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Heading over to the coast reminds me of when I was a kid so I'm always up for the ride and we like to support a local farmer by picking up our pumpkins from them.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFA_HdMEXA7NWy-jFvHbo1hPnDWm56U6BG-B9YA7j4qeZjmUCijHXmV3s1Zz_rqBCvsxpKTxw26kuSWfSCjIus5yYPTwhHThFAfQGgsvygMZgO6pOR2d2hrEiStbNs9hkWNtLIHf7Gfla3k6vlb43g60nINXLLWAY-4kkybwjwInc0y8rLkA/s640/IMG_0738.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFA_HdMEXA7NWy-jFvHbo1hPnDWm56U6BG-B9YA7j4qeZjmUCijHXmV3s1Zz_rqBCvsxpKTxw26kuSWfSCjIus5yYPTwhHThFAfQGgsvygMZgO6pOR2d2hrEiStbNs9hkWNtLIHf7Gfla3k6vlb43g60nINXLLWAY-4kkybwjwInc0y8rLkA/w200-h150/IMG_0738.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>We left a little later than usual, but made good time over the bridge and toward the hills that lead over to Half Moon Bay. Then I saw the sign. 54 minutes to Half Moon Bay. I asked my wife, "Is the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival going on today?". She grabbed her phone and looked it up. Yes. It was this weekend.<p></p><p>I grew up going to the festival and it's always a fun time. In the early days before the internet the festival always drew a crowd. I do believe once folks learned of the festival the attendance numbers exploded. It was many, many years ago when I last attended and wasn't really interested in doing it again.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTLuEd1PDQSvnoYweP0yDXCyuiO9pcUdzzkvpNr52OvYbN6yi5pHfGWHo3CJTU8kfJhjpFbzn_UdfIJKcAg0c_XjhQrAHCbcA9zVj1WxGndD1DiUB6l1Iy68Etp9ZvhCk_YcmhLEwWP3V6wht98ygNxucFO0agnooEYm0e556R7Jx18g4nHw/s4032/IMG_0762.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTLuEd1PDQSvnoYweP0yDXCyuiO9pcUdzzkvpNr52OvYbN6yi5pHfGWHo3CJTU8kfJhjpFbzn_UdfIJKcAg0c_XjhQrAHCbcA9zVj1WxGndD1DiUB6l1Iy68Etp9ZvhCk_YcmhLEwWP3V6wht98ygNxucFO0agnooEYm0e556R7Jx18g4nHw/w200-h150/IMG_0762.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>We had a choice to make. Turn around and head over to another pumpkin patch inland, or keep heading toward the ocean and see what happens. We all decided we wanted to keep moving forward and did.<p></p><p>Traffic was slow and steady over the hills and remained that way until we hit Farmer John's Pumpkin Patch. We found parking relatively easily and although the patch was crowded we managed to snap photos and enjoy our time picking out pumpkins.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcyyVFIVoEBkocGHGF8TDUUA3WvnC2HqYliw6iQc2d3ajY4EyHj5M6zbqOsBtDIlUohOIeuXy5up8p9UO5zZv4hcKrf3_Ex6lEQI2LSs9mzyyXiJV7Jch-YqmI-fzFaLvdH1QFDfm4yoN048GCy83n_2RsU_nloPJhiFxhpHCFab47ot8Pug/s4032/IMG_0771.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcyyVFIVoEBkocGHGF8TDUUA3WvnC2HqYliw6iQc2d3ajY4EyHj5M6zbqOsBtDIlUohOIeuXy5up8p9UO5zZv4hcKrf3_Ex6lEQI2LSs9mzyyXiJV7Jch-YqmI-fzFaLvdH1QFDfm4yoN048GCy83n_2RsU_nloPJhiFxhpHCFab47ot8Pug/w150-h200/IMG_0771.jpg" width="150" /></a></div>Afterwards we decided to pay for parking and wander over to the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival. I'm so glad we did. We heard a bunch of great bands, grabbed some kettle corn and other treats and enjoyed looking at the artisans wares. We purchased a blown glass pumpkin (which I'll photograph at some point) and a pumpkin hat for my <br />daughter (he was out of stock, but we should receive it in the mail shortly). It was a nice afternoon celebrating pumpkins and my favorite time of year.<p></p><p><br /></p><p>Happy Haunting,</p><p>Mark Harvey</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4vgV02v8yLKCXsdyPa59NM-kuanXPKcWxuhzVGpn8f868SkbeiL9-GmPNva7t1aLrtg9CQCXVRwMUzi-1uu0e5I-qJv6VQl0-kUO3cng2ShF1D7CAijgA-y4LN6wzVYSaku1Ln0iTr77Ik37I8EScMRA0J6UqJN4WXUgBuKgI6zo38yN8Qg/s4032/IMG_0776.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4vgV02v8yLKCXsdyPa59NM-kuanXPKcWxuhzVGpn8f868SkbeiL9-GmPNva7t1aLrtg9CQCXVRwMUzi-1uu0e5I-qJv6VQl0-kUO3cng2ShF1D7CAijgA-y4LN6wzVYSaku1Ln0iTr77Ik37I8EScMRA0J6UqJN4WXUgBuKgI6zo38yN8Qg/w150-h200/IMG_0776.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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I was going through some old files a year ago and found a bunch of old seed packets (some sealed with seeds inside).</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi0kSh_uPvJjb9mSWJpHy4TZtSeB9FgfFTsiCD5ph69USIrTYM5XvWkNJVHGW4TYjxgFAyRrImgPxxdWTN8zLCH_5y4OavTSenCAt2TkJIZMPwFRaZRZ7V5WM8IskBqyd25n85/s2048/Pumpkin+Seeds+1+001.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1491" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi0kSh_uPvJjb9mSWJpHy4TZtSeB9FgfFTsiCD5ph69USIrTYM5XvWkNJVHGW4TYjxgFAyRrImgPxxdWTN8zLCH_5y4OavTSenCAt2TkJIZMPwFRaZRZ7V5WM8IskBqyd25n85/w146-h200/Pumpkin+Seeds+1+001.jpg" width="146" /></a></div>It may have been the Fall days over in Half Moon Bay as a kid - running around the pumpkin patches. That was always one of my favorite things to do as a kid. Heading to the pumpkin patch today. Will share our adventures tomorrow!<p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvj5FJg_EiZZIbmRZV7L1potTUzU2DfC34nBNLUa2AvftGkJYth4R6wLXZUNL4tAhVZTlhZHTJ0EIJ3PpWhFLuneDakVrlvNdco1C-5jNKYoOpx2Omwt1Etrso3bmHSrwTizjv/s2048/Pumpkin+Seeds+4+001.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1452" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvj5FJg_EiZZIbmRZV7L1potTUzU2DfC34nBNLUa2AvftGkJYth4R6wLXZUNL4tAhVZTlhZHTJ0EIJ3PpWhFLuneDakVrlvNdco1C-5jNKYoOpx2Omwt1Etrso3bmHSrwTizjv/w142-h200/Pumpkin+Seeds+4+001.jpg" width="142" /></a></div>For some reason, pumpkins and Jack O' Lanterns make me feel warm and peaceful. The orange glow of a candlelit Jack O' Lantern and some creepy music is about all I need for a seasonal treat.<p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6nSAakq66suxfQAOde0211YYgWK_t1LuXdh0TmeGzt8t3OomTFti-_Ob4Hi79rcrvszVDfyGJReseF10SLeeE1Ttkt2HI7fX4XX5_81h_QB8IFE4dro3GZvgUWxTgT9wDtggz/s2048/Pumpkin+Seeds+3+001.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1473" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6nSAakq66suxfQAOde0211YYgWK_t1LuXdh0TmeGzt8t3OomTFti-_Ob4Hi79rcrvszVDfyGJReseF10SLeeE1Ttkt2HI7fX4XX5_81h_QB8IFE4dro3GZvgUWxTgT9wDtggz/w144-h200/Pumpkin+Seeds+3+001.jpg" width="144" /></a></div>What's YOUR favorite Halloween decoration? What do you need out to make your Season complete?<p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Have a listen to "The Pumpkin Patch" from my first Pumpkinland CD (<a href="https://markharvey.bandcamp.com/album/pumpkinland" target="_blank">here</a>).</p><p><iframe seamless="" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=226308624/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/track=1212432808/transparent=true/" style="border: 0; height: 120px; width: 100%;"><a href="https://markharvey.bandcamp.com/album/pumpkinland">Pumpkinland by Mark Harvey</a></iframe></p><p>Happy Haunting,</p><p>Mark Harvey</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8YlmMIxsIYP2MxD5MYwJ917TXppyPvgTxb07l4Ptoztz0uQD9qjvRJJJEXMHmz0o6aSrUvyfRM2EmRnt4_0o3ydSywYADqPshBzPSg1XiEjkTHLP4J319FvXyFlykRDbXI451/s280/31+Days+Of+Halloween+2010.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="190" data-original-width="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8YlmMIxsIYP2MxD5MYwJ917TXppyPvgTxb07l4Ptoztz0uQD9qjvRJJJEXMHmz0o6aSrUvyfRM2EmRnt4_0o3ydSywYADqPshBzPSg1XiEjkTHLP4J319FvXyFlykRDbXI451/s0/31+Days+Of+Halloween+2010.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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Greetings fellow ghouls and welcome to another Halloween post here at Mark Harvey's World. I've been blogging for 15 days so far this month - there's just so much to share this time of year. <br />
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Disney's "The Song and Story from The Haunted Mansion" is probably one of my favorite records of all time.<br />
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As a kid I had a copy, but my Mom - in an attempt to rid our house of all EVIL LPs - threw it out (my poor sisters lost A LOT of LPs...Led Zeppelin, Bad Company...and so many more). It was a phase in my life where celebrating Halloween was OK just as long as you had nothing evil or dark associated with it...uh...OK..<br />
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In my adult years I began searching the Internet to see if I could find a replacement copy of Disney's "The Song and Story from The Haunted Mansion". I found a guy named Jeff Baham who was running a little site about Disney's Haunted Mansion. That site has gotten HUGE (<a href="http://doombuggies.com/">here</a>). Jeff suggested eBay and so I surfed over there to see what eBay was all about. Talk about SCORE. I now own several copies of Disney's Haunted Mansion LP and NO ONE is going to take them from me ever again!"The Story and Song from the Haunted Mansion" is an LP that featured a pre-Happy-Days Ron Howard. Recorded in 1969, "The Story and Song from the Haunted Mansion" featured the young Howard as "Mike," a teenager out on a date with "Karen" voiced by Robie Lester. Lester's "Storyteller" album for The Aristocats was nominated for a 1970 Grammy Award. One of her most famous roles was as "Miss Jessica", the schoolteacher who becomes Mrs. Kris Kringle (Santa Claus) in the 1970 Rankin-Bass TV special Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (TV special).<br />
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The story is narrated by Thurl Ravenscroft, one of Disney's best-known vocal talents. Ravenscroft is known for being the original voice of Tony the Tiger as well as the the singer of "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch," from Chuck Jones' classic cartoon How the Grinch Stole Christmas. The Disneyland ride's main scenes are represented which makes this an album well worth owning (if you have a turntable). The LP's Ghost Host is voiced by Pete Renoudet. This differs from the attraction's Ghost Host, voiced by Paul Frees. The album contains an 11-page book of illustrations by Disney Imagineer and artist Collin Campbell. <br />
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I hope you enjoy what I consider to be the starting point of my love for all things Halloween...Disney's "The Song and Story from The Haunted Mansion"...<br />
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Happy Haunting!<br />
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Greetings friends, readers, Halloween enthusiasts or whoever you are...<br />
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Halloween is approaching and if you're like me you're either decorated OR you'll soon be decorating your house for Halloween night. I enjoy decking my house out even though I don't get many kids up my steep hill. One of the most important parts of creating the atmos-fear is sound. Years ago my Mother-in-law told me that the kids that did come to my house asked her how she could stay in such a scary place. The music is what led them to believe the place was so scary. I didn't have too many props out, but I did have my Pumpkinland music blaring out of every window.<br />
Put some time into creating the right atmos-fear not only with your decorations, but with SOUND.<br />
If you are in need - guess what? I've GOT what you need. Have a listen - it doesn't cost anything and you can download the music fast and easy.<br />
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Pumpkinland is the original "hauntscape" I recorded back in 1999 for my first home haunt<br />
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Pumpkinland II followed in 2000 and was recorded due to the incredible success I had with the original "hauntscape".<br />
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Pumpkinland III was recorded in 2001 and was recorded to complete the trilogy.<br />
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Each Pumpkinland Halloween "Hauntscape" can be downloaded for $10 each. Money well spent.<br />
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Check 'em out!<br />
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Greetings fellow ghouls,<br />
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It is VERY hard to believe that TWENTY TWO years ago Jay and I released Rain Station's DARK RIDE and after 22 years I'm still as excited about this CD as I was when it was released. Let's rewind the clock...here's the back story (for those who don't know).<br />
Back in the Fall of 2000 (Due to my online presence on 13thTrack.com Halloween Radio) I was invited to The Universal Studios Hollywood Eyegore Awards. The Universal Studios Hollywood Eyegore Awards are presented for achievement in the horror and sci-fi genre. So, on Friday, October 13th Jay and I trekked down to LA to be there, interview some folks and get some station IDs for 13thTrack.com as well as interview some of the winners for an article that I wrote. For some reason I still can't seem to find the article, but I'll keep digging so I can post it here.<br />
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<strong>The winners that night were:</strong><br />
* Joss Whedon<br />
* Casts of Buffy and Angel<br />
* Karen Black<br />
* Gloria Stewart<br />
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It still amazes me that we recorded this entire CD in probably two or three weeks. The disc got some great reviews as well...and although I know I've blogged this far too many times, here goes again (the reviews):<br />
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<strong>Underground DJ from Haunted Attraction Magazine</strong><br />
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Now it is time to run away and join the carnival. "Step right up and see the amazing, the unbelievable, the available for your attraction CD, DARK RIDE by Rain Station." A journey through a veritable midway of new music written for old pretzel rides. The use of sound effects is limited only to those that help create the feel of the piece. The styles of music range widely from Heavy Metal beats through old time Rock and Roll to the almost cutesy Trick Or Treatin'. This nostalgically fun selection, took me back to my early days as a young zombie, heading out on Halloween with the lust for candy in my heart. The CD would be great for line entertainment or a party, with a little bit for every taste and some of the beats are infectious.<br />
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<strong>Larry McKenzie HalloweenMagazine.com</strong><br />
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DARK RIDE by Rain Station is one of the most unique Halloween music CDs I have ever heard. DARK RIDE has 13 music tracks. Each track is a good mixture for Halloween. A bit mysterious and dark, yet very fun. The DARK RIDE CD would be great for an adult Halloween party. If you are a Halloween enthusiast and are looking for more Halloween music for your collection, you should visit http://www.NobodyRecords.com/ and listen to the MP3 samples from the DARK RIDE CD. I am happy to have this CD as part of my Halloween music collection. I sincerely recommend visiting Nobody Records and listen to a track or two.<br />
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<strong>Underground Entertainment</strong><br />
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(This) offering is more of a Halloween party CD, especially suited to be played in queue lines or on the midways of Scream Parks. It contains thirteen tracks of rock/alternative style music with Halloween themes. You'll find titles such as "Monster Hunter", "Haunted Man", "Black Lagoon", "Trick or Treatin'", and "Broom Hopping". This one is fun and is a CD that should be added to the collection of anyone interested in assembling a music anthology of Halloween related material.<br />
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<strong>Chaotic Order</strong><br />
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Curious mix of Porno for Pyros and White Collar Crime with a penchant for Halloween. Best use would be on the soundtrack for the upcoming Scooby Doo movie.<br />
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<strong>Happy Halloween Magazine</strong><br />
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Looking for a Halloween CD with an edge, this is the one to get. Available from Nobody Records, Rain Station's Dark Ride packs a gritty, heavy metal sound that conjures an auditory image of purgatory. While this is not normally the type of music I listen to, for Halloween...it works! The raspy vocals lend a dark, almost visceral feel to the accompanying music. Contains 13, new, original hits...<br />
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Jay made some "videos" for some of the tracks on DARK RIDE. Check all of them out <a href="http://jackolantern.org/">here</a>.<br />
DARK RIDE is one of my all time favorite projects. Perhaps it is because we didn't over analyze it, we had a timeline and had to bang it out. Perhaps it was because we got to be completely goofy. Rain Station music can sometimes be awfully serious and this disc is nothing but pure fun. Perhaps it was the thrill of getting to give copies of our CD to folks like Rob Zombie and Karen Black. Perhaps it was the Halloween theme.<br />
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The road trip to Universal Studios with Jay is a very fond memory for me. It felt like we were on tour.<br />
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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY DARK RIDE!!!<br />
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<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7453/382/1600/Scooby%20Doo.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7453/382/200/Scooby%20Doo.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a>The original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? was my favorite cartoon, and its theme one of my beloved songs. CBS first aired Scooby-Doo September 13, 1969. Fred Silverman, head of Children’s Programming at the time, was looking for a show to break the network’s superhero cartoon rut and move into cartoons with more comedy and adventure. He was seeking a combination of the popular 1940’s radio show I Love a Mystery and the 1959-1963 sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. Silverman and Joe Barbera, of the Hanna-Barbera team, came up with the working title "House of Mystery" and took the idea to Hanna-Barbera writers, Ken Spears and Joe Rudy. Spears and Rudy worked on characters, plots and story lines. Initially the story line involved four teenaged detectives who traveled the country in a van called the Mystery Machine solving mysteries. A Great Dane was the fifth member of the crew, but did not play a large role in these plots. Originally titled ‘Mystery’s Five’ the name was changed to ‘Who’s Scared?’ and presented to CBS management as a new Saturday morning cartoon. CBS president Frank Stanton rejected the show because he felt the artwork was too frightening for younger viewers. Still trying to salvage the idea, Silverman flew back to Los Angeles that night, and while listening to airline music on the flight back he was struck by the phrase "Scooby-dooby-doo" from Frank Sinatra’s Strangers in the Night. "We’ll call the show Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? and we’ll make the dog the star of the show," he told Hanna-Barbera. And the show as we know it was created. The theme music for the first two aired episodes was composed by legend Hoyt S. Curtin, theme composer of The Flintstones, The Jetsons and many memorable television and cartoon themes. The more notable "Scooby-Dooby-Doo" theme song, written by David Mook and Ben Raleigh and sung by Larry Marks was recorded on Wednesday and aired the following Saturday, September 27, 1969. The Scooby-Doo format changed in 1972 and Hanna-Barbera created the Scooby-Doo movies, which aired on ABC, and featured guest stars such as the Addams Family, Phyllis Diller, Jonathan Winters, Don Knotts, and Laurel and Hardy. After seven years at CBS the Scooby-Doo series moved to ABC in 1976. ABC wanted a new theme song that reflected the current music scene so Hoyt Curtin worked with Hanna-Barbera to compose the disco theme for The Scooby-Doo Show. There are many versions of the Scooby-Doo theme recorded for various shows and movies by Mathew Sweet, The B-52’s, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Billy Ray Cyrus and Third Eye Blind. But my favorite version is the Mook/Raleigh version we all have come to know as the original Scooby-Doo theme.<br />
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<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7453/382/1600/MunstersLP.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7453/382/200/MunstersLP.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a>I love The Munsters. Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher, creative forces behind The Amos & Andy Show and Leave It to Beaver, developed, wrote and produced The Munsters which debuted on CBS September 24, 1964. Jack Marshall, one of Capitol’s top producers in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s wrote the theme song, which was nominated for a Grammy, with little known lyrics by Bob Mosher. An influential Hollywood guitarist, arranger, composer and conductor, Marshall scored music for television and was an arranger for Peggy Lee and Judy Garland. There are a few versions of The Munsters theme arranged by Marshall, including the pilot theme, the first 1964 arrangement and the final 1964-1966 arrangement. Marshall’s untimely passing at age 51 prompted a scholarship fund for young guitarists to be created in his name at the University of Southern California, where he is credited with starting their guitar program. Billy Strange, Comateens and Los Straitjackets have recorded versions of this classic television theme. This theme is one of the best Halloween instrumentals of all time.<br /><br />
<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7453/382/1600/BewitchedDVD3.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7453/382/200/BewitchedDVD3.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a>Don Kirshner was president of Columbia Pictures-Screen Gem’s (CP-SG) music division when he assigned Jack Keller and Howard Greenfield to view the pilot for Bewitched and write the theme in 1964. The pilot used Frank Sinatra’s Witchcraft but (CP-SG) didn’t want to pay Sinatra for rights to the Witchcraft recording. Keller and Greenfield needed to write something with the same vibe, and they had only a week to write the song, record the demo and get it form California to New York. The song was readily accepted and the decision was made to use an instrumental rather than vocal version to enhance the Hanna-Barbera animated main title sequence. The first instrumental version was a light orchestral arrangement by series composer Warren Barker. The xylophone signature for Samantha’s trademark nose-scrunch was Barker’s idea and was incorporated into the main title for the second season. Talk of a vocal version was squashed when the studio didn’t want to spend $2,500 to pay crooner Jerry Vale. The animation and music for Bewitched changed slightly during its 1964-1972 ABC Primetime run. Alternate versions of the Bewitched theme have been performed by Peggy Lee, Steve Lawrence, The Earl Klugh Trio and 60’s Hammond organ master Jimmy Smith, to name a few. Bewitched is always a crowd pleaser with its fun, jazzy vibe and smooth feel.<br /><br />
<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7453/382/1600/hitchcock1.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7453/382/200/hitchcock1.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a>Alfred Hitchcock presents, the 30-minute television series that aired October 2, 1955 to September 6, 1965, was the brainchild of Hitchcock’s friend and ex-agent Lou Wasserman, president of MCA. Alfred Hitchcock presents was one of the longest-running shows in television history, winning two Emmys and receiving 17 Emmy nominations. Hitchcock chose the classical novelty Marche Funèbre d'une Marionnette (Funeral March of the Marionette) composed in 1873 by French composer Charles Gonoud. The song was adapted and arranged over the years by many composers starting with Stanley J.Wilson, Music Director of MCA-Revue Studios (the TV wing of MCA-Universal Studios). Stan Wilson was a key figure in Hollywood’s music industry in the 1950s and 1960s and started the careers of several young composers including Dave Grusin, Quincy Jones and Lalo Schifrin. In 1960 the theme was credited to arrangers Dave Kahn and Melvyn Lenard. Kahn became music supervisor for the Filmways TV shows and Lenard was the pseudonym of publisher David Marvin Gordon, who wanted a piece of the royalties. In the fall of 1962 episodes expanded to an hour, and the title was changed to The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. The theme was adapted and arranged by Lyn Murray (the pseudonym of Lionel Breeze). Murray had scored Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief. The Lyn Murray Orchestra played with Bing Crosby, the Dorsey Brothers and Louis Armstrong. His personal diary detailing the New York and Hollywood Film and TV social scene was published in 1987: Musician – a Hollywood Journal. Bernard Herrmann arranged and adapted the theme a fourth time in 1964 opening the second hour-long season. In Herrmann's arrangement the melody was transposed up a diatonic third. He also composed music for many of Hitchcock’s films including Psycho, Vertigo, North by Northwest, The Trouble with Harry, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Marnie and Torn Curtain. Hitchcock’s choice of theme song shows his self-amused attitude toward the joke that was his public persona. Funeral March of the Marionette will forever be linked to the fun and frolic of Halloween.<div><br />
<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7453/382/1600/Outer%20Limits.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7453/382/200/Outer%20Limits.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a>"There is nothing wrong with your television set…" those chilling words were first heard September 16, 1963. Outer Limits terrified audiences on ABC Primetime from 1963 until 1965. Leslie Stevens, president of Daystar Productions, and Joseph Stefano, scriptwriter for Hitchcock's Psycho and Marnie, developed Outer Limits in 1962 in attempt to compete with CBS’s The Twilight Zone. Composer and leading jazz accordionists Dominic Frontiere penned the first theme for the series. This was Frontiere’s first major achievement as a composer. He was also a production executive for the show. Frontiere’s main title theme and the music he wrote for the series are some of the most incredible and innovative scoring ever on television. It is also some of the creepiest. Frontiere is known for his film scores Hang ‘Em High (which Booker T & the MGs made into a top ten hit) and television scores like The Invaders. He, Stefano and Stevens left the series in 1964 after a crippling time-slot change and serious issues regarding funding. Frontiere became head of Paramount’s music department and won a Golden Globe his composition for The Stunt Man. Harry Lubin replaced Frontiere as series music director and replaced the main theme music and spooky melodies. A Lubin composition called ‘Weird’ had been used in Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond and this replaced the Outer Limits theme to save money. The track is almost unaltered from its original version used on One Step Beyond. Lubin is probably best known as composing for The Loretta Young Show and for the motion pictures Disaster, Wyoming Mail, Waterfront at Midnight, Mr. Reckless, Caged Fury and Tibet. Frontiere and Lubin’s compositions helped achieve that extra level of fright that Outer Limits enjoyed.<br />
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Whether you enjoy cartoons, sit-coms, murder mysteries or aliens and paranormal exploits, television themes are part of our musical Halloween celebration. Creating music that will be heard week after week, season after season isn’t easy. A successful theme song will outlast syndication and transcend the show it represented. A memorable theme song is a true work of art, a stroke of genius. I hope you have enjoyed learning about of these geniuses. <a href="http://www.markharveyworld.com/">Mark Harvey </a>is a Halloween music enthusiast and archivist. Mark owns and operates <a href="http://www.nobodyrecords.com/">NobodyRecords.com</a>, <a href="http://www.hauntscapes.com/">HauntScapes.com</a>, <a href="http://www.pumpkinlandstudios.com/">Pumpkinland Studios</a> and <a href="http://www.13thtrack.com/">13thTrack.com Halloween Radio</a> plus a number of Halloween and non-Halloween related websites. His own Halloween releases include the Pumpkinland Halloween ‘HauntScape’ Trilogy and Rain Station’s DARK RIDE.<br />
Article from Happy Halloween Magazine Volume 5/Issue 2 & 3 – Autumn 2002<br />
Visit <a href="http://www.halloweenalliance.com/">Halloweenalliance.com</a> for magazine information<br />
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<br />I feel the need to offer up some treats for those of you who read this blog. Here is a FREE download of one of my tracks. The FREE MP3 download today is "Every Day, Every Year" (click <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/listen/j7x6p3fp37fipha/Every_Day,_Every_Year.mp3" target="_blank">here</a> to download), taken from the Nobody Records Pumpkinland Halloween Sampler (also found on mopehead's "Big Top Blues" CD <a href="http://mopehead.bandcamp.com/album/big-top-blues" target="_blank">here</a>). Enjoy the FREE track and please drop me a comment. Remember, all of my CDs are available for purchase at <a href="http://www.hauntedcds.com/">HauntedCDs.com</a> and can be downloaded <a href="http://mopehead.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://markharvey.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://rainstation.bandcamp.com/album/dark-ride" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://www.nobodyrecords.com/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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The aesthetic for Pumpkinland is very much something I tweak from year to year and I've become very discriminating about what I purchase and how/if everything works together. The pumpkin I purchased the other day made me stop in my tracks - I knew I had to have it. This has been the case for the past several years. </p><p>I ran across Evil Seed Creations on Facebook (<a href="http://www.facebook.com/evilseedcreations" target="_blank">here</a>). Maybe a friend had liked a post...I'm not sure, but I'll tell you, Tony (the creator of these amazing sculptures) does incredible work and his art is exactly what I <u>need</u> for Pumpkinland. This is unique, one of a kind art that captures the pure essence of the haunted pumpkin patch. Each piece feels alive, mysterious and real.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZBxWyZtxSCKq6sLcKMU39kMxpXztTC917VJVqj1EQ4Q2_2BZxv6ZbN8QDB15aMpdppVqmco1sXjLUyzB-bgXGqMNY8Oak9BV00oitIkWUxB7L_Y1jPqdn97uhrNZd38ECey42QQLWGtU521GeRB98ddIZsb8amnZ9AcYcTf5c_pR4cAZ5-A/s1670/IMG_0665.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1670" data-original-width="1179" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZBxWyZtxSCKq6sLcKMU39kMxpXztTC917VJVqj1EQ4Q2_2BZxv6ZbN8QDB15aMpdppVqmco1sXjLUyzB-bgXGqMNY8Oak9BV00oitIkWUxB7L_Y1jPqdn97uhrNZd38ECey42QQLWGtU521GeRB98ddIZsb8amnZ9AcYcTf5c_pR4cAZ5-A/w141-h200/IMG_0665.JPG" width="141" /></a></div>From his website (<a href="https://www.evilseedcreations.com/" target="_blank">here</a>), " Hello- I’m Tony, artist and creator behind Evil Seeds. A little about me: my creativity began in my childhood, my mom would take me around town entering different art contests with my drawings of all these creatures.<p></p><div><div>Starting about 14 years ago, I decided to take my love for creating creatures and decorate my front yard for Halloween. That's where my story goes wild. I started setting up elaborate Hollywood style displays in my front yard every year with each year more elaborate than the last. People would come from all over including media from TV, radio and newspapers! Even featured on HGTV's " Home Strange Home." I have specialized in medium to large scale life size creatures and as being an extreme perfectionist it's evident in everything I create.</div></div><div><div>Each creation is NEVER shipped until I am completely satisfied with every detail as if I was creating it for myself."</div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ8jRVwU_pbXpPgw4dp9VKKeWrNo9cWSvGmvD54THc-IOmWe1yDtZGRxHr9c94271klPkTu5ACQEKi939NUgoxTJaW6_xPkWmecnn3zOfLaYK0MjA8RVtxF4Puk4k7IqI0TsjFFu6EzGXbROytJgwEG-J-rN5JsgB3L03fudw1FWwhqbETZw/s2048/IMG_0666.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1516" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ8jRVwU_pbXpPgw4dp9VKKeWrNo9cWSvGmvD54THc-IOmWe1yDtZGRxHr9c94271klPkTu5ACQEKi939NUgoxTJaW6_xPkWmecnn3zOfLaYK0MjA8RVtxF4Puk4k7IqI0TsjFFu6EzGXbROytJgwEG-J-rN5JsgB3L03fudw1FWwhqbETZw/w148-h200/IMG_0666.JPG" width="148" /></a></div>My favorite sculpture of his is named "Scavenger" (pictured to the left). I hope to someday have some of these amazing pieces in my collection.</div><div>You can find Evil Seed Creations on Tony's website (<a href="https://www.evilseedcreations.com/" target="_blank">here</a>), Facebook (<a href="http://www.facebook.com/evilseedcreations" target="_blank">here</a>), Instagram (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/evilseedcreations" target="_blank">here</a>), TikTok (<a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@evilseedcreations" target="_blank">here</a>) and on Etsy (<a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/EvilSeedCreations" target="_blank">here</a>). </div><div><br /></div><div>I'll be following his work as should you. Like his page on Facebook, follow him on Instagram and buy his art. Support artists!</div><div><br /></div><div>Happy Haunting,</div><div><br /></div><div>Mark Harvey</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF7MqVF0wGaecoCMAbksaC_b8fdlhzOgd43oopkgNOVBycy9rUYRcSysvEt1BTeP5o7JG_osnBSr5lGI_JZFKyaOTGmOzrDdEYyOobr-ulVNA4KkkE3ef9EJnqmhCuzdfI3c660a4dULJorJiCxhBwrkeXueiPVHdszR5-6tA77ksiqaVHpw/s176/CtH2022-Badge_250px-x-250px_01.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="176" data-original-width="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF7MqVF0wGaecoCMAbksaC_b8fdlhzOgd43oopkgNOVBycy9rUYRcSysvEt1BTeP5o7JG_osnBSr5lGI_JZFKyaOTGmOzrDdEYyOobr-ulVNA4KkkE3ef9EJnqmhCuzdfI3c660a4dULJorJiCxhBwrkeXueiPVHdszR5-6tA77ksiqaVHpw/s16000/CtH2022-Badge_250px-x-250px_01.png" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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