October 9th, 2026...I love me some "Broom Hopping"

Greetings and salutations,

Each year many of my friends dust off their copy of my band Rain Station's DARK RIDE CD. If you've been visiting my blog for any length of time you've read about the making of the CD, heard the songs, maybe even bought a copy or downloaded a song or 13. Over the years my bandmate and great friend JE Moores has made awesome videos for some of the songs on the disc and for this track he made a GAME you can download and play on your mobile device!

From Jay's website (here)...

"Halloween is my favorite holiday. I love everything about it. Dressing up, fun spooky images, the leaves all turn beautiful colors, and lots and lots of candy! The Broom Hopping game is a celebration of classic Halloween paper cut out art. Remember your teacher giving you orange and black paper, and you had to cut out silhouettes of Jack-O-Lanterns, bats, and cats, and glue them all together into high contrast Halloween cards and decorations? You don’t? Well, that’s okay. You can play my new game anyway.

Mark Harvey and I are the band, Rain Station, and we recorded a bunch of Halloween songs. Our song, Broom Hopping inspired this game. We imagined a black cat hopping from broom stick to broom stick as witches fly to a Halloween party. I had animated a bunch of these songs for JackOLantern.ORG – but I thought Broom Hopping had to be a game, not just a cartoon.

So here it is. Broom Hopping is a classic Halloween video game perfect for all ages. Game play is simple. You just tap left or right and do your best to help the kitty hop from broom stick to broom stick. You can even hop on the bats to keep you going. If you need a little extra juice, the Jack-O-Lanterns give you a power up so you can survive the owls and spiders. Play against your friends to see who can hop the most broom sticks. If you love cats or Halloween, (or cats and Halloween), this game is for you."



Download the game...have a listen to the song...get into the Halloween Spirit!


Happy Haunting!

Mark Harvey

October 8th, 2026...Hauntorama? Yes!

Greetings and salutations,

Back in 2001 I was asked to be a part of Hauntorama - a nonprofit organization based in LA lending the music from my Pumpkinland CD (here) for a project they were developing. I ran across the order form when I was cleaning out some files and decided to look into where'd they go? Where'd they end up?

I was able to find the color version of the book artwork (left) and the following description of Sterling Long-Colbo's orgranization, "In 2001, Long-Colbo founded Hauntorama, a nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles. Hauntorama developed their awareness, safety and abduction prevention/education programs in connection with Child Quest International (CQI); this two-year program was created to raise awareness of child abduction, and provide safety education nationwide leading up to Halloween – a night with significant abduction risks. He partnered Hauntorama with Radio Disney, secured $500,000 in nationwide media promotion, and distributed 75,000 Halloween Safety brochures in 44 markets nationwide, supported by public safety announcements in the same markets. Long-Colbo also secured Universal Home Video and Scholastic Books as sponsors, as well as securing the involvement of the families of Boris Karloff, he also created, art-directed and produced the Hauntorama website."

I do know that my music was heard on Radio Disney and was used in the promotion of the project. I was proud to be a part of raising awareness of child abduction and to lend a hand using my music.

I've done some online searches for my CD and other information regarding the program, but it looks like after 19 years it as all but evaporated.  I hope I was able to do some good.

Have a listen to "Pumpkinland":

Happy Haunting,

Mark Harvey

October 7th, 2026...Rain Station's "SCIENCE"...

Good evening,

It was back in 2012 that this Rain Station cartoon video was brought to life. Jay pulled an all all-nighternighter... all-morninger to put this video out. Here's the video - SCIENCE!!!
"Science!!!" by Rain Station was recorded on 10/02/10 (hard to believe it was over 16 years ago).  Here's the backstory: "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.

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.

So, the tradition continues with "Science!!!" a Rain Station Halloween track for 2010."

and check out the tune below...

Happy haunting!

Mark Harvey

October 6th, 2026...Trader Joe's Halloween Gummies

Greetings and salutations,

One of my favorite things to do during the Season is shop for food to put into my kids' lunches. Trader Joe's almost always has some cool new treats every year, and this year is no exception.

My kids like fruit snacks, and these are fun, easy treats to add to their lunchboxes. They are gummies, not fruit snacks, and don't contain anything healthy.

Each 14 oz bag has about 20 .7 oz pouches.  They are 70 calories per pouch.

There are five Halloween-y shapes that are colored naturally and produced in France. They are super chewy and worth sourcing if you enjoy gummies. These are great for lunches or for passing out to trick-or-treaters.

Happy Haunting,

Mark Harvey

October 5th, 2026...Helping Haunters...a free track...

Greetings!

Back in 2002 I participated in producing a charity CD (with a number of other artists).  It was called "Haunters Helping Haunters" and I had three songs on the disc.

"Helping Haunters" was recorded specifically for this disc.

Please have a listen and ENJOY...

Tonight I'm making this tune available for FREE!

Download "Helping Haunters" now - here.

I hope you enjoy some of the FREE Halloween treats I'm posting.  Remember to support independent artists (like me) by downloading or purchasing music - you can find my music for download here, here, here and here.

Mark Harvey

Click here if you can't figure out where to download the track

October 4th, 2026...free download..."Every Day, Every Year".

Greetings,

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 is "Every Day, Every Year" (click here to download), taken from the Nobody Records Pumpkinland Halloween Sampler (also found on mopehead's "Big Top Blues" CD here). Enjoy the FREE track and please drop me a comment. Remember, all of my CDs are available for purchase at and be downloaded here, here, here and here.
Be sure and support Halloween Radio by purchasing CDs from us!

Happy Haunting,

Mark Harvey (aka mopehead)

Click here if you can't figure out where you're supposed to click to download the song.

October 3rd, 2026...always slinging the Halloween CDs...

Greetings and salutations,

As usual, October is the time when I try to sell some Halloween CDs to offset the costs of keeping myself online. I make non-Halloween sales throughout the year, but this is the time of year when I hope to find new fans and people who want to have physical copies of the music I have left. I made 1,000 copies of these CDs, and although they are available for download, I'm a sucker for physical media.

I opened up an Etsy store (here) and, in true October fashion, I'm selling CDs on eBay (I've been on eBay since 1998). The CDs I'm selling are now vintage. I have mass-produced copies of the following CDs (with links to purchase included):

Vintage 1999 Pumpkinland CD - recorded by me for my label, Nobody Records.

Rue Morgue Magazine said:

"Musical director Mark Harvey was motivated to kick start a compilation of truly frightening sounds largely out of his disappointment with the usual mix of cackling witches and rattling chains. 'I wanted something dark, eerie, spooky, mysterious and otherworldly,' he writes in the liner notes that accompany this CD. Pumpkinland is his first shot at your nerves, a throbbing soundscape of ambient noises and ghostly synths based around five musical themes (Swamp, Ghouls, The Pumpkin Patch, Creature). A definite atmos-fear is set, more serious in tone than campy or fun. Still, Pumpkinland would probably work best as the aural counterpart to a thrill ride or Halloween haunt (as was intended) rather than an album to listen to in its own."

Found on eBay here and Etsy here.

Vintage 2000 Rain Station DARK RIDE CD - recorded by Rain Station for Nobody Records

Underground DJ from Haunted Attraction Magazine said:

"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."

Found on eBay here and Etsy here.

Vintage 2003 Fleshrot: Songs from the Dead CD - Various Artists - Nobody Records

The soundtrack to Fleshrot: Tales from the Dead is a companion to the graphic novel. This CD features 13 tracks of music inspired by the book. The music is a combination of edgy and gritty songs and ambient/soundtrack 'HauntScapes' capturing the feel of the art and stories from the pages of the book. Mark Harvey of Nobody Records has written/recorded/produced the album in association with Frightworld Studios. Mark Harvey has been writing and recording music for 41 years. He founded Nobody Records in 1987 at age 18 to promote and release his first LP. He opened Pumpkinland Studios to record various solo and band efforts. In 1999, he released his first Halloween 'HauntScape', Pumpkinland, for use in theme parks, haunted attractions, and by home haunters. His work includes commercials, custom haunt tracks, soundscapes and sound effects. His work has been heard on radio, television and film.

Found on eBay here and Etsy here.

Please support independent music.

Happy Haunting,

Mark Harvey