“Hello Goodbye” singer Tyler Farr was big on Halloween as a kid, and he’d usually dress up as one of his sports heroes — like longtime Dallas Cowboys running back and Pro Football Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith — and that was probably a good thing, because Tyler remembers his Donatello the Ninja Turtle year not going so well. (AUDIO INFO BELOW)

• If your parents ever held you back on scarfing down all your Halloween candy too fast, you can relate to Tyler, but he didn’t let that little setback stop him from loving Halloween. (AUDIO INFO BELOW)
• We asked Tyler what would be in his trick-or-treat bag these days, and it’s a mighty different list than when he was a kid. (AUDIO INFO BELOW)
• Tyler’s song, “Hello Goodbye,” will be on his full-length debut album releasing early next year, but right now, you can download the single free via this link to TylerFarr.com, and a pre-order of the album will get you an instant download of another cool Tyler song, “Makes You Wanna Drink.”
• And while you’re on his website, be sure to check out Tyler’s new video for “Hello Goodbye”!

  Tyler Farr says that his Halloween costumes favored sports figures, but not always. (:22)
“I always wanted to be a sports person, so I never got too crazy. I was never a Power Ranger or a…I think I was a Ninja Turtle one year. I wanted to be Donatello — I think I was Donatello — and I had that big stick thing that he carries, but my mom ended up takin’ it away from me ’cause I kept attackin’ everybody, like, thinkin’ I was a real Ninja Turtle. Yeah, I got in…I was big into Halloween.”

  As a kid, Tyler Farr really enjoyed Halloween, and he remembers going out as one of his football heroes. (:10)
“I dressed up. I was obsessed with Emmitt Smith, so I got a Dallas Cowboys football helmet, and I had the jersey, and I’m walkin’ around in shoulder pads, and I think I even put the cleats on one year for that.”

  Tyler Farr used to encounter issues with timely candy consumption. (:10)
“I was big into Halloween! I mean, it was a great time to go out and trick-or-treat and get candy and then my parents never lettin’ me eat all of it and hidin’ and it becoming petrified within a year.”

  Tyler Farr contemplates what he’d like to find in his trick-or-treat bag nowadays. (:24)
“Shotgun shells, maybe some, like, Under Armor cold-weather gear or some turkey calls, a good shaving kit maybe. You know, times have changed, so I don’t think candy and Tootsie Rolls are quite on the (ahem) artist diet. And I don’t think anybody’s gonna go to Whole Foods to get me some gluten-free anything to put in my bag. So, that would probably be what’s goin’ in my trick-or-treatin’ bag these days.”