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Post by Rick Henry on Apr 13, 2006 2:09:29 GMT -5
I haven't mentioned it for a while but we now have 913 signatures on the "Induct the Carpenters into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" petition.
I've received emails from people telling me they've posted a link to the petition on their web site. One guy from Brea, California is responsible for getting around 75 people to sign recently. I have an email with a link to his blog. I will find it and post the link here.
If you want to read the signatures on the petition here's a link.
Click Here to read Petition signatures
This is the URL of the Main page of the petition: www.petitiononline.com/kandrcar/petition.html
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Post by YesterdayOnceMore on Apr 13, 2006 20:51:21 GMT -5
Thanks for keeping up so well with this, Rick. I should be looking at it more often myself. Rick and I sort of composed a letter to send at one point, but I for one have not gone after people yet. I should. I'm talking about celebrity camps - those types of people who could definitely make a difference in the numbers we need here. Anyone got any ideas how we could up the anti, so to speak, and get more and more signatures? Great that others have taken the ball and run with it by posting a link to it on their websites. This is the sort of thing we need to have happen. Ideas everyone? WE all know how deserving Carpenters are - we've got to get the rest of the world to know this is happening so they, too, can jump on the bandwaggon. Rick - what about "google" - is there something specific we can do to get this search engine to come up with this petition link when Carpenters are "googled?" Tim
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Post by GoodOldDreams on Apr 14, 2006 0:22:31 GMT -5
It is interesting to note that on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame website, the Carpenters' "Close to You" is listed in the sidebar named "Essential Recordings" to accompany the information on Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss' "Lifetime Achievement Award in the Non-Performer Category," including mention of signing the Carpenters on to their recording label, as they were inducted earlier this year. Check it out at: www.rockhall.com/hof/inductee.asp?id=2409This is an encouraging sign that someone over there thinks the Carpenters are relevant and appropriate for recognition in this genre, despite the perennial debate on what constitutes rock and roll and the criteria to judge musicianship by.
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Post by Rick Henry on Apr 14, 2006 1:21:05 GMT -5
Thank you GoodOldDreams what a great find.
Interestingly the Carpenters are last on this list of luminary hits. Well you know the old saying; "save the best for last".
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Post by smoothie2 on Apr 14, 2006 23:19:15 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300] :DWOW! 913 have signed ...Very Impressive!...even though probably a long way from our goal. Tim, I don't have any new ideas off hand regarding how to get more folks to sign, but there are some folks i know I might be able to get them on there. Goodoldreams...thanks for the link about A & M... very informative.....I do wish our C's were closer to #1 on that list, but..I surely did not realize just how many other artists link up to A and M. [/glow]......... I always Loved and still do, Herb ....I'm more than happy he took a chance with the C's , but I also hold lots of wonderful memories when I think of his albums. I grew up with his unique sounds..perhaps a little more due to the fact my bro. played the coronet in hi sch., and (even tho not a trumpet)...he tried to imitate that sound. anyway, excuse the rambling there... "all my best memories come back clearly to me..."
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Post by Rick Henry on Apr 15, 2006 9:26:54 GMT -5
Hi Kathy... I don't think that sidebar list of Essential Recordings is numbered - but the reason I mentioned that Carpenters were listed last is not because I thought they were at the bottom of the list - but because they were saved for last. Being last on a list like that is a good thing - because it's the last name you read - it stays with you longer. And also you know the old saying "save the best for last". Whoever designed this page obviously felt "Close To You" was the best of this list and saved it for last.
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Post by smoothie2 on Apr 15, 2006 22:54:04 GMT -5
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Post by Rick Henry on May 5, 2006 22:19:58 GMT -5
We are now at 931 signatures. Inching up to 1,000. But to be able to submit this to the RRHOF we need 10,000 names. Let's keep pushing.
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