Carpenters Radio

[molee]

I recently learned about the free internet radio station found at www.pandora.com. I created for myself a new station I labeled "Carpenters Radio." Pandora automatically plays Carpenters songs along with numbers from other artists that are similar in style...all without commercial interruptions. If they play a song on my Carpenters Radio that I like, I give it a "thumbs up" and they will play it again sometime in the future. If I give it a "thumbs down", Pandora skips the rest of the song and it's removed from the playlist. It will then automatically move to the next song. For this reason, it's much better than regular radio.

Today I was listening to my Carpenters Radio while I was at work slaving away on my computer. Songs from Carol King and Jim Croce had been playing while I was working on complex program. Suddenly, I heard Karen's voice break through singing a song that I was not familiar with. In my excitelment I immediately confirmed it was indeed the Carpenters. It was almost like finding a long lost recording. (I will be the first to admit that I am not familiar with all of the lesser-known Carpenters songs). In any case, hearing Karen's voice again only confirmed to me just how amazing her voice really was. Sometimes it hurts...really hurts that we don't have her around anymore.

-Mo Lee

[Rick Henry]

Hi Molee... so very nice to hear from you...

I have heard of Pandora and I love it. I have also made my Carpenters radio station. What I like best about Pandora is the ability to skip over songs you may not care for.Although I do love many of those golden oldies such as Jim Croce, Carole King, Gordon Lightfoot, America, Carly Simon, James Taylor...

I've also made a Pink Floyd station, a Mars Volta station and a Donna Summer station.

[ps11932]

Internet radio is great and the best way (apart from personal CD's, etc.) to get outstanding music such as The Carpenters, and whatever else you may consider top notch. One of the many benefits of this forum is that the staff here, epecially WJ and Rick, got me introduced to internet radio & now I use it often.

[Rick Henry]

Mar 27, 2009 16:32:40 GMT -5 ps11932 said:

Internet radio is great and the best way (apart from personal CD's, etc.) to get outstanding music such as The Carpenters, and whatever else you may consider top notch. One of the many benefits of this forum is that the staff here, epecially WJ and Rick, got me introduced to internet radio & now I use it often.

I will second that one... internet radio is great and there are so many many different options out there. My favorite type of radio stations are the one's that you can personalize to your favorite styles and genres... a radio station with your own personality attached to it... now isn't that something. Pandora radio is good for that. Slacker Radio is even better www.slacker.com/ I have a Mellow Madness station I started it with Karen's solo album.. but also added Carpenters, Seals and Crofts, America, Neil Diamond, Paul Davis, Carly Simon, 5th Dimension, Toto, James Taylor, Chicago, Carole King and a few others. I will enjoy this station.
Here is the link location to my Mellow Madness station for those of you who wish to listen to it:
www.slacker.com/?sid=stations/13440280/1238199000

Hope you enjoy!