By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio
Or should that read somethings? Because we’ve burrowed deep into the Pure Pop Radio prize closet for a three-pack of melodic goodness on CD, and you can win. It’s Friday giveaway time, people!
First up in our prize pack is Caper Clowns’ latest album, their sophomore collection entitled A Salty Taste to the Lake. Eleven tasty melodic morsels, including top tracks like the poptastic “Sacre Bleu,” tell the tale of a band that is turning heads from sea to shining sea.
Next up for offer, we have America’s Heritage: Home Recordings/Demos 1970-1973, which presents embryonic versions of such top tracks as “Riverside” and “Ventura Highway.”
And finally, we’re offering up the CD reissue of Laura Nyro’s classic Eli and the Thirteenth Confession, which features Nyro classics like “Sweet Blindness,” “Eli’s Comin’,” and “Stoned Soul Picnic.” Three demos complete the package.
You can be the winner of this Pure Pop Radio prize pack by filling out the form below and sending it to us so that it reaches our mailbox by tomorrow, Saturday, February 23, at 2 pm ET. US residents only. Type “Prize Pack” in the Comment field, and don’t forget to include your email address where noted.
Good luck! Coming up next week here on the Pure Pop Radio website: Reviews and more!
Alan Haber’s Pure Pop Radio is the premiere website covering the melodic pop scene with in-depth reviews of new and reissued recordings, and a wide variety of features. We’ve been around since the first weekly Pure Pop Radio shows, which began broadcasting in 1995, and the 24-hour Pure Pop Radio station, which ended last August.
Welcome to your number one home for coverage of the greatest melodic pop music in the universe from the ’60s to today.
It’s cool! It’s fun! It’s like…Wow! Welcome to Pure Pop Radio’s all-new website design, stressing the fun that is inherent in the kind of music we like to call melodic pop.
I hope you enjoy our new digs! To celebrate, I’m giving away a vaguely “electric” prize to one lucky person: a copy of the CD/Blu-ray combo package of Jeff Lynne’s ELO: Wembley or Bust (please note that you must have a Blu-ray player to play the video component of this package). To win, simply fill out the form below (be sure to include your email address and type “ELO” in the Comment field) and return it to me here at Pure Pop Radio headquarters by this Friday, March 9 at 12 noon EST. US residents only.
Listen to the Pop Tunes Deejay Show on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8 pm ET (two different shows every week); In Conversation airs every Wednesday night at 9 pm ET. Don’t miss a minute!
Someone you know and love will no doubt, at some point in the future, ask where you were when the fine folks at purepopradio.com unveiled, right before your eyes, the full-of-fun and sunny-like-the-brightest-day-ever cheery new coat of paint that will light up the pages of your favorite website celebrating the joy that melodic pop music brings to one and all. We think you’re going to say “Wow!”
Well, it’s possible. Maybe even probable. You may think us a bit giddy for kvelling over our new coat of paint, coming tomorrow morning at 11:45 am EST, but give us what we’re sure will go down in history as our day of jubilee (think about a strikingly similar moment in the faux life of faux-Communications Director Toby Ziegler and his right-hand-man Sam Norman Seaborn that was depicted in the West Wing episode “Six Meetings Before Lunch.”)
Not only is tomorrow our day of jubilee–I mean, wait until you see our new coat of paint!–but it’s the day when we celebrate said new coat of paint–our day of jubilee, just like Toby and Sam!–by giving away arguably our biggest prize of the year…one that is vaguely “electric”!
So be here tomorrow morning at 11:45 am EST with, as some might say, bells on, or at least the kind of clothing you would wear for a kind of cyber-riffic new-coat-of-paint-esque celebration centered upon the unveiling of our brand-new, full-of-fun, sunny-like-the-sunniest-day-possible, full-of-joy coat of paint. And a vaguely-“electric” prize. That you could win!
Our first contest of 2018 will find a copy of Ringo Starr’s latest CD, Give More Love (featuring guest appearances by Sir Paul McCartney), winging its way with extra dollops of peace and love to one lucky person. Will that person be you?
Coke Belda 3 (Gs): A Tribute to the Bee Gees is a loving embrace of the quality songwriting and performances that the Brothers Gibb came to be, and still are, known for. The album’s dozen tracks are performed Coke Belda-style, which is to say that Coke has melded his acute pop sensibilities with the magic of some of melodic pop music’s greatest songs.
Back at the tail end of the 1990s, a veritable lifetime ago it seems, Todd Fletcher, working with popster Ellis Clark, perhaps best known to Pure Pop Radio followers as a member of Epicycle, fashioned a lovely, genre-defining album of luscious, melodic, classic harmony-filled soft pop under the perhaps unlikely name June and the Exit Wounds.
We’ve got a Bond, you and I…well, we’ve got two copies of Curry Cuts’ smashing CD compilation, Songs, Bond Songs: The Music of 007, to give away. And you could be one of the winners!
We’ll pick two winners from entries received by next Tuesday, July 4, at 5 pm ET. Each winner will snag a Bond compilation CD and a sticker that depicts the cover. It’s easy to win–simply fill out the form below and type the answer to the following question in the Comment field: What is James Bond’s drink of choice? You must answer this question to enter.
The Hangabouts’ sweet sophomore album, Kits and Cats and Saxon Wives, has risen to the top of the pops. With a baker’s dozen top-flight tunes and a deep well of craft and imagination, the band has produced a set of songs that will surely wind up populating best-of lists when best-of time comes about later this year.
