By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio 
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.
Right On!
Our peppy mascots at the top of the page–Left Jeff on the left and Right On! on the right, flashing a pair of lively peace signs–welcome you to the all-new Pure Pop Radio website. It’s easy to get around our new layout; you’ll find all of our daily stories in the center of the page, and all of our navigation on the left: easy-to-click links to our most popular areas, including Pure Pop Radio: In Conversation podcasts and Pure Pop Radio’s Hall of Fame, monthly archives, recent posts, story categories, and tags. It’s all there to make it easier for you to jump around from here to there and ensure that you don’t miss a thing.
This new, fun website design came about because we all could use a bit of fun these days, and what better way to get that vibe than with a spirited, happy website layout that speaks to the heart of our beloved melodic pop music!
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.
Your Humble Host, Alan Haber
Thanks for your continued support. I am committed to keeping our humble cyber-digs stocked full of stories about upcoming episodes of Alan Haber’s Pop Tunes Deejay Show and Pure Pop Radio: In Conversation, general updates, music reviews, our popular ongoing features such as I Love That Song!, I Love That Album!, and Pure Pop Radio’s Hall of Fame, and much more. If you haven’t already, please “Follow” us by clicking on the link on the left side of the page so you don’t miss a post.
See you here in these pages, and see you on Pop that Goes Crunch Radio with new episodes of Alan Haber’s Pop Tunes Deejay Show and Pure Pop Radio: In Conversation!
Pure Pop Radio’s signature shows, Alan Haber’s Pop Tunes Deejay Show, playing the latest and greatest melodic pop songs from today and across the decades, and Pure Pop Radio: In Conversation, the premiere Internet melodic pop talk show, air weekly on Pop that Goes Crunch Radio.
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!
Tune in to Pop that Goes Crunch Radio by clicking on the following snazzy-looking button:
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.
