By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio
Gather up sufficient gobs of SPF 30, a basketful of tasty snacks, and your Internet radio receptacle: This week’s Pure Pop Radio specialty shows are hot,and beaming from here to there on Pop that Goes Crunch Radio!
On this week’s all-new Pure Pop Radio: In Conversation, Michael Simmons (sparkle*jets u.k., Yorktown Lads, Popdudes) summons sweet summer vibes as he talks to me about his just-released top-pop platter, First Days of Summer.
During this hour-long show, we take a tour through Michael’s musical history and hear all about how he wrote and produced his new songs. First Days of Summer is a spectacular album, no matter the season; join us to hear all about it. (9 pm ET, Wednesday, April 11).
Two new hour-long Alan Haber’s Pop Tunes Deejay Shows spin this week. Tomorrow (Tuesday) night at 8 pm ET, new and new-to-you tracks will be spun from Roy Wood, The Tubes and Olivia Newton-John, David Myhr (the fourth song from his upcoming Lucky Day album), Daisy House, The Junior League, Lannie Flowers (in full Beatlesque mode), McPherson Grant (a lovely new number), The Grand Leve (featuring Longplayer’s Göran Hjerstedt), Bryan Estepa and Coke Belda (a catchy George Michael cover), and more. Plus, my snappy deejay patter!
This Thursday night at 8 pm ET, another Pop Tunes Deejay Show delivers new and new-to-you tunes from Michael Penn, The Wrecking Two (featuring Teensville Records’ Kyler Schwartz and The Lunar Laugh’s Jared Lekites), The Junior League, Karla Kane (from Secret Friend’s new The Divorce Album), The Supahip (featuring Michael Carpenter and Mark Moldre), Mitchell Adam Johnson (from Spencer McGillicutty), The Kennedys, and lots more. Plus–you guessed it–my snappy deejay patter!
Catch some rays, ’cause here come the sunny sounds of two all-new editions of Alan Haber’s Pop Tunes Deejay Show and the latest edition of Pure Pop Radio: In Conversation with special guest Michael Simmons. Don’t miss a minute!
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!
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Secret Friend’s new record, The Divorce Album, releases this Friday, April 6. It may well be the ultimate breakup long player, but it sounds like a happy, peppy pop album, and I predict it will be a favorite of many pop fans this year. Falling somewhere sound-wise between Secret Friend’s expansive second album, Sleeper, and the Linus of Hollywood-produced pure pop debut, Time Machine, The Divorce Album serves up six Fox-written and produced songs and six reinventions of those songs produced by other artists. It’s a fascinating approach, heady lyrically but effervescent musically. It’s a clear winner by an artist not afraid to stretch and keep things interesting.
The first of two Pop Tunes Deejay Shows airs tomorrow night, Tuesday, at 8 pm ET. Don McLean kicks things off with the complete version of his hard-to-beat-after-all-these-years classic “American Pie.” Also on the agenda: new and recent top tracks from Adrian Whitehead, Ian Thompson, The Gold Needles, Jeff Litman, Farrington, Magpie, and more top sounds from across the decades.
We’re back with another Pop Tunes Deejay Show this Thursday night at 8 pm ET. All Day Sucker’s classic 2004 track “Get High” leads this packed show, which features new and new-to-you spins from Matt Bruno, Roger Klug, Crime Scene, Michael Simmons, Lord High Admirals, Fireproof Sam and the Network Stars, Dropkick, The Orange Peels, Radio Days, and TC&I (XTC’s Colin Moulding and Terry Chambers). And more, too, including my snappy deejay patter!
It’s been nearly 20 years since Linus of Hollywood’s debut platter, Your Favorite Record, charmed listeners for whom melody was, and continues to be, king. Linus’s new release, Cabin Life, is the main topic of conversation during his 70-minute appearance on Pure Pop Radio: In Conversation this Wednesday at 9 pm ET on Pop that Goes Crunch Radio.
Tomorrow night (Tuesday) on Alan Haber’s Pop Tunes Deejay Show (8 pm ET), you’ll dig a set of pretty ballads from Bread, PFR and Jellyfish; new songs from Farrington, Magpie, Chris Richards and the Subtractions, Fireproof Sam and the Network Stars, Lord High Admirals, Radio Days, Nick Batterham, and Chris Price; and classics from Paul McCartney, Marc Jonson and more.
The world will be a groovier place tomorrow. How could it not be? Tomorrow is the first day of Spring, when flowers bloom, birds are heard singing their hearts out, the air becomes more agreeable, and baseball season begins. How could the first day of Spring be anything other than the day the world turns ’round?
It is nothing less than a lucky stroke that the first of two all-new editions of Alan Haber’s Pop Tunes Deejay Show airs tomorrow night, Tuesday, at 8 pm ET on Pop that Goes Crunch Radio. The program blooms with Crowded House’s lovely song “Weather With You” and slides from there into an extended set of songs celebrating the beginning of the Spring season; Henry Gross, the Paley Brothers, the Lilac Time, the Beach Boys, Gleeson and Elvis Presley, among others, bow to the wonder of it all.
But that’s only the beginning: We’ve got an exclusive first play of a groovy new song from Secret Friend’s forthcoming record, The Divorce Album, bowing April 6; the new single from Caper Clowns; Marc Jonson’s rollicking and tuneful tribute to Pat DiNizio and the Smithereens; new music from Anton Barbeau and Michael Simmons, and much, much more.
Thursday night at 8 pm ET, another all-new hour-long spin fills the airwaves and the Pop Tunes Deejay Show brings you new music from Brian Jay Cline, David Myhr, Spencer McGillicutty’s Mitchell Adam Johnson, Fireproof Sam and the Network Stars, and Linus of Hollywood, plus classics from Bertling Noise Laboratories, Longplayer, and Chris Brown. And my snappy deejay patter!
Dropkick is one of the current kings of melodic pop, showcasing their glorious rich harmonies on album after album of winning sounds. The group’s Andrew Taylor, direct from Scotland, talks to me this Wednesday night at 9 pm ET on Pure Pop Radio: In Conversation about his group’s fantastic new album, Longwave. Andrew goes in-depth on three of the record’s songs, and we take a look at his influences and the striking album cover design.
It’s another big week for Pure Pop Radio’s specialty shows, all broadcast on the powerhouse Internet radio station Pop that Goes Crunch. Veteran singer-songwriter and performer Graham Gouldman stars in an exclusive wide-ranging interview on Pure Pop Radio: In Conversation, and the romance of trains–and terrific, hit-bound new releases, including a World Internet Radio Premiere of a brand-new track from The Weeklings–power two all-new episodes of Alan Haber’s Pop Tunes Deejay Show.
After hearing the O’Jays’ classic “Love Train” on a favored Internet radio station, I got the idea to explore the romance of trains for a special themed edition of the Pop Tunes Deejay Show. So, I put on my engineer’s hat and placed the pop train on our tracks to deliver an hour’s worth of songs about all kinds of trains and songs with the word “train” in the title. You’ll hear Albert Hammond’s “I’m a Train,” Johnny Cash’s “Train of Love,” P.F. Sloan’s “Lollipop Train (You Never Had It So Good),” the Monkees’ “Last Train to Clarksville,” songs from West Coast Consortium, the Marthas and Arthurs, the Hardy Boys, the Kinks, and a whole lot more. All aboard tonight at 8 pm ET!
Don’t miss a minute of this week’s Pure Pop Radio specialty shows, featuring an exclusive, hour-long interview with Graham Gouldman, and two all-new editions of the Pop Tunes Deejay Show, with the World Internet Radio Premiere of the Weekling’s “In the Moment” in the spotlight on Thursday night. See you on the radio!
This week’s Pure Pop Radio specialty shows kick off with Roger Miller’s “England Swings,” swinging pendulum and all. From there, it’s nothing less than a potpourri of melodic pop classics, along with a visit to Pure Pop Radio: In Conversation from Klaatu’s Terry Draper.
XTC’s Colin Moulding and a bevy of today’s top popsters star in this week’s Pure Pop Radio specialty shows, all airing on Pop that Goes Crunch Radio. It’s a big week for lovers of melodic pop; let’s see what’s on our docket.
Two all-new editions of the Pop Tunes Deejay Show roll tomorrow night (Tuesday) and Thursday night at 8 pm ET. On tomorrow night’s show, new songs from TC&I, David Myhr, Tommy Sistak, Dropkick, Super 8, Nick Batterham, Terry Draper, and Poppermost sing sweetly alongside classic tracks from the Dream Academy, the Beach Boys, Mason Williams, NRBQ (from the forthcoming re-release by Omnivore Records of the band’s debut, self-titled album), Ummagma, Paul and Linda McCartney and lots more.
Looking for the latest hits from your favorite melodic pop stars? Look no further than this week’s Pure Pop Radio specialty shows. We’ve got you covered!
Tomorrow night at 8 pm ET on Pop that Goes Crunch Radio, Alan Haber’s Pop Tunes Deejay Show gets rolling with an hour’s worth of new and new-to-you top pop numbers from dragsterbarbie, Brad Marino, Tommy and the Rockets, Anchor and Bear, The Choir, JoDee Purkeypile, The Foreign Films, and TC&I, featuring ex-XTCers Colin Moulding and Terry Chambers. Plus: my snappy deejay patter!
The great Bill Lloyd makes a welcome return appearance to Pure Pop Radio: In Conversation on Wednesday night at 9 pm ET to talk about his new hit-filled album, It’s Happening Now. You’ll hear three songs from this terrific album, including a song that is perhaps Bill’s best, the beautiful waltz “Happiness.”
A slew of tasty gems from melodic pop’s lineup of all-stars from across the decades powers this week’s two, all-new editions of Alan Haber’s Pop Tunes Deejay Show, and musician Dave Caruso sits in on Pure Pop Radio: In Conversation to talk about his smash new album, Buddha Pesto Manifesto.
Tonight’s Pop Tunes Deejay Show (8 pm ET) serves up a quartet of classics from the Tokens, new and recent slices of melodic pop from Chris Church, Ed Ryan, Gail George, the Nines and Neil Finn, as well as favorite numbers from the Left Banke, ELO, 10cc, Big Star, and a whole lot more.
Tune in to Pop that Goes Crunch Radio tomorrow night (Wednesday) at 9 pm ET for Dave Caruso’s inaugural appearance on Pure Pop Radio: In Conversation. Dave speaks to me about his wonderful new album Buddha Pesto Manifesto, and looks under the hood of his new songs to talk about his songwriting process. It’s a fascinating hour you won’t want to miss.
This week’s second first-run edition of the Pop Tunes Deejay Show (Thursday, 8 pm ET) says hello to the 4 Seasons with four (naturally) of their top tracks, including “Rag Doll” and “Bye Bye Baby (Baby, Goodbye),” new songs from Bill Lloyd, Scott Brookman, Bill DeMain and Flamin’ Groovies, and classics from Hotlegs, the Duckworth Lewis Method, and the Monkees.
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