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PANDORA
by Tom poesyco.th@gmail.com
Tuesday, March 5, 2024

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     Some Unique Tunes !

 F Y I … PANDORA 

 
OK Pilgrims - anybody out there ever listen to music there on your faithfful companion - your lil cell phone ?
 
If so - RAISE YOUR HAND ! 
 
Great ! A goodly gaggle of geese ! 
 
I discovered it several years ago and have been enjoying hundreds of hours of listening music for FREE - as long as you don’t mind a few interrupting occasional ads ! 
 
If you click on the little character carat ( pointing down )  on the top left of the screen, you can search for any singer or song title, and a list will appear. Then you can choose that Station ! I now have 52 stations ! 
 
About a week ago I discovered a station that I believe is quite UNIQUE ! 
 
It is called Platters Radio ! 
Rare Fifties Music ! 
 
What is different about it ?
I  estimate that the greater majority of the “tunes” maybe even 75% - I NEVER HEARD BEFORE ! 
 
 Even though they are by well known artists - my guess is they were all the “B” sides of 45’s that never became hits !
 
Many of them are by The Platters Themselves - songs by Elvis that I had never heard - Marty Robbins - Guy Mitchell ( click on his name and learn his biography - pretty amazing - he was 13 years older than me - the same age as my sister Rose ) - Nat King Cole - Sam Cooke - Bill Haley - The Drifters - The Penguins - The Supremes - The Chirelles  - and many others ! 
 
Coincidentally - as I am typing all this, Pandora is Playing in the background & it is Nat - Right Now ! 
 
To all of you Old Whippersnappers out there - I am 83 - and listen mostly to Old Rock n’ Roll because that is what I grew up with, and danced to, and “swapped spit” to ! 
 
Because of the uniqueness of this Station I am truly just Discovering some Great Songs by Great Artists that are totally foreign to me ! 
 
Every time I leave the house, I plug my iPhone into the charging cord, mount it on the dash, and click on PANDORA ! 
 
OH - lest I forget - the Range of Stations available is Limitless! 
R&R - Rock - Jazz - Classical - Bee Bop - Doi Wop - Hard Rock - Swing Music - even that Slop called RAP ! 
 
TRY IT YOU WILL LIKE IT !!! 
 
Later … Gator ! 
 
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Reviewed by Ronald Hull 3/5/2024
About 20 years ago, when my aunt and uncle were here, I played Christmas songs while we ate dinner on this dining room computer I used to write my work. Never owned a record player, tape player or even watched MTV. I was strictly pop 40 on my car radio and television variety shows like Ed Sullivan.

I don't own a mobile phone, but my partner does and she listens, sometimes, to music in Vietnamese.

But lately, within the last year, she has been lending me her iPad for an hour or so of me indulging in old artists like you are doing. Since the damn thing started going automatically to a playlist of my favorite songs, over and over again, I started going to listening to them from a playlist… Far less satisfactory than watching them perform. But, like you, I'm finding that over half of the songs on their playlist are certainly ones that never made the top 40 that were played over and over on the radio until I memorized many of them and can still sing them along with the artist… Forgetting lyrics after knowing the opening and chorus very well.

The new songs and hip-hop generally escape me with my hearing problem, but watching young people on American Idol or The Voice singing their heart out on some of these classic songs warms my heart greatly. Those songs will never die.

Ron

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