New Tracks Signifying OlioRadio

It's a typical update to OlioRadio. Former Underground FM bands, live Electronica, recent Gypsy music, Dark Ambient, Clara Bow, and Walter Cronkite dissin' Thugs are representin' in the new tracks. Here's a list of all the Artistes added: Big Brother and the Holding Co. - Bonnie Raitt - Clara Bow and Mitzi Green - Fanfare Ciocarlia - Fleetwood Mac (w/Peter Green) - Frank Shaw and Co. - Ilium - Iwori - Jefferson Airplane - Little Dipper - Nick Lucas - Part of Speech - Pink Floyd - Raison d'Etre - Ron Dadey - The Firey Furnaces - The Moody Blues - The National - The Rolling Stones - Tim Curry (NOT from Rocky Horror) - Van Morrison (with, separately, B.B.King and Tom Jones) - Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather - Willis Alan Ramsey - and ZZ Top. A yummy Freeform musical feast!

Please write, call, or email your Representative and Senators requesting their support of the Internet Radio Equality Act. On July 15th, internet radio in the United States will likely cease to exist unless this bill is passed. Go to savenetradio.org for more information and help keep Independent Sounds alive!
Love and Peace, Clarence

Tags: OlioRadio, playlist, freeform, live365, Ilium, Nick Lucas, Ron Dadey, Willis Alan Ramsey, savenetradio.org

and i'm caught

Van Morrison. Fillmore 1970. Cypress Avenue.
Nothin' else to say...



Love & Peace, Clarence

Tags: Van Morrison, Cypress Avenue, 1970, Fillmore, soul, blues, everything

We Don't Buy What We Hear...We Steal It- SoundExchange

In the first of a series of Point-Counterpoint articles in the L.A.Times, Kurt Hanson of AccuRadio (an internet broadcaster) debates Jay Rosenthal (member of the board of SoundExchange) on issues relating to the CRB decision & the Internet Radio Equality Act which has been introduced in the U.S.House & Senate. Here is Mr. Rosenthal (echoing SoundExchange's Excecutive Director, John Simson) on the promotional value of Internet Radio:
Mr. Rosenthal - "There may be some anecdotal evidence that some listeners "find" new artists and then "buy" the music. But I think the point is way overblown. I am more inclined to believe -- based on the experience of my artist and indie label clients -- that some listeners "find" new music and then, more often than not, illegally download the music.".

Sooo...some listeners steal music, therefore all listeners are guilty. Because you & I don't run down to our local Wal-Mart, Target, or Best Buy & buy cds by SoundExchange (aka Major Lable) artists, we make Internet Radio worthless as a promotional tool. It's all our fault.

Last month (May 2007) the internet radio stations using Live365's service played over 250,000 artists. Yep, that's over a quarter of a Million different artists. All of that airplay will be reported to SoundExchange & royalties will be paid on every one of them. Wonder how many of those 250,000+ artists will see a penny from SoundExchange?

Go to savenetradio.org for information on how to help internet radio in the United States survive. July 15th could be the Day The Music Dies online. Spend a few minutes: help keep internet radio alive!

Love & Peace, Clarence

Tags: SoundExchange, promotion, CRB, copyright royalty, Jay Rosenthal, OlioRadio, Live365, artists, money

new stuff!

A mini-update of the OlioRadio playlist! Added is a lot of Broadway (Alice Ghostly, Barbara Cook, Betty Buckley, more Charles Nelson Reilly, Elaine Stritch, Ethel Merman, Mary Martin and John Raitt, Paul Lynde, Robert Morse), and some other types of stuff (Paul McCartney, Sammy Davis Jr., Trombone Red & his Blue Six).
OlioRadio gives you your Minimum Daily Requirement of...every type of Music!
Love and Peace, Clarence

Tags: OlioRadio, Live365, Broadway, Charles Nelson Reilly, Trombone Red & his Blue Six, playlist, internet radio

The Red Cross Groks New Media

The American Red Cross is beginning to use blogs, rss feeds, & other social media tools in their Disaster Relief efforts. Ike Pigott, Director of Communications and Government Relations for the American Red Cross in the 5-state Southeast Region, talks to Shel Holtz about how he came up with the concept of using social media for communication in emergencies & eventually in other ways. The interview is availible on Shel's blog here. You'll hear some good ideas that You can use to help communicate in any situation from local emergencies to your business or even personal hobbies.

Shel is the co-host (along with Neville Hobson) of For Immediate Release: the Hobson & Holtz Report, the best podcast on communication, PR, & social media. Check it out at forimmediaterelease.biz. You'll be glad you did!
Love & Peace, Clarence

Tags: Red Cross, blog, rss, communicate, disaster relief, For Immediate Release, Shel Holtz, Ike Pigott, interview

May Top 25 Tracks on OlioRadio

Heeeeere's the Top 25 tracks for May on OlioRadio! These are the 25 tracks (52 this time, due to ties) rated highest by the listeners to OlioRadio between May 1st and May 31st, 2007.

As always, variety is the spice of listening life. The list includes vaudeville (Eddie Cantor, Belle Baker), early blues (Blind Willie McTell, Charlie Patton), DooWop (the Five Satins, the Bel Aires), comedy (Bob and Ray, Firesign Theatre, Kevin Pollack), more recent stuff (Seismic Anamoly, Johnny Thunders, Be-Non), and the Unclassifiable (a Box Tops 60's Coca-Cola ad, H-Bomb Ferguson, Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers, and Ric Flair). In short, the free-est form of Freeform radio availible on- or off-line! Hear OlioRadio at Live365.com.

And Please, go to savenetradio.org for information on the threat against Independent Internet Radio, now scheduled for shut down on July 15th. A few minutes of your time spent writing, calling, or emailing your Senators & Representative could keep thousands of Internet Radio stations (like this one) streaming great music and talk programming to you. See savenetradio.org for details.

Love and Peace, Clarence

Tags: OlioRadio, Live365, Top 25, vaudeville, blues, doowop, Ric Flair, savenetradio.org, CRB, Congress