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November 22, 2007

Pandora Presents... a new audio episode, "Holiday Music"

todd haemmerle

podcast_mic.jpgHappy Thanksgiving, everybody. Thanksgiving is a time of many time-honored traditions. One of these traditions, of course, is the kickoff of the holiday season. Yuletide is now upon us here in the United States, and with it, a bevy of similarly time-honored seasonal music. Todd Haemmerle joins me to get into the musicology of Christmas songs. We look at the major-key 18th century singalongs, the minor-key carols that surfaced during the 19th century, and the twenty-year flood of timeless holiday music that began just prior to World War II.

Thanks for listening,
Kevin

p.s.: For a free subscription to all of the video and audio episodes of Pandora Presents... Pandora.com/show.

Posted by Kevin Seal at November 22, 2007 04:09 PM

Comments

Tim,

I like a lot your service and have been listening it for a long time now but start feeling tired of always seeing alcoholic beverages ads. I don't feel it is proper to overly advertise them. Can't anybody else pay more for your ad space than those companies?

Stephan

Posted by: Stephan at November 23, 2007 10:08 PM

Yay Christmas music! i absolutely love this website, i just joined today, but it has like a mind of its own! Keep it up! Great work guys! And thanks for adding Christmas music for the cheerfulness of the upcoming holidays :)

Posted by: mandy at November 24, 2007 05:14 AM

I just signed up today and unfortunately the one song that I wanted to listen to (El cantante by Hector Lavoe)I couldn't hear in its entirety. I kept getting a sample to listen to. I was to say the least, a little disappointed. You advertise free listening however, I can't seem to get to listen to the songs that I want.

Posted by: Maria Perez at November 24, 2007 08:25 AM

Here's an idea for Pandora. Maybe instead of playing music from other artists of the same genre, you should make that station play only one specific artist.

Thanks for listening to my ideas,

Chae Hancock

Posted by: Chae Hancock at November 24, 2007 08:35 AM

Hi
I'm from Canada, and your once popular site has disappeared up here. I am losing hope of hearing just what your plans are for the return of pandora to the Great North, and have waited for a while now for some kind of explanation via email or blog post, regarding your sudden disappearance and problems with licensing.
There are some very competent replacements, finetune to mention just one of many, who seem to have no problem providing music to the feared Canucks, but pandora was the best. What happened? What's happening?
I have removed you from my bookmarks, but not from my thoughts. It was too depressing to see your name and not be able to hear the music. Hope you had a fine Thanksgiving and wish you a Merry Christmas in advance.

Herb

Posted by: Herb at November 25, 2007 12:45 AM

Dang how do u know all that.....

Posted by: Kristen at November 25, 2007 12:26 PM

deseo me busquen musica de los 70s,emanuel,yuri,sandro

Posted by: letyam at November 26, 2007 05:09 AM

I Love IT!! Thank you so much for this service...just wanted to let you know... :)

Posted by: Tiffany at November 30, 2007 09:46 AM

Thanks, Tiffany and Kristen and Mandy and everyone else...

Herb, hang out for the Canadian re-connection. We are working on it, I promise; these things just take a while.

Chae, I would love to do single-artist shuffles, but the genome isn't really set up that way. Pandora herself (okay, "itself" if you insist) is blind to the artist's personality or image or name even, and just goes off of song-by-song similarities.

Maria, if you were hearing just a sample, were you in the Backstage area? That area is set up just with those 30-second samples, as they're free and on-demand.

Posted by: Kevin Seal at November 30, 2007 03:54 PM

can I listen to pandora on my iPod Touch? That feature would be icing on my Christmas cake! I saw the mobile action of the site but it only mentioned downloading pandora for a cellphone. Thanks!

Posted by: Lanie at December 2, 2007 09:19 PM

Your station or really, website, is fantastic, can't wait to listen to classical. great for finding new music without commercials!

Posted by: jerold pick at December 5, 2007 09:16 PM

Thanks for creating such a wonderful site!

Is there a way to select only instrumental tracks?
I tried creating a station by selecting a specific song that had no vocals, and "thumbs-upping" all other non-vocal selections for that station, but, no go. Is "vocal" not a gene that I may discard?

Posted by: joe at December 12, 2007 02:00 PM

We've been enjoying Pandora here. Our Brother-in-law clued us in.

RE: ads on your site, what are your rates?

Happy Holidays!

Suzanne and Mike Urban
www.urban-antiqueradio.com

Posted by: Suzanne Urban at December 15, 2007 04:05 AM

This reads well. Would you ever consider guest posting on one of my blogs? Nicely done, Steven.

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