After 20 years in the radio business, I was burned out on music. I haven’t listened to more than an hour of music radio in the past 8 years. Really. I’d heard it all. I was tired of listening just to see if there was “dead” air, the bane of all broadcasters.
I have a small list of about 100 songs that I listen to when I sleep on airplanes.
About a week ago, as I flipped through channels looking for something to tide me over between Top Gear and the next Kitchen Nightmares show, I stopped on a repeat of a Leno broadcast from a few months ago. He was just introducing some guy named Landon Pigg. Not very deep, am I. I chuckled at the name and decided to give the guy about 10 seconds before I clicked on.
Wait, I’ve heard this song before. I thought it was just a background song written for the Diamond Journey advertisement where the guy stops in traffic on a rainy street to hand his wife a beautiful piece of jewelry. Now, here’s this Landon Pigg guy singing it on The Tonight Show!
I googled him and then bought it from iTunes. Related to the song on YouTube was another advertising iconic song from someone named Yael Naïm. Hell, I don’t even know how to make that “I” with the little dots over it except by cutting and pasting.
She’s the singer of the MacBook Air song, “New Soul.” I bought that one too.
Then, I plugged both songs into Pandora and created a station around them. [It's called Diamonds and Coffee]
I may be falling in love with music again!
Isn’t advertising great?!
BONUS VIDEO!!! Here's a video of Matt the Electrician singing at Roy H. William's 50th Birthday Party this past weekend. Thanks to Sean Claes for pointing it out. I bought Matt's CD...it fits right in with Landon and Yael.
Dave,
So you wanna share that Pandora Radio station out to us?
Love to hear how that works!
Chester
Posted by: Chester | April 07, 2008 at 06:05 AM
Chester,
I just created a link to the station. It's in the post above.
Thanks for asking.
-Dave
Posted by: Dave Young | April 07, 2008 at 10:36 AM