Possible New Addition To The Sirius Satellite Lineup



Our 2nd favorite contributor in Jersey City, NJ, Brian Turner forwards the following letter.

Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 23:21:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Chicanery <Charles_Chicanery@hotmail.com>
To: XX@XXXX.org
Subject: People With Disabilities Radio

B---n T----r,
W---Radio

Dear Mr. T----,

Allow me to be the first person to introduce you to the wonderful programming that is KPDR Radio. We are the Internet's first station playing only music from developmentally-challenged and physically-disabled artists.

Our play list includes of course the many great seeing-impaired performers like the late Ray Charles, funk phenomenon Stevie Wonder, jazz chanteuse Diane Shuur, country legend Ronnie Milsap as well as some of the more obscure acts like 70's country-pop crooner Terri Gibbs ("Somebody's Knockin'"), and early blues pioneer Blind Lemon Jefferson. We have added the later catalog of the brilliant hard rock band Def Leppard after drummer Rick Allen's arm was amputated.

Considering the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) declaration of obesity as a disease, we are pleased to announce that KPDR has added the talents of Wilson Phillips (Carnie Wilson's pre-surgery years was when they had all their hits anyway), early Luther Vandross, later Ella Fitzgerald, Meat Loaf and the entire Capitol-EMI catalog of Heart.




(no airplay for the modern Carnie, though she's much easier to shop for now)

We are anxiously awaiting CMS pronouncement that alcoholism and drug addiction will join the list of debilitating conditions, for it will open up our play lists immensely.

Since we are a non-profit organization not in any direct competition with your listener base and we are always attempting to promote "over the airwave" radio on our "Internet-only" station, we were hoping to enlist your talents on a pro-bono basis. It has been brought to our attention that you are, considering your influence and clout, an expert on such information.

The AWD (Americans With Disabilities) front will not divulge the names or occupations of its members, citing some bogus "privacy" clause, therefore, because of their refusal to cooperate with us, we are forced to use other means to collect a roster of eligible artists and musicians for our play list. We were playing Roy Orbison for over a month before finding out the glasses he wore were simply a prop- he wasn't seeing impaired at all! Mistakes like these are why we need your help. This is where you come in.

I realize your time is valuable to you and to your station, so as to maximize both of our efforts I would simply request from you to provide us with a list of disabled performers or bands with disabled members. Simply mail me back a comprehensive list and we will start from there.

If you want to volunteer any more of your time to our endeavors, I would love to schedule a time to speak with you.

Thank you,

Charles Chicanery
Program Director
KPDR Radio (Internet only)
Persons with Disabilities Radio

Posted: Mon - August 9, 2004 at 04:38 PM      

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