AirPlay Direct Adds Grammy Award-Winning Album “Songs from the Neighborhood” to its Growing Catalog of Digitally Delivered Radio Content
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ATLANTA - AirPlay Direct (www.airplaydirect.com), the web-based digital delivery system that allows artists and labels to make their music available directly to broadcasters around the world, has added theGrammy-winning album Songs from the Neighborhood: The Music of Mister Rogers to its exclusive offerings. The feel-good tribute to one of the most beloved PBS broadcasters of all time joins more than 1,000 other titles in the growing AirPlay Direct catalog.
In addition to its newly minted Grammy, the album has earned recognition in 2005 from The Dove Foundation (”Family Approved Seal”), Creative Child Magazine (Creative Child Award) and The Parents’ Choice Foundation (”Parents’ Choice” designation).
Terrestrial, satellite and Internet broadcasters can search AirPlay Direct by artist, title, genre or label to find a wide variety of material, including exclusive songs found nowhere else. Every track on AirPlay Direct is guaranteed to be of broadcast quality, and broadcasters can register to use the site and its material for free. For artists, AirPlay Direct offers the most economical way to get their music directly to broadcasters. New members can register with AirPlay Direct,
build a personal mini website and post three tracks absolutely free. Additional tracks can be uploaded for $10 each.
Songs from the Neighborhood, which was named ” Best Musical Album for Children” at the 48th Annual GRAMMY Awards in February, actually appeals to a wide spectrum of adult audiences. All told, the collection brings together a variety of genres from contemporary to country, featuring recording stars with of more than 70 Grammy and Dove awards among them.
Songs from the long-running television show are rendered in lush new arrangements by stars like Amy Grant (”It’s You I Like”), Crystal Gayle (”Did You Know?”), Donna Summer (”Just for Once”), CeCe Winans (”Then Your Heart Is Full of Love”) and Ricky Scaggs (”Let’s Think of Something to Do While We’re Waiting”). The familiar theme song “Won’t You Be My Neighbor” is recreated in its familiar form by Jon Secada and in a ballad version by Roberta Flack. John Pizzarelli, Toni Rose, Maureen McGovern, BJ Thomas and Bobby Caldwell add even more star power to the collection.
“We’re proud of every title we carry and every artist that has chosen AirPlay Direct as the way to distribute their music, but Songs from the Neighborhood is obviously something very special,” says AirPlay Direct CEO and Founder Robert Weingartz. “It just goes to show that our system is the best way to get music on the air in today’s digital environment, no matter how big the artist or the project. I look forward to hearing these songs, and it will feel good knowing we helped
make it happen.”
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, the long-running brainchild of Fred Rogers, enchanted and educated millions of children in its PBS television run from 1968 to 2001. Many people know that Rogers was an ordained minister, but fewer are aware that he held a bachelor’s degree in music composition, and personally wrote most of the songs that became familiar to his viewers around the world.
Songs from The Neighborhood: The Music of Mister Rogersis an operating division of MemoryLane Syndication, Inc. MemoryLane Syndication is a wholly-owned subsidiary of MediaNet Group Technologies, Inc (OTCBB:MEDG).
“Today, many people look upon Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood with nostalgia, but the show was actually a cutting-edge approach to children’s programming. The original music told a wonderful message and we have taken a unique approach to producing that music in a manner that appeals to adults as well as children,” says album executive producer Martin Berns, a founder and Chief Executive Officer of MemoryLane Syndication. “Fred Rogers took an intelligent look at a developing medium and made it do something wonderful. In that sense, it’s only appropriate that we place our out of the box production with AirPlay Direct to distribute this album, because they’re applying the same creativity to the Internet that Fred Rogers brought to television.”
About AirPlay Direct
AirPlay Direct is the new-edge in web-based digital music delivery that allows independent artists and labels to make their music available directly to broadcasters around the world, requires and guarantees broadcast-quality audio on each track, and offers an online artist community with free personal mini-sites and introductory uploads. To learn more or to participate, visit www.airplaydirect.com.
About MemoryLane Syndication, Inc.
MemoryLane Syndication, a wholly owned subsidiary of MediaNet Group Technologies, Inc. MediaNet (OTCBB:MEDG), develops and markets nostalgic and children’s CD, DVD and TV children’s programming.
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