Malibu Summer Radio

I created this station in 2007 after Pandora exposed me to the song "Malibu People" by John Phillips and, as I always dug the soft-rock sounds of "Please Come to Boston" and "It Never Rains in Southern California", I decided to engineer a station that would duplicate the playlist of WLTW 106.7 Lite-FM, a station I loved listening to when I lived in New York and New Jersey. For a few years, I had thought of this station as my grand achievement, my most successful attempt to make an XM station on Pandora. I thought that perhaps it had something to do with the fact that I used song seeds only ? I tried to ensure a great playlist by including the song seeds APRIL ANN by JOHN PHILLIPS, MAKE IT WITH YOU by BREAD, ANTICIPATION by CARLY SIMON, PIECES OF APRIL by DAVE LOGGINS, SAILING by CHRISTOPHER CROSS, NEVER AGAIN by ELVIS PRESLEY, I HAVE TO SAY I LOVE YOU IN A SONG by JIM CROCE, TIN MAN by AMERICA, and THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL IN THE WORLD by TONY CHRISTIE. I was happy with the station as constructed until 2009, after I visited my parent's house in Massachusetts in the summer of 2008. Upon returning to New Jersey, I made the critical decision that this station should reflect the feelings instilled by a vacation in Massachusetts in June and July. In 2009 I returned to this station on Pandora and I elected to get rid of the various song seeds and instead, use artist seeds only, including America, Bread, Seal & Crofts and Christopher Cross. I wanted to create a station that would embody a Massachusetts in June that I found to contain all the ingredients for a soft-rock summer. This station is for soft-rock good times whether you're relaxing at the beach or enjoying a Midori sour with friends at the East Bay Grill, the state of Massachusetts is like summer in Malibu! In 2015 I added Al Stewart, Jim Croce and Jimmy Buffett's tune "Tin Cup Chalice" in 2015, because the album "A-1-A" really reminds me of bumming around on Plymouth Beach. Furthermore, I added Elvis Presley's "In the Ghetto" and Paul McCartney's "My Love". So sit down to a warm bowl of chowder, put on the Red Sox game in the background, and click on the link below and you just make find yourself transported to a land where the climate is neither too warm or too cold -- just perfect (July 10th, 2015). https://www.pandora.com/station/230115628956559534