"We Get Letters...."

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From: John Herrmann
November 25, 2001 5:34 AM
Subject: Astoundingly Amazed

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Tuesday, December 25, 2001 3:53 PM
Subject: thank you thank you thank you

thank you for this wonderful resource I have just stumbled upon. Was looking for some music by Alfred Karnes. His song 'We Shall All Be Reunited" moved me to no end. Then I found this treasure trove of other gems. Thank you for your needed service in these days of manufactured negativity in the world of music.

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From: Tom Lenox
January 28, 2002

Greetings, I happened upon your site and specifically the MP3 library of Black Gospel. All I can say is: what a tremendous thing and thank you. Many of these rare recordings are out of print and unfortunately not known like they should be. Thank you once again.

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From: Winston Plyler
February 20, 2002
Subject: Southern Gospel Music

I am so delighted that I found your web site, especially the Southern Gospel Category. I am thoroughly enjoying the old greats like the Homeland Harmony Quartet and The Swanee River Boys. What a great, wonderful way to spend retirement!

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From: K.Canady
February 20, 2002

I thank you so much for downloading these powerful uplifting songs.  I can enjoy them as I preach the gospel. 

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February 21, 2002
Subjects: Thanks for the great site

This is one of best sites! I love the collection of Indian classical music.  I listen to this site almost every day. Thanks

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Steve Eastbourne - East Sussex, England
February 21, 2002
Subject: The fabulous 1950s Spirit of Memphis Quartet

Thanks so much Dove Song. I thought the classic 1950's recordings by The Spirit of Memphis Quartet would never be available again. And now here they are to download free thanks to your wonderfully 'positive' website. 

I was introduced to this magnificent gospel group when I picked up 30 years ago a secondhand copy of a 10" LP on UK Parlophone Label containing 10 of the King tracks. That treasured LP got lost in a house move long ago so I have been without then for years.  So thanks to you I can now put them on CD-R.

Thanks again for making my day,

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From: Rich Stivers - San Jose, CA
February 26, 2002

I really like your mp3's of Gospel music.  I've learned about many new artists and new tracks from familiar artists. Thanks

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From: Gina Terry
February 26, 2002
Subject: Mp3 files

Thank you so much!!  My parents have searched for Dinah Shore's "Sweet Violets" to no avail.  I was surfing the net and found your site, and now they will be tickled to be able to sing with Dinah again. Wonderful site - THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

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From: New Zealand
March 1, 2002  
Subject: INSPIRED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi, My name is {Name Withheld}, I am a 27-year-old from Wellington, New Zealand. For most of my life I have struggled with depression, anxiety etc.  I am going to make a difference and benefit first myself, and then others, and I believe Positive Music is the way this can be achieved.
THANKS!!!

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From: PREM
March 08, 2002
Subject: Thanks!

I am writing you this email just to say thanks for such a great site! I am just beginning to seriously study Indian music, and your site is a GOLDMINE of GREAT ragas. Especially the Pannalal Ghosh. I am studying bansuri and finding any recordings of Pannalal Ghosh is very difficult.

Thanks again!

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From: Lester Matzkin
March 16, 2002  
Subject: Thank You

What a treat to find Monteverdi, early Boston Pops and great pop music from '54 all at one site! And to discover that the Gaylords' “Ile of Capri” reached #15 on May 15, my 1st birthday (1954) was a shock. Many thanks

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From: East Africa
March 18, 2002
Subject: excellent content

Good site... loved the pentatonic... as an amateur musician from East Africa, I was lucky to see this site ..

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From: Lucas at yale.edu
April 04, 2002  
Subject: Awakening

I want to express to you my sincere appreciation for this site, and my sheer amazement at the quality of its content. In fact, I just discovered it today, so I have yet to probe its depths, but it seems clear to me that the kind of work you are doing is indeed helping to lead humanity in the right evolutionary direction in terms of musical consciousness. My thoughts in this regard are somewhat influenced by Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophy, with which I imagine you must be somewhat familiar given your spiritual outlook. Anyway, I look forward with joyous anticipation to listening and reading through your site, and perhaps I will develop some questions along the way that I can direct to you.

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From: Mike Van Waas
April 13, 2002

I've been listening to some of your Masses there, Palestina included. They are breathtaking.

Thank you for assembling them and making them available.

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From: Urzung Khan in Lahore/Pakistan 
April 14, 2002
Subject: Classical Music: Indo-Pak

What a good luck that I accidentally found the Dovesong site !!. I have since downloaded most of the North Indian Classical Mp3s files you have put online. I just can not explain the kind and quantum of joy I have by having just two of them: Ali Akbar Khan's Kaunsi Bhairvin and Nikhil Banerji's Bilas Khani Todi. One can't have these works here because there is a total draught of Classical Music recordings of Indo-Pak origin here. Internet has given us some relief but files are usually not complete.

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From: Susan
April 23, 2002

An internet user from Japan found your site and recommended it in an big online folk/blues forum!

We are learning a whole LOT of stuff off your site for our weekly Saturday Night Service! We are acoustic, eclectic, and not “Kum Ba Ya” folky.... you sorta have to be there to understand. Purist s we ain't.  We just do the ones we can, with the instruments we have, and these are not the ones usually associated with any of the gospel genres, or played like they "ought" to be if they are the usual ones!  Cuz, it ain't us, it's the songs!

If I can help (after a road trip in May) with anything, let me know!

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From: DD
April 26, 2002
Subject: curtain time

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you, for listing the song “Curtain Time” which I had been hunting for without success for years. I only knew it as the theme music to a local radio show ('night beat' on WHB in Kansas City) when I was growing up in the 50s. I have listened to hundreds, maybe thousands of anonymous instrumentals hoping to find this record.  Man, does it have that 50s sound! That it was recorded on MGM makes much sense, as that was David Rose influence etc. In fact the break is reminiscent of the bugs bunny show theme song 'This is It', another MGM product.

Anyway, thanks again from a record collector who has seen too many copycat music websites. This one is unique, and makes a real contribution to musicology. Take a well-deserved pat on the back!

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I am a a handicapped man 46,who only have my music left to enjoy.
Plese inform me if any further sacred&country should appear. sincerely
Geir O Suleng

Thank you for the music site.

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Thank you very much for a wonderful site with some truly amazing music. You have a fabulous collection of some amazing recordings.

This site is really amazing. I would like to congratulate all those who helped put together such an interesting collection of musical compositions.

I found your website more or less by accident as I was searching for MP3 files of Gregorian Chant. Out of curiosity, I then read a bit about Renaissance music and Tomas Luis de Victoria (one of my favorite composers of sacred polyphony). At that point I started reading the pages about your music theory and found them so psychologically accurate (and true to my own intuitive experience) that I gave you two links on my website, one on the  Autogenics Training page and one on the Stress page.

I just wanted to let you know that I read your article entitled "About Positive Music", and I think you present a very persuasive argument in favor of what you term "positive" music. I was especially impressed with the data gleaned from the plant experiments, and frankly I'm not a bit surprised about those results. The idea that triadic music has a direct connection with how we are made right on down to the subatomic level (via sympathy vibrations) makes a lot of sense to me, and I think this understanding gives the composer a power tool to achieve his ends, whether it be to produce a negative or a positive mood. Many great stories of history are a combination of positive and negative, and how these forces struggle with one another to produce drama -- it's another iteration of the old consonance-dissonance-consonance model in music. I appreciate your putting to clearly a subject that tends to be so murky, and I especially appreciate your referencing solid scientific research to back your point.

Thank you for a wonderful site.  My ears were very thirsty until I found your site.

From Saudi Arabia