The Neon Beat on Mixcloud - 11.2.25

On the Neon Beat Show 23r3:  This installment of TNB opens with an old Duke Ellington standard sung here by Nat King Cole.  “Don't Get Around Much Anymore”.  The Mills Brothers take the stage next for “Cielito Lindo.”  We squeeze in some great big band with Glen Gray's Casa Loma Orchestra doing a great Woody Herman standard.  Hear Bobby Darin with a swingin' version of “I Got Rhythm”.  Eydie Gorme follows with her 1963 hit song, “Blame it on the Bossa Nova” backed up by a period female singing group called, “The Cookies”.  Listen to more fine female talent with record singles by Rosemary Clooney, Dusty Springfield, Petula Clark and Patti Page.  We team up Frank Sinatra with his daughter Nancy for “Something Stupid”.  Listen to Paul McCartney do a song that is considered to be one of the Beatles finest.  More great songs with Johnny Mathis singing “Small World”, Bobby Vinton, with “There I've Said it Again” and Elvis with “Don't Be Cruel.”  And of course, gotta have our instrumental content with Walter Wanderley on the Hammond B3, Bert Kaempfert with his 1961 hit song, “Wonderland by Night” and Raymond Lefevre's “Soul Coaxing”.Give a listen at: https://www.mixcloud.com/theneon.../the-neon-beat-show-23r3/   Left to Right:  Joe Dimino (Neon Jazz) John Christopher (The Neon Beat)

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The Neon Beat on Mixcloud - 7.19.25

On the Neon Beat Show- Remembering Connie Francis.  We open with the song that was Connie's first breakthrough hit record.  “Who's Sorry Now”.  After which we proceed with more great songs of the 40's, 50's and 60's.  Listen to Wilbert Harrison with the song about that great city of fountains: “Kansas City”.  Vikki Carr follows up with the song, “Can't Take My Eyes off of You.”  Hear the great period groups this hour such as the Lettermen, the McGuire Sisters, and the Brother's Four singing a song from the 1960 John Wayne film “The Alamo”.  We'll play more Connie Francis hit songs, “Everyone is Someone's Fool”, “Quando, Quando, Quando”, and :the theme from Where the Boys Are.”  Listen to the fine instrumental selections like the swingin' Glen Gray version of “the King Porter Stomp”' Lawrence Welk with “Bubbles in the Wine”, and Leroy Anderson's “Promenade.”  We'll spin songs performed by some more of our Italian hitmakers of the day, Tony Bennett with “Love Look Away,” Frankie Laine with “Waiting at the end of the Road”, and Dean Martin with “I'd Cry Like a Baby.”  We'll team up Bette Midler with good friend Barry Manilow for a old Peggy Lee hit song, “I Love Being Here with You”.  Then we'll play Peggy Lee with Benny Goodman singing a song from the film “Stagedoor Canteen”.  Much more with Ray Charles, Debbie Reynolds, British crooner Matt Monro, and Merrillee Rush and the Turnabouts.  Listen and enjoy.       

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Neon Beat on Mix Cloud - 6.13.25

On the Neon Beat show:  Remembering Brian Wilson.  This hour, along with the usual tasty faire of great music from the 1940's, 50's and 60's, you'll hear a couple of hit songs by the Beach Boys.  We'll open with a classic selection by Rosemary Clooney and she sings “April in Paris”.  We follow that up with “Fun Fun Fun” by the Beach Boys as we trip out a bit on “the endless summer”.  Enjoy a little period piece with Georgia Gibbs as we hear “The Hula Hoop Song”.  We'll track some of the great standards sung by Bobby Vinton, Guy Mitchell, Tony Bennett, Diane Reeves, and Connie Francis.  Listen to fine period instrumentals by Herb Alpert, Henry Mancini, The Glenn Miller Orchestra and Authur Ferrante and Louis Teicher.  Turn up what was one of the fine showcase records for the group's tight harmony as we listen to the Beach Boys singing “In My Room”.  More with Matt Monro and Frankie Avalon.  

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Neon Beat on Mix Cloud - 4.26.25

On the Neon Beat Show 107R6ext:  On yet another great extended version of our show we open this hour with Ella Fitzgerald singing a signature Cole Porter standard.  Next you'll hear Frank Sinatra with a swingin' version of the song “You Make Me Feel so Young” followed up with Johnny Mathis singing “Small World”.  (“But I wouldn't want to paint it” Steven Wright)  Catch songs by our great era hitmakers like Sammy Davis Jr doing “I've Gotta Be Me”, the McGuire Sisters with “The Muskrat Ramble”, Bing Crosby with the Williams Brothers performing “Swing on a Star”, Perry Como with “South of the Border” and Nat King Cole with a great Fats Waller standard.  Listen to some great big band with Al Hirt's “Cotton Candy” and Benny Goodman as we go “Jumpin' at the Woodside”.  We'll track requested number for Bob Lind's 1966 hit song, “Elusive Butterfly”.  Hear a couple of the great period groups like the Fleetwoods and the Chordettes.  More with Bobby Vee, Helen O'Connell, Jo Stafford, and Les Paul with Mary Ford.  

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Neon Beat on Mix Cloud - 4.14.25

On the Neon Beat Show 86r6:  Join us at Mixcloud for an extended issue of The Neon Beat as we turn a bit Irish.  For openers you'll hear a Mac Davis song performed by Bobby Goldsboro.  “Watching Scotty Grow.”  Dinah Washington graces the turntable next for her 1959 hit song “What A Difference a Day Makes” followed up with The Crew Cuts singing their 1954 standard “Sh Boom”.   Hear hit songs by more great period groups like The Chordettes, and The Fifth Dimension.  We'll spin a great Johnny Mercer song performed by Nat King Cole, “Day In, Day Out.  The first of our Irish offerings include Roger Whittaker with “Star of the County Down” followed up with Bing Crosby singing “Galway Bay”.  Hear Johnny Mathis with the song, “It's Not For Me to Say” and Sam Cooke sings “Cupid”.  Catch some great film and Broadway selections with Perry Como, Lucille Ball, Shirley Bassey and Al De Lory with The Theme From M.A.S.H.”  More instrumental offerings with Al Hirt, Les Baxter's Capitol Records Orchestra, and Henry Mancini completing an Irish-esk set with “Theme from Molly McGuires”.  More with Al Martino, Glen Campbell, Roy Rogers and one more.  A romp from the emerald isle called “Clancey Lowered the Boom” by Dennis Day.

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Neon Beat on Mixcloud - 2.16.25

On the Neon Beat Show 50R6rq- Dean Martin lights up the stage with one of Dino's favorite standards, “You're Nobody Til Somebody Loves You”.  We'll follow up with a contemporary artist and a keeper of the standards with Canadian Michel Buble singing “Feelin' Good”.  Next we hear the Carpenters with the Carole King song “It's Going to Take Some Time”.  (Carole was to say Karen and Richard's version made hers sound like a demo).  Hear songs by more great period groups like the Four Coins along with Terry Gilkyson and the his Easy Riders”.  Speaking of groupings we'll bring back Dean Martin with Jerry Lewis for a laugh or two with “The Money Song”.  Tom Jones sweats to the oldies with “Daughter of Darkness” followed up with a Peggy Lee song done by Bette Midler from “Lady and the Tramp”.  Listen to Nat King Cole with a lovely version of the song “Tenderly”.  We'll track a request number from a listener in Tucson, AZ who wanted to hear some Pat Boone.  Ella Fitzgerald sings some swingin' Irving Berlin followed by Ray Charles doing a lush version of “Ruby”.  We'll spin great instrumental selections with Hugo Winterhalter and Henry Mancini.  More fine listening with Doris Day and Louis Armstrong.  

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