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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Neon Beat on Mixcloud - 2.2.25

On the Neon Beat Show 31R6rq:  Dig on a special hour-long edition of the show as we answer a request or two from a listener hearing the show on KRES in Moberly, Missouri.  We open with Barry Manilow's theme for Dick Clark's American Bandstand, “The Jump Shout Boogie”.  We follow with one of our great featured period groups.  Hear the Fifth Dimension with “The Wedding Bell Blues”.  Listen to more wonderful groups like the Ames Brothers with a 1955 hit for them and another by Harper's Bazaar doin' a contemporary take on an old Glenn Miller standard.  Feast on a hit song for Frank Sinatra that won two Grammy awards for both Frank and the Gordon Jenkins Orchestra.  “It Was a Very Good Year”.  We'll spin some requested Dean Martin, Bing Crosby with Skitch Henderson, and an “old timey” sung by Al Bowlly.  Dig on some Lena Horne with her signature rendition of “The Lady is a Tramp”, Al Martino with “Daddy's Little Girl” and Fred Astaire with a number from “Top Hat”.  More with Andy Williams, Petula Clark and Dion.  Enjoy the ear-candy kids!   

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Neon Beat on Mixcloud - 1.1.25

On the Neon Beat Show 05r6rq:  The Crew Cuts launch this hour of TNB with their 1954 hit song, “Life Could Be a Dream”.  More popularly known as “ShBoom.”  Next, you'll hear three great names in pop music standards beginning with Frank Sinatra doing “Strangers in the Night” followed by a lovely duet with Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong.  Enjoy singles by the great period groups like the Four Preps, The Kingston Trio, and a fun revisit of a novelty hit by The Hollywood Argyles:  “Alley Oop”.  (It's all in how you say “Dinosaur”)  Hear some of the fine period singers like Bobby Vinton with “Everyday of my Life”, Peggy Lee with “A Doodling Song”, Nat King Cole with a rousing rendition of a great Johnny Mercer song, and Perry Como with a lovely song written by Don McLean.  Hear Judy Collins with her beautiful version of “Turn, Turn, Turn”, and a fun diddy sung by Barbra Streisand heard in the Disney film, Pinocchio.  We'll feature a request by a Neon Beat fan listening on KSGL in Wichita who passed along a great memory from the Three Suns.  A song that became the theme song for Harold Ensley's show, “The Sportsman Friend”.  More from Eydie Gorme, and Horst Jankowski.  Enjoy the listen and Happy New Year tae ya!!    

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