The Neon Beat on Radio George - 5.6.19

On The Neon Beat this week: Nat King Cole slams into Jukebox 1 with a song to leave you “Breathless.” Ella Fitzgerald is next with a fine version of “Begin the Beguine” followed up with a film theme sung by Pat Boone. Juke 2, we team up Tony Bennett with Diana Krall for “The Best is Yet to Come,” Then enjoy one of Kay Starr's first 1950's chart breakers as she sings “Wheel of Fortune.”We start Jukebox 3 with another Nat King Cole single as we hit the “mother road” called “Route 66.” Our film and stage selections include the Ray Conniff singers with a song from “Doctor Zhivago.” Hear Henry Mancini's Orchestra with a theme from an early Peter Sellers film “A Shot in the Dark,” and the theme from “Charade.” The Marvelous Marilyn Maye sings a song from the play “Sherry,” Morris Stoloff plays the theme from the film “Picnic,” Elvis Presley croons the lovely “Love Me Tender,” Perry Como sings a song from “South Pacific,” Burl Ives sings a beloved 1954 song from “So Dear to My Heart,” and the Chordettes do the title song from the award winning film, “Never on Sunday.” We'll spin hit singles by the great period groups like, The Platters, Mitch Miller and the Gang, The Crew Cuts, Sergio Mendez and Brazil 66, The Andrews Sisters, the Lettermen, The Essex, Chad and Jeremy and The Fifth Dimension. Listen to Frank Sinatra with “Softly as I Leave You,” and “It Happened in Monterrey.” Hear the great period pop like Johnny Mathis with “Wonderful Wonderful,” “Dreamy Eyes” by Johnny Tillotson, Dodie Stevens with the fun “Pink Shoelaces,” and Petula Clark with “Don't Sleep in the Subway Darling.” Much much more! Listen today at: http://www.radiogeorge.com/neonbeat.htm