The Neon Beat on Radio George - 5.20.19

On the Neon Beat this week: Les Baxter and the Capitol Records Orchestra launch into this week's offerings with “Wake the Town and Tell the People.” Dionne Warwick takes the stage next with “I Say a Little Prayer” followed with The Lettermen with a “two-fer.” Frank and Dean launch Juke 2 with the song “S'posin,” and “A Cup of Happiness.” We remember Doris Day this week with just a couple of, what were over 650 songs the woman recorded over her lifetime including a selection from “Pal Joey” and her last 1958 chart topping single, “Everybody Loves a Lover.” Barry Manilow slams into Juke 3 with a song he wrote for Dick Clark's “American Bandstand.” Stage and film selections include songs from “To Sir With Love,” “A Summer Place,” “Bonnie and Clyde,” “West Side Story,” Cat Ballou,” “Georgie Girl,” “Godspell,” “Casino Royale,” and “The Great Race.” Barbra Streisand sings a stunning Stephen Sondheim piece called “Putting it Together” from her Broadway Album. Sammy Davis Jr provides his own percussion for a Vegas performance of “On a Clear Day.” This week's pairings include Glen Campell with Bobbie Gentry, Nat King Cole with the great George Shearing, Chad and Jeremy, Simon and Garfunkel with “Feeling Groovy,” and Micky and Sylvia’s “Love is Strange.” Get some honey in the horn with Al Hirt's “Java.” More period instrumentals with Herb Alpert and the TJB, Raymond Lefevre, Acker Bilk's lovely “Stranger on the Shore,” Henry Mancini, Percy Faith, and Bert Kaempfert. Lots, lots more.
Listen now at: http://www.radiogeorge.com/neonbeat.htm