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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