Friday, July 18, 2025

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.

Listen here: https://www.mixcloud.com/theneonbeat/the-neon-beat-show-86r6ext/?fbclid=IwY2xjawLnLbFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHh93Lkig8myYeQrrpRWEuuvUG9jJuhetnMCmXhKTi6DdYshFsOtOStRJ0edj_aem_TlHtZl3QvC8DZWOxoKR8bg 



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