The Neon Beat Notes & Links - 6.12.26

On this special extended edition of the Neon Beat for Mixcloud:  We open with the song that put this Texas dance instructor on the map.  Listen to Mary Martin singing, “My Heart Belongs to Daddy”.  We follow up with a Cole Porter song from Kiss Me Kate sung by the Four Lads, “Why Can't You Behave”.  Enjoy a hit record by The Seekers as they sing “A World of Our Own”.  Turn up some good music with some of our great Italian singers like Bobby Darin, Al Martino, Frankie Avalon, Tony Bennett and Louis Prima. Our fine instrumental offerings include songs by Walter Wanderley on the Hammond B3 with “A Summer Samba,” Jerry Murad and his Harmonicats with “Peg of My Heart” and the great one: Jackie Gleason with a luxurious version of the song “Autumn Leaves”.  We'll team up actress Judy Garland with Gene Kelly for an MGM film favorite, “For Me and My Gal.”  We'll drop a needle on actress Debbie Reynolds for a pleasant albeit petulant version of the song “S'posin”. Listen to a requested hit record with Sam Cooke doing one of his 1960 hit songs, “Wonderful World”.  More with Helen Reddy, Rick Nelson, and Anita Bryant.

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The Neon Beat Notes & Links - 3.15.26

On The Neon Beat Show 023r3h4rr:  Listen Lads and Lass's for our St Partrick' edition of our show as we celebrate the holiday with our usual great faire of standards sauced and pickled with songs to envoke the Emerald Isle.  We open with a kid's favorite by The Irish Rovers called “The Unicorn”.  Then we continue with Louis Armstrong with “Mame” followed by Ella Fitzgerald singing “Only a Paper Moon” with the Delta Rhythm Boys”.  Enjoy Roger Whittaker's “New World in the Morning” Then another Irish touch with Bing Crosby singing “An Irish Lullaby” heard in the film “Going My Way.”  We'll spin Tony Bennet's “Because of You” and Frank Sinatra with a Rod McKuen song.  Listen to instrumentals with Henry Mancini's “The Pink Panther theme” and John Barry's Orchestra with Toots Thielemans doing the theme from Midnight Cowboy.  Hear songs by the great period groups like The Cascades and The Platters.  More from Patti Page, Kay Starr, and Patsy Cline's “Walking After Midnight”.  Enjoy a laugh as we team up Bing Crosby with Bob Hope with “Put er There Pal” from one of the “road movies.”  And we close with a soulful version of “Danny Boy” sung by the great Irish tenor, “Frank Patterson.  Enjoy

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The Neon Beat Notes & Links - 3.1.26

On the Neon Beat Show 116R3r- A fine hour of good listening is lined up for you this hour.  We'll open with a Pat Boone standard with a song bout' that “great getting' up morning.”  Enjoy some fine standards with our women of song including Connie Francis doing “Who's Sorry Now”, Jaye P. Morgan with “Danger Heartbreak Ahead”, Nancy Wilson with the song, “Call Me”, and Petula Clark with “Happy Heart.”  Dig on a fantastic swing remix of  1930's Kansas City Jazz artist Myra Taylor with “Dig It” remixed by Harold Leonard and his Rockets.  (You'll have trouble sitting still)  Catch Frank Sinatra singing a standard the chairman did at almost every performance. Laugh with some cutting edge standup with Andy Muggins doing some schtick on “Gettin' Old”.  Listen to the song that defined an era as Nat King Cole sings “Unforgettable”.  We'll spin some of the great period groups like The Four Lads, The Ames Brothers, and one by the Beatles.  Hear Andy Williams, Bing Crosby, Vic Damone, and Julias La Rosa.  And enjoy some swingin' big band with Benny Goodman backing Helen Ward singing a great Johnny Mercer hit.  

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The Neon Beat Notes & Links - 2.7.26

On the Neon Beat Show 97r3mx:  Quite the superstar list and sauced and pickled with some eclectic selections.  Including a showcase piece of the remarkable vocal ranges of one alleged Incan princess named Yma Sumac.  We open with Dean Martin with “Send Me the Pillow You Dream On” followed up with Bing Crosby and his son Gary doing “Sam's Song”.  Enjoy a number of theatre and film pieces with Matt Monro singing the theme from “Laura”, Margaret Whiting singing a song from “South Pacific”, Dionne Warwick with a Burt Bacharach song, and Ed Ames with a powerful rendition of a song from “Man of La Mancha”.  Listen to an early 1950's hit song by Nat King Cole, “Nature Boy”.  We'll team up Nancy Sinatra with Lee Hazelwood for the song “Jackson”.  Enjoy some fine instrumental selections with Glen Gray's Casa Loma Orchestra doing a Tommy Dorsey swing standard, Bent Fabric with the old roller-rink standard, “Alley Cat”, and the orchestra of John Barry closing with the stirring performance of “The John Dunbar Theme” from Dances with Wolves.  Doris Day does a bawdy rendition of a number based on an old Brit ale-house song.  More with Gogi Grant, Mel Torme, Connie Francis, Stan Getz, and Harry Belafonte.  Fire up the Hi-Fi.  Here we go. 

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The Neon Beat Notes & Links - 1.4.26

On the Neon Beat Show 62R3r:  We open this session with a major chart hit both in the US and the UK in 1965.  Listen to the Toys, with “A Lover's Concerto”.  We follow up the Toys with a film hit sung by The Mike Curb Congregation from a Clint Eastwood movie.  Here more great period groups like The Four Lads, The Everly Brothers, and a requested classic by The Sons of the Pioneers.  We'll spin a song written by actor Charlie Chaplin sung by Nat King Cole.  Bing Crosby sings another film song from Around the World in 80 days. Listen to Ella Fitzgerald with an amorous Cole Porter song followed up with yet another movie selection performed by Frank Sinatra.  We'll track some fine period instrumentals including Kai Winding's “More”, Raymond Lefevre with an orchestral take on a Godspell song, and the theme from the award winning film “Patton” by the BBC Concert Orchestra.  Listen to Petula Clark with “I Know a Place”, Bobby Vinton's “Blue on Blue”, Al Martino with “Spanish Eyes”, and Elvis Presley with “It's Now or Never”.  More with Jo Stafford, Roy Orbison, and Robert Goulet.  Tune in for a full hour of the songs we know and love.

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The Neon Beat Notes & Links - 12.13.26

On the Neon Beat Show NX05:  Great show this week featuring some of the songs sung by the artists we know and love.  Along with seasonal favorites.  Kay Starr sings “The Man with the Bag”.  Judy Garland wishes you a “Merry Little Christmas.”  Listen to a selection from the 1957 Christmas Album by Bing Crosby singing “An Ax, An Apple and a Buckskin Jacket”.  More Christmas with the Carpenters and Leroy Anderson.  We open the show with a favorite by Bobby Vinton, “Everyday of my Life.”  Listen to Tony Bennet's “San Francisco”, Dean Martin with “Everybody Loves Somebody”, and Frank Sinatra singing, “I Concentrate on You.”  Hear instrumental favorites with Hugo Winterhalter's RCA Orchestra, Les Brown and his Band of Renown with “Leap Frog”, Horst Jankowski's “Walk in the Black Forest”, and Frank Mill's “The Music Box Dancers”.  More with Dinah Shore, OC Smith, Eydie Gorme, and Andy Williams.  Punch it in at Mixcloud.

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The Neon Beat Notes & Links - 12.7.26

On the Neon Beat Show- Christmas 2025:  Happy Holidays everyone!  Crank up a selection of great Christmas favorites by the artists we know and love.  Listen to a solid hour of some great seasonal songs by Julie Andrews, Johnny Mathis, Nat King Cole, Mitch Miller,  Brenda Lee, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Glen Campbell, The Carpenters, Anne Murray, and The Harry Simeon Chorale.  Laugh a little with Allan Sherman's take on “The 12 Days of Christmas” and Pearl Bailey's “Five Pound Box of Money”.  Fine instrumentals by Leroy Anderson, The Cincinatti Pops, Percy Faith, and the guitar of Les Paul.

From Gail the kids and myself, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year tae ya!   

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The Neon Beat Notes & Links - 11.23.26

On the Neon Beat Show 32R3:  On this edition we'll include a few requests.  A Kansas City listener wishing to hear the Hank Williams song, “Cold Cold Heart” sung by Tony Bennett.  And a couple from a Wichita listener who suggested one by Cab Calloway and a little Disney magic with the voice of Jiminy Cricket from Pinocchio: Cliff Edwards.  The hour opens with Dean Martin singing “You're Nobody til Somebody Loves You” followed with Dionne Warwick singing a fine Burt Bacharach/Hal David standard.  Hear a couple of the great groups of the day like the Casinos singing “Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye” and the Four Aces with “Wedding Bells” (breakin' up that old gang of mine.) Listen to hit songs by Peggy Lee, Paul Anka, Petula Clark, Johnny Mathis and Perry Como.  Crank up some great big band with Benny Goodman's “Jersey Bounce, and Harry James with the “Two O Clock Jump”.  Along with Cab Calloway catch some more classics with Mildred Bailey doing “Rocking Chair” and Fred Astaire with “No Strings Fancy Free”.  And relax to a classy rendition of “Canadian Sunset” by Berlin pianist Horst Jankowski. Good stuff.  Good listening. 

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The Neon Beat on Mixcloud - 11.2.25

On the Neon Beat Show 23r3:  This installment of TNB opens with an old Duke Ellington standard sung here by Nat King Cole.  “Don't Get Around Much Anymore”.  The Mills Brothers take the stage next for “Cielito Lindo.”  We squeeze in some great big band with Glen Gray's Casa Loma Orchestra doing a great Woody Herman standard.  Hear Bobby Darin with a swingin' version of “I Got Rhythm”.  Eydie Gorme follows with her 1963 hit song, “Blame it on the Bossa Nova” backed up by a period female singing group called, “The Cookies”.  Listen to more fine female talent with record singles by Rosemary Clooney, Dusty Springfield, Petula Clark and Patti Page.  We team up Frank Sinatra with his daughter Nancy for “Something Stupid”.  Listen to Paul McCartney do a song that is considered to be one of the Beatles finest.  More great songs with Johnny Mathis singing “Small World”, Bobby Vinton, with “There I've Said it Again” and Elvis with “Don't Be Cruel.”  And of course, gotta have our instrumental content with Walter Wanderley on the Hammond B3, Bert Kaempfert with his 1961 hit song, “Wonderland by Night” and Raymond Lefevre's “Soul Coaxing”.Give a listen at: https://www.mixcloud.com/theneon.../the-neon-beat-show-23r3/   Left to Right:  Joe Dimino (Neon Jazz) John Christopher (The Neon Beat)

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The Neon Beat on Mixcloud - 7.19.25

On the Neon Beat Show- Remembering Connie Francis.  We open with the song that was Connie's first breakthrough hit record.  “Who's Sorry Now”.  After which we proceed with more great songs of the 40's, 50's and 60's.  Listen to Wilbert Harrison with the song about that great city of fountains: “Kansas City”.  Vikki Carr follows up with the song, “Can't Take My Eyes off of You.”  Hear the great period groups this hour such as the Lettermen, the McGuire Sisters, and the Brother's Four singing a song from the 1960 John Wayne film “The Alamo”.  We'll play more Connie Francis hit songs, “Everyone is Someone's Fool”, “Quando, Quando, Quando”, and :the theme from Where the Boys Are.”  Listen to the fine instrumental selections like the swingin' Glen Gray version of “the King Porter Stomp”' Lawrence Welk with “Bubbles in the Wine”, and Leroy Anderson's “Promenade.”  We'll spin songs performed by some more of our Italian hitmakers of the day, Tony Bennett with “Love Look Away,” Frankie Laine with “Waiting at the end of the Road”, and Dean Martin with “I'd Cry Like a Baby.”  We'll team up Bette Midler with good friend Barry Manilow for a old Peggy Lee hit song, “I Love Being Here with You”.  Then we'll play Peggy Lee with Benny Goodman singing a song from the film “Stagedoor Canteen”.  Much more with Ray Charles, Debbie Reynolds, British crooner Matt Monro, and Merrillee Rush and the Turnabouts.  Listen and enjoy.       

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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.  

Listen now at: https://www.mixcloud.com/theneonbeat/the-neon-beat-show-107r6ext/?fbclid=IwY2xjawLnLY5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHoJNazJ5fsZPAoC0O3rD3PXSQtvb1vYUJ1gMisjJzArE_VP8mglJgCWVXxT-_aem_4-5kufLbIpVn1X4zrLL4KQ 

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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Neon Beat on Mixcloud - 12.14.24

On this years edition of Neon Christmas 2024:  Listen in on a full hour of Christmas standards featuring songs sung by the artists we know and love.  We open with a glorious version of “Ding Dong Merrily on High” with Julie Andrews backed by the orchestra of Andre Previn. Then listen to the Ray Conniff singers with “Santa Clause in Coming to Town”.  We'll spin seasonble favorites by The Ronettes, Mitch Miller, Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians, Glen Campbell and Amy Grant.  Great instrumentals with The Philadelphia Brass Ensemble, Christmas Aire, David Rose, and the Hallmark Orchestra.  Listen to Tom Paxton with “The Marvelous Toy” and a back of the rack request for Kenny Bowers, “An Ax an Apple and a Buckskin Jacket”.  More with Dan Fogelberg, Harry Belafonte, Sandi Patti, Art Garfunkel, and Diane Schuur.  Merry Christmas Kids! 

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Neon Beat on Mixcloud - 12.1.24

On the Neon Beat Show NBx02:  Perry Como launches this hour as we take a “Dreamers Holiday” kicking off not only some great songs of the 1940's, 50's and 60's but also some great Holiday music selections blended in.  These including songs by Johnny Mathis, Louis Armstrong, The Boston Pops, The London Philharmonic and a back of the rack request for a 1958 memory by Kenny Bowers,  “An Ax an Apple and a Buckskin Jacket”.  We'll board “The Night Train” with Kay Starr followed with one by Ray Charles called “You Don't Know Me”.  We'll track a hit fav by the English Gentleman singing “My Kind Of Girl” followed up with a 1960 memory by Connie Stevens, “16 Reasons”.  Engelbert Humperdinck sings a film piece called “Le Bicyclette De Belsize” and Anita Bryant with another 1960 hit song called, “Til There Was You” followed with a hit record by Ben E. King and the Drifters.  Enjoy some instrumental favorites with Nelson Riddle's Orchestra and a sentimental favorite by Hagood Hardy called “The Homecoming”.  Grab some Big Band with the Orchestra of Benny Goodman doing an old Johnny Mercer song.  More with Steve Lawrence and Ella Fitzgerald.

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Neon Beat on Mixcloud - 10.21.24

On the Neon Beat Show 06R5:  We launch this hour with the Divine Miss “M” as Bette Midler performs a smashing version of an ol' Peggy Lee song, “Alright, Ok, You Win.”  Then listen to Nat King Cole and the Ralph Carmichael Chorus with “All Over the World”.  Enjoy a lush 1952 “B”side hit for Joni James as she sings “Purple Shades”. Our male Italian offerings include songs by Dean Martin teamed up with the Four Lads, Tony Bennett with Count Basie, and Frank Sinatra.  Instrumental offerings include songs with Henry Mancini, Leroy Anderson, and we'll light-a-shuck and ride the range with the Cincinnati Pops doing the theme from “The Magnificent Seven.”  Hear Guy Mitchell and the Mitch Miller Gang do “The Roving Kind”, Marty Robbins with “Story of My Life” (by request). A “Message to Michael” with Dionne Warwick and Lenny Welch's “Since I Fell For You”.  Our fine period groups include songs by The McGuire Sisters, the Lettermen, and the Platters.  Listen to a James Bond film theme as Shirley Bassey sings the theme from “Diamonds are Forever”.  More with Canadian Jazz diva, Diana Krall from her “Live in Paris” album and a Grammy Award winning song by Nancy Wilson. 

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