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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