On The Neon Beat this week, Jukebox 1: Frank Sinatra begins this hour backed with the kid chorus singing a charming movie theme from “Pocketful of Miracles.” Next we listen to a fun pairing of Louis Armstrong and Danny Kaye from “The Five Pennies.” Then enjoy one of our many fine Christmas selections this hour with The Cincinnati Pops. You’ll hear Tom Paxton with “The Marvelous Toy,” The Christmas Song” sung by Nat King Cole, Bette Midler with a holiday song from the Islands, and a holiday standard by Tony Bennett. Sammy Davis Jr performs a Broadway hit called, “What Kind of Fool am I” followed up with one of Brenda Lee’s many charting hit songs, “Coming on Strong.” Jack Jones sings a Grammy Award winning song, “Wives and Lovers,” followed with some big band with Peggy Lee and Benny Goodman from “Stagedoor Canteen.” We’ll track some period instrumentals with Al Hirt’s “Cotton Candy, Harry James with “The Mole” and Les Baxter’s Orchestra with “The Poor People of Paris.” Hear more Broadway/film songs with Ella Fitzgerald and Eydie Gorme. Listen today online at: http://www.radiogeorge.com/neonbeat/On The Neon Beat this week, Jukebox 2: Ella Fitzgerald launches this set with some toe-tappin’ Irving Berlin music, “Let Yourself Go.” Frank Sinatra chimes in after Ella with some “Mistletoe and Holly,” to begin this hour’s Christmas offerings. Hear a great Harold Arlen song with the Four Aces singing “Let’s Fall in Love” followed with Rosemary Clooney singing, “Aren’t You Glad You’re You?” Listen to more Christmas songs with Ed Ames, “Christmas is the Warmest Time of the Year,” The New Christy Minstrels, Pearl Bailey with “The Five Pound Box” and Stan Freeburg’s “I’m Getting Nuttin’ for Christmas.” We’ll spin a 1950’s hit single playing Lou Monte’s “Lazy Mary.” Hear some great big band selections with Glenn Miller and Harry James’s Orchestra backing Helen Forrest. Perry Como and the Ray Charles Singers do the song, “Papa Loves Mambo” followed up with Doris Day’s 1958 hit song, “Everybody Loves a Lover.” Then hear Buddy Clark’s lovely rendition of “Peg O’ My Heart.” Listen to Nat King Cole backed by The Les Baxter Orchestra for the song “To the Ends of the Earth.” More with Burl Ives, “Big Rock Candy Mountain,” “Message to Michael” with Dionne Warwick, and a 1957 smash hit for Mister “Oh Yeh!” (Billy Williams)
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On The Neon Beat this week, Jukebox 3: The Polish Prince, Bobby Vinton takes the mic to open this hour with “Every Day of My Life.” Then we’ll track Hugo Winterhalter’s RCA Orchestra backing jazz pianist Eddie Heywood for “Canadian Sunset.” We’ll follow with the signature hit, forever to be associated with Mr. Tony Bennett, “I Left My Heart in SF.” Oklahoman Kay Starr launches this hour’s Christmas selections with her jazzy rendition of “The Man with the Bag.” You’ll hear actress Judy Garland with “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” Perry Como and the Fontane Sisters, The Carpenters with “No Place Like Home for the Holidays,” and the iconic “Sleigh Ride” by Leroy Anderson. Get set to “Leap Frog” with Les Brown and his Band of Renown.” Dean Martin follows with one of his signature favorites, “Everybody Loves Somebody.” Then enjoy a set with Frank Sinatra from the Swingin’ Session album, Eydie Gorme singing “And the Angels Sing,” and O.C. Smith with a 1968 sentimental standard written by country artist Roger Miller “Little Green Apples.” Enjoy hit keyboard standards with Berlin born, Horst Jankowski, and “the Music Box Dancer” with Frank Mills. Listen to Dinah Shore’s hit version of “Dear Hearts and Gentle People.”
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