The Neon Beat on Radio George - 5.13.19

On The Neon Beat this week: We'll start this week's set with a latter 1950's hit song for Della Reese. “Don't You Know.” Nat King Cole follows with a little spelling exercise called “L.O.V.E,” followed up with the Ray Charles Singers. Then listen to a lush rendition of Arthur Lymon's “Yellow Bird.” Nat King Cole launches Juke 2 with “Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer.” Dusty Springfield is next with “I Only Want to Be With You.” Jo Stafford slams into Juke 3 with “The Gentleman is a Dope.” Then listen to Dean Martin as he sings, “Lay Some Happiness on Me.” Our stage, film and boob tube faire includes a rousing performance of “Get Happy” with Judy Garland. Spencer Ross plays a theme from the 1959 TV series, “The Philadelphia Story,” Ferrante and Teicher play the theme from the film “Exodus” followed by a Cole Porter standard from “Anything Goes” by Ella Fitzgerald. The Association sing the theme from “Goodbye Columbus,” Robert Goulet sings a standard from “Porgy and Bess,” And Billy Vaughn's Orchestra performs a pretty theme from “Circus of Horrors.” More film and stage with Barbra Streisand, Vikki Carr, and Andre Previn. Frank Sinatra cuts include, “Nice N' Easy,” “You Make Me Feel So Young,” and “Swinging Down the Lane.” Get your 60's pop with some Mamas and Papas with “Monday Monday,” Spanky and Our Gang with “Lazy Day,” and Mama Cass with “Dream a Little Dream of Me.” We'll spin records with Peggy Lee's “Doodlin' Song,” Tony Bennett's “In the Middle of an Island,” and “The Straight Life” with Bobby Goldsboro. More great stuff with Elvis, The Mills Brothers, Petula Clark, The Kingston Trio and lots more. Go to: http://www.radiogeorge.com/neonbeat.htm

The Neon Beat on Radio George - 5.6.19

On The Neon Beat this week: Nat King Cole slams into Jukebox 1 with a song to leave you “Breathless.” Ella Fitzgerald is next with a fine version of “Begin the Beguine” followed up with a film theme sung by Pat Boone. Juke 2, we team up Tony Bennett with Diana Krall for “The Best is Yet to Come,” Then enjoy one of Kay Starr's first 1950's chart breakers as she sings “Wheel of Fortune.”We start Jukebox 3 with another Nat King Cole single as we hit the “mother road” called “Route 66.” Our film and stage selections include the Ray Conniff singers with a song from “Doctor Zhivago.” Hear Henry Mancini's Orchestra with a theme from an early Peter Sellers film “A Shot in the Dark,” and the theme from “Charade.” The Marvelous Marilyn Maye sings a song from the play “Sherry,” Morris Stoloff plays the theme from the film “Picnic,” Elvis Presley croons the lovely “Love Me Tender,” Perry Como sings a song from “South Pacific,” Burl Ives sings a beloved 1954 song from “So Dear to My Heart,” and the Chordettes do the title song from the award winning film, “Never on Sunday.” We'll spin hit singles by the great period groups like, The Platters, Mitch Miller and the Gang, The Crew Cuts, Sergio Mendez and Brazil 66, The Andrews Sisters, the Lettermen, The Essex, Chad and Jeremy and The Fifth Dimension. Listen to Frank Sinatra with “Softly as I Leave You,” and “It Happened in Monterrey.” Hear the great period pop like Johnny Mathis with “Wonderful Wonderful,” “Dreamy Eyes” by Johnny Tillotson, Dodie Stevens with the fun “Pink Shoelaces,” and Petula Clark with “Don't Sleep in the Subway Darling.” Much much more! Listen today at: http://www.radiogeorge.com/neonbeat.htm

The Neon Beat on Radio George - 4.29.19

On The Neon Beat this week: The Henry Mancini Orchestra and Chorus leads off Jukebox 1 with a film theme from “Darling Lili.” Patti Page takes it next with her hit female version of “Gentle on My Mind” followed with “The Last Waltz” with Engelbert Humperdinck. Rosemary Clooney launches Juke 2 with a salsa rendition of “Magic is the Moonlight” with Perez Prado's Orchestra. Then we hand the mic to Roger Whittaker for his breathtaking, “The Last Farewell” followed up the tender “Danny's Song performed by Anne Murray. Jukebox 3 begins with Peggy Lee's “Too Close for Comfort.” Then we'll spin another film theme from “An Affair to Remember” with Vic Damone. Enjoy hits by the great period groups like, The Platters with “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes.” Hear the Paris Sisters with “To Know Him is to Love Him,” The Mills Brothers with “Be My Life's Companion,” “I'll Never Find Another You” by the Seekers, and The McGuire Sisters with the song, “It May Sound Silly.” Singles by Nat King Cole include his 1957 hit, “Send For Me,” and a Fats Waller favorite, “Ain't Misbehaving.” Our Frank Sinatra cuts include a film selection from “High Society” with Bing Crosby, the song “Chicago” and a Cole Porter standard, “Night and Day.” Have fun listening to the story of the little Nash Rambler with the Playmates, “The Thing” with Phil Harris, and an Irish romp with Dennis Day as “Clancey Lowers the Boom.” Instrumental favorites include songs by Les Baxter, Herb Alpert and the TJB, Reg Owen, Horst Jankowski, Benny Goodman, and Hugo Winterhalter's Orchestra. More pop standards with Doris Day, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett and Mary Wells. Listen now: http://www.radiogeorge.com/neonbeat.htm

The Neon Beat on Radio George - 4.22.19

On The Neon Beat this week: The Carpenters launch Jukebox 1 with a snappy version of the song, “There's a Kind of Hush.” Then Harry Connick Jr shares a “Recipe for Making Love.” Juke 2 begins with the single biggest chart hit for Lou Rawls, followed up with some great swing music with Harry James. Then enjoy Nat King Cole with a jump version of “Only a Paper Moon.” Nat Cole will kick off Jukebox 3 with the lovely 1953 hit song, “Pretend.” After which, we'll track a swingin' version of “Night Train” by Kay Starr from one of her most celebrated albums. You'll hear stage and film selections with Frank Sinatra from “The Tender Trap,” and a lovely version of “It Might as Well Be Spring” from State Fair with Andre Previn. We'll spin the naughty “Let's Misbehave” with Eartha Kitt.” We'll team up Perry Como with Betty Hutton for a song from “Guys and Dolls,” and listen to Mary Martin with the iconic recording of “My Heart Belongs to Daddy.” The Lettermen gather round the microphone for the theme from “A Summer Place,” You'll hear actress Judy Garland from “Meet Me in St Louis, Louis” and a sassy little Cy Coleman number from “Sweet Charity” sung by Kansas City's own Marilyn Maye. Crank up the instrumental hits with Lalo Schifrin, Horst Jankowsky, Leroy Anderson, Ferranti and Teicher, Bert Kaempfert, and Herb Alpert. Hear the period hit makers like Frank Sinatra's “It Was a Very Good Year,” Jerry Wallace's “Primrose Lane,” “Little Things Mean a Lot” by Kitty Kallen,” “Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye” by the Casinos and “Wishing and Hoping” by Dusty Springfield. Lots, lots more. To listen, go to: http://www.radiogeorge.com/neonbeat.htm

The Neon Beat on Radio George - 4.15.19

On The Neon Beat this week: Louis Prima launches into the first Jukebox with “The Music Goes Round and Round.” Dean Martin takes it next with his 1965 hit song, “Lay Some Happiness on Me.” Here more classic Dino on Juke 2 with “Invisible Tears” and Juke 3 opens up with “Somewhere There's a Someone.” Juke 3 begins with Peggy Lee's “Manana is Good Enough For Me.” Get your weekly Sinatra fix with Frank singing “Let's Fall in Love” and “The World We Knew.” Instrumental selections this week include Perez Prado's 1955 “Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White.” (featuring that great Billy Regis trumpet solo.”) Percy Faith's Orchestra does a favorite from “My Fair Lady.” We'll spin a TV favorite with Nelson Riddle's “Theme From Route 66” and enjoy the beautiful “Our Winter Love” by pianist Bill Pursel. The big band abounds with selections by Glen Gray's Casa Loma Orchestra, Harry James with vocalist Helen Forrest, and a stereo Billy May performance of “Stomping at the Savoy.” We'll spin chart topping top hits like Elvis's “Treat Me Nice,” and “Wear My Ring,” The Chordettes with “Lollipop,” “Plenty Good Lovin'” by Connie Francis, “Snap Your Fingers” with Joe Henderson,” and a fiery Teresa Brewer with the bawdy “Sweet Ol' Fashioned Girl.” Hear a folk set on Juke 3 with Peter Paul and Mary, Jimmie Rodgers, The Kingston Trio and Simon and Garfunkel. Enjoy the crooning of Nat King Cole with “I Love You For Sentimental Reasons” and his jazzy jump rendition of, “Just You Just Me.” More with Andy Williams, Ella Fitzgerald, Perry Como, and Louis Armstrong. Dig! Listen today at: https://www.radiogeorge.com/neonbeat/

The Neon Beat on Radio George - 4.8.19

On The Neon Beat this week: Some exciting pieces start out our first two Jukeboxes. Hang on to your hat as Juke 1 kicks off with Caterina Valente singing “The Breeze and I.” Juke 2 takes of f with, what was, the first big charting hit for Sir Tom Jones, “It's Not Unusual.” Juke 3 starts with a shiver getter called “All the Way,” sung by Frank Sinatra. Hear the great hitmaker groups like, The New Christy Minstrels with “Green Green,” The T Bones with a song used in the commercial imaging of Alka Seltzer, and The McGuire Sisters “Just for Old Times Sake.” More with the Four Preps as we remember that island of romance, and a little Brit invasion music from Chad and Jeremy. We'll spin those fine film, stage and Broadway favorites including Ed Ames with “My Cup Runneth Over,” Dean Martin's “Kick in the Head” from Oceans 11, Henry Mancini's orchestra with “the Baby Elephant Walk,” and the beautiful theme from “The Thornbirds.” Dionne Warwick sings the song from “Alfie.” Hear a lush rendition of “Lara's Theme” from Dr. Zhivago by James Last. We'll spin Tony Bennett's lovely version of the “Shadow of Your Smile” from The Sandpiper. Barbra Streisand sings a fun romp written by Mister Television. (Milton Berle) Nat King Cole remembers “Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer.” Frank Sinatra teams up with daughter Nancy for “Something Stupid.” Laugh a little with Allan Sherman's 1963 hit “Hello Mudduh, Hello Faddah.” Catch a little big sky western set with Frankie Laine, Marty Robbins, and Johnny Cash and a little folk music with Jimmy Dean, Peter Paul and Mary, and Trini Lopez. Records by Peggy Lee, Sam Cooke, Kitty Kallen, Robert Goulet and lots more. http://www.radiogeorge.com/neonbeat.htm

The Neon Beat on Radio George - 4.2.19

On the Neon Beat this week: Jukbox 1 opens with a singing group frequently backing up Nat King Cole called The Four Knights with “I Get So Lonely.” Rosemary Clooney follows up with an uptempo Broadway stage piece from “Gypsy.” The Lettermen open Juke 2 with a lush version of a fine Paul Anka hit song, “Put Your Head on my Shoulder.” Perry Como takes it next with a country-esk piece called “Dont Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes.” Juke 3 lauches with Tony Bennett backed by the Mitch Miller gang with a song from “Bye Bye Birdie,” Then Frank Sinatra sings a swingin' version of “Blue Moon.” Get your Nat King Cole fix with “To the Ends of the Earth” and “Nature Boy.” Turn up our instrumental/orchestral arrangements of great songs with Henry Mancini's beautiful “Moon River,” Errol Garner's “Misty,” and Arthur Fiedler with the Boston Pops with a gorgeous arrangement of “Shenendoh.” More with Berlin pianist Horst Jankowsky, Raymond Lefevre's “Soul Coaxing,” Hugo Winterhalter's RCA Orchestra with a Leroy Anderson favorite, Michel Legrand with “Holiday for Strings,” and Andre Previn with a lovely rendition of “Hi Lili, Hi Lo.” We'll do a country set with Charlie Rich, Marty Robbins, and the Silver Screen Orchestra with Theme From “Gunsmoke.” We'll spin more stage and film music with Henry Mancini's “Theme from Charade,” Diane Reeves with “Oh Lady Be Good,” and Matt Monro with “From Russia with Love.” Sing along with the New Seekers, Petula Clark, Mama Cass, Dean Martin, Gale Garnett, Bobby Goldsboro and lots More! Go to: http://www.radiogeorge.com/neonbeat.htm

The Neon Beat on Radio George - 3.26.19

On the Neon Beat this week: We start the series on Juke 1 with a theatre standard sung by Rosemary Clooney, “April in Paris.” Throughout the shows you'll hear more great film and stage with Ella Fitzgerald singing a song from “Kiss Me Kate,” Vic Damone with a song from “West Side Story,” The Four Lads with a Frank Loesser standard from “A Most Happy Fellow,” Connie Francis with “Embraceable You,” Glen Campbell with the theme from “True Grit,” and Louis Armstrong with “Hello Dolly.” Eartha Kitt performs a song from a 1952 review called “New Faces” that got her named the most exciting woman in the world by Orson Wells. Nat King Cole croons a lovely song heard in the 1951 film, “Anna.” Hear BJ Thomas with a Burt Bacharach/Hal David song from “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.” We'll team up Bob Hope and Bing Crosby for one of their rowdy songs from one of their “Road Movies.” We'll spin a funny tate-a-tate between Bing Crosby and actress Judy Garland. Enjoy a 1961 movie theme by Frank Sinatra called “Pocketful of Miracles.” We'll spin Tony Bennett's “Rags to Riches,” and “Because of You.” Crank up the great period pop hits sung by the groups we remember such as “The Poni Tails,” The Four Lads, the Beatles, The Mills Brothers, The Fifth Dimension, The Ames Brothers, Herman's Hermits, and Dion and the Belmonts. Hear More with Vic Dana. (literally) We'll spin records with Al Martino, Jo Stafford, Eydie Gorme, Patti Page, Andy Williams, and actress Marilyn Monroe. Lotz more! Listen today at: http://www.radiogeorge.com/neonbeat.htm

The Neon Beat on Radio George - 3.18.19

On The Neon Beat this week: We launch Jukebox 1 with a sanppy standard from 1957 sung by Billy Williams, (Oh YEH!) “I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter.” The next two Jukeboxes get started with heavy hitters including Elvis Presley and Bobby Darin. Other heavy hit makers thru this week's series include songs by Engelbert Humperdinck, Nat King Cole, Tom Jones, Petula Clark, Frank Sinatra and lots more. Perry Como sings his great 1970 comback hit song, “It's Impossible.” Get your Kicks on Route 66 with the Nat King Cole trio. We'll spin fine period film and stage favorites like, The Theme from Bus Stop by the Four Lads, “Viva Las Vegas” by Elvis Presley, Andre Previn with the lovely theme from “Gigi,” Henry Mancini with a boob tube selection from “Charlie's Angels,” Helen Reddy with a song from “Jesus Christ Superstar,” Vic Damone with a 1964 song from “My Fair Lady,” Dusty Springfield from “The Thomas Crown Affair,” The McGuire Sisters sing one from “Daddy Long Legs,” and Morris Stoloff with the theme from “Picnic.” More stage and film songs with Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, The Mitch Miller Gang, Andy Williams, and Dinah Washington. Catch our selection of period groups like The McGuire Sisters, The Four Freshmen, The Ames Brothers, The New Christy Minstrels and The Temptations. Enjoy several of our fine pop instrumentals with The Islander's, “Enchanted Sea,” Andre Previn's 1959 hit tune, “Like Young,” and “Wheels” by The String Alongs. It's over three hours of great listening. Go to: http://www.radiogeorge.com/neonbeat.htm

The Neon Beat on Radio George - 3.12.19

On The Neon Beat this week: Jukebox 1 begins the series with two great period male groups including the Vogues with “My Special Angel,” and the Ames Brothers with a great big band standard. Hear more groups we know and love like Sergio Mendez and Brazil 66 with “Fool On the Hill,” The Four Lads with “The Mockingbird” and The Lettermen. More with The Statler Brothers remembering “The Movies,” Sumpthin' Smith and the Redheads “It's a Sin to Tell a Lie” and a 1960's instrumental offering issuing in the space age with a group called The Tornados, You'll hear hit records by our great women of song including, Kay Starr, The Marvelous Marilyn Maye with “Cabaret,” and “Night of my Nights” from Kismet. Dionne Warwick sings “Promises Promises,” Doris Day with the lively “Lullaby of Broadway,” GI Joe Stafford sings, “Suddenly There's a Valley.” Hear show tunes by Eydie Gorme, Patti Page and Rosemary Clooney. Listen to Nancy Wilson with the Boston Pops and Peggy Lee with “Is That All There Is?” More show tunes with Andy Williams with a song from “State Fair,” Tony Bennett with a hit number from “Gypsy,” Frank Sinatra with a Rogers and Hart song from “Babes in Arms,” and a theatre standard from “Walk a Little Faster.” The Four Aces sing a Victor Young selection called “Around the World.” Enjoy Gato Barbieri's “Theme from “Last Tango in Paris,” and Raymond Lefevre's Orchestra with a song from “Godspell.” More songs from Bobby Darin, Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole and Dean Martin. Listen today at: http://www.radiogeorge.com/neonbeat.htm Have a great week.