The Neon Beat on Radio George - 10.22.19

On the Neon Beat this week: Frank Sinatra launches Juke 1 with the kids singing, “High Hopes.” Then we get “Smack Dab in the Middle with the Mills Brothers and follow that up with a Cole Porter selection by Ella Fitzgerald. Juke 2 begins with two film and Broadway selections starting with Dean Martin with the Four Lads singing “Standing on the Corner” and Perry Como with Betty Hutton with a song from “Guys and Dolls.” Jukebox 3 takes off with Petula Clark's “Don't Sleep in the Subway”, followed up with a greeting from the staff here: That would be Eileen Barton's signature song “If I Knew You Were Coming I'd have Baked a Cake.” Catch another Frank favorite as he sings “Young at Heart.” Instrumentals abound this week with the beautiful “Ebb Tide” by Frank Chacksfield, Andre Previn's jazzy “Like Young,” Leroy Anderson with “Promenade,” a Victor Young film standard, “Around the World”, Nashville's Floyd Cramer with “Last Date”, and Ferrante and Teicher with a rousing version of “Temptation.” We'll spin more period film and stage favorites with the Sandpipers, Dusty Springfield, Bing Crosby, Rosemary and Betty Clooney, and Jo Stafford. Sing along with Nat King Cole's 1962 fav, “Rambling Rose.” Get your big band fix with Louis Prima, Harry James, and Glen Gray. More with the period hit makers like Jerry Wallace, Dionne Warwick, Glen Campbell, Patti Page, Tony Bennett, Wayne Newton and the Chordettes. Lots more.

Listen now at: http://www.radiogeorge.com/neonbeat/NB-Hour1.htm

Neon Beat on Radio George - 10.14.19

On the Neon Beat this week: WE'RE BACK after a hiatis with technical issues. Resolved and sounding better than ever. Nat King Cole launches Juke 1 as we dance “The Continental” from the floor in Vegas. Then we go “Swinging Down the Lane” with Kay Starr. Juke 2 begins with a slam dunk version of “Let's Fall in Love” by the Four Aces followed up with a great Cole Porter song sung by Ella Fitzgerald. Then we team up Frank Sinatra with his daughter Nancy for “Something Stupid.” Jukebox 3 begins with Dean Martin's signature song from the film, “the Caddy.” We'll listen to the “Lullaby of Broadway,” by Doris Day, followed up with “Standing on the Corner” by the Four Lads. Hear more fine period groups like The Seekers, The Vogues, The Fortunes, Peter Paul and Mary, The Beatles, The McGuire Sisters, and The Mills Brothers. Listen to those great stage and screen songs with Margaret Whiting singing one from “South Pacific.” Hear actor Danny Kaye with a lovely young'un singing “The Music Goes Round and Round” from The Five Pennies. Hear Louis Armstrong himself with a song from “Hello Dolly”, Henry Mancini with the song from “Charade,” and another from Henry from the film, “Brian's Song.” Listen to Petula Clark with “This is My Song” from the Countess From Hong Kong” and Ferrante and Teicher at the dual keyboards for the theme from “Midnight Cowboy.” More songs from the hitmakers of the day like Johnny Mathis, Ray Charles, Doris Day, Nat King Cole, Connie Francis and many more.

Listen today at http://www.radiogeorge.com/neonbeat/NB-Hour1.htm

On the Neon Beat this week: WE'RE BACK

After 3 weeks of rebuilding the site after the plug was pulled on the player, we're back on all fours playing three hours, of the Neon Beat. The great hit standards of the 1940's, 50's, and 60's. **Please note some changes in the players:

The individual Jukeboxes are spread across three pages. When you go to The Neon Beat at Radio George, you'll automatically be taken to the first Jukebox which will automatically start playing. After the first Juke ends, to get to the other Jukebox's, take a look below the Jukebox on the page you're on you'll note two clickable options that say, “Click here to listen to Jukebox 2” and “Click here to listen to Jukebox 3.” Left click on your choice of Juke and it will open and start automatically. If they don't start, just hit the play button on the player. If you want to stop the Jukebox you're listening to, hit the stop button on the player. Which you'll need to do if you go to another player and the one you're listening to hasn't finished. Else you'll be listening to two players at once.

Sorry bout the delay and the changes. Different player, different rules. And if I'm not mistaken, I'm thinking the audio quality is actually cleaner now.

The shows will change every week as new ones are produced. Enjoy listening to “the original hits”, on The Neon Beat.

John Christopher

THE TROUBLE IS NOT IN YOUR SET

The Radio George site is slowly coming back up. Albeit one jukebox at a time. Whatever's happened is requiring, basically, a rebuild of the Radio George site. My comrade in crime, (George) informs me that we should see The Neon Beat coming back up shortly. Hopefully by next week. Fortunately, unlike last time, this was not a hack. The shutdown of the site was due to several factors. One involving a decision by the various internet platforms like Google, Firefox and the Blue “E” to discontinue their support of Adobe Flash player. The other being some changes our host site made. Probably in response to the discontinuation of Flash Player. Which we were told would not start until next year. Nice. OK, a hack.

Radio George is taking the steps, along with many other network providers who were affected by this, to get a new player programmed into the Jukebox's. Already some of the great music choices offered by Radio George are back up. Such as the Oldies “click and play” Jukebox's. The shows, such as the Neon Beat, are more complicated, with a few more bells and whistles, and are requiring a little extra time to bring em' back up. Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for bearing with us.

Stay Tuned!

HAVING PROBLEMS WITH RADIO GEORGE AUDIO?

Radio George has used the Adobe Flash Player since it started 12 years ago, and listeners everywhere had no problems. A couple of months ago, Adobe announced that it would stop support for their player at the end of 2020. Since then, Radio George--and many other websites using audio--have started making plans to change to other players so that the music keeps on playing without any problems or need for users to interact to keep things rolling.

This morning, we heard from many listeners who said "I can't hear anything on Radio George." We checked and found that the major browsers--Microsoft Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Opera and others--have blocked the Adobe Flash Player. We had no notice of this whatsoever.

Radio George is changing the player it uses for all channels, which of course will not require you to do anything.

The player that Radio George has selected as the replace for Adobe Flash works efficiently AND will let you listen to Radio George on your cell phone. We'll step up the changeover as quickly as we can and let you know when it has been completed.

Thanks for being a fan of Radio George.