The Neon Beat - 8.8.20

On the Neon Beat this week on Mx-Cloud: We open this week's upload of great music of the 1940's, 50's and 60's with a couple of film selections. Tom Jones leads the hour with the theme from “What's New Pussycat?” followed with Elvis Presley with “Viva Las Vegas.” You'll hear more music of the silver screen with Andy Williams singing the theme from “The Godfather.” Also catch a period boob tube selection with Ray Anthony's theme from “Dragnet.” Listen to an amorous rendition of “Black Coffee” performed by bombshell, Julie London. Nat King Cole and the trio will do that song about cruisin' the mother road as we get our kicks on “Route 66.” Listen to the lovely Patti Page with the song, “I'll Remember Today.” Crank up some great songs by the fine period groups like The Four Lads, Mitch Miller and the Gang, and The Neon Philharmonic. Bobby Darin takes command of the stage with a swingin' performance of “A Nightingale In Berkeley Square.” Rock along with Buddy Knox's “Party Doll” and hear actress Debbie Reynolds with a steamy version of “Moonglow.” More with the keyboard of George Shearing, and a “Peaceful” song by Australian Helen Reddy. 

The Neon Beat - 8.1.20

On the Neon Beat this week on Mx-Cloud- Sarah Vaughan kicks off this week's upload with a cut from the Great American Standards album, “How High the Moon.” Then listen to Engelbert Humperdinck's 1976 comeback hit single: “After the Lovin'” followed up with a period Simon and Garfunkel standard “Feeling Groovy.” Turn up a little Perry Como after the break with a rousing version of “The Girl With the Golden Braids.” Catch some more great Italian hitmakers like Frank Sinatra with “Can I Steal a Little Love,” Tony Bennett with “I Wanna Be Around,” and Connie Francis with “Quando, Quando.” We'll spin hit songs by some of the great period male ensembles like the Mills Brothers singing “Cab Driver”' The Ames Brothers with “Destination Moon” and The Hilltoppers with “PS I Love You.” Enjoy a reticent little number sung by Nat King Cole called “Looking Back.” Whistle along with the English Seafarer, Roger Whittaker, with “New World in the Morning.” Then hear Bing Crosby with the Victor Young film song, “Around the World.” Listen to a signature hit standard sung by the Marvelous Marilyn Maye, followed up with one of Marilyn's favorite singers, Mel Torme, with a song from “Guys and Dolls.” More hit songs with Brenda Lee, Ferrante and Teicher, Kay Starr, and Bobby Vinton.

The Neon Beat - 7.26.20

On the Neon Beat this week at M-xcloud.com: Rosemary Clooney slams into this hour with a rousing version of “Everything's Coming Up Roses.” Next we assemble the Mike Curb Congregation for the theme from a 1970's Clint Eastwood film. Enjoy a little Johnny Mathis with “quiet girl” as Johnny sings “What Will My Mary Say?” Listen to more great songs by the great period groups like The Four Freshmen, The Lettermen and Sergio Mendez with Brazil 66. We'll team up Art and Dotty Todd for their smash hit single, “Chanson D' Amour.” Hear Eydie Gorme's 1963 hit single backed by a group called The Cookies for “Blame it On the Bossa Nova” followed up with Tony Bennett singing “The Best is Yet to Come.” Crank up some period hit singles with Billy Williams 1957 hit record, “I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter.” Listen to Dinah Shore with a naughty-nice number called “It's So Nice to Have a Man Around the House,” and then we'll spin a Bert Kaempfert instrumental used as a theme for a daytime TV show called The Match Game. Turn the speaker up for Dean Martin backed by the EZ Riders for their 1956 hit song, “Memories are Made of This.” Frank Sinatra takes the stage next for some fine Cole Porter as Frank sings “I Get a Kick Out of You.” Then swing with some big band as Glen Gray does a Hi-Fi version of the Tommy Dorsey standard, “Song of India.” Don't forget, the shows we've already published at MixCloud are still there for you too. (Pic: Johnny Mathis)

The Neon Beat - 7.19.20

On the Neon Beat this week at M-xcloud.com: Anita O'Day get's the jazz on as we open this hour with “Let's Face the Music and Dance.” Then we team up Dean Martin with the Four Lads for a great Frank Loesser standard, “Standing on the Corner.” Dino is followed up with Ella Fitzgerald with a fine Cole Porter selection. Listen to Vic Damone with a Broadway song from “The Music Man” (also a minor hit for the Beatles) “Til There Was You.” Our instrumental offerings include the lovely “Nadia's Theme” by the piano and orchestra of Barry DeVorzon, Herb Alpert and the TJB as we take the “Tijuana Taxi,” Marvin Hamlisch at the keyboard for a ragtime song used in the film, “The Sting”, and the haunting “Midnight Lace” with the orchestra of Ray Conniff. Also let's “cut-a-rug” with Les Brown and his Band of Renown doing, “Leap Frog.” Our singing paizanos include Frank Sinatra with “You Do Something to Me,” Tony Bennett with “If I Ruled the World” and another selection from Dean Martin singing a period film theme from the early 1950's, “Non Dimenticar.” Get your Nat King Cole fix as the Natter sings a smooth jazzy version of “Sweet Lorraine.” We'll stir in a little salsa with Sergio Mendez and Brazil 66, get on our “Rhythm and Blues” with the McGuire Sisters, hear a hit single by Dionne Warwick singing “Walk on By”, and a great Kris Kristofferson song sung by Sammi Smith.

The Neon Beat - 7.14.20

On the Neon Beat uploaded to Mx-Cloud this week: We'll “Let Ourselves Go” as we open this hour of great American standards with Ella Fitzgerald singing a swinging Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein song. Sammy Davis Jr takes the stage next for a song with the Mike Curb Congregation. (A song that you can taste) Then turn up the hit record for Canadian Frank Mills as he plays his million selling keyboard hit, “The Music Box Dancer.” We'll spin the 1964 Grammy award winning song for Nancy Wilson, “How Glad I Am.” Catch some great period film and stage hits sung by Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, The Lettermen and The Marvelous Marilyn Maye. Also catch an amazing remix of the theme from a 1960's British spy TV show called “The Avengers.” Dean Martin taps on the coke bottle and takes on a country song called “Houston” followed up with Johnny Mathis singing “Small World Isn't It?” Then we'll be “Coming On Strong” with Little Miss Dynamite, aka, Brenda Lee. We'll hop aboard that “Slow Boat to China” with Oklahoman Kay Starr and do a bit o' “Learnin' the Blues” with Frank Sinatra. More from Peggy Lee, Si Zentner's Orchestra and a back-of -the-rack million selling song for Tony Orlando and Dawn.

The Neon Beat - 7.5.20

On the Neon Beat this week on M-xCloud: Sir Tom Jones slams on stage to open this week's offerings with “Daughter of Darkness.” Herb Alpert and the TJB follow up with a 1967 film theme from “Casino Royale.” Listen to more stage and film selections with Rosemary Clooney and Guy Mitchell from “Pagan Love Songs.” Tony Bennett follows a percussive lead-in for a great old Cole Porter standard, “Night and Day” then hear some mo' Cole with with Frank Sinatra singin' “Anything Goes.” The keyboard duo of Ferrante and Teicher play the theme from “The Apartment” and Peggy Lee steams on stage for a bawdy number from “Sweet Charity.” Listen to a lovely song written by actor Charlie Chaplin sung by Nat King Cole. Catch a cut from an album dedicated to songs of Peggy Lee, sung by Bette Midler. Find your thrill on Blueberry Hill with Louis Armstrong and do some Latin dancing as “Papa Loves Mambo” with Perry Como, followed up with Hugo Winterhalter's Orchestra backing jazz keyboard player Eddie Heywood for “Canadian Sunset.” More hit songs with Engelbert Humperdinck, Matt Monro, Della Reese and a big band selection by The Boston Pops.

The Neon Beat - 6.28.20

On the Neon Beat this week on M-xCloud: America's sweethearts, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme kick off this session with a rousing version of the swing era hit song, “I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo.” Sammy Davis Jr takes it next with a Broadway selection that became a big hit for Sammy, “What Kind of Fool Am I?” The lovely Jo Stafford follows with the song “Symphony.” Turn up, what became a signature hit song for Dean Martin. You'll hear some of the great period groups singing the standards like The Mills Brothers, The McGuire Sisters, The Ames Brothers, and The Carpenters. We'll track Johnny Mathis with his lovely rendition of the song, “Misty.” Will run the way-back machine to the year 1958 for Frank Sinatra's “Come Fly With Me.” Listen to Nat King Cole with the Ralph Carmichael chorus for a turn of the century sounding piece called “All Over the World.” Hear Nat's daughter Natalie perform a knock out version of a great Ella Fitzgerald standard. Enjoy some swing era big band with Benny Goodman as we go “Jumpin' at the Woodside.” More fine memories with Robert Goulet, Peggy Lee, Nancy Wilson, and Neil Diamond.