The Neon Beat - 7.16.21

The Neon Beat (show 54R6)  Get set for some “honey in the horn” as we kick things off with Al Hirt's “Cotton Candy”.  Then, put some crank on it as we listen to Wilburt Harrison sing the song about that city of fountains.  Listen to El Paso's own Vikki Carr with her renditon of “Can't Take My Eyes Off of You” followed up with the vocal version of “Our Winter Love” sung by The Lettermen.  Hear more fine period groups like The Brothers Four and The McGuire Sisters.  We'll team up old friends Bette Midler and Barry Manilow as they do an old Peggy Lee song, “I Love Being Here With You” followed up with Peggy herself with the hit single with Benny Goodman that brought her career to the forefront.  Catch some big band favorites with Glen Gray and Lawrence Welk.  Hear more fine instrumental content with Leroy Anderson's “Promenade”.  Enjoy an amorous version of the song “Moonglow” sung by actress Debbie Reynolds. More with Sarah Vaughan, Frankie Laine, and Merrilee Rush.  Listen and Glisten!   Go to:  

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The Neon Beat - 7.3.21

 On The Neon Beat (Show 53R6)  Paul Anka begins this hour with his 1968 hit song, “Goodnight My Love.”  Barbra Streisand is next with a Fanny Brice number from “Funny Girl” as she sings “Second Hand Rose.”  Hear more great stage and theatre with Tony Bennett's lovely rendition of a song from “The Sandpiper”, Ella Fitzgerald with a Cole Porter standard from the production of “Paris”, and Kansas City's own Marilyn Maye sings an amorous number from “Kismet”.  Hear fine period selections from the popular groups of the day like The Mills Brothers and The McGuire Sisters.  Soul singer Brook Benton checks out of Heartbreak Hotel into “Hotel Happiness”.  Catch some tunes from Rat Packers Dean Martin with “Houston”, and Frank Sinatra with “I've Got the World on a String.”  Then we head on out to the Big Apple for Mister Jerry Costanzo for a fine performance of an old Sinatra cover, “Can I Steal a Little Love.”  We'll play Nat King Cole with a good ol' Duke Ellington standard.  We'll team up Bing Crosby with his son Gary for “Play a Simple Melody” followed with Peggy Lee with “Too Close for Comfort.”  More with Andy Williams, Louis Armstrong, and Dick Haymes.  Enjoy!

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The Neon Beat - 6.26.21

On the Neon Beat (Show 52r6)  The Ames Brothers take the stage to open the show with a great Frank Loesser song, “On a Slow Boat to China”.  Then we open the mic for Rosemary Clooney singin' the song “Too Marvelous for Words” followed up with a fine arrangement of “A Blossom Fell” by Nat King Cole.  After the break we'll chug down a cuppa joe with Frank Sinatra.  (Bell is ringing) School is definitely in session as we bring on Jo Stafford with “Teach Me Tonight.” (Did you say I've got a lot to learn?) Enjoy some vocal and hot tambourine with Frankie Laine singing “Jezebel” followed with some great big band with Benny Goodman.  We'll bring back Sinatra with Rosemary Clooney for a fun tate-a-tate called “Cherry Pies Outta Be You!”  Then we enjoy a little 60's run of movie music starting with Dionne Warwick, Harry Nilsson with a song intended for the film “Midnight Cowboy” followed with a lovely rendition of the theme from “Irma La Douce” by Andre Previn.  Listen to a great comeback hit record for Neil Sedaka followed up with a hit rendition of a John Denver song by Peter Paul and Mary. Hear a popular “Brit Hit” by Peter and Gordon, “I Go to Pieces”.  More with Doris Day, Andy Williams, and Robert Goulet.  All on The Neon Beat Show at Mixcloud.

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The Neon Beat - 6.20.21

On the Neon Beat (show 51R6)  Tony Bennett leads the hour with a song he confessed he'd rather not have recorded.  He was to say, “It just wasn't me.”  As it turned out, a 1957 chart hit for him. Next we do a little blue-sy rendition of “Dream on Little Dreamer” by Perry Como followed by Peggy Lee, “It's All Over Now.”  Then we'll cap that first segment with a swingin' version of “My Blue Heaven” by Frank Sinatra.  Next we'll track film and stage selections kicking off with Dean Martin followed with Lena Horne and Bing Crosby with Louis Armstrong.  We'll do some swinging next with Les Brown and his Band of Renown with “Leap Frog.”  Hear the Four Knights with “I Get so Lonely,” Doris Day with a sultry version of “Moonglow”, Bobby Darin with “Clementine” and Eydie Gorme and the Cookies as we “Blame it on the Bossa Nova”.  Sing along with Mitch Miller for “Shine on Harvest Moon.”  Hear more film music with Vic Damone singing “Laura” and Simon and Garfunkel from “The Graduate.”  More with Glen Campbell, Bill Pursell's haunting and beautiful “Our Winter Love”, and Les Paul with wife Mary Ford with “Waiting for the Sunrise.”   Wait no more.  Have a listen and enjoy at Mix-cloud.

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The Neon Beat - 6.13.21

On The Neon Beat (show 50R6)  Dean Martin kicks off the hour with “You're Nobody Til Somebody Loves You”.  We'll bring back Dean with Jerry Lewis for a smile or two with “The Money Song.”  Michael Buble takes it next with “Feelin' Good.”  Among the fine period groups this hour we'll track songs by The Carpenters, The Four Coins, and Terry Gilkyson with his Easy Riders.  Bette Midler sings a Peggy Lee song sung by Peg in the Disney film, Lady and the Tramp.  Hear Nat King Cole with a lovely rendition of the song, “Tenderly”.  “Let Yourself Go” listening to Ella Fitzgerald followed up with a lush rendition of the song “Ruby” by Ray Charles.  Tap your feet listening to Doris Day with her 1958 hit record, “Everybody Loves a Lover.”  Our instrumental offerings include “Blue Tango” by Hugo Winterhalter, the theme from the film “Charade” by the Henry Mancini Orchestra and a fine George Gershwin selection by the 101 Strings Orchestra.  More with Tom Jones, Roger Whittaker, Pat Boone and Louis Armstrong.

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The Neon Beat - 5.29.21

On the Neon Beat (show 49R6)  Rosemary Clooney backed by the orchestra of Perez Prado opens this swingin' session with “Magic is the Moonlight”.  It'll by followed up with a Broadway favorite sung by Tony Bennett from “Bye Bye Birdie.”  Get your big band fix with selections by the Ames Brothers backed by Les Brown and his Band of Renown, Harry James with Helen Forest, Frank Sinatra with the orchestra of Nelson Riddle,  Kay Starr with “Night Train”, and a cool memory with Tony Pastor's Band backing Rosemary and Betty Clooney with the “Hawaiian War Chant”.  Crank up Al Wilson with one of his signature hit songs,  “The Snake”.  (That's Al in the pic)  We'll play one of the many hit songs for Nat King Cole: “LOVE”.  We'll drop in on the year 1961, with an instrumental hit song by Bert Kaempfert called “Wonderland by Night.”  Turn up more 1960's hit songs with Lou Rawls, Herb Alpert & the TJB and Vikki Carr.  Vic Damone performs another Broadway number from Pal Joey, “I Could Write a Book”.  And listen to Barbra Streisand with a lovely song from “Yentel.”  More from Michael Buble and Robert Goulet.  Enjoy!

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The Neon Beat - 5.23.21

On the Neon Beat (show 48r6)  Perry Como steams open this session with the Ramblers for a mid 1950's hit song called, “Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes.”  Next we let The Lettermen take the stage for their retake of the old Four Coins hit song, “Shangri La” followed up with Kay Starr's “The Man Upstairs”.  Our film and TV theme selections include the theme from “Gigi” by Andre Previn and the orchestra, Ferrante and Teicher with the theme from the film “Exodus” and the Henry Mancini orchestra with “Mister Lucky.”  Get your Sinatra fix as he and Nelson Riddle's orchestra brew up a little “Witchcraft”. Then get your Elvis fix as the King sings, “Are You Lonesome Tonight”?  We'll team up Barry Manilow with The Association for a great reunion retake of their hit song, “Cherish”.  Listen to more great period hit songs by The Carpenters, The Kingston Trio, and The Lovin' Spoonful.  Tom Jones punches out a steamy version of “Love Me Tonight.”  Be sure to catch the lovely Jaye P. Morgan for the song, “That's All I Want From You.”  And crank up a lovely tune heard in a James Bond film performed by Carly Simon.  Instrumentals with Walter Wanderley and Lawrence Welk.

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The Neon Beat - 5.16.21

On the Neon Beat this week (show 47r6)  Hang onto your seats. We'll launch this hour with a whirlwind (ala Vegas) treatment of “That Old Black Magic” by Sammy Davis Jr.  Then we take a trip to the windy city with Tony Bennett and Count Basie.  Crank up some fine period film and stage pieces by Dusty Springfield from the Thomas Crown Affair, The Chordettes with “Never on Sunday”, and Frank Sinatra with “Love and Marriage”.  Rosemary Clooney will spice things up with her hit version of “Mangos” followed up with Johnny Mathis's “What Will My Mary Say”.  Then let's motor west with  Nat King Cole and the Trio on the old mother road: “Route 66.”  Sing along with the Mitch Miller Gang with “The Bowery Grenadiers”.  Hear some great big band with Benny Goodman.  Patti Page will sing her lush version of the song “Old Cape Cod”.  Our instrumental tracks include Paul Mauriat's “Love is Blue”, Eddie Heywood's “Soft Summer Breeze” and The Boston Pops with “S' Wonderful.” 

We'll spin songs by Sarah Vaughan, Marty Wilde, The Carpenters, and Simon and Garfunkel. Enjoy!

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The Neon Beat - 5.2.21

On the Neon Beat Show 46R6:  The Ames Brothers lead off with Vic Shoen's Orchestra singing a knock-it-outta-the-park version of  “Undecided.”  Frank Sinatra grabs the stage next with one of his many signature hit songs, “I've Got You Under My Skin” followed with Vikki Carr singing one from “Oklahoma.”  We'll fulfill a request with a back-of-the-rack hit song for Barry Young called “One Has My Name.”  You'll hear a 1963 set beginning with Nat King Cole as we remember those “Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer” followed with Andy Williams singing “Can't Get Used to Losing You.”  We'll team up Doris Day with Buddy Clark for a little late 40's tease called, “Love Somebody” (but I won't say who).  Crank up a great 1957 signature hit song for Johnny Mathis followed up with some great Broadway with Barbra Streisand. Our fine period instrumentals start with Glenn Miller's “Pennsylvania 6-5000”, Morris Stoloff's “Theme from Picnic”, and “Polonaise” by pianist Joe Harnell. Listen to songs with great male groups like The Statler Brothers and Simon and Garfunkel.  Catch songs by Patti Page, Engelbert Humperdinck, Bing Crosby and more.    

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The Neon Beat - 4.24.21

On The Neon Beat on Mixcloud show 45R: We launch this hour with one of Perry Como's attempts at a sock hop hit during a time when rock and roll was emerging. “Tina Marie”.  Then we “Take Five” with Marilyn Maye's vocal rendition of that great Dave Brubeck hit. Turn up more hit songs this hour with some of the fine period groups like the Andrews Sisters, The Platters, Sergio Mendez and Brazil 66, and The Association. Sammy Davis Jr sings a fun live Vegas version of “On A Clear Day.”  Get your Frank Sinatra fix with “Same Old Saturday Night”.  Our lovely women of song include Jo Stafford with her hit rendition of “You Belong to Me”, Helen Ward backed by the orchestra and horn of Harry James for the song “It's Been a Long Long Time”, and  Dionne Warwick with “You'll Never Get to Heaven”.  Our fine period instrumentals include the lively trumpet of Al Hirt with “Java”, Horst Jankowski's “A Walk in the Black Forest”, and David Rose with “The Stripper.”  Listen to Engelbert Humperdinck sing “After the Loving” and Johnny Mathis with “Misty” backed by the orchestra of Percy Faith.  More with Don Ho and a film piece with the orchestra of Felix Slatkin.  

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The Neon Beat - 4.9.21

On The Neon Beat on Mixcloud: (show 44R6)  Dean Martin launches this hour with a little mambo on his Alfredo with “Mambo Italiano.”  We'll also do a little Rat Packin' with Dino's live recording with Sammy Davis Jr tearing it up with their Vegas version of “Sam's Song.”  Listen to Rosemary Clooney's hit record “Come-on-a My House” followed with “Only 16” by Sam Cooke.  Then we'll take that “never return” ride on “The MTA” with the Kingston Trio.  Our stage, Broadway and film selections include songs with Barbra Streisand, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, and Tony Bennett.  We'll spin a couple of Paul Anka hits sung by Tom Jones (She's a Lady) and the Lettermen. (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)  Crank up some swingin' Frank Sinatra singing “You Do Something to Me”, The McGuire Sisters with “Everyday of My Life,” and one by Nat King Cole with the Four Knights.  You'll hear The Ray Charles Singers, Perry Come, Michael Buble, Eddie Fisher and lots more. And we've lined up a couple of song requests for some Rogers and Hart and Rogers and Hammerstein.  Good listening this.

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The Neon Beat - 4.2.21

On The Neon Beat (show 43R6)  We open with a little knock-around folk with Tommy and Richard.  The Smothers Brothers sing “Lark Day.”  (by request)  Then after a “brief” setup and introduction by Steve Allen, we'll ramp right into Benny Goodman's “Lets Dance” followed by Judy Garland doing “I Got Rhythm.”  Harry James follows up with a big band rendition of “Carnival”.  Then we fulfill another request for the classy baritone of Billy Eckstine. (airya go Max)  We'll do some more folk with Jimmie Rodgers and The Limeliters. We'll open set two with Della Reese's huge 1959 hit song, “Don't You Know.”  Frank Sinatra takes the mic next for “Nice N' Easy.”  Jack Jones sings his Grammy Award winning song “Lollipops and Roses.” More with Doris Day's “Que Sera Sera”, Les Baxter with “Wake the Town and Tell the People”, Peggy Lee with “A Doodling Song,” and Mel Torme with some great show music by Frank Loesser.  Much more in this extended edition of The Neon Beat.  dig.

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The Neon Beat - 3.19.21

On The Neon Beat:  We start this hour with a couple of 1966 hit songs starting with “Georgie Girl” by The Seekers followed by Marty Wilde with a song about that great city in southern Wales, “Abervagenny”.  Our film and stage music includes Eydie Gorme with her effervescent rendition of Irving Berlin's “Be Careful It's My Heart” from “Holiday Inn.”   Rosemary Clooney sings “April in Paris”, Vic Damone performs a song from “West Side Story,” and listen to Lulu with her 1967 hit song from “To Sir With Love.”  Get two songs for the price of one as the Lettermen sing “Traces” and “Memories.”  We'll reunite the Vogues to do an old Four Lads hit song, “No Not Much.” Listen to Frank Sinatra with “It Happened in Monterrey,” Louis Armstrong with “When You're Smiling”, and a gorgeous rendition of the song “Eternally” by Sarah Vaughan.  We'll fulfill a request for a fine version of the song “I Believe” as we team up Brook Benton and Dinah Washington.  Hear songs with Tony Bennett, Peggy Lee, and Robert Goulet.  And enjoy our great period instrumental offerings with Lawrence Welk, Bert Kaempfert, and the orchestra of Ralph Marterie.  Good stuff.  Enjoy the memories!

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The Neon Beat - 3.13.21

On the Neon Beat:  This hour we open with a rousing signature number for the Marvelous Marilyn Maye: “Step to the Rear.”  We continue with Dean Martin as we “Lay Some Happiness on Ya” followed with Al Martino singing the tender “Mary in the Morning.”  Our instrumental content this hour includes the “Peter Gun Theme” by Henry Mancini, “Canadian Sunset” with jazz pianist Eddie Heywood with Hugo Winterhalter's Orchestra and a little “Tea for Two Cha Cha” with the orchestra of Tommy Dorsey.  Hear The Gaylords with their charming hit recording of “The Little Shoemaker.”  Our film and stage selections include Rosemary Clooney with a standard from “The Harvey Girls,” Sammy Davis Jr with “Someone Nice Like You”, Dionne Warwick with “I Say A Little Prayer” and Doris Day with a hit standard from “Pal Joey.”  Frank Sinatra teams up with Keely Smith asking “How Ya Fixed for Love?”  Listen to Nat King Cole's 1957 hit recording of “Send for Me.”  Hear talk and game show mogul Merv Griffin with the lovely, “Morningside of the Mountain” followed with Pat Boone's “Love Letters in the Sand”.  And sing along with the Highwaymen as we track their great campfire classic, “Michael.” More with the Ames Brothers, Benny Goodman and John Williams and the Boston Pops.  Extended show.  Enjoy!

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The Neon Beat - 3.7.21

This hour of the Neon Beat starts with a rousing song performed by one of our great 1950's period quartets.  The Four Aces sing of “Those Wedding Bells.” (Chasing away that ol' gang of mine)  The English gentleman takes it next with a sweeping rendition of “I'll Take Romance.”  Hear songs from more great groups like The McGuire Sisters and The Lettermen with “Summer Place.”  Catch a set with Perry Como singing “Jukebox Baby”, “A Sunday Kind of Love” with GI Joe Stafford, and a film piece with Percy Faith doing “The Rain in Spain.”  We'll team up Bing Crosby with Louis Armstrong as we head “Way Down Yonder in New Orleans.”  We'll spin Bobby Vinton's “Roses are Red”, Dusty Springfield's 1969 Memphis hit song, “Son of a Preacher Man,” and Johnny Mathis with one of his many charting hit singles, “Wonderful Wonderful.”  Catch some big band fav's with Ella Fitzgerald and The Glenn Miller Orchestra.  More with Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Helen Reddy and Glen Campbell.  Crank er' up.  The Neon Beat.

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The Neon Beat - 2.20.21

On this edition of The Neon Beat:  Rosemary Clooney slams into the hour with one of her many records she'd do for Columbia in “dialect:”  “Botcha Me.”  (pucker up)  Dean Martin follows with one of his jazzy standards, “You're Nobody Til Somebody Loves You”.  Then, “Make Yourself Comfortable” with Sarah Vaughan. Catch some film and TV themes starting with Henry Mancini and the Chorus with “Darling Lili”, Mary Martin with “My Heart Belongs to Daddy”, Perry Como with the haunting “Bali Hai” from South Pacific and Nelson Riddle's Orchestra with the theme from “Route 66.”  Get'cher big band fix with Benny Goodman doing the “One O'Clock Jump.”  Listen to the Ames Brothers with Les Brown and his band of renown with “Moonlight Serenade.”  Frank Sinatra sings “The World We Knew.”  Listen to an attitude number from Dinah Washington that asks, “Is You Is, Or Is You Aint My Baby.” We'll live “The Good Life” with Tony Bennett.  Then we team up Bette Midler with lifetime friend Barry Manilow for a old Peggy Lee song.  Catch a country-esk set with Roger Miller and Archie Campbell.  More with Paul Anka and Debbie Reynolds.

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The Neon Beat - 2.14.21

Listen to the great standards we know and love opening up with Sam Cooke as we hit the dance floor for Twistin' the Night Away.  Catch more of the great songs sung by the artists we know and love like Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Tony Bennett, Peggy Lee and more.  Crank and enjoy.

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The Neon Beat - 2.5.21

On this edition of The Neon Beat:  Dean Martin launches this hour with his 1966 song, “Somewhere There's a Someone.”  Natalie Cole takes the stage next for some great tribute to Ella Fitzgerald with “Tiskit Tasket.” Listen to Perry Como with a bluesy take on “Dream on Little Dreamer,” Kay Starr with a standard from which a TV game show takes it's name” and Nat King Cole with a sentimental selection from the 1951 film “Anna.”  Turn up some fine period instrumentals beginning with some swingin' Benny Goodman big band as we do  “The King Porter Stomp.”  Hear some soulful clarinet with Acker Bilk playing, “Stranger on the Shore” and a movie standard by Gato Barbieri from “Last Tango in Paris.”  Listen to Tony Bennett's smooth treatment of a Beatles standard, The Carpenters with “Top of the World,” and Petula Clark's “Don't Sleep in the Subway.”  More with Steve and Eydie, Pat Boone, and Judy Garland from “Meet Me in St Louis.”  Got some Elvis and a huge hit for the Silver Fox.  Namely, Charlie Rich.  Enjoy the memories!  

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The Neon Beat - 1.30.21

On this edition of The Neon Beat:  Sammy Davis Jr hits the stage for his hit record, “The Shelter of Your Arms.”  Andy Williams grabs the mic next for his rousing version of “That Old Bilbao Song.”  We'll roll back the clock to 1965 for Barbra Streisand's “He Touched Me.”  Our lineup of fine Italian talent includes Tony Bennett singing “In the Middle of an Island.” (A song he still won't sing at concerts)  Hear Connie Francis with her first smash hit, “Who's Sorry Now,” Frank Sinatra with the film theme from “The Tender Trap”, and Bobby Darin with a jazzy version of “Bill Bailey.”  We'll team up Perry Como with Betty Hutton for a Frank Loesser song from “Guys and Dolls.”  Listen to Nat King Cole with his lovely rendition of the song “Pretend.”  We'll go “Swingin' On a Star” with Bing Crosby.  Catch another great movie selection with the Ray Conniff Singers doing a song from “Doctor Zhivago.”  We'll spin records with Johnny Mercer and the Pied Pipers, Rosemary Clooney, Big Daddy Burl Ives and do the “Tennessee Waltz” with Patti Page.  Listen and glisten.

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