The Neon Beat - April 10, 2022

 On the Neon Beat Show 79R6:  Pack your bags as we hop on board a Pan Am Constellation and beat the birds to Acapulco Bay with Frank Sinatra as he starts our hour of great standards with “Come Fly With Me”.  Matt Monro takes the stage next for a James Bond film theme “From Russia With Love” followed with Keely Smith singing “You Go to My Head” and Glenn Miller with “The Chattanooga Choo Choo”.  After the break, hear more Rat Packers beginning with Dean Martin's “Kick in the Head” from Oceans 11, followed up with Sammy Davis Jr singing “The Work Song” with Count Basie. Hear more great movie songs with Mary Martin with “My Heart Belongs to Daddy”, Gene Kelly from “Singing in the Rain”, and Lena Horne with “Love Me or Leave Me”.  Hear some great big band with Harry James' “A Sleepy Lagoon”, Ella Fitzgerald with “Begin the Beguine” and more Glenn Miller with “A String of Pearls.”  Hear a fun little 1962 romp with Joanie Sommers giving her man “what-for ” with “Johnny Get Angry”, Les Baxter's “The Poor People of Paris”, and a snappy version of “Day by Day” by the Four Freshmen”.  More hit songs with Perry Como, Anita Bryant, and Don Rondo.

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The Neon Beat - March 31, 2022

 On the Neon Beat Show 78R6:  Dean Martin takes centre stage for our first offering as we open with the song “Invisible Tears”.  Frank Sinatra grabs the mic next with one of his chart topping standards, “Strangers in the Night”.  Listen to Ella Fitzgerald with a Cole Porter selection  called “Everytime We Say Goodbye”.  Enjoy more great show tunes this hour including another Cole Porter song from “Kiss Me Kate” sung by the Four Lads, Louis Armstrong with the title song from “Mame”, and a haunting number from Ray Conniff from the film “Midnight Lace”.  Crank up Tom Jones' first major hit song from 1965, “It's Not Unusual” followed with Patti Page's female answer to the John Hartford song, “Gentle on My Mind”.  We'll team up the Lettermen for two songs for the price of one as they sing “Traces” and “Memories”.  We'll put a spotlight on the year 1959 culminating with a hit song from that year by Frankie Avalon. We'll spin Nat King Cole's “A Blossom Fell”.  Our instrumental offerings this hour include Joe Harnell at the piano, Al Hirt and his horn playing the “Bourbon Street Parade” from the French Quarter in New Orleans, and a song by Leroy Anderson used in the TV game show, “I've Got a Secret”.  The McGuire Sisters sing along with Lawrence Welk's Orchestra for “In the Alps”.  More with Paul McCartney, Anne Murray and an early 1970's hit song for folk singer Joan Baez.  Turn er up!  Listen at:  

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The Neon Beat - March 13, 2022

 On the Neon Beat Show 77R6:  We launch this hour with a great recording by The Drifters.  Sing along with their hit song about that place where the Neon lights are bright: “On Broadway”.  Elvis Presley grabs the stage next for the theme song from the film “Viva Las Vegas”.  We'll track more period show tunes with Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra with a song from “High Society', Denver's own Dianne Reeves performs a classy rendition of “Oh Lady Be Good”, Dinah Shore with a number from “My Fair Lady”, and Vic Damone singing a song theme from a 1957 movie starring Cary Grant and Debra Kerr: “An Affair to Remember.”  Listen to Dean Martin with his 1956 hit single, “Memories are Made of This.”  Enjoy a great Hoagy Carmichael song as Kay Starr sings “Up a Lazy River” followed with Nat King Cole's “Rambling Rose”.  Our next set starts with Engelbert Humperdinck with his first charting hit song, “The Last Waltz” followed with a jazzy version of “Let There Be Love” by Sammy Davis Jr.  Get your big band fix with Benny Goodman doing “The King Porter Stomp” and Louis Prima with “Jump Jive and Wail”.  Catch the Ames Brothers with their 1955 hit song, “The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane”.  Then hear Johnny Mathis with “Small World” and actress Debbie Reynolds with a saucy version of the song “S'posin”.  More with the Mitch Miller Gang and Terry Gilkyson with his E.Z. Riders.  Enjoy today at:   

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The Neon Beat - March 5, 2022

 On the Neon Beat Show 76R6:  Peggy Lee gets this session going with a fun little diddy called, “A Doodlin' Song”.  Then Perry Como does a song with the Ray Charles Singers about a Latin dance craze that Papa loved followed up with some movie music from a 1950's Marilyn Monroe film, “Bus Stop”.  We conclude the first segment with a lovely instrumental by the Mantovani Orchestra: “A Swedish Rhapsody.”  Kick back and enjoy another instrumental offering by Jackie Gleason's Orchestra with their lush version of “Autumn Leaves”.  Crank up some more theatre and film selections sung by our fine women of song including Rosemary Clooney singing one from “Gypsy”, Sarah Vaughan from “Damn Yankees”, Connie Francis with the theme from “Where the Boys Are”, and Doris Day with a hit number from “Pal Joey”.  Robert Goulet will take the stage for the song “I've Got the World on a String”.  Listen to Tony Bennett's signature hit, “I Left My Heart in S.F.”  We'll play Frankie Valli's 1967 chart hit single, “Can't Take My Eyes off of You”, followed with Helen Reddy's signature hit song, “I Am Woman”.  Hear Ricky Nelson sing “Poor Little Fool” from 1958.  More with the Four Freshmen, Bing Crosby with Louis Armstrong, and Burl Ives.  Laugh along with Phil Harris as he does “The Thing”. It's great music of the 1940's, 50's and 60's.  Listen at:   

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