Neon Beat on MixCloud - 4.9.23

On the Neon Beat Show 102R6:  Got quite a lineup of the stars of the era represented in this edition of the show beginning with a song that, at first glance, Petula Clark couldn't stand.  She didn't feel it was consistant with her style.  Her good friend and producer Tony Hatch talked her into it and she enjoyed a high charting hit with the song.  Petula Clark opens the hour with “My Love”.  Next we have a little fun with a jazzy Vegas-y version of a Victor Young song called “Around the World” performed by Armando “Buddy”Greco.  Then we'll go to Diana Krall's award winning “Live in Paris” album for a good ol' Harold Arlen standard.  Hear more great women of songs as we listen to standards by Patti Page, Peggy Lee and Bobbie Gentry performing with Glen Campbell.  We'll track fine songs from the post Big Band with Frank Sinatra singing “When You're Smiling”, Frankie Laine with “Love is a Golden Ring”, Nat King Cole with the Les Baxter Orchestra, and Vic Damone with the song, “In the Still of the Night”.  Listen to some fine period groups like The Four Preps, The Dixie Cups, Dennis Yost and the Classics Four, and Simon and Garfunkel singing “Scarborough Faire”.  Our instrumental offerings include Benny Goodman with the “King Porter Stomp”, Michel Legrand doing “Tico Tico”,  and Paul Mauriat with his 1968 chart buster song, “Love is Blue”.  More with Johnny Mathis and Jimmie Rodgers.  Listen ya-all at: https://www.mixcloud.com/john-christopher10/the-neon-beat-show-102r6/?fbclid=IwAR0TU3QLtyoY1VySDIrDzZg0lcvWNphUILS9WfQxxZIsWV6ntA6RBnpJ1Cw

Neon Beat on MixCloud - 3.25.23

On the Neon Beat Show 101R6:  Ella Fitzgerald launches our show this hour with a jazzy treatment of a fine Irving Berlin song, “Blue Skies”.  Next we'll listen to a film song originally sung by Ann Blyth in the movie, “The Great Caruso”.  A song to be picked up and recorded by Mario Lanza in 1951.  We'll play his hit version of the song “The Loveliest Night of the Year”.  Hear more great film and stage songs with Percy Faith's “Theme from A Summer Place”, The Mike Curb Congregation with a song from the Clint Eastwood film “Kelly's Heros”, Henry Mancini with “The Baby Elephant Walk” from “Hatari”, and Sarah Vaughan with good friend Billy Eckstein singing a lovely version of the song “Always”.  We'll spin Nat King Cole and the chorus singing “All Over the World”, followed up with Jo Stafford's lush version of “You Belong to Me”.  Listen to some great period groups like the Four Lads, The Chiffons, and one by the Carpenters with “Yesterday Once More”.  We'll do a little Rat Packing with Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr cutting up with the song “Me and My Shadow” followed with a popular song by Dean Martin.  More with the Count Basie Orchestra backing Joe Williams on the floor in Vegas, Guy Mitchell with “Sparrow in the Treetop” and Elvis singing “Tell Jim I Said Hello”.  Enjoy.  ALSO:  Now heard Midnight to 6AM M-F at KCMUSIC.  thekooldj.com  https://www.mixcloud.com/john-christopher10/the-neon-beat-show-101r6/?fbclid=IwAR2jEmJaMHS5MZ0LEh63DFDOpv0ZGONDy50wq3l_hfr8NrudfpQ9YaTq9Y4

Neon Beat on MixCloud - 2.19.23

On the Neon Beat Show 100R6:  We kick off this hour with, what was, a fine come-back hit song for Engelbert Humperdinck.  Hear his 1976 hit song, “After the Loving”.  We follow that with a song that one reviewer said “you can actually taste”.  Sammy Davis Jr sings, “The Candy Man”.  Listen to a rather noir and amorous version of “Black Coffee” sung by bombshell Julie London.  Enjoy solid gold songs sung by more great women of song:  Petula Clark, Nancy Sinatra, Chicago's own Joni James, and you'll hear a Stuart Hamblin favorite performed by Rosemary Clooney.  We'll team up Nancy Sinatra with producer Lee Hazelwood for their fun take on a country song called, “Jackson”.  We'll follow that with a reticent little hit tune for BJ Thomas.  “Everybody's Out of Town.”  Then hear Vic Damone's rendition of a swing era song called, “There I've Said it Again”.  Get your instrumental fix with Roger Williams' playing the theme from “Born Free”, Acker Bilk's lovely “Stranger on the Shore”, and Nelson Riddle with “Lisbon Antigua”.  We'll give the mic to the chairman of the board as Frank Sinatra sings a film song (The Cool Ones) “This Town”.  More with Ed Ames, Burl Ives, Dick Haymes, and a Vegas take on Nat King Cole doing “The Continental”.  Now playing! - https://www.mixcloud.com/john-christopher10/the-neon-beat-show-101r6/?fbclid=IwAR2jEmJaMHS5MZ0LEh63DFDOpv0ZGONDy50wq3l_hfr8NrudfpQ9YaTq9Y4

Neon Beat on MixCloud - 2.15.23

On the Neon Beat Show 99R6:  We'll let Dino open this set with a little “My Pillow” segment as Dean Martin sings “Send Me the Pillow You Dream On”.  Then get your hi-fi on with some fine period instrumentals like Al Hirt tootin' a little honey in the horn as he plays “Java”.  Listen to a lovely rendition of a Vince Guaraldi standard performed by a Brit group called Sounds Orchestral.  Catch some show music from the film “Charade” as we listen to the Henry Mancini Orchestra.  Hear some fun period pop with Perry Como and the Ray Charles Singers doin' “Hot Diggity”, Annette Funicello with “Pineapple Princess” and Fats Domino finding his thrills “On Blueberry Hill”.  Hear the Ames Brothers with the lovely “You You You” from 1955. And we'll track a song introduced to many of us in the Road Runner cartoons as Art Mooney and the Chorus sing “I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover”.  Lavish in a lovely song sung by Frank Sinatra as he performs his award winning version of “It Was A Very Good Year”.  Enjoy selections by our great women of song like Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, the Marvelous Marilyn Maye and Denver's own, Dianne Reeves.  More great songs with Jim Reeves, Louis Armstrong, and Bobby Darin. https://www.mixcloud.com/john-christopher10/the-neon-beat-show-99r6/?fbclid=IwAR3GSPyGNqxvK0zNmDaGZ-PbUzxm25bGYxw7JaGcqNTz6l0r69GrTn6rm7A 

 

Neon Beat on MixCloud - 1.22.23

On the Neon Beat Show 98R6:  We'll let Robert Goulet slam into this hour with his mid 1960's hit single “Summer Sounds”. Then we'll sweeten' up the show with the McGuire Sisters singing “Sugartime” followed with an enchanting Lord Burgess standard performed by Harry Belafonte.  Our instrumental offerings include Leroy Anderson with a song that would become the theme for The Late Show, Herb Alpert and the TJB with a film song from “Zorba the Greek”, Les Baxter with “April in Portugal”, and a one hit wonder by a studio musician group called the Pets, “Cha Hua Hua”.  Listen to Lena Horne with her signature hit version of “Stormy Weather”.  We'll give South Carolina's Brook Benton the gospel gun for the song, “Shadrach!”  We'll spin Tony Bennett with Count Basie's Orchestra doing “Life is a Song” followed up with some salsa as we listen to Sergio Mendez and Brazil 66, “Mas Que Nada”.  Dionne Warwick sings Burt Bacharach's “I'll Never Fall in Love Again”.  Then hear some film music sung by Harry Nilsson for the movie Midnight Cowboy.  Peter Paul and Mary perform a great hit rendition of a song penned by John Denver.  More with Guy Mitchell, Peggy Lee, and Buddy Clark. Enjoy kids!  https://www.mixcloud.com/john-christopher10/the-neon-beat-show-98r6/?fbclid=IwAR3o0HmFRrmKzdQ1osqRi1rfqnMpYzGbb5clLD_BRR6KTyUp05hF6Qra7gg

 

Neon Beat on MixCloud - 1.8.23

On the Neon Beat Show 97R6:  Petula Clark launches the hour with one of her first and biggest chart hits to cross the pond from the UK, “Don't Sleep in the Subway”.  Then listen to Frank Sinatra with “Autumn in New York” followed with Ella Fitzgerald singing “Just One of Those Things”.  Get set to crank up some of the great period groups like Ruby and the Romantics, the Fontane Sisters, and the Everly Brothers. Hear more great standards with Dean Martin singing “You're Nobody Til Somebody Loves You,” Kay Starr with “Wheel of Fortune” and Louis Armstrong with “Sitting in the Sun”.  Listen to a couple of classic film songs with Margaret Whiting singing a number from “South Pacific” and Andy Williams performing one from “State Fair”.  Enjoy some pickin' and singin' with Sonny James doing his 1957 hit song, “Young Love.”  Dig on some Connie Francis singing “He's My Dreamboat.”  We'll team up Brook Benton with fellow Mercury artist Dinah Washington for “Baby, You've Got What it Takes.”  Actress Doris Day sings “A Guy is a Guy,” followed up with Ben E King's rendition of “Save the Last Dance for Me” and “Crying in the Chapel” by Elvis.  Give a listen.  https://www.mixcloud.com/john-christopher10/the-neon-beat-show-97r6/?fbclid=IwAR0hhVwbtUK-ESAAd4-Kyxgt6iUXuFB33ZVtL-4InegizFfU19TooQJzZEs 

Neon Beat on MixCloud - 12.31.22

On the Neon Beat Radio Show 96R6:  We open with a brilliant vocal arrangement from 1964 and a hit for The Ray Charles Singers,  “Love Me With all Your Heart”.  Then we slam into full gear with Peggy Lee singing “Come Back to Me”.  We'll mellow it out right after Peg's singing with the song “Nice N' Easy” by Frank Sinatra followed with some great big band with Glen Gray's Casa Loma Orchestra doing “Song of India”.  More lively instrumentals await the ears with Al Hirt performing live from the French Quarter, “When the Saints Go Marching In” Bent Fabric with the roller rink standard, “Alley Cat,” and the Silver Screen Orchestra with the theme from “Bonanza”.  Some of our great woman of song this hour include Ella Fitzgerald, Linda Ronstadt. Bette Midler and Barbra Streisand.  Hear a fine rendition of a Beatles song by Tony Bennett, “Something”.  And we'll play one by the Fab Four themselves called, “I'll Follow the Sun”.  Written by Paul McCartney.  Catch a lovely version of the song “Tenderly” performed by Nat King Cole, and a little cooking romp by Harry Connick Jr as he whips up “A Recipe for Making Love”.  We'll spin the song “Busted” by Ray Charles, and snap our fingers to Roger Miller's “King of the Road”.  More with a swinging Vegas version of “The Lady is a Tramp” by Buddy Greco and “Wake the Town and Tell the People” by Les Baxter's Orchestra and Chorus.  Ya-all ready?  Click and enjoy. https://www.mixcloud.com/john-christopher10/the-neon-beat-show-96/?fbclid=IwAR3QCHtcqoUh8-M-Eil_xDeaSH-9XtQ6KLdi8Ypg7WRDtGUsw-3Fj4eQ7Fw   

Neon Beat on MixCloud - 12.11.22

On the Neon Beat Show 95R6:  We warm things up by opening this hour remembering “Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer” by Nat King Cole and the Ralph Carmichael Chorus.  This hour enjoy great pop standards such as Connie Francis and her winning version of “Amoung My Souveniers,” The Ames Brothers with “Destination Moon,” Johnny Mathis with his lush take on the Frankie Avalon hit song, “Venus” and Texas's own, Bruce Chanel with his 1957 million seller, “Hey Baby”.  Hear great theatre and stage music with Tony Bennett singing a song from “The Sound of Music”, Rosemary Clooney with a number from “The Pajama Game”, and actress Judy Garland sings “The Trolley Song”. We'll spin a “B” side hit for Frankie Laine called “Rose Rose I Love You”.  We'll track some great Big Band this hour as we spin The Glenn Miller Orchestra with “The Saint Louis Blues”. We'll cut-a-rug with Benny Goodman's “Let's Dance”, and fill a request for some signature Jimmie Lunceford.  Listen to Louis Armstrong with “Hello Dolly”, Mel Torme with Artie Shaw doing “Get Outta Town”, and Frank Sinatra with the lovely, “Young at Heart”.  More instrumentals with Horst Jankowski as we “Blow Up a Piano” and one by Herb Albert and the TJB.  Enjoy listening to Jo Stafford with Paul Weston's Orchestra, and a song by The McGuire Sisters.  Grab a listen!  https://www.mixcloud.com/john-christopher10/the-neon-beat-show-95r6/?fbclid=IwAR3MkiU2aCC6ZFSCWi3DJVZKHW9yzb3lt1KQlLJxZXnO3SdWH4KJipxqG2U