On the Neon Beat Show 50R6rq- Dean Martin lights up the stage with one of Dino's favorite standards, “You're Nobody Til Somebody Loves You”. We'll follow up with a contemporary artist and a keeper of the standards with Canadian Michel Buble singing “Feelin' Good”. Next we hear the Carpenters with the Carole King song “It's Going to Take Some Time”. (Carole was to say Karen and Richard's version made hers sound like a demo). Hear songs by more great period groups like the Four Coins along with Terry Gilkyson and the his Easy Riders”. Speaking of groupings we'll bring back Dean Martin with Jerry Lewis for a laugh or two with “The Money Song”. Tom Jones sweats to the oldies with “Daughter of Darkness” followed up with a Peggy Lee song done by Bette Midler from “Lady and the Tramp”. Listen to Nat King Cole with a lovely version of the song “Tenderly”. We'll track a request number from a listener in Tucson, AZ who wanted to hear some Pat Boone. Ella Fitzgerald sings some swingin' Irving Berlin followed by Ray Charles doing a lush version of “Ruby”. We'll spin great instrumental selections with Hugo Winterhalter and Henry Mancini. More fine listening with Doris Day and Louis Armstrong.
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Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Neon Beat on Mixcloud - 2.2.25
On the Neon Beat Show 31R6rq: Dig on a special hour-long edition of the show as we answer a request or two from a listener hearing the show on KRES in Moberly, Missouri. We open with Barry Manilow's theme for Dick Clark's American Bandstand, “The Jump Shout Boogie”. We follow with one of our great featured period groups. Hear the Fifth Dimension with “The Wedding Bell Blues”. Listen to more wonderful groups like the Ames Brothers with a 1955 hit for them and another by Harper's Bazaar doin' a contemporary take on an old Glenn Miller standard. Feast on a hit song for Frank Sinatra that won two Grammy awards for both Frank and the Gordon Jenkins Orchestra. “It Was a Very Good Year”. We'll spin some requested Dean Martin, Bing Crosby with Skitch Henderson, and an “old timey” sung by Al Bowlly. Dig on some Lena Horne with her signature rendition of “The Lady is a Tramp”, Al Martino with “Daddy's Little Girl” and Fred Astaire with a number from “Top Hat”. More with Andy Williams, Petula Clark and Dion. Enjoy the ear-candy kids!
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