The Neon Beat on Mixcloud - 10.14.22

On the Neon Beat Show 93R6:  The first lady of song, Ella Fitzgerald, opens this outstanding hour with a great Irving Berlin selection, “Blue Skies”.  After the opening billboard we'll spin what was the first breaking charting hit for Herb Alpert and the TJB.  “The Lonely Bull”.  Oklahoman Patti Page follows with the song “All My Love”.  After the the break listen to Matt Monro with a lovely version of the song “Laura” followed up with a touch of big band with the Glenn Miller Orchestra playing “Tuxedo Junction.”  We'll team up Frank Sinatra with Rosemary Clooney with a fun tate-a-tate called “Cherry Pies Outta Be You”.  Then the “Dean of Swank” sings one of his hits.  “Volare”.  Hear a stage and theatre piece with Barbara Steisand with a song she claimed to be one of her favorites.  Hear Brook Benton with “The Boll Weavil Song” after which we bring on Tony Bennett with Diana Krall for “The Best is Yet to Come” followed with a smooth rendition of a fine Gershwin standard sung by Nat King Cole.  Listen to Petula Clark with “This Is My Song”.  Catch a little folk music with The Kingston Trio followed up with one by Peggy Lee.  More with Eydie Gorme, The Mitch Miller Gang and a closing big band standard by the Fabulous Spitfire Band of Canada. Turn er' up!    

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The Neon Beat on MixCloud - 9.16.22

On the Neon Beat Show 92R6:  Actress Judy Garland launches the festivities this hour as we listen to a song she did in MGM's “Girl Crazy”.  Judy sings the lively song , “I Got Rhythm!”.  We'll spin more great theatre and film songs including Anita O'Day with a jazzy rendition of “Taking a Chance on Love”, The Four Lads with a hit song from Frank Loesser's “A Most Happy Fella”, Dusty Springfield with a Burt Bacharach number from “Casino Royale”, The Henry Mancini Orchestra with the theme from “Charade” and Ella Fitzgerald with a fine Cole Porter selection from “Anything Goes”.  Along with Henry Mancini, we'll dig on some other instrumental artists like Bert Kaempfert's “Wonderland by Night”, Glenn Miller with the Chattanooga Choo Choo, and Britain's Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen with “Midnight in Moscow”.  Listen to Nat King Cole with a lively version of a song from a 1929 musical film called Marianne. “Just You Just Me”.  We'll add a touch of country with Eddy Arnold as he sings “Make the World Go Away” and listen to Gogi Grant with a stirring version of “Somewhere There's a Valley”.  Listen to our lineup of  fine groups such as the Mills Brothers, the Everly Brothers, the Young Rascals with “Groovin” and a Pete Seeger song by “Womenfolk”.  “Little Boxes”.  (All made outta ticky tacky)  Turn er' up!      

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The Neon Beat on MixCloud - 9.4.22

On the Neon Beat Show 91R6:  Vic Damone takes the stage as we launch another hour of the great standards listening to Vic sing “You're Breaking My Heart”.  After that stirring opening we knock up the tempo with Sonny Boy doing one of his stabs at a rock n' roll recording with a song that was also done by Jerry Lee Lewis, “Dungaree Doll”.  After Eddie we'll track two fine period groups as we listen to Ruby and the Romantics with “Our Day Will Come” and The Four Freshmen with their 1956 hit record, “Graduation Day”.  Get set for some great big band as we spin Louis Armstrong with Bing Crosby doin' the “Muskrat Ramble” followed with songwriter Johnny Mercer singing with the Pied Pipers doin' a Johnny song, “Candy”.  Then hear Tony Martin with a sweeping version of the song, “I Get Ideas”.  We'll spin records by more great period crooners as we let Ol' Blue Eyes take the stage for “Too Marvelous for Words” and Tony Bennett with a song from “Bye Bye Birdie”.  Listen to Patti Page with “A Simple Melody” and a great jazz treatment of “Deed I Do” by Diana Krall from her “Live in Paris” album.  Hear songs by Ray Charles, Mama Cass Elliot, and Sarah Vaughan.  Hear Berlin pianist Horst Jankowski with his 1965 hit song, “A Walk in the Black Forest” and enjoy a TV theme sung by actor Richard Chamberlain.  The Theme from Doctor Kildare”.  Good stuff!  Just for you.     

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The Neon Beat on Mixcloud - 8.26.22

On the Neon Beat Show 90R6:  We'll launch this hour with a male group from Ohio that spanned an  eighty year career.  The Mills Brothers open this set with “The Glow Worm”.  Tony Bennett grabs the microphone next for his hit song “The Good Life” followed by singer and actress Doris Day with a song heard in the 1955 film “Love Me or Leave Me”.  Then we'll do some swinging with Benny Goodman doing a popular Johnny Mercer song, “Goody Goody!”  Catch a set with Sinatra singing an ol' Les Brown favorite, “How Bout You?” Louis Prima and Keely Smith with “That Old Black Magic” and Peggy Lee with “Baubles Bangles and Beads.”  Hear, what was, Lawrence Welk's only top ten pop hit song as the orchestra and chorus does their 1961 hit song, “Calcutta”.  Next enjoy The Andrews Sisters with “Rum and Coca Cola” followed with Bing Crosby with a fine old Cole Porter standard.  Listen to Barbra Streisand with a snappy selection from “Funny Girl” and one by Nat King Cole displaying his multilingual skill as he croons the song, “Darling Je Vous Aime Beaucoup”.  Listen to songs by the Lettermen. Tony Martin, and crank up that speaker for Phil Spector's “Wall of Sound” as we hear The Crystals with their 1963 hit song, “Then He Kissed Me”.  More with Nelson Riddle with a classic TV theme, The Mitch Miller Gang, and Melissa Manchester with a fine treatment of some great Gershwin music.  Turn up. You like.    

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The Neon Beat on Mixcloud - 8.6.22

On the Neon Beat Show 89R6:  Perry Como starts the hour up with what was a country song written by Slim Willet.  Listen to Perry's 1952 hit record “Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes”.  Then hear America's sweethearts, Steve and Eydie; with the song “Dancing Cheek to Cheek” followed up with Andy Williams singing “Lips of Wine”.  Listen to our period film and stage offerings as we play Diana Ross singing the theme from “Mahogany”.  Ella Fitzgerald does some Cole Porter performing a number from “Du Barry was a Lady”.  We'll spin Sammy Davis Jr's hit song from the play, “Stop the World I Wanna Get Off”.  And we'll spin a song from Guys and Dolls sung by Dinah Washington”.  Also catch a TV theme by Lalo Schifrin originally entitled, “The Burning Fuse”.  We'll team up Louis Prima and Keely Smith from Vegas singing “Baby Won't You Please Come Home”.  Catch some Frank Sinatra with Nelson Riddle's Orchestra doing “It Happened In Monterrey”.  And Vic Damone with a song from Rodgers and Hammerstein's “Cinderella”.  Hear a 1965 hit song for Nat King Cole called “LOVE”, Connie Stevens with “16 Reasons” and Roy Orbison's “Dream Baby”.  More with Sarah Vaughan, Lyle Lovett, and one from the Apple record label as the Beatles sing the charming hit song “When I'm 64”.  Hear instrumentals by Leroy Anderson, and Henry Mancini too.   

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The Neon Beat on Mixcloud - 8.1.22

On the Neon Beat Show 88R6:  Old Blue Eyes leads off this hour with a great standard.  Listen to Frank Sinatra as he opens up with the song “Blue Moon” from his Swingin' Session album.  Next, listen to a Peggy Lee standard right off Stagedoor Canteen as Peg sings, “Why Don't You Do Right?”  Then listen and laugh with the great Phil Harris as we recall the courting possibilities behind the door at “44 Sycamore”.  Glenn Miller's Orchestra takes it next with the hit song “Kalamazoo”.  Our stage and film selections include Buddy Clark singing a Ziegfeld Follies standard called “Peg O' My Heart”.  Rosemary Clooney performs a Judy Garland favorite from “The Harvey Girls”.  We'll drop in a boob tube memory as we listen to the theme from “The Virginian”.  We'll team up Bing Crosby with Louis Armstrong “Way Down Yonder in New Orleans.”  Listen to jazz pianist Errol Garner with his great 1954 hit standard, “Misty” followed up with Johnny Mathis with his mega-hit song from 1957, “Chances Are” and Hugo Winterhalter with “Swinging Sweethearts”.  We'll spin what was Engelbert Humperdinck's comeback hit in the late 1970's, “After the Loving” and a steamy version of “What is This Thing Called Love?” sung by bombshell Julie London.  More with Kay Starr, The Anita Kerr Singers, and the smash hit for Claude King as we play “Wolverton Mountain”.    

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The Neon Beat on Mixcloud - 7.24.22

On the Neon Beat Show 87R6:  The great Tony Bennett gets our show underway with a lovely song from Kismet. The melody of which is taken from an opera composed by Alexander Borodin.  Prince Igor.  Listen to Tony sing “Stranger in Paradise”.  Then we turn it over to a multi ranged quartet who was to open for Judy Garland now and again.  Listen to the HI LO's with “Keep Your Sunnyside Up”. Hear more great show tunes with Frank Sinatra singing a fine Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer song heard in the 1943 film, “Sky's the Limit”.  Marilyn Monroe performs an iconic song from “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”.  We'll track Irving Berlin's “No Strings I'm Fancy Free” sung by Fred Astaire from the film “Top Hat”.  And dig on Phil Harris as Ballou the Bear from Disney's “The Jungle Book” as he sings “The Bear Necessities”.  Catch Rosemary Clooney with her rendition of “Give Me the Simple Life” followed up with Dean Martin singing the song, “I Will”.  We'll “Put a Little Love in Our Hearts” with Jackie Deshannon, then listen to Sir Tom Jones with “The Green Green Grass of Home.”  Hear more great memories with songs from Joni James, Johnny Mathis, The Marvelous Marilyn Maye with a song that wow'd em' when she sang it on Johnny Carson, “The Song is You!”  More with The Mamas and the Papas, Mel Torme, Horst Jankowski and Lou Rawls.   

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