Visitors since July 25, 2024:
My show on February 2 focuses on some of Hollywood’s lost gems as well as some musicals by
Andrew Lloyd Webber, features a sing-along with Nelson Riddle and includes the following artists as
well: Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops, Marti Webb, the Hollyridge Strings, Andy Williams, the
“James Last of the Fifties” – Lester Lanin, The Swingle Singers (singing words), The Percy Faith
Strings, Barbra Streisand, Peter Skellern, Ella Fitzgerald, Chris Montez, Douglas Gamley, The
McCarthy Chorus with Ron Goodwin, Henry Mancini, and Ray Conniff, his orchestra and chorus
(twice). Listen up and enjoy!
The episode broadcast on February 9 features quite a few songs with lyrics by Dorothy Fields, one of
the first successful Tin Pan Alley and Hollywood female songwriters. Included are some of her
contributions to the American Songbook and also a couple of songs from the musical “Sweet
Charity”. Other than that, there is a segment of songs about angels. The artists featured inlcude Ella
Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Django Reinhardt, The Fron Male Voice Choir, Skitch Henderson, Tony
Bennett, Shirley Bassey, Barbra Streisand, Benny Goodman, Johnnie Ray, Robbie Williams, Michael
Bublé, and (of course) Ray Conniff, his orchestra and singers. Listen up and enjoy!
Let me take you on a musical journey around the world with my show on February 16 that features Pink
Martini, Nat King Cole, Caterina Valente, Eartha Kitt, The Pasadena Roof Orchestra, Neal Hefti, Julie
London, Frank Sinatra, The Mike Curb Congregation, James Last, Luis Miguel, The Ray Charles
Singers, Lester Lanin, Nana Mouskouri, Paul Mauriat, Don Costa and Ray Conniff. Tune in, listen up
and enjoy!
Artists of my show broadcast on February 23 include Bette Midler, Jimmy Sturr, Pat Boone, The Anita
Kerr Singers, Bert Kaempfert, Roger Williams, Vikki Carr, Carmen Miranda, Antonio Banderas, Ennio
Morricone, Lester Lanin, Eartha Kitt, Art Garfunkel, James Last, Rosemary Clooney, Nelson Riddle,
Bert Kaempfert, Percy Faith and Ray Conniff. It features quite a few songs you don’t hear on the radio
often. Tune in, listen up and enjoy!
On March 2 you can listen to a special edition of “Listen Up!”, just right for the Carnival season.
Expect the unexpected by e.g. The Band of Her Majesty’s Royal Marines, Billy Vaughn, Jimmy Sturr,
Mister Murray, Kaoma, Carmen Miranda, Al Johnson, Edmundo Ros, Dean Martin, Eartha Kitt,
Jonathan and Darlene Edwards, The Mike Sammes Singers, Paul Mauriat, Louis Armstrong, James
Last, The Seekers, Mel Blanc and the Sportsmen, Manuel and the Music of the Mountains, and Ray
Conniff.
On March 23, my cocktail of hand-picked songs features Tom Jones, Johnny Mathis, Tol en Tol,
Salvatore Adamo, Paul Mauriat, Percy Faith, Liza Minnelli, Matt Monro, Daliah Lavi, Bert
Kaempfert, Larry Sparks, James Last, Dean Martin, Living Brass, André Kostelanetz, and (of
course) Ray Conniff, his Orchestra & Singers. Tune in, listen up and enjoy!
On March 30, “Listen Up with Manfred” features one song each by the following artists: Billy Vaughn,
Shirley Bassey, Caterina Valente & Edmundo Ros, Leslie Jones and His Orchestra of London, The
Serendipity Singers, Tom Jones, Frank Sinatra, Wet Wet Wet, Barbra Streisand, The New Christy
Minstrels, Herb Alpert, Dalida, Connie Francis, Israel Kaʻanoʻi Kamakawiwoʻole, The Tony Hiller
Orchestra, Tol en Tol, James Last, and three tracks by Ray Conniff, his Orchestra and Singers. Tune in,
listen up and enjoy!
“The Best of Times” and “Release Me” are the two tracks by Ray Conniff I picked for show No. 201,
broadcast on Sunday, March 16, 2025. Other artists include Percy Faith, Lesley Gore, Johnny
Cash, Connie Francis, Shirley Bassey. Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops, Andy Williams, Ennio
Morricone, Ferrante & Teicher, Wilson Phillips, Caterina Valente, Robbie Williams & Jonathan
Wilkes, Elvis Presley & Celine Dion, The Hollyridge Strings, Barbara Mendes and Tommy Dorsey.
Tune in, relax, listen up and enjoy!
Some sets of my show on January 26 focus on Edith Piaf, Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland, but the
show has much more to offer – recordings by Cass Elliot, Ray Anthony, Bert Kaempfert, ABBA, Billy
Vaughn, Luis Cobos, Ella Fitzgerald, Jack Jezzro, The Henry Mancini Concert Band, Herb Alpert,
Johnny Star, The Mexicali Singers (Anita Kerr), Dean Martin, and – of course! – Ray Conniff. Tune in,
listen up and enjoy!
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I cannot believe it! This is my 200th show! Half of the episode of “Listen Up!” brodcast on March 9
centers on music from the big and small screens, but also features music from around the world,
mainly about love. It’s the mix that makes my shows different. Listen up and enjoy Mood-Mosaic
(featuring the Ladybirds), Lester Lanin, Nana Mouskouri, Blue Diamonds, Vicky Leandros, Neal
Hefti, Floyd Cramer, Edmundo Ros, Roger Williams, Henry Mancini, Ennio Morricone, Al Caiola,
Andy Williams, Rosemary Clooney, Eartha Kitt, Ray Anthony and the indispensable Ray Conniff.
Tune in, listen up and celebrate with me!
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Artists of my show broadcast on February 23 include
Bette Midler, Jimmy Sturr, Pat Boone, The Anita Kerr
Singers, Bert Kaempfert, Roger Williams, Vikki Carr,
Carmen Miranda, Antonio Banderas, Ennio Morricone,
Lester Lanin, Eartha Kitt, Art Garfunkel, James Last,
Rosemary Clooney, Nelson Riddle, Bert Kaempfert,
Percy Faith and Ray Conniff. It features quite a few
songs you don’t hear on the radio often. Tune in, listen
up and enjoy!
On March 30, “Listen Up with Manfred” features one
song each by the following artists: Billy Vaughn, Shirley
Bassey, Caterina Valente & Edmundo Ros, Leslie Jones
and His Orchestra of London, The Serendipity Singers,
Tom Jones, Frank Sinatra, Wet Wet Wet, Barbra
Streisand, The New Christy Minstrels, Herb Alpert,
Dalida, Connie Francis, Israel Kaʻanoʻi Kamakawiwoʻole,
The Tony Hiller Orchestra, Tol en Tol, James Last, and
three tracks by Ray Conniff, his Orchestra and Singers.
Tune in, listen up and enjoy!
On March 23, my cocktail of hand-picked songs features
Tom Jones, Johnny Mathis, Tol en Tol, Salvatore Adamo,
Paul Mauriat, Percy Faith, Liza Minnelli, Matt Monro,
Daliah Lavi, Bert Kaempfert, Larry Sparks, James Last,
Dean Martin, Living Brass, André Kostelanetz, and (of
course) Ray Conniff, his Orchestra & Singers. Tune in,
listen up and enjoy!
“The Best of Times” and “Release Me” are the two
tracks by Ray Conniff I picked for show No. 201,
broadcast on Sunday, March 16, 2025. Other artists
include Percy Faith, Lesley Gore, Johnny Cash, Connie
Francis, Shirley Bassey. Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati
Pops, Andy Williams, Ennio Morricone, Ferrante &
Teicher, Wilson Phillips, Caterina Valente, Robbie
Williams & Jonathan Wilkes, Elvis Presley & Celine
Dion, The Hollyridge Strings, Barbara Mendes and
Tommy Dorsey. Tune in, relax, listen up and enjoy!
I cannot believe it! This is my 200th show! Half of the
episode of “Listen Up!” brodcast on March 9 centers on
music from the big and small screens, but also features
music from around the world, mainly about love. It’s the
mix that makes my shows different. Listen up and enjoy
Mood-Mosaic (featuring the Ladybirds), Lester Lanin,
Nana Mouskouri, Blue Diamonds, Vicky Leandros, Neal
Hefti, Floyd Cramer, Edmundo Ros, Roger Williams,
Henry Mancini, Ennio Morricone, Al Caiola, Andy
Williams, Rosemary Clooney, Eartha Kitt, Ray Anthony
and the indispensable Ray Conniff. Tune in, listen up and
celebrate with me!
On March 2 you can listen to a special edition of “Listen
Up!”, just right for the Carnival season. Expect the
unexpected by e.g. The Band of Her Majesty’s Royal
Marines, Billy Vaughn, Jimmy Sturr, Mister Murray,
Kaoma, Carmen Miranda, Al Johnson, Edmundo Ros,
Dean Martin, Eartha Kitt, Jonathan and Darlene Edwards,
The Mike Sammes Singers, Paul Mauriat, Louis
Armstrong, James Last, The Seekers, Mel Blanc and the
Sportsmen, Manuel and the Music of the Mountains, and
Ray Conniff.
Let me take you on a musical journey around the world
with my show on February 16 that features Pink Martini,
Nat King Cole, Caterina Valente, Eartha Kitt, The
Pasadena Roof Orchestra, Neal Hefti, Julie London,
Frank Sinatra, The Mike Curb Congregation, James
Last, Luis Miguel, The Ray Charles Singers, Lester
Lanin, Nana Mouskouri, Paul Mauriat, Don Costa and
Ray Conniff. Tune in, listen up and enjoy!
The episode broadcast on February 9 features quite a
few songs with lyrics by Dorothy Fields, one of the first
successful Tin Pan Alley and Hollywood female
songwriters. Included are some of her contributions to
the American Songbook and also a couple of songs
from the musical “Sweet Charity”. Other than that,
there is a segment of songs about angels. The artists
featured inlcude Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong,
Django Reinhardt, The Fron Male Voice Choir, Skitch
Henderson, Tony Bennett, Shirley Bassey, Barbra
Streisand, Benny Goodman, Johnnie Ray, Robbie
Williams, Michael Bublé, and (of course) Ray Conniff,
his orchestra and singers. Listen up and enjoy!
My show on February 2 focuses on some of Hollywood’s
lost gems as well as some musicals by Andrew Lloyd
Webber, features a sing-along with Nelson Riddle and
includes the following artists as well: Erich Kunzel and
the Cincinnati Pops, Marti Webb, the Hollyridge Strings,
Andy Williams, the “James Last of the Fifties” – Lester
Lanin, The Swingle Singers (singing words), The Percy
Faith Strings, Barbra Streisand, Peter Skellern, Ella
Fitzgerald, Chris Montez, Douglas Gamley, The
McCarthy Chorus with Ron Goodwin, Henry Mancini,
and Ray Conniff, his orchestra and chorus (twice).
Listen up and enjoy!
Visitors since July 25, 2024:
Herunterladen = Download / Öffnen = Play
Administrator of this website: Manfred
Thönicke, Hamburg, Germany.
For requests or comments send a message by
clicking on the email symbol.
Missed a show or would like to listen again?
Please click on the pictures - and there you are!
For audio scripts and playlists,
click on the respective number of the show.
Show No.:
Some sets of my show on January 26 focus on Edith
Piaf, Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland, but the show has
much more to offer – recordings by Cass Elliot, Ray
Anthony, Bert Kaempfert, ABBA, Billy Vaughn, Luis
Cobos, Ella Fitzgerald, Jack Jezzro, The Henry Mancini
Concert Band, Herb Alpert, Johnny Star, The Mexicali
Singers (Anita Kerr), Dean Martin, and – of course! –
Ray Conniff. Tune in, listen up and enjoy!