Midwest BEAT

The musical guest on this edition of "Midwest BEAT with Tom Lounges" is LEO SAYER, the global pop sensation behind such major radio hits as “You Make Me Feel Like Dancing,” “The Show Must Go On,” “Thunder In My Heart,” “Long Tall Glasses,” “When I Need You,” and “Giving It All Away,” to name but a few. Check out this program and learn some cool things you didn't know about Leo Sayer.

Midwest Beat: Stan Skora co-founder Chicago's iconic pop rock/power pop group "In Kind"

Midwest Beat host Tom Lounges talks with Joel Ratajack the founder and producer of the charitable annual music festival "ROCKOPELLI," now in its fourteenth year.

Midwest Beat host Tom Lounges is joined by the founding member of Chicago's 1960s hit-making group, THE BUCKINGHAMS Carl Giammarese.

Midwest Beat host Tom Lounges talks with children's book author Linda Stone.

Midwest Beat host Tom Lounges talks with Northwest Indiana singer and songwriter Mario Samaniego.

Tom Lounges talks with Uli Jon Roth, who's U.S. tour starts this week.

Each week's program finds producer and host Tom Lounges blending together various styles and eras of the blues -- from the old school legends, to the top contemporary players of today, along with some of the up and young guns deserving to have their music heard. Audiences will hear the guitar greats, the harp blowers, the piano pounders, the singers, and the shouters. Some of club-hopping Northwest Indiana and Chicagoland's regional players also get showcased on this program.

Remember the 1980 dual A-Side 45 single -- " This Beat Goes On" / "Switch Into Glide"-- by Canadian rock band, THE KINGS?