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Backbeat Radio
A radio show featuring Vintage Popular Music
They don't play on the radio

Broadcast on radio stations across Canada and the U.S.A. See below for a list.

It's coming soon!

Our annual, year-end listener favourites show features songs listeners have told me they especially like. 

Got a favourite? - send me an email and I'll get it on the show.

Backbeat can be heard on these stations

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CKHA-FM, 100.9
Haliburton, ON
Sundays at 10 AM Eastern time 
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Bluewater Radio 91.3FM
Hanover, ON
Sundays 8 PM Eastern time 
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At various times on:
CKUW 
University of Winnipeg 95.39 FM
Winnipeg, MB

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Boomer Radio 96.1 FM
Prince George, B.C.
Thursdays 7 PM Pacific time
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CHBB FM Voice of Bonne Bay
95.9 & 98.1 FM
Gros Morne NL
Mondays 2 PM, Nfld time

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93.7 FM 
Campbellford, ON
Part of the overnight mix 
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97.7 FM
Fredericton, NB
Sundays, 8 AM Atlantic time
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CFMH-FM
LocalFM 107.3
Saint John, New Brunswick
Tuesdays 5 PM Atlantic time

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MVPR
Merrimack Valley Public Radio
(Boston) Mass, USA

 

And Many More

Backbeat is also distributed
through radio4all.net
and picked up
by many stations worldwide.

If you know of one not listed here, let us know! We'd love to list it.

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CFRO
100.5 FM
Vancouver, BC
At various times

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KGIG
104.9 FM
Modesto, California, USA 
Frequently, at various times

 

 

 

External Links

Here are links to some artist web sites and articles that give more detailed info on some of the songs or artists I've played recently.

*Note clicking on a link may take you to another web site in a new window or tab.

Steve Dawson web site
https://www.stevedawson.ca/

Sean Poluk web site
https://seanpoluk.com/

Jake Vaadeland & The Sturgeon River Boys tour schedule
https://www.jakevaadeland.com/#tour

The Story of the Zoot Suit

James Hunter/Bonnie Rait U.S. tour dates
https://www.jameshuntermusic.com/

Big Fancy and the Shiddy Cowboys on Bandcamp
https://bigfancy.bandcamp.com/album/the-legendary-loser-wins-again

Weepin' Dave and the Diamond Boys web site https://www.weepindave.com/

Ken Tizzard and Music for Goats - Whiskey Wednesdays https://kentizzard.com/

"Ducktails, Drive-ins and Broken Hearts - An Unsweetened Look at '50s Music" by Hank Davis
https://sunypress.edu/Books/D/Ducktails-Drive-ins-and-Broken-Hearts

Ronnie Douglas on LastFM: https://www.last.fm/music/The+Ronnie+Douglas+Blues+Band

Blue Moon Marquee web site: https://bluemoonmarquee.com/

Pat Johnson web site: https://patjohnson.ca/home

Music Links

Learn more!

Here are links to web sites, blogs and podcasts that I use to research and learn more about the vintage music played on Backbeat. Use them to do your own research or even legally download some of the music.

Spontaneous Lunacy
A website designed to tell the entire history of rock ā€˜nā€™ roll music from its birth in 1947 to the present day, one song at a time. Reviewer Sampson looks at all the records he feels helped develop the rock style, both good and bad. As he says, it's for people who are obsessed with arcane details of records made seven decades ago that almost nobody heard at the time. I read it every day. He offers knowledgable, insightful, witty and sometimes scathing reviews with links to listen to or purchase the songs. Warning, you could spend hours reading this, Sampson has been at it for two years - posting every day until he mysteriously stopped in February 2024 after posting the final record for 1952. There's still a lot to read and let's hope he gets back at it soon
https://www.spontaneouslunacy.net/master-index/

A History of Rock in 500 Songs
An ambitious project by Andrew Hickey. He starts at 1938, so it isn't just rock, and each episode includes a number of related records so there will be way more than 500 songs by the time he's finished. Well written and well researched.
https://500songs.com/podcast/

Vocal Group Harmony Web Site
Their stated purpose is to "provide information about the rhythm and blues vocal groups of the 1930s, 1940s & 1950s and their records". To that aim they offer up hundreds and hundreds of pages of pictures, label scans, press clippings, commentary and free, downloadable music files they make from the original 78s (all are Public Domain). Check out the Article of the Month and the new Black Artists Videos page
https://www.vocalgroupharmony.com/ARTICLE.htm

 Cocaine & Rhinstones
Cocaine & Rhinestones is a podcast about the history of country music made in the 20th century. It is not in chronological order. You can listen to episodes or read the transcriptions on this web site. Tyler Mahan Coe offers in-depth articles on country music and the people who made it. Another rabbit hole of reading (or listening). Tyler "took the summer off" at the end of season two and hasn't posted since but we assume he is busy researching - there's a lot of research.
https://cocaineandrhinestones.com/

 Second Hand Songs
An excellent resource for finding out who recorded what and when. They are in the business of finding original copyright holders for those in the film and TV industries who want to licence songs, so they are quite accurate. Plus you can find original versions of hit songs you didn't even know had been recorded earlier.
https://secondhandsongs.com/

And don't forget there are many original articles on this site, check them out. If you have any suggestions for sites to add here, please shoot me an email, I'll have a look.