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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.

Artist - Title - Year - Comments/Links

Lynn Pratt & His Rhythm Cats

Come Here Mama - 1959  

The Hamm Brothers

He Saved My Soul - 1950  

Webb Pierce

I Ain't Never - 1959   Co-written by Pierce & Mel Tillis

The Checkers

Let Me Come Back - 1952   Bill Brown (of The Dominoes) lead - https://www.spontaneouslunacy.net/the-checkers-let-me-come-back-king-4581/

Wynona Carr

Should I Ever Love Again? - 1956   Later recorded by Rusty Draper, Gene Vincent and Timi Yuro

The Four Blades

Bake That Chicken Pie - 1948   New York City group, AKA The Sugartones

The Meters

Chicken Strut - 1970   Produced by Allen Tousaint & Marshal Sehorn

Weepin' Dave and the Diamond Boys

She'll Never Settle - 2023  

Rene Hall

Two Guitar Boogie - 1953   Prolific session guitarist and arranger who played jazz and R&R. Played the opening on Ritchie Valens' LaBamba, backed Little Richard, arry Williams, arranged Sam Cooke's A Change Is Gonna Come.

"5" Royales And Orchestra

Courage To Love - 1952  

Bertha Robinson

He Will Fight Your Battles - 1962   Married to Cleophus Robinson

Dave Bartholomew

Shrimp & Gumbo - 1956  

Buddy Johnson

Hey Sweet Potato - 1947   Buddy Johnson on vocal

The Spirit of Memphis Quartet

I Will Trust In The Lord - 1953   "Little Ax" Broadnax on lead

Eddie Lang

Church Street Sobbin' Blues - 1928   Billed as Blind Willie Dunn

Billy Jack Wills

Lonesome Hearted Blues - 1954   Recorded at a radio station in Sacramento, CA, features Tiny Moore on electric mandolin

Lonesome Sundown

I'm So Tired - 1962  

Johnny Horton

She Knows Why - 1957   Co-written with Claude King

Little Esther

Flesh, Blood And Bones - 1952   Early Leiber & Stoller effort, https://www.spontaneouslunacy.net/little-esther-flesh-blood-and-bones-federal-12108/

The Three Peppers

Hot Dogs - 1940  

The Armstrong Twins

Mandolin Boogie - 1948   Floyd and Lloyd were actual twins

Tampa Red

Please Mr Doctor - 1953  

The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi

I'm A Soldier - 1959   Archie Brownlee, lead

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