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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

Louis Jordan

Hungry Man - 1950  

Joe Lewis

Life's Too Short to Live - 1956   Sun recording not released at the time, Sonny Burgess on guitar

Peetie Wheatstraw

Shack Bully Stomp - 1938   Billed as "The Devil's Son-In-Law". St. Louis-based, made over 160 recordings

Aldus Roger & The Lafayette Playboys

Hix Wagon Wheel Special - 1954   Poss. Popeye Brousard, fiddle, Claude Sonnier steel guitar

Carol Fran

One More Chance - 1960   Popular Louisiana performer who had a life-long career but no breakthrough hit.

The Spirit of Memphis Quartet

Surley Surley Amen - 1952  

Charlie Brown and his Lazy-V Hands

Mean Mean Mama - 1955   Obscure singer from Cisco, Texas

Arthur Alexander

Sally Sue Brown - 1960   Also recorded by Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello

Dinah Washington, Tab Smith Orch.

A Slick Chick (On The Mellow Side) - 1946  

The Cats And The Fiddle

Thursday Evening Swing - 1939  

Rev. Robert Ballinger

Don't Wonder 'Bout Him - 1962  

The Manhattan Brothers

Hlompa - 1959  

Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown

Dirty Work At the Crossroads - 1952  

The "5" Royales

I Got To Know - 1960  

The Five Hollywood Blue Jays

Cloudy and Raining - 1952   Possibly a gospel group moonlighting

Roy Milton & His Solid Senders

R.M. Blues - 1946   Originally issued on his own label, first big success for Specialty Records

Tillman Franks and His Rainbow Boys

Hot Rod Shotgun Boogie - 1951   Vocal by Faron Young, written by Webb Pierce

Cookie & The Cupcakes

Honey Hush - 1971   Shelton Dunaway, vocal

Tammy Darling

Let s Go - 2023  

Chet Atkins and Hank Snow

New Spanish Two-Step - 1956  

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

All Over This World - 1942  

Merl Lindsay

Mop Rag Boogie - 1950  

The Davis Sisters

Rag Mop - 1953   Originally by Johnny Lee Wills

Louis Prima

Paper Doll - 1954  

Otis Blackwell

Daddy Rollin' Stone - 1952   Penned many hits including Don't Be Cruel, Fever, Great Balls of Fire and Handy Man

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