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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

The Stanley Brothers

The Fields Have Turned Brown - 1949  

The Soul Stirrers Featuring R.H. Harris

My Loved Ones Are Waiting For Me (Waiting and Watching) - 1950  

Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson

Shavetail - 1947  

Professor Longhair

Between the Night and Day (In the Wee Wee Hours) - 1950  

The Jamaicans

Ba Ba Boom - 1967   AKA The Festival Song

Mahalia Jackson

What Could I Do - 1948   Recorded for Apollo Records

Carl Story & The Rambling Mountaineers

My Lords Keeps a Record - 1948   Dubbed "The father of bluegrass gospel music"

Jerry Irby

Drivin' Nails In My Coffin - 1945   Song written by Irby, covered by Ernest Tubb the same year

Brad Strang

Nickle of Wine - 2024   According to Brad, this is a "fun drinking song"

Little Willie John

Need Your Love So Bad - 1955   Song later recorded by B.B. King, James Brown, Fleetwood Mac and many others

Allen Toussaint

Whirlaway - 1958   Alvin 'Red' Tyler on sax

The Hornets

Lonesome Baby - 1953  

Janis Martin

Good Love - 1958   "The Female Elvis"

Bill Doggett

The Madison -  

B.B. King

Please Hurry Home - 1953  

Four Epics

Again - 1963   Philadelphia group

Joe Loco

Why Don't You Do Right? - 1954  

Billy Wright

Heh Little Girl - 1951  

Big Joe Turner

Ti Ri Lee - 1953   B-side pf Flip Flop & Fly, recorded in Chicago

Lil Andy

When the Fire Comes Down - 2021   From The Complete Recorded Works of Hezekia Proctor 1925 - 1930

Dixie Hummingbirds

Ezekiel Saw the Wheel - 1947  

Sol Ho'opi'i

Uheuhene - 1930   hoh-oh-PEE-ee Hawaiian pronunciation

Big Bill Broonzy

The Glory of Love - 1956   From LP Bil Bill Sings Folk Songs

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