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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

Artie Shaw Gramercy Five

Hop, Skip And Jump - 1945  

Charles "Hungry" Williams

So Glad She's Mine - 1955   Williams on drums and vocals - Checker 831

Floyd Dixon

Please Don't Go - 1953   Recorded for Specialty

Pee Wee King & His Band; Dick Glasser, vocal

Catty Town - 1956   Written and sung by Dick Glasser who became a very successful writer, producer and record company executive

Memphis Minnie and Kansas City Joe McCoy

Let's Go to Town - 1931   Recorded in Chicago at the begining of the Depression when record sales, especially blues record sales, were plummeting

National Harmonizers

Death Comes Knocking - 1954   Detroit group

Charles Sheffield

It's Your Voodoo Working - 1961   Texas singer, recorded in Crawley LA by J.D. Miller - Excello 2200

Jack Rivers

Jelly Bean Rag - 1950   Rivers was one of the first guitarists to use a solid body electric guitar, active from the 1930s to the 1980s

Blanche Calloway

Growlin' Dan - 1934   Second recording of the song, note the reference to Minnie the Moocher and the Hi-De-Ho chorus

The Upsetters

Return of Django - 1968   Reference to 1966 Spaghetti Western 'Django'

Smiley Lewis

Goin' To Jump And Shout - 1957   With Ernest McLean, Guitar, Huey "Piano" Smith, Piano, Herb Hardesty & Clarence Hall, Tenor Saxes - Imperial 5450

David Wilcox

Bad Feeling - 1983   From Stony Plain SPCD 1283

The Bells Of Joy

Fare Ye Well -   Unreleased at the time

Cliff Gleaves

Love Is My Business - 1958   Recorded at Sun in 1958, Roland Janes, guitar, Charlie Rich, piano, not released until 1973

Chuck Jackson

Beg Me - 1964   With Doris Troy, cover of version by Merry Clayton - Wand 154

Lowell Fulson

Reconsider Baby - 1954   Recorded in Texas for Chess Records

Jack Kingston

Go Away - 1958   Known as The Canadian Playboy, from St. Catharines, ON

Ronnie Hawkins and The Hawks

Sick And Tired - 1960   Also recorded it in 1971 with Duane Allman on guitar - From Roulette LP SR 25102

The Fireballs

Quite A Party - 1961   New Mexico group, was Norman Petty's house band, later joined by Jimmy Gilmer - Warwick 644

Bill Doggett

Hold It - 1959  

Al Terry

No Shrimp Today - 1956   Louisiana Cajun singer who mostly sang straight country - Hickory 1049

Brownie McGhee, with Sonny Terry

Meet Me In The Bottom - 1977  

Dave Rich

Tuggin' on My Heart Strings - 1956  

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