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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

Sol Ho'opi'i

Honolulu Hula Hula Heigh - 1935  

The Cats And The Fiddle

I'll Always Love You Just The Same - 1941  

Chester Smith and Hazel Houser

Bend Down - 1957   Performer and wealthy radio & TV station owner based in Modesto, Calif., played a crucial role in developing Bakersfield Sound

Weepin' Dave and the Diamond Boys

Happy Hour - 2023  

Amos Milburn

Bewildered - 1948   Originally by Tommy Dorsey, this is one of many covers of a recording by Red Miller. www.spontaneouslunacy.net/amos-milburn-bewildered-aladdin-3018/

The Angelic Gospel Singers

My Lord And I - 1953   Margaret Allison, founder and lead

The Blossoms

Big Talking Jim - 1962   Fanita Barrett, Gloria Jones, Darlene Love tims.blackcat.nl/messages/blossoms.htm

Junior Parker

Five Long Years - 1959   Originally by Eddie Boyd

Huelyn Duvall

Three Months To Kill - 1958   Texas singer with talent, looks and a good record company, but no hits - Challenge 59014

B.B. King

Shake It Up And Go - 1952  

Earl Bostic

Answer Me - 1957  

Louis Jordan

Knock Me A Kiss - 1942   His first big hit

Smith Jubilee Singers

I've Got To Tell It - 1947   No record of who was in the group even though they put out several releases on Modern

Eddie Cochran

Cut Across Shorty - 1960   First version; covered by Carl Smith a month later, revived by Rod Stewart in 1970

Big Maybelle

My Country Man - 1953   With Leroy Kirkland Orch.

Grandpa Jones

Old Rattler - 1947  

Bukka White

Fixin' to Die Blues - 1940   With Washboard Sam

Danny Marks

Uncle John - 2012   Tribute to Mississippi John Hurt

Bo Diddley

Deed And Deed I Do - 1960  

Toots & The Maytals

54 46 That's My Number - 1970   Refers to his prison number. Later recorded as 54-46 Was My Number

Zutty and His Band (Zutty Singleton, Horace Eubanks)

Runenae Papa - 1935   Singleton was a member of Louis Armstrong's Hot Five. Song is based on a Cuban son La Runidera

Dolly Parton

I'm Gonna Sleep With One Eye Open - 1999   First recorded by Flatt & Scruggs in 1955

The Solitaires

Walking Along - 1957   Milton Love, Lead Vocals. Recorded by The Diamonds in 1958 - Old Town 1034 & Argo 5316

The Skylarks

There Must Be A City - 1951   Spin-off group of the Fairfield Four

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