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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

Sticks McGhee

Blues In My Heart And Tears In My Eyes - 1953   King 4628 - His real nickname was Stick

The Magic Tones

Cool Cool Baby - 1953   Baltimore group

The Famous Ward Singers

We're Gonna Have A Time - 1957   Frances Steadman lead

Lee Andrews & The Hearts

Long Lonely Nights - 1957   Covered by Clyde McPhatter the same year, revived by Bobby Vinton in 1965

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

I'm Gonna Love You Too - 1958   Not a big seller at the time, was a bigger regional hit in 1964. Revived by Blondie in 1978

Alex Schultz With The Mighty Flyers

T Bone Jumps Again - 1992  

Joe Turner

Corrine Corinna - 1956  

Bob King and the Country Kings

That's What's On My Mind - 1959  

Mugsy Spanier And His Ragtime Band

Black And Blue - 1939   Highly respected exponent of Chicago sound jazz, based on Dixieland but he hated the old styles using banjo and tuba.

The Royal Sons Quintet

Come Over Here - 1952   Became the "5" Royales, this song was copied by James Brown and others

Bobby "Blue" Bland

Ain't Nothing You Can Do - 1964   Memphis bluesman heavilly influenced by Rev. C.L. Franklin - Duke 390

Mercy Baby

Mercy's Blues - 1957   AKA Jimmy Mullins - recorded for Ace Records with Frankie Lee Sims on guitar

Louie Innis and the String Dusters

Stomp That Thing - 1950   Also successful as a producer in the 1960s, wrote Daddy-o, a hit for the Fontaine Sisters

Cousin Joe

Just as Soon as I Go Home - 1947   Pleasant Joseph, great New Orleans jazz, blues and rock & roll musician who did not like recording

Cab Calloway

You Gotta Ho-Di-Ho - 1934  

Sol Ho'opi'i

Kahala March - 1952  

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

I'm in His Care - 1942  

Johnny Cash

Come In Stranger - 1958  

The Original Yellow Jackets

Yellow Jackets Get Together - 1937  

Bill Carlisle featuring Cliff Carlisle

A Mouse Been Messin' Around - 1930  

Brenda Lee

Let The Four Winds Blow - 1961   Not released until 1974

Slim Harpo

We´re Two Of A Kind - 1964  

Robert Nighthawk

Sweet Black Angel (Black Angel Blues) - 1949   With Sunnyland Slim, Piano , based on a recording by Tampa Red, later recorded by B.B. King - Aristocrat 2301

David Gates

Swingin' Baby Doll - 1958   With Russell "Leon Russell" Bridges: Piano - East West 123

Sam Cooke

Win Your Love - 1962   Derby Records version

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