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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

Roy Gaines

Alabama Sue - 1956   Mostly worked as a session player behing Ray Charles, Chuck Willis and otbers

Django Reinhardt

Black And White - 1938   With Stephane Grapeli;

The Trumpeteers

Seven Angels - 1957   AKA the CBS Trumpeteers

Dinah Washington

Wise Woman Blues - 1943   One of her first recordings for Apollo Records

Brandon Isaak's Band

All You Got To Do - 2023   B.C. slide guitarist Link: brandonisaak.ca/shows

Grandpa Jones

Pap's Corn Likker Still - 1953  

Shirley & Lee

Rockin' With The Clock - 1957  

Doc Happy & The Hadacol Boys

La valse de Hadacol - 1947   Very popular "dietary supliment" invented by Louisiana Senator Dudley LeBlanc, mostly alcohol

Jimmy Clanton & His Rockets

Just A Dream - 1958   Went to # 1 on the R&B chart - Clanton was more of a swamp-pop artist combining country and R&B but marketed as a pop singer by label owner Johnny Vincent - Ace 546

Billy Nelson With The Five Wings

Pack-Shack And Stack - 1955  

Muddy Waters

Standing Around Crying - 1952  

Rev. Robert Ballinger

God Rode In A Windstorm - 1962   Recorded in Chicago, Willie Dixon on bass

Doug & Rusty Kershaw

Sweet, Sweet Girl to Me - 1962   Written by Don Gibson, recorded in Crawley, LA and leased to Hickory in Nashville

The Crests

Six Nights A Week - 1959   Johnny Maestro, lead Follow-up to 16 Candles - Coed 509

Gene Vincent & The Blue Caps

Cruisin' - 1957   From Capitol LP 811 "Gene Vicent & His Bluecaps" 1957

Buddy Johnson

Buddy's Song - 1956  

Wayne Raney

Jole Blon's Ghost - 1948  

The Clovers

That Old Black Magic - 1958  

The Diamonds

Batman, Wolfman, Frankenstein or Dracula - 1959  

The Five Blobs

The Blob - 1958   Written by Burt Bacharach and Mack David (Hal's brother) for the Steve McQueen Movie. Actually singer Bernie Knee's voice overdubbed five times.

Howlin' Wolf

I Ain't Superstitious - 1961  

The Deep River Boys

Lucky Black Cat - 1954  

The Browns

Margo (the 9th of May) - 1960  

Ken Tizzard

My Father's Ghost - 2023   From his tribute to Ron Hynes - A Good Dog Is Lost. Website: kentizzard.com/

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