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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 Checkers

Ghost of My Baby - 1953  

Johnny Horton

Lost Highway - 1959   Horton died on Nov. 4, 1960, after playing the same club Hank Williams played the night he died. He saw a premonition of his own death.

The Heavenly Gospel Singers

Oh Death - 1937   Featuring Jimmy Bryant, bass

The Five Jones Boys

Mr. Ghost Goes To Town - 1937  

Happy Wilson

The Haunted House Boogie - 1951  

Chuck Berry

Down Bound Train - 1955   Based on a poem variously called Hellbound Train or The Devil's Train.

Bo Diddley

Bo Meets The Monster - 1958  

LaVern Baker

Voodoo, Voodoo - 1961   Atlantic 2119

Dick Dale & The Deltones

Ghost Rider In The Sky - 1963  

Ella Mae Morse

Get Off It And Go - 1947  

Ralph Willis

Gonna Hop On Down The Line - 1953   With Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee

The Bells Of Joy

Doing For Jesus - 1958  

Ron Holden

Love You So - 1960   Called a one-hit-wonder but he toured extensively for ten years and did have a minor R&B hit in 1974

Bonnie Lou And The Harmonaires Quartet

Drop Me A Line - 1955   Also recorded rockabilly sides

Arlie Duff

Home Boy - 1955  

Slim Gaillard, Slam Stewart (Slim & Slam)

Buck Dance Rhythm - 1938  

Big Maybelle

Gabbin' Blues - 1952   Her first hit, written and co-sung by Rose Marie McCoy

D'Johnny Six (Orval Prophet)

The Tennesseean Rollin' Rollin' Home - 1957   Recorded in Nashville with top session player but was unsuccessful in the market

Bantu Tijuana Brass

Hello Molly - 1966   Obscure African swing band

The Du Droppers

Go Back - 1952  

Jerry Lee Lewis

Crazy Arms - 1956   His first record for Sun

Billy Bland

Sweet Thing - 1960   Flip of Let The Little Girl Dance - Old Town 1076

Kentucky Colonels

Wild Bill Jones - 1962  

Baker Knight & The Knightmares

Bring My Cadillac Back - 1956   Wrote Lonesome Town and others for Ricky Nelson - Decca 30135

Blue Moon Marquee

Ain't Going Down - 2024   From New Orleans Sessions album

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