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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

Slim Gaillard

Boot-Ta-La-Za - 1939  

Jake Vaadeland

Prairie Blues - 2022  

Grandpa Jones

Pickin' On Me - 1952  

Bobby Charles

Mr. Moon - 1958  

The Royal Kings

Teachin' and Preachin' - 1952   Dave Bartholomew Band

Valaida Snow

Some Of These Days - 1937   Recorded in London

Christland Singers

Sometime Our Burdens Are Hard - 1958  

Gordon Lightfoot

The Auctioneer -  

Mr Missy

The Story - 2023  

Wynona Carr

I Know By Faith - 1953  

Elmore James

No Love in My Heart (For You) - 1955  

The Drifters

Let The Boogie Woogie Roll (with Clyde McPhatter) - 1960  

The Tyrones

Blast Off - 1958   Philadelphia band closely associated with Bill Haley's Comets

Albert Ammons And His Rhythm Kings

Kilroy Boogie - 1946  

Johnny Horton

Long Rocky Road - 1951  

Gospel Solotones

Sweet Honey In The Rock - 1962  

Myra Taylor With Jimmy Keith's Orchestra

Take It Easy, Greasy - 1946   Kansas City singer, and actor also played Pearl in The Jeffersons. Active up until 2011

The York Brothers

Chicken Blues - 1951   Cover of The Dominoes song

Johnny Ace

Follow the Rule - 1952   Quickie session at WDIA studio - The Beale Streeters, Earl Forrest, drums, Billy duncan, sax

Jerry Lee Lewis

I've Been Twistin' - 1962   Update of Junior Parker Song

Lonnie Johnson

Bewildered - 1948   Song first recorded by Tommy Dorsey

Milton Brown & the Musical Brownies

Taking Off - 1934   Bob Dunn playing the first electric steel guitar

Rosco Gordon

No More Doggin' - 1952   Great example of "Rosco's rhythm", big influence on Jamacian Ska

Cousin Emmy and her Kinfolks

Johnny Booker - 1947   Later recorded with New Lost City Ramblers

Lookout Tower

Frozen Ground - 2023   From Cape Breton N.S.

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