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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

Johnny Preston

Hearts of Stone - 1960   Hit for The Charms, originally by The Jewells, classic swamp pop

Tommy McLain

Sweet Dreams - 1966  

The Wilburn Brothers

Blue Blue Day - 1961  

Louis Armstrong

Hep Cats' Ball - 1940  

Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson & His Orchestra

Cherry Red Blues (mono) - 1946   Originally recorded with Cootie Williams Orch.

Amos Milburn

I Need Someone - 1956   Recorded with his new band after 3 years of performing solo. Did not sell.

Sheb Wooley

Oklahoma Honky Tonk Gal - 1945   Reputedly the first commercial recording made in Nashville (for Bullit Records)

The Coasters

That Is Rock & Roll - 1959  

Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five

Pinetop's Boogie Woogie - 1941  

Ruth Brown

Lucky Lips - 1957   Later a hit for Cliff Richards - also sung in German

Jake Vaadeland

Father's Son - 2022  

The Soul Stirrers

Jesus I'll Never Forget - 1951  

Ella Fitzgerald (w; The Delta Rhythm Boys)

(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons - 1946  

Jack Padgett The Texas Wrangler

Boogie Woogie Gal - 1948  

The Five Chances

Nagasaki - 1954   Early Chicago group AKA The Maples

Professor Longhair

Gone So Long - 1952   Recorded for Federal Records - https://www.spontaneouslunacy.net/professor-longhai-gone-so-long-federal-12073/

Bro Will Hairston

Shout School Children - 1957   "Hurricane of the Motor City". Song about the enrollment of 9 black children in a school in Little Rock.

The Carter Family

Jimmy Brown the Newsboy - 1931   Adapted by A.P. Carter from Jimmy Brown the Paperboy by W.S. Hays in 1875

Ry Cooder

Trouble, You Can't Fool Me - 1979   Originally by Frederick Knight

The Sky Light Singers

New Jerusalem - 1946  

Red Saunders And His Orchestra

Riverboat - 1954   Chicago bandleader

John Lee Hooker

Think Twice Before You Go - 1968  

Clyde McPhatter

Thirty Days - 1956  

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