Backbeat RadioA radio show featuring Vintage Popular MusicThey don't play on the radio
Broadcast on radio stations across Canada and the U.S.A. See below for a list.
Who's Been Foolin' You? - 1955 Vocals & Trombone With Lee Allen, Tenor Saxophone, Professor Longhair, Piano & The Sha-Weez - Specialty 564
Born Again - 1963 Produced by Sam Cooke, all were former members of the Soul Stirrers
My Nerves - 1956
Lonely Nights - 1955 Song was featured in the movie Raging Bull
Back To School Blues - 1959
You Tear Me Up - 1995 Modern Rockabilly singer who has recorded and boosted pioneers like Wanda Jackson and Janis Martin, often using her own money.
Ain't Misbehavin' - 1952
Daddy, Daddy - 1952 Atlantic 973
Go on Fool - 1957
She's Alright - 1969 Mike McKenna, guitar, Joe Mendelson (AKA Mendelson Joe) Vocals
I'll Fly Away - 1951
Life Was A Burden - 1951 Also recorded racy blues as Marylyn Scott, sometimes at the same session as a gospel recording
Abernathy's Voo-it Voo-it - 1946 Popular singer in the mid-west in the 1940s. This was her biggest hit though her name was not on the label. Everything known about her in a Marv Goldberg article: www.uncamarvy.com/MarionAbernathy/marionabernathy.html
She May Be Yours (But She Comes to See Me Sometimes) - 1953 Louis usually performed as a one-man band, this has Willie Nix on drums, Albert Williams on piano. Voice distortion caused by harmonica cradle in front of mic. Sun 178
Rib Joint - 1979 Price was a bandleader and session player who often accompanied Rosetta Tharpe and others. This track has Mickey Baker, guitar, King Curtis, sax
Well done - 1953 Peacock 1715
Denga Denga (Jangle Jangle) - 1958 Louisiana Creole bluesman, popular in the Houston, TX blues scene
No, No, No - 1956 Federal 12277
I'm Not Broke - 1953 King 1228
Just Because - 1933 Leon Chappelear vocal, guitar
Nasty Boogie - 1958 From Atlantic LP 8019 "Blues From The Gutter" 1958
A Forest Fire (Is In Your Heart) - 1955 Recorded for Columbia in Dallas TX, produced by Don Law
Baby It's You - 1953 James "Pookie" Hudson, lead. They re-recorded it in 1958
It's The Natural Thing To Do - 2005 From Electro-Fi CD 3387
Is Everything Alright? - 1955 Earl Johnson, New Orleans guitarist who worked a lot with Guitar Slim. Ace 520
Jump Back, Honey, Jump Back - 1956 Originally by Hadda Brooks
Jit Jit - 1953
Jump Back Honey -
Twice The Lovin' (In Half The Time) -
Take Me Jesus -
It Mick - Title is patois for "that's why" or "that's what you get". Recorded in Jamaica, horns overdubbed in the UK where is was a top ten hit.
You're Drifting Away -
The Man Who Faked His Own Life - Blake Bamford. Web site: bigfancy.bandcamp.com/album/the-legendary-loser-wins-again
I Was Fooled - With Henry Gray, Piano & Jody Williams, Guitar. Vee-Jay 146
The Cadillac Song - Oran Page, Kansas City based trumpeter considered one of the founders of R&B style, died in 1954
On And On -
Hold Out -
Paper In My Shoe - Cajun band based in Orange, TX
You're Gonna Need Me -
Blackberry Boogie -
Grandpa Can Boogie Too - Greenwood later joined the Duke Ellington Orch as a vocalist, also an actor who appeared on The Jeffersons in the 1970s
Girl of My Dreams -
Come On Join That Number - Group formed by Thermon Ruth, one of the most popular jubilee groups in NYC, later formed the basis of The Larks.
Ooh Ow - Acclaimed group from Baltimore
Love My Baby - Recorded for Sun Records, considered a pre-cursor to rockabilly
Rock 'n' Roll Boogie - Also recorded at Sun. Group included Big Al Downing, backed Wanda Jackson early in her career and on her first recordings
Suitcase Blues -
Jumpin' at the Jubilee - 1949 Recorded at Freedom Records, in Texas. Goree Carter, guitar; Conrad Johnson, sax. Review on Spontaneous Lunacy site: www.spontaneouslunacy.net/big-joe-turner-jumpin-at-the-jubilee-freedom-1546/
Del Rio Boogie - 1949 Wayne Rainey, harmonica. Possibly recorded in Del Rio, TX
Viper Mad - 1938 With Noble Sissle's Swingsters. Vocal by O'Neil Spencer. Adapted from a song called Pleasure Mad
Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight - 1956 Columbia 4-21564
Every Day I Have The Blues (Lonely Heart Blues) - 1949 With Lloyd Glenn, Piano - Swing Time 196 / Hollywood 1029 / Hollywood 1103
One More Heartache - 1966 Written by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles. Also recorded by Paul Butterfield in 1967. Tamla 54129
Be Ready - 1958 From his Gospel album No One Stands Alone.
In That Great Gettin' Up Mornin' - 1952 Original members were internes at a local hospital
Baby - 1953
Freight train blues - 1950 With Buddy Attaway, recorded for Pacemaker Records
Ten Tiny Toes - 1934
Love, Truth and Confidence - 2021
Charge To Keep I Have - 1953
Love's Call from the Mountain - 1955
Hush Hush - 1960 Vee Jay 357
No Money, No Luck Blues - 1948 With Owen Bradley, Electric Guitar, Sonny Turner, Trumpet, Andy Goodrich, Alto Saxophone & Sammy Ford, Tenor Saxophone - King 4255
Honey Bee - 1960 Recorded at Sun, released on Phillips International
Cut Across Shorty - 1960 Country cover of the Eddie Cochran hit. Also recorded by Freddie & The Dreamers and Rod Stewart & Faces
Big Town Boy - 1963 From Harrow, Ontario
Whiskey Before Breakfast - 1956 Traditional tune often credited to DeJaarlis, a Manitoba Metis fiddler
French Fried Potatoes and Ketchup - 1956
My Baby Left Town - 1955 With Vocals By De De - Flair 1072
Rock Moan and Cry - 1954 Charlie White and the Cues
Money, Honey - 1956
I've Got Tears In My Ears - 1950
Goin' Places - 1927
Willie Mae - 1951
Mother Called Her Children - 1952
Son Of No Man - 2023
Kuela Bangazi -
You're Driving Me Crazy - 1940 Copenhagen
The Cumberland Gap - 1957 Parlophone R 4289
Boogie's the Thing - 1951 Make-shift collection of New Orleans musicians put together for this recording and as session players for Mercury Records. Includes Lee Allen on sax. Review: www.spontaneouslunacy.net/george-miller-his-mid-driffs-boogies-the-thing-mercury-8183/
Mean Mama Blues - 1946 Recorded for King Records, song written by Ernest Tubb
Easy Lovin' - 1960
Spanish Lace - 1962 Liberty 55510
Down Here - 1954 Writer with Charles Singleton
Down To the Bottom - 1958 With Mickey Baker, guitar, Champion Jack Dupree, piano
Brown Eyed Handsome Man - 1958 Not released until 1986
Love and Kisses - 1956
Tiger Rag - 1929
I'll Always Be In Love With You - 1946
Head Over Heels In Love - 1971 Re-make of a song he first recorded with Earl Scruggs in 1951
Motherless Child - 1950 From Baltimore, led by Joseph Johnson
Living In A Different World - 1946
I Gotta Have You - 1952 Also recorded by Ruth Brown with Clyde McPhatter
Mexican Hat Rock - 1958 Also recorded by Dave Appell & The Applejacks. Both artists claimed writers' credit thou it actually uses snippet of many songs
I'm Waitin' Just For You - 1951 Vocal Annisteen Allen & John Carol. First version of the oft-recorded song
Makila Mabe - 1958 Calypso group from what was then known as The Belgian Congo
I Gotta Get Myself A Woman - 1956 Leads; Johnny Moore, Bill Pikney; Sam Taylor, sax
I Done It - 1953
Don't Let Him (Come Between Us) - 1963 Written by Allen Tousaint
Parlez Vous L'francais - 1961
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