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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

Pete Johnson

Cafe Society Rag - 1939   Pete Johnson with Meade Lux Lewis and Albert Ammons

Lee Dorsey

Do Re Mi - 1962  

Hardrock Gunter

Dixieland Boogie - 1951  

Pat Johnson

M and O Blues - 2021  

The Pilgrim Travelers

Gonna Walk Right Out - 1952  

Jake Vaadeland

Rock Bottom - 2022  

Gene Krupa & His Orchestra (Featuring Roy Eldridge & Anita O'Day)

Let Me Off Uptown - 1941   Featuring Roy Eldridge & Anita O'Day

4 Steps Of Jive

Brown Gal - 1948   Song written by Lil Armstrong

Pearl Taylor

Jive I Like - 1945  

The Friendly Bros

Soldier Go Ahead - 1951  

Red Rowe And His Ridge Riders

Shaggy Dog Blues - 1947  

Hank Snow

Rhumba Boogie - 1951   His third consecutive #1 country record

Les Tamarii Tahiti

Ute Upa Upa - 1936   Tahitian group that became a sensation in France in the 1930s

The Drifters

Soldier Of Fortune - 1956  

Junior Wells

Eagle Rock - 1953   Recorded while he was AWOL from army. Louis Myers, Guitar, Dave Myers, Bass, Johnnie Jones, Piano & Fred Below, Drums

Ronnie Self

Rocky Road Blues - 1957   Reportedly a great performer with severe personality disorders, wrote Sweet Nothin's and I'm Sorry for Brenda Lee. https://tims.blackcat.nl/messages/ronnie_self.htm

Grandpa Jones

Closer to the Bone - 1952   Later recorded by Louis Prima

James Duncan, With The Duncan Trio

My Pillow Stays Wet - 1964   Deep soul singer from Macon GA. King 5887

The Silhouettes

Miss Thing - 1958  

Chris Montez

Some Kinda Fun - 1962   Follow-up to Let's Dance

Buddy Johnson

Buddy's Rock - 1992  

Annisteen Allen

Arkansas - 1946  

Alfredito

Honeydripper Mambo - 1953   Alan Levy from Brooklyn, NY. Specialized in "exotica"

Freddie King

I Love The Woman - 1956   Federal 12401

Sister Wynona Carr

A Letter To Heaven - 1952  

The Pilgrim Travelers

After While - 1956  

Laura Lee Perkins

Oh La Baby - 1958   Demo session with overdubs, incl. Joe Maphis on guitar

Johnny Lee Wills and his Boys

Too Long - 1941   Bob Wills younger brother

James Wayne

Ageable Woman - 1951  

Rollee McGill

There Goes That Train - 1954   Singer & sax player, played the sax solo on Get A Job. Piney 104 & Mercury 70582

Maurice & Mac

Why Don't You Try Me? - 1968   Former members of The Radiants, later recorded by Ry Cooder. Checker 1206

Django Reinhardt

Some Of These Days - 1935  

Fats Waller

You're Not The Only Oyster In the Stew - 1934  

Roy Hall & His Cohutta Mountain Boys

Dirty Boogie - 1949   Recorded in Detroit

Lee Diamond

Hatti Malatti - 1958  

Leroy Van Dyke

Walk On By - 1961  

Shakura S'Aida

Big City Lights (Have You Seen My Baby?) - 2008   Harrison Kennedy, Harmonica

The Famous Davis Sisters

He's Here Now - 1958  

Valaida Snow

Solitude - 1945   Los Angelese recording

Fats Domino

So Long - 1956  

Bill Doggett

High Heels -  

Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five

Choo Choo Ch'boogie - 1946   Written for Jordan by two country performers, Vaughn Horton & Denver Darling. R&B and pop hit.

Dottie Mae

A Good Man Is Hard To Find - 1961  

Ole Rasnussen & his Cornhuskers

Sleepy Eyed John - 1950   Later recorded by Johnny Horton

The Christian Travelers

Oh What A Savior - 1954  

Solomon Burke

If You Need Me - 1963   Atlantic 2185

Muddy Waters

Still A Fool - 1951   Jimmy Rogers, Guitar. Chess 1480. AKA Two Trains Runnin'

Ella Mae Morse

Tennessee Saturday Night - 1951  

Tennessee Ernie Ford

Tennessee Border - 1949   Originally by Jimmy Work, Merl Travis, guitar, Speedy West, steel

The Wailers

Tall Cool One - 1959   Originally titled Scoth & Soda. Hit in 1959 and 1964

La Lupe

Fever - 1963   Cuban-born singer became Queen of Latin Soul in NYC. Was on Mongo Santamaria's Watermelon Man

James "Sugar Boy" Crawford

Jock A Mo - 1953   Chock-a-mo, tells the story of a confrontation between two Indian tribes in a Mardi Gras parade. Later recorded as Iko Iko.

Sleepy LaBeef

All The Time - 1957  

John Lee Hooker

Wheel And Deal - 1955   Jimmy Reed, Harmonica. Vee Jay Recording Released On Top Rank EP 136

Bull Moose Jackson And His Buffalo Bearcats

Houston Texas Gal - 1949  

Jimmy & Russ Williams

High On The Hog - 1966  

Jerry Byrne

Carry On - 1959   Dr. John

Norman Fox & The Rob-Roys

Tell Me Why - 1957   Later a hit by the Bemonts

Mickey & Sylvia

Love Drops - 1961   Written by them, later recorded by Barry Allen at Norman Petty's studio in Clovis, NM. Willow 23000

Chuck Berry

House Of Blue Lights - 1958   Previously Unissued Chess Recording

Earl Bostic

For You - 1956  

Ray Charles

Talkin' About You - 1957  

Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Lucky Millinder Orch.

Trouble in Mind - 1941   Recorded at about the same time as the Simms Twins song of the same title.

Harold Boggs

Thats Where It's At - 1963  

The Shelton Brothers

Just Because - 1935   Written and first recorded by Nelstone's Hawaiians

Patsy Cline

Three Cigarettes In An Ashtray - 1957   Follow-up to Walking After Midnight, not a hit, recorded in NYC.

Paula Watson

A Little Bird Told Me - 1949   Recorded by Supreme in L.A. Decca issued an exact copy by Evelyn Knight, Supreme sued, lost, went broke, Watson signed with Decca.

Eric 'Monty' Morris

Solomon Gundie - 1964   Backed by Babba Brooks, based on the nursery rhyme, not the Jamacian fish dish

Abia Themba

First Stop Dube - 1958   South African group who also recorded with British record producer Mickie Most

Roy Moss

You Don't Know My Mind - 1957   Originally by Jimmy Skinner, became a bluegrass standard

The Harmonizers

Satisfied -  

Eddie Gorman

Telephone Blues - 1949   Recorded in New Orleans with Paul Gayten band

Doctor Ross

Texas Hop - 1953   Previously unissued Sun Recording

Tony Joe White

Polk Salad Annie - 1969   White was raised in Southern Louisiana, was inspired by Ode To Billy Joe to write about his life.

Rod Bernard

This Should Go On Forever - 1959   Classic swamp pop hit

Jimmie Widener

Come a Little Bit Closer - 1950   Band included the creme of California western swing musicians

Julia Lee

Tell Me Daddy - 1948   Kansas City jazz

Janis Martin

Barefoot Baby - 1956  

Wes Dakus & The Rebels

20-75 - 1960  

Ruth Brown

Papa Daddy - 1959   Atlantic 2035. King Curtis, sax, Mike Stoller, piano

Shelly Lee Alley & His Alley Cats

Let Me Bring It To Your Door - 1938   Texas musician, said to have written his first song when he was six.

The Cats And The Fiddle

I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire - 1941   Original by Harlan Leonard and his Rockets in 1940. Co-wrtitten by Bennie Benjamin, one of the few black songwriters to break into the pop market.

Lincoln Gospel Singers

Lincoln Gospel Train -  

Danny Marks

Mixed Up Girl - 2012  

Bill Mounce

It's Just My Imagination - 1941  

Lee Dorsey

Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley - 1970   revived by Robert Palmer in 1974 on an album that included The Meters, Aaron Neville and Lowell George

Tiny Bradshaw

Soft - 1953   Red Prysock, sax

The Manhattan Brothers

Dubula Mfanandini - 1955  

Amos Milburn

Jitterbug Parade - 1949   AKA Jitterbug Fashion Parade, basically a re-make of Chicken Shack Boogie

Chester Smith

You Gotta Move - 1958   Oklahoma gospel musician based in California, part of Bakersfield scene, made a fortune owning radio stations. Decca 30603

Slim Harpo

I Got Love If You Want It - 1957   Also recorded by The Kinks & The Yardbirds. Excello 2113

Barbara Acklin

Love Makes A Woman - 1968   Brunswick 55379

White Lightning

Cantrice - 1963  

B.B. King, With The Maxwell Davis Orchestra

Blues At Midnight - 1962   ABC 10334

Jesse & Buzzy

Goin' Back To Orleans - 1958   Jesse Perkins, Vocals & Harmonica With Buzzy Lubinsky, Guitar. Savoy recording

The Beverly Sisters

Oh Ricky - 1959   Popular English trio active from the 1940s to early 2000s. Mar-Vel' 2000

Chuck Willis

Lawdy Miss Mary - 1956  

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