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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

Big Al Sears

Marshall Plan - 1951  

Professor Longhair

In the Night - 1954  

Chuck Edwards

Morning Train - 1957  

Big Fancy & The Shiddy Cowboys

Must Be Nice - 2024   Blake Bamford

Ivory Joe Hunter

Landlord Blues - 1949   With Owen Bradley, Electric Guitar, Sonny Turner, Trumpet, Andy Goodrich, Alto Sax & Sammy Ford, Tenor Sax - King 4306

Big Joe Turner & His Blues Kings

TV Mama - 1953   Recorded in Chicago with Elmore James, Guitar - Atlantic 1016

Piano Red

Just Right Bounce - 1951   Willie Perryman

Sanford Clark

Nine Pound Hammer - 1956   With Al Casey: Guitar - Dot 15534

Veteran Singers

The Old Account Was Settled - 1955  

Rosetta Howard and the Harlem Hamfats

Worried Blues - 1938  

Prairie Oyster

Did You Fall In Love With Me - 1991   "Prairie Oyster" (or mountain oyster) is a dish made out of bull testicles.

The Manhattan Brothers

Ishumelosheleni - 1955  

Little Willie Jackson

58th Street Jump (Instrumental) - 1947   Sax player for Joe Liggins & The Honeydrippers. This side recorded in a hurry to beat the impending record ban

Aretha Franklin

Save Me - 1967   From Atlantic LP 8139

Lowell Fulson

Too Many Drivers - 1964   Re-make of song he recorded in 1953, also a hit for Smokey Hogg, written by Big Bill Broonzy.

The Crows

Call a Doctor - 1953  

Walt Cochran

I'm Sittin' On Top Of The World - 1963  

Fats Domino

What's The Reason I'm Not Pleasing You? - 1956   Imperial 5417

Colin Linden

Knob And Tube - 2015  

Pat Cupp & His Flying Saucers

Long Gone Daddy - 1956   RPM 473

Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne

Blues Boss Shuffle - 2011   With Duke Robillard, Guitar & Sax Gordon, Tenor Sax

Ray Sharpe

Linda Lu - 1959   From Ft. Worth, Texas, started as a country musician, called "The best white-sounding black dude ever"

Ruth Brown

Ever Since My Baby's Been Gone - 1955  

Fort Worth Doughboys (AKA Light Crust Doughboys)

Sunbonnet Sue - 1933   Considered the first western swing recording released. Milton Brown, vocal; Bob Wills, fiddle; Derwood Brown, guitar; Sleepy Johnson, tenor guitar.

Roy Lanham & Doug Dalton

Trouble Trouble - 1950  

The R.S.B. Gospel Singers

My Lord and I - 1951  

Billy Boy Arnold

I Wish You Would - 1955   With Henry Gray, Piano & Jody Williams, Guitar - Vee Jay 146

Oscar Saldana

Mambo Hop - 1962  

Ella Fitzgerald And Her Four Keys

When I Come Back Crying - 1942   The Four Keys (AKA The Furness Bros.) were a vocal and instrumental group.

Lefty Frizzell

It Gets Late So Early - 1955  

The Staple Singers

Two Wings - 1961  

The Collins Kids

I'm In My Teens - 1956   Larry and Lorrie Collins, brother & sister. Columbia 4-21543

The Clovers

Yes It's You - 1956   Re-recorded in 1060 for United Artists

Stonewall Jackson

I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water - 1965   First recording, also recorded by Lonnie Mack and Charlie Rich in the same year, a year later by Johnny Rivers

Kitty Stevenson

It Couldn't Be True - 1950   Detroit singer with a very promising career, mother of Motown's Mickey Stevenson, died of cancer in 1952. Marv Goldberg article: https://www.uncamarvy.com/KittyStevenson/kittystevenson.html

Rosco Gordon

Booted - 1952   Gordon recorded this for both Chess and Modern at about the same time.

The Soul Satisfiers

Run On Home To Live With God - 1953   Philadelphia group

Dale & Grace

I'm Leaving It All Up To You - 1963   Written by Don "Sugarcane" Harris and Dewey Terry, who recorded it first - Montel 921

Ronnie Self

Big Fool - 1957   Columbia 4-40875

Merle Travis

Cannon Ball Rag - 1968  

The Phil Upchurch Combo

You Can't Sit Down, Part 1 - 1961   Boyd 3398

Smiley Lewis

Down Yonder We Go Ballin' - 1961   Written by Dave Bartholomew,and his wife, Pearl King

Bobby Lee Trammell

Shirley Lee - 1957   With James Burton, Lead Guitar - Covered in 1958 by Ricky Nelson, also with Burton on guitar. Trammell was elected to the Arkansa House of Representatives

Milton Brown & the Musical Brownies

Brownie's Stomp - 1934  

The Everly Brothers

If Her Love Isn't True - 1955  

The Boswell Sisters

Down On The Delta - 1932  

Slim Gaillard

Eatin' With the Boogie - 1952  

Sleepy John Estes

Milk Cow Blues - 1930  

The Seven Melody Men

Rockin Lord - 1947   AKA The 4A Melody Men

Sol Ho'opi'i

Honolulu Hula Hula Heigh - 1935  

The Cats And The Fiddle

I'll Always Love You Just The Same - 1941  

Chester Smith and Hazel Houser

Bend Down - 1957   Performer and wealthy radio & TV station owner based in Modesto, Calif., played a crucial role in developing Bakersfield Sound

Weepin' Dave and the Diamond Boys

Happy Hour - 2023  

Amos Milburn

Bewildered - 1948   Originally by Tommy Dorsey, this is one of many covers of a recording by Red Miller. www.spontaneouslunacy.net/amos-milburn-bewildered-aladdin-3018/

The Angelic Gospel Singers

My Lord And I - 1953   Margaret Allison, founder and lead

The Blossoms

Big Talking Jim - 1962   Fanita Barrett, Gloria Jones, Darlene Love tims.blackcat.nl/messages/blossoms.htm

Junior Parker

Five Long Years - 1959   Originally by Eddie Boyd

Huelyn Duvall

Three Months To Kill - 1958   Texas singer with talent, looks and a good record company, but no hits - Challenge 59014

B.B. King

Shake It Up And Go - 1952  

Earl Bostic

Answer Me - 1957  

Louis Jordan

Knock Me A Kiss - 1942   His first big hit

Smith Jubilee Singers

I've Got To Tell It - 1947   No record of who was in the group even though they put out several releases on Modern

Eddie Cochran

Cut Across Shorty - 1960   First version; covered by Carl Smith a month later, revived by Rod Stewart in 1970

Big Maybelle

My Country Man - 1953   With Leroy Kirkland Orch.

Grandpa Jones

Old Rattler - 1947  

Bukka White

Fixin' to Die Blues - 1940   With Washboard Sam

Danny Marks

Uncle John - 2012   Tribute to Mississippi John Hurt

Bo Diddley

Deed And Deed I Do - 1960  

Toots & The Maytals

54 46 That's My Number - 1970   Refers to his prison number. Later recorded as 54-46 Was My Number

Zutty and His Band (Zutty Singleton, Horace Eubanks)

Runenae Papa - 1935   Singleton was a member of Louis Armstrong's Hot Five. Song is based on a Cuban son La Runidera

Dolly Parton

I'm Gonna Sleep With One Eye Open - 1999   First recorded by Flatt & Scruggs in 1955

The Solitaires

Walking Along - 1957   Milton Love, Lead Vocals. Recorded by The Diamonds in 1958 - Old Town 1034 & Argo 5316

The Skylarks

There Must Be A City - 1951   Spin-off group of the Fairfield Four

Harley Gabbard & Aubrey Holt

Hey Baby - 1959   AKA The Logan Valley Boys - Sage 287

Sonny James

Dance Her By Me (One More Time) - 1962  

Huey And Jerry

Little Chickee Wah Wah - 1958   Huey "Piano" Smith with Gerri Hall - Vin 1000

Jerry Lee Lewis

Sick And Tired - 1961   First recorded by Chris Kenner - Lewis re-recorded it in 2014

Rosetta Perry

Farewell Blues - 1957   With the Millard Lee Orchestra, B.B. King's backup band

Sam Butera

Screw Driver -  

Roy Montrell

(Everytime I Hear) That Mellow Saxophone - 1956   With Lee Allen, Tenor Sax - Prominent N.O. session guitarist & member of Fats Domino's band - Specialty 583

Blue Moon Marquee

Shake It and Break It - 2024   Newly recorded at Bigtone Studio in N.O., live-to-floor on vintage equipment. Pre-order the CD here: bluemoonmarquee.com/pre-order-new-orleans-sessions

Doug & Rusty Kershaw

Let's Stay Together - 1956   Rusty played slide guitar on Neil Young's On The Beach LP

Lonnie Johnson & Blind Willie Dunn

Handful of Riffs - 1929   Lonnie Johnson and Eddie Lang

Louis Armstrong

Heebie Jeebies - 1926   Said to be the first example of "scat singing" on record.

Little Richard

Heeby Jeebies - 1956   Roy Montrel on guitar. Otis Redding performed this song the first time he went on stage at a talent contest.

Jean Shepard

Go on with Your Dancing - 1962   One of the first successful female country stars. Her husband, Hawkshaw Hawkins died in the same plane crash that killed Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas and pilot Randy Hughes

Kansas City Gospel Singers

Trouble All About My Soul - 1950   Recorded for Swingtime in L.A.

Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs

My Cabin In Caroline - 1949  

Roy Milton

Junior Jumps - 1949   Features his guitarist Junior Rogers

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Singing in My Soul - 1947  

Jimmy Rushing

In The Moonlight - 1952  

Jimmy Masuluke

Salani -   South African musician

The Checkers

Without A Song - 1953   Features Bill Brown, bass lead

The Maddox Brothers & Rose

You Won't Believe This - 1962  

Sonny Dae and the Knights

Rock Around The Clock - 1954   Written by Max Freedman and performed live by Bill Haley, Haley's label at the time would not let him record it because of a feud with its publisher.

Billy Brown

He'll Have To Go - 1959   First recording of the song, later recorded by Jim Reeves (and hundreds of others)

Jan & Dean

Linda - 1963   Written in the 1940s by Jack Lawrence using the name of his lawyer's daughter, Linda Eastman (Linda McCartney)

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