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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

Louis Jordan

Texas And Pacific - 1947   #1 Billboard R&B, #20 pop

Papa Lightfoot

The Saints - 1954   New Orleans musician who only made a few records. Song dates back to 1890s

Swanee River Quartet

Brother Noah - 1951   SanFrancisco group, actually had 6 members. Curtis Scott, lead, Luddie Wallace, bass

DeZurik Sisters

Go to Sleep My Darling - 1938  

Coleman & Harper

Old Hen Cackle - 1931   Joe Evans and Arthur McClainAKA Two Po' Boys

Little Junior Parker

I Wanna Ramble - 1954   With Pat Hare, Guitar - Duke 137

The Platters

He's Mine - 1957   Zola Taylor, lead. Flip side of I'm Sorry but also charted on its own

'Poison' Gardner And His All Stars

Lenox Avenue Boogie - 1947   L.A. musician, the first to record for Imperial's R&B series. Recorded about 27 sides in all, most have the words "boogie" or "blues" in the title.

The Mills Brothers

Basin Street - 1939   They re-recorded this song in 1959 for Dot recrords

Betty Garret & Friend

Humphrey Bogart Rhumba - 1949  

Jake Vaadeland

Be Good Stewards - 2022   Web site: www.jakevaadeland.com/

Bennie Leaders

Hey Miss Fannie - 1953  

Ella Fitzgerald

I Can't Go on Without You - 1948  

The Osborne Brothers

Ruby Are You Mad at Your Man - 1956  

The Clovers

Nip Sip - 1955   Atlantic 1073

The Robins

All Night Baby - 1953   With Bobby Nunn before Carl Gardner joined.

Webb Pierce

Teenage Boogie - 1956  

Arthur Smith and Don Reno

12th Street Rag - 1979  

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