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.
Baltimore - 1960 Charlie Thomas, lead. First recording of the "new" Drifters, AKA The Crowns
Come Here Mama - 1959
He Saved My Soul - 1950
I Ain't Never - 1959 Co-written by Pierce & Mel Tillis
Let Me Come Back - 1952 Bill Brown (of The Dominoes) lead - https://www.spontaneouslunacy.net/the-checkers-let-me-come-back-king-4581/
Should I Ever Love Again? - 1956 Later recorded by Rusty Draper, Gene Vincent and Timi Yuro
Bake That Chicken Pie - 1948 New York City group, AKA The Sugartones
Chicken Strut - 1970 Produced by Allen Tousaint & Marshal Sehorn
She'll Never Settle - 2023
Two Guitar Boogie - 1953 Prolific session guitarist and arranger who played jazz and R&R. Played the opening on Ritchie Valens' LaBamba, backed Little Richard, arry Williams, arranged Sam Cooke's A Change Is Gonna Come.
Courage To Love - 1952
He Will Fight Your Battles - 1962 Married to Cleophus Robinson
Shrimp & Gumbo - 1956
Hey Sweet Potato - 1947 Buddy Johnson on vocal
I Will Trust In The Lord - 1953 "Little Ax" Broadnax on lead
Church Street Sobbin' Blues - 1928 Billed as Blind Willie Dunn
Lonesome Hearted Blues - 1954 Recorded at a radio station in Sacramento, CA, features Tiny Moore on electric mandolin
I Found Somebody To Love - 1952 www.spontaneouslunacy.net/little-sylvia-i-found-somebody-to-love-jubilee-5093/
I'm So Tired - 1962
She Knows Why - 1957 Co-written with Claude King
Creepy - 1960
Flesh, Blood And Bones - 1952 Early Leiber & Stoller effort, https://www.spontaneouslunacy.net/little-esther-flesh-blood-and-bones-federal-12108/
Hot Dogs - 1940
Mandolin Boogie - 1948 Floyd and Lloyd were actual twins
Please Mr Doctor - 1953
I'm A Soldier - 1959 Archie Brownlee, lead
No It Ain't - 1953
Too Many Women - 1952 His unique sense of rhythm had a big influence on Jamaican Ska and Reggae
Pu-Chun-Ga - 1959 Born in Cuba, raised in New York. Backed here by Howard Biggs
Cast Your Fate To The Wind - 1962
Little Picture Playhouse - 1939
Little Birdie - 1938 Pioneering female country entertainers,
God's Little Birds - 1953 Slide guitar playing evalgalist
Lookin' Good But Feelin' Bad - 1929
My Woman Has a Black Cat Bone - 1960 Texal steel guitar player who hated touring. Influence on Ron Wood & Peter Green.
Brain Cloudy Blues - 2006
Don't Cry Baby - 1951 Early recording by Jesse Belvin
Sittin' On Top Of The World -
I Ain't Givin' Up Nothin' - 1958 From Tuscarora First Nation in upstate New York. Record features Ray Ethier on guitar
Let It Rock - 1959
Mr. Bell Boogie - 1948
Tweedlee Dee - 1954 Georgia Gibbs used the same arranger and same musicians to steal pop sales from LaVerne
Talk About Jesus - 1957 Lou Rawls, lead
Easy Rockin' Chair - 1951
Blacksmith Blues - Not issued originally, came out on later compilations
Come Back - 1951 Her first record - https://www.spontaneouslunacy.net/edna-mcgriff-come-back-jubilee-5062/
Ain't Gonna Do It - 1954 Also recorded by Smiley Lewis & Fats Domino
Some Of These Days - 1934
The Red Devil Himself - 2022
Penny Reel-O - 1964
Dear Lord Look Down Upon Me - 1951 Margaret Allison, Ira Tucker leads
Columbus Stockade Blues - 1931
Buckwheat Batter - 1958
That Ain't Right - 1942
Country Boy - 1950 His only national hit - https://www.spontaneouslunacy.net/dave-bartholomew-country-boy-deluxe-3223/
Steel Guitar Stomp - 1945 Noel Boggs, steel guitar
She Moves Me - 1951
Baptize Me In Wine - 1954 First record, Red Prysock, sax; Tiny Grimes, guitar
My Little Baby - 1959
Big Blon' Baby - 1959
One Night - 1959
I Done Done It (Don't Do It) - 1954
Sawmill Boogie Blues - 1953 Recorded in Mapleton, Oregon, a sawmill town up until 1993
HCQ Strut - 1939
Old Jim Canaan's - 1935 About a raucious night club on Beal St. in Memphis run by gangster Jim Kinnane
Squeeze Me - 1935
I'm Headed for the Promised Land - 1956 Formed in 1935, still active
Do Lord Send Me - 1945
Honolulu Stomp - 1928
One Kiss Too Many - 1949 No. 1 on Juke Box Folk chart - precursor of Country Chart
God Is The Greatest Creator -
Eso Es El Amor - 2023
Louisiana - 1952
I'm Asking Forgiveness - 1964
One Eyed Jack - 1957
A Gal Named Joe - 1955 Malcolm Yelvington, who used a pseudonym because he was under contract with Sun Records
Ain't That Lovin' You Baby - 1956 Also recorded by people like Eric Clapton, The Newbeats & The Youngbloods
One Day At A Time - 1965 First recorded by Bobby Bare
One Night, One Night - 1959 Flip side of Since I Don't Have You
Gone Gone Gone - 1955
Bell Boy Boogie - 1947
Wrong Lake to Catch a Fish - 1952
Whirlwind - 1958 Flip side of Philadelphia Baby - later released as an undubbed version
Didn't Work Out, Did It - 1956 Signed by RCA when he was 19 years old, already hosted his own live radio show and worked as a DJ
Ramblin' Blues - 1960
Gonna Wake Up In Glory - 1955 Spin-off of the Fairfield Four
Little Lemmy - 1958
Keep On the Sunny Side - 1954 His wife Ramona Jones on fiddle & vocals, she was a championship fiddler, multi-instrumentalist and actor
My Love Is Coming Down - 1949 Recorded for the Texas label Freedom Records
Old Man Blues - 1930 Early example of more modern jazz/blues song. Base on chord progression of Old Man River
Am I Blue? - 1936 Recorded in New Orleans, features Ocie Stockard and Bob Dunn, guitar
Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms - 1951 Traditional song also recorded by Buck Owens and Leon Russell
Losing You - 2022
Goody Goody Baby - 1947 Truely a single, B-side was by another artist
Pleading at Midnight - 1952
One Monkey Don't Stop The Show - 1950
Jack and Jill Boogie - 1948 Also recorded with the Delmore Bros. but not released until 1984
Cold Chills - 1952 Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
Sweet Sweet Girl - 1958
Rock Ola Baby - 1956 Texas guitarist who wrote Oh Boy and Rave on for Buddy Holly
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