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.
I Don't Want To See You - 1946
Hungry Man - 1950
Life's Too Short to Live - 1956 Sun recording not released at the time, Sonny Burgess on guitar
Shack Bully Stomp - 1938 Billed as "The Devil's Son-In-Law". St. Louis-based, made over 160 recordings
Hix Wagon Wheel Special - 1954 Poss. Popeye Brousard, fiddle, Claude Sonnier steel guitar
One More Chance - 1960 Popular Louisiana performer who had a life-long career but no breakthrough hit.
Surley Surley Amen - 1952
Mean Mean Mama - 1955 Obscure singer from Cisco, Texas
Sally Sue Brown - 1960 Also recorded by Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello
A Slick Chick (On The Mellow Side) - 1946
Thursday Evening Swing - 1939
Don't Wonder 'Bout Him - 1962
Hlompa - 1959
Dirty Work At the Crossroads - 1952
I Got To Know - 1960
Cloudy and Raining - 1952 Possibly a gospel group moonlighting
R.M. Blues - 1946 Originally issued on his own label, first big success for Specialty Records
Hot Rod Shotgun Boogie - 1951 Vocal by Faron Young, written by Webb Pierce
Honey Hush - 1971 Shelton Dunaway, vocal
Let s Go - 2023
New Spanish Two-Step - 1956
All Over This World - 1942
Mop Rag Boogie - 1950
Rag Mop - 1953 Originally by Johnny Lee Wills
Paper Doll - 1954
Daddy Rollin' Stone - 1952 Penned many hits including Don't Be Cruel, Fever, Great Balls of Fire and Handy Man
The Fields Have Turned Brown - 1949
My Loved Ones Are Waiting For Me (Waiting and Watching) - 1950
Shavetail - 1947
Between the Night and Day (In the Wee Wee Hours) - 1950
Ba Ba Boom - 1967 AKA The Festival Song
What Could I Do - 1948 Recorded for Apollo Records
My Lords Keeps a Record - 1948 Dubbed "The father of bluegrass gospel music"
Drivin' Nails In My Coffin - 1945 Song written by Irby, covered by Ernest Tubb the same year
Nickle of Wine - 2024 According to Brad, this is a "fun drinking song"
Need Your Love So Bad - 1955 Song later recorded by B.B. King, James Brown, Fleetwood Mac and many others
Whirlaway - 1958 Alvin 'Red' Tyler on sax
Lonesome Baby - 1953
Good Love - 1958 "The Female Elvis"
Goodbye - 1949
The Madison -
Please Hurry Home - 1953
Again - 1963 Philadelphia group
Why Don't You Do Right? - 1954
Heh Little Girl - 1951
Ti Ri Lee - 1953 B-side pf Flip Flop & Fly, recorded in Chicago
When the Fire Comes Down - 2021 From The Complete Recorded Works of Hezekia Proctor 1925 - 1930
Ezekiel Saw the Wheel - 1947
Uheuhene - 1930 hoh-oh-PEE-ee Hawaiian pronunciation
Cherry - 1940
The Glory of Love - 1956 From LP Bil Bill Sings Folk Songs
Evil In You Children - 1935
Rasslin' Jacob - 1951
Angel Baby - 1952 Very early - maybe the first - recorded example of do-wop style singing
Baby Scratch My Back - 1962
Uncle Pen - 1962
Cowboy - 2024
Big Big Love - 1961 Oneof the founders of the Bakersfield Sound, major influence on Medrl Haggard & Buck Owens
Baby I Ain't Satisfied - 1941
The Deacon Don't Like It - 1953
Shag - 1932
I'm Getting Right - 1956 Written by Jimmy Griffin of The Griffin Brothers
Boogie Woogie Baby - 2012
Guitar Blues - 1929
Better Back Up Mama - 1949 Nashville session guitarist who played on several Hank Williams records. Produced Gord Lightfoot's first hit Remember Me I'm The One.
Goodbye Baby - 1955 Flair 1079 - revived by George Thorogood in 1979
That's What You're Doing to Me - 1952 First rocker with Clyde McPhatter on lead
Promise To Meet Me There - 1954
Crying My Heart Out - 1952 Sax player for Tiny Bradshaw and others
Sell Out To The Master - 1956 Made up of former Soul Stirrers lead by R.H. Harris
Minnie The Moocher's Wedding D - 1932 Earlier hit for Cab Calloway
Jimmie's Mean Mama Blues - 1930 With Bob Sawyer's Jazz Band
Broussard Two Step - Beausoleil Broussard led the first 200 Acadians from Nova Scotia to Louisiana in the 1700s
Fortune Teller - 1962
My Isabella - 1955
My Love Comes Tumbling Down - 1952
Little Miss Linda - 1958
How Can You Leave A Man Like This - 1953
Forever (And Always) - 1952 His younger brother David Frizzell recorded it twice in 1976 & 1984
I Hear You Knockin' - 1960
Anitra's Jump - 1947
Straighten Up and Fly Right - 1943 Based on a folk tale Cole's father referenced in a sermon
She Came Rollin' Down The Mountain - 1936
My Baby She's Rockin - 1956 Jim McDonald, Missouri
The Eagle Rocks - 1944 Vocal and piano by Leadbelly, eagle rock was a dance move.
Judgement's Comin' - 1955
Messin' Around With The Blues - 1953 Chess 1551 - declared Queen of Detroit Blues. Continued recording and performing up until the early 2000s
Midnight Special - 1945 Based on the spiritual Let The Church Roll On
Mama's Gone Goodbye - 1939 "Field" recording made in Houston, Moon Mullican on piano
(Those) Precious Words - 1964 Ervin & Johnny Wallace were cousins. Recorded at Fame Studio in Muscle Shoals Ala. - Sims 174
Well Well No No No - 1954
El Pescador - 1991 Columbian artist https://www.last.fm/music/Tot%C3%B3+La+Momposina/+wiki - or see https://www.songlines.co.uk/features/how-toto-la-momposina-became-the-queen-of-cumbia
Crazy 'Cause I Love You - 1946 Vocal by Tex Williams
Cherry Red - 2012 From LP A Cup of Joe, tribute to Joe Turner
Louisiana Man - 1961 Recorded at J.D. Miller's studio in Crawley, LA
Built For Comfort - 1959 Recorded before Howlin' Wolf's more famous version
Honky Tonk Man - 1956 His first Columbia release, Grady Martin and Harold Bradley on guitars, Bill Black on bass, recorded at Bradley's Barn
Teardrops - 1957 Lee Andrews was the son of Beachy Thompson, of the Dixie Hummingbirds
Sneaky Aligator - 1959
Pack Fair And Square - 1956 Also recorded by J. Geils Band - Peacock 1666
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