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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 Boy Myles (Edgar Myles)

Who's Been Foolin' You? - 1955   Vocals & Trombone With Lee Allen, Tenor Saxophone, Professor Longhair, Piano & The Sha-Weez - Specialty 564

R. H. Harris & His Gospel Paraders

Born Again - 1963   Produced by Sam Cooke, all were former members of the Soul Stirrers

Little Willie John

My Nerves - 1956  

The Hearts (Al Sears Orchestra)

Lonely Nights - 1955   Song was featured in the movie Raging Bull

Dale Hawkins

Back To School Blues - 1959  

Rosie Flores

You Tear Me Up - 1995   Modern Rockabilly singer who has recorded and boosted pioneers like Wanda Jackson and Janis Martin, often using her own money.

Earl Bostic

Ain't Misbehavin' - 1952  

Ruth Brown

Daddy, Daddy - 1952   Atlantic 973

Smiley Lewis

Go on Fool - 1957  

McKenna Mendelson Mainline

She's Alright - 1969   Mike McKenna, guitar, Joe Mendelson (AKA Mendelson Joe) Vocals

The Maddox Brothers & Rose

I'll Fly Away - 1951  

Mary Deloach

Life Was A Burden - 1951   Also recorded racy blues as Marylyn Scott, sometimes at the same session as a gospel recording

George's Dukes And Duchess (Vocal Marion Abernathy)

Abernathy's Voo-it Voo-it - 1946   Popular singer in the mid-west in the 1940s. This was her biggest hit though her name was not on the label. Everything known about her in a Marv Goldberg article: www.uncamarvy.com/MarionAbernathy/marionabernathy.html

Joe Hill Louis

She May Be Yours (But She Comes to See Me Sometimes) - 1953   Louis usually performed as a one-man band, this has Willie Nix on drums, Albert Williams on piano. Distortion cause by harmonica cradle in front of mic. Sun 178

Sam Price and the Rock Band

Rib Joint - 1979   Price was a bandleader and session player who often accompanied Rosetta Tharpe and others. This track has Mickey Baker, guitar, King Curtis, sax

The Christian Travelers

Well done - 1953   Peacock 1715

Ashton Savoy

Denga Denga (Jangle Jangle) - 1958   Louisiana Creole bluesman, popular in the Houston, TX blues scene

James Brown

No, No, No - 1956   Federal 12277

Lattie Moore

I'm Not Broke - 1953   King 1228

The Lone Star Cowboys

Just Because - 1933   Leon Chappelear vocal, guitar

Champion Jack Dupree

Nasty Boogie - 1958   From Atlantic LP 8019 "Blues From The Gutter" 1958

Lefty Frizzell

A Forest Fire (Is In Your Heart) - 1955   Recorded for Columbia in Dallas TX, produced by Don Law

The Spaniels

Baby It's You - 1953   James "Pookie" Hudson, lead. They re-recorded it in 1958

Chris Whiteley With Diana Braithwaite

It's The Natural Thing To Do - 2005   From Electro-Fi CD 3387

Earl King

Is Everything Alright? - 1955   Earl Johnson, New Orleans guitarist who worked a lot with Guitar Slim. Ace 520

Gene Vincent & The Blue Caps

Jump Back, Honey, Jump Back - 1956   Originally by Hadda Brooks

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