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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

Lightnin' Slim

Rooster Blues - 1959   With Lazy Lester, Harmonica - Excello 2169

Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne

Where Did My Baby Go? - 2002   With Mel Brown: Guitar

The Brown's Ferry Four

I've Got That Old Time Religion In My Heart - 1948  

The Everly Brothers

Love Of My Life - 1958   Flip side of Problems

Goree Carter

Every Dog Has His Day - 1951   His first release for Imperial. Read a detailed review: www.spontaneouslunacy.net/goree-carter-every-dog-has-his-day-imperial-5152/

Link Davis

Joe Turner - 1949   West Texas tenor sax player who played on records by The Big Bopper and Johnny Preston

The Gentlemen

Baby Don't Go - 1954   Classic street corner harmony group from Newark NJ. Read Marv Goldberg's biography: www.uncamarvy.com/Gentlemen/gentlemen.html

The Chantays

Pipeline - 1963   Downey 104 & Dot 16440

Johnny Horton

I'm Coming Home - 1956   Grady Martin, baritone gutar (six-string bass) - Columbia 40813/ B 2130

Earl King

Little Girl (How You Carry On) - 1955   Ace 514

Memphis Minnie

Me and My Chauffeur Blues - 1941  

The Mello Tones

Flying Saucers - 1950   Columbia 39205

Curley Williams & His Georgia Peach Pickers

Southern Belle (From Nashville, Tennessee) - 1945   Georgia fiddle player best known for writing Half As Much

Leanne Lightfoot

Coldest, Darkest, Night - 2025   Alberta artist, song recorded in 2025 on vintage tape eqiuipment. Instagram page: www.instagram.com/leannelightfootmusic/

Wynonie Harris

Wine, Wine, Sweet Wine - 1954   With Clarence Kenner, Guitar - King 4826

The Kansas City Tin Roof Stompers

Aunt Jemimah Stomp - 1929   Racially integrated group, probably from Chicago

Ocie Stockard & The Wanderers

Ain't Nobody Truck Like You - 1937   Former member of Milton Brown's Brownies, his first recording as a leader

Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five

I Gotta Move - 1954  

The Dixieaires

Buckle My Shoe -  

Jake Vaadeland

House and Pool - 2022   Web site: www.jakevaadeland.com/

Patsy Cline

Hidin' Out - 1955  

The Beans

Jumpin' Beans - 1961  

Dinah Washington

Fine Fine Daddy - 1951  

The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi

All Over Me - 1957   Archie Brownlee, lead - VeeJay 888

The Rivileers

A Thousand Stars - 1954   Written by group leader Eugene Pearson, later a hit for Kathy Young and the Innocents

Kensington Market

I Would Be The One - 1968   Featuring Keith McKie, Lead Vocals. There was a raunchier version recorded for Stone Records a year earlier - Warner Bros. 7221

Little Walter

Rocker - 1954  

Todd Rhodes

Page Boy Shuffle - 1949  

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

The Lord Followed Me Here - 1947   With the Sam Price Trio

Hank Sanders

Been Gone A Long Time - 1958   Crest 1039

Ella Fitzgerald (w; The Mills Brothers)

I Gotta Have My Baby Back - 1949   Written by Floyd Tillman first recorded by Jimmy Davis, covered by Red Foley and Rex Allen

The Dixie Hummingbirds

He'll do The Same For You - 1959  

Lord Kitchener

The Road - 1963   Trinidadian performer "The grand master of calypso" also very popular in England and the U.S.

The Carolina Cotton Pickers

Moten Swing - 1937   From the Allen Lowe collection. See his comments:

The Bebop Cowboys

Shooting Star - 2006  

Big Bill Broonzy

Little City Woman - 1953   With Lee Cooper, Electric Guitar, Washboard Sam, Washboard & Ernest "Big" Crawford, Double Bass = Chess 1546

Lula Reed

I'm A Woman (But I Don't Talk Too Much) - 1961   R&B singer with a promising career but few hits. Never really comfortable in R&B, she returned to gospel in the 1960s - Federal 12407

Mercy Dee

Have You Ever - 1955  

Clara Ward & The Ward Singers

How I Got Over - 1950  

Bobby Charles

No More (I Aint' Gonna Do It) - 1957   Lee Allen, sax; Edgar Blanchard, guitar

Leo Ogletree

Crooked Dice - 1955   His only record, part of Starday Custom series (i.e. vanity pressing)

Chuck Hatfield

Steel Wool - 1954   Steel guitar player from Detroit, regularly backed up The Davis Sisters, this was issued as the flip of one of their early records

Jack Scott

Cry, Cry, Cry - 1962  

Johnny Ray

Just Walking In The Rain - 1956   Originally by The Prisonaires. Backed by The Ray Conniff Singers.

The Jewels

Natural Natural Ditty - 1955  

Bobby Comstock

Let's Stomp - 1963   Co-written by Jerry Goldstein and Richard Gottehrer, AKA The Strangeloves (I Want Candy)

Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith

Blue Boogie - 1957  

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