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.
Rooster Blues - 1959 With Lazy Lester, Harmonica - Excello 2169
Where Did My Baby Go? - 2002 With Mel Brown: Guitar
I've Got That Old Time Religion In My Heart - 1948
Love Of My Life - 1958 Flip side of Problems
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/
Joe Turner - 1949 West Texas tenor sax player who played on records by The Big Bopper and Johnny Preston
Baby Don't Go - 1954 Classic street corner harmony group from Newark NJ. Read Marv Goldberg's biography: www.uncamarvy.com/Gentlemen/gentlemen.html
Pipeline - 1963 Downey 104 & Dot 16440
I'm Coming Home - 1956 Grady Martin, baritone gutar (six-string bass) - Columbia 40813/ B 2130
Little Girl (How You Carry On) - 1955 Ace 514
Me and My Chauffeur Blues - 1941
Flying Saucers - 1950 Columbia 39205
Southern Belle (From Nashville, Tennessee) - 1945 Georgia fiddle player best known for writing Half As Much
Coldest, Darkest, Night - 2025 Alberta artist, song recorded in 2025 on vintage tape eqiuipment. Instagram page: www.instagram.com/leannelightfootmusic/
Wine, Wine, Sweet Wine - 1954 With Clarence Kenner, Guitar - King 4826
Aunt Jemimah Stomp - 1929 Racially integrated group, probably from Chicago
Ain't Nobody Truck Like You - 1937 Former member of Milton Brown's Brownies, his first recording as a leader
I Gotta Move - 1954
Buckle My Shoe -
House and Pool - 2022 Web site: www.jakevaadeland.com/
Hidin' Out - 1955
Jumpin' Beans - 1961
Fine Fine Daddy - 1951
All Over Me - 1957 Archie Brownlee, lead - VeeJay 888
A Thousand Stars - 1954 Written by group leader Eugene Pearson, later a hit for Kathy Young and the Innocents
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
Rocker - 1954
Page Boy Shuffle - 1949
The Lord Followed Me Here - 1947 With the Sam Price Trio
Been Gone A Long Time - 1958 Crest 1039
I Gotta Have My Baby Back - 1949 Written by Floyd Tillman first recorded by Jimmy Davis, covered by Red Foley and Rex Allen
He'll do The Same For You - 1959
The Road - 1963 Trinidadian performer "The grand master of calypso" also very popular in England and the U.S.
Moten Swing - 1937 From the Allen Lowe collection. See his comments: www.backbeatradio.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=122
Shooting Star - 2006
Little City Woman - 1953 With Lee Cooper, Electric Guitar, Washboard Sam, Washboard & Ernest "Big" Crawford, Double Bass = Chess 1546
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
Have You Ever - 1955
How I Got Over - 1950
No More (I Aint' Gonna Do It) - 1957 Lee Allen, sax; Edgar Blanchard, guitar
Crooked Dice - 1955 His only record, part of Starday Custom series (i.e. vanity pressing)
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
Cry, Cry, Cry - 1962
Just Walking In The Rain - 1956 Originally by The Prisonaires. Backed by The Ray Conniff Singers.
Natural Natural Ditty - 1955
Let's Stomp - 1963 Co-written by Jerry Goldstein and Richard Gottehrer, AKA The Strangeloves (I Want Candy)
Blue Boogie - 1957
Cry For My Baby - 1952 Comment www.spontaneouslunacy.net/peppermint-harris-i-cry-for-my-baby-aladdin-3141/
Double a Mambo - 1958 Sontaneous Lunacy review:
Angels Watching over Me - 1951 Older brother of Eroll Garner, moved to Vancouver in 1963 where he died in 2003, Track features Austin Powell of Cat's & The Fiddle
Nashville Blues - 1960
Vitamins L-O-V-E - 1960 First recorded by the Delmore Bros. in 1936
Cross Cut Saw Blues - 1941
I'm Leaning - 1959 Bluebird 88897 - revived by Albert King in 1966
Coming Back To You - 2010
Alabama Jubilee - 1939
Cat's Just Got Back In Town - 1956 Featuring Hoke & Paul Rice
Before This Time Another Year - 1944 Popular DJ who hosted a late-night truckin' show in ft. Worth, TX and later on XM - Starday 252
Swing From Paris - 1935
Everybody - 1963
Mama Don't You Think I Know - 1956 Recorded at FAME Studios, produced by Felton Jarvbis, who also helmed Elvis's late 60s records
Cryin' My Heart Out - 1954
Lafayette Two Step (1964) - 1964
Why Kid Myself About You - 1949 Hosted a popular TV music show in Lafayette for many years.
High School Confidential - 1958 Obscure musician who cut about 40 sides for 4-Star Records
This Should Go On Forever - 1958 Written for the movie of the same name, this original Sun release is not the same as the version used in the movie.
Red Hot Rockin' Blues - 1958 Original version of the Rod Bernard hit, with King Karl on vocal.
Turn Me Loose - 1953 Real name Lee Denson. With Earl Palmer, Drums - Kent 314
Bitter Sweet - 1992 Thurston Harris, lead
Ring-A-Ling A-Ling - 1955
Colorado Boogie - 1951 Colorado DJ and record store and roller rink owner in the 50s
Smoky Mountain Rag - 1949 Recorded at the Castle Studio (WSM) in Nashville.
I Found The Lord - 1955 Tommy Ellison, lead. Unissued at the time. Link to Opal Louis Nations extensive liner notes: opalnations.com/files/Harmonizing_Four_1950-1955_Heritage_CD_29_1995_.pdf
One Kiss Led To Another - 1956 Their second release as The Coasters - Atco 6073
Sploghm - 1940
Concentratin' On You - 1931
Wabash Blues - 1945 Canadian-born steel guitar player based in London, England
Baby Please Don't Go - 1935 True classic, an example of country-fied blues. See Allen Lowe's take: www.backbeatradio.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=125
Jessie Mae's Blues - 1952 Very successful songwriter, one of the few black songwriters to break the colour barrier, wrote hits for Dinah Washington, Amos Milburn, Patti Page, Hank Snow and Elvis (Let's Have A Party)
A Long Way to the Bottom - 2025 Web site: www.weepindave.com/
Girl - 2025 Calgary-based singer originally from Whitehorse, Yukon. Web site: katereidmusic.ca/bio-1
I'm Cuttin' Out - 1937 Session band, never performed live dates as a group, Joe McCoy vocal.
Heaven On Wheels - 1958 Backup group includes Jenelle Hawkins, who had a couple of chart hits in the 1960s
Wade In The Water - 1959 Produced by Sam Cooke, Paul Foster, lead vocal
This Side Up - 1947 Nat King Cole, piano; Oscar Moore, guitar, Wesley Prince, bass
I've Been Around - 1947 Recorded for Savoy Records, before he joined King
You Don't Love Me - 1961 Real name Tommy Tucker, changed it to avoid confusion with the Hi-Heel Sneakers guy (whose real name was Robert Higginbotham)
Shake, Rattle and Roll - 1964 Originally a home recording, overdubbed and released posthumously in 1964
S. P. Blues - 1947
A Chicken Ain't Nothin' But A Bird - 1940
Hot Time Mama - 1939
I Gotta Go Places And Do Things - 1934
Weep Below Children - 1946
I Traded Love - 1953
Baby, Please Don't Go - 2001 Canadian-based musician who blends blues, folk and Hindustani classical music. Plays a 20-string mohan veena among other instruments.
Bad Morning Blues - 1952 New Orleans musician who struggled with mental health, which affected his careert
I'll Not Be Around - 1950 "The Ozark Mountaneer" had a long career in country music, one of the first stars of The Louisiana Hayride, worked closely with Hank Williams.
When Elephants Roost In Bamboo Trees - 1939 One of their signature songs
After The Sunrise - 1946
There's Always Sunshine - 1962 Popular Jamaican duo Philip James and Lloyd Campbell.
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