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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

Johnny Fontenette

Swingin' With Johnny -   Actually Roy Brown's Mighty, Mighty Men with their sax player on lead. Not issued originally.

Howlin' Wolf

Crying at Daybreak - 1951   Recorded at Sun Studio. Sounds a lot like Smokestack Lightnin' but taken from Tommy Johnson's Big Road Blues and Tampa Red's Stop and Listen.

Curtis Johnson

Baby Let's Play House - 1956   Not released until 1978 - Event E-4282

Smiley Lewis

Down The Road - 1954  

Esther Phillips

You Can Bet Your Life (I Do) - 1956  

James Hunter

Believe Me Baby - 1999   British bluesman who has backed up - and been backed up by - Van Morrison

Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown

Okie Dokie Stomp - 1954   With The Pluma Davis Orchestra - Peacock 1637

Ronnie Dawson AKA Ronnie Dee

Action Packed - 1958   His first rockabilly records were not successful, worked with Delbert McClinton, played on Bruce Channel's Hey Baby and Paul & Paula's Hey Paula

Vann 'Piano Man' Walls, Piano

After Hours Session - 1997   From Bros CD 7002-2

Big Joe Turner

I Got Love For Sale - 1946  

Adolph Hofner

Joe Turner Blues - 1940   Texas singer of Czech-German ancestry. Started playing Hawiian music, then western swing and later rockabilly and polkas

Skeets Tolbert And His Gentlemen Of Swing

W.P.A. - 1940   Played with Fats Waller who influenced his style and songwriting. Wrote Hit That Jive Jack for Nat King Cole among many other hits for others. WPA was a government works program that many deemed ineffecient.

Bill Haley & The Comets

Choo Choo Ch'Boogie - 1956  

Percy Mayfield

Strange Things Happening - 1950   With Maxwell Davis Orch, - Specialty 375

Lucky Starr

I've Been Everywhere - 1962   AKA Leslie Morrison. First recording, used Australian place names, there are also versions for New Zealand, and Britain,

Evelyne Harlene

I Wanna Be Free - 1957   With Casey Clark's Band - Sage 243

Artie Shaw and his Gramercy Five

Stop and Go Mambo - 1954  

The Soul Stirrers

A Little Talk With Jesus - 1946   R.H. Harris & James Medlock, lead

Aggie Dukes

Swing Low Sweet Cadillac - 1954   Agnes Dukes, originally from San Francisco. Flute, Buddy Collette - Aladdin 3364

David Vest

Renoviction Man - 2018  

Danny Marks

Caretaker - 2012  

G. Adolph Banyora

Tusaidie Maskini - 1958  

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

What He Done for Me - 1942  

The Dreamlovers

If I Should Lose You - 1961   Philadelphia group

The Drifters

Honky Tonky - 1956   Not released until 1960

Faron Young

Last Night At A Party - 1958  

Kenny "Blues Boss' Wayne

Eighty Eighth & Jump Street - 2002   With Mel Brown: Guitar

Oscar McLollie And His Honey Jumpers

Pretty Girl - 1955   Band opened the famed Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, booked for 2 weeks, they stayed 9 months

Glen Glenn

Everybody's Movin' - 1958   Orin Glen Troutman. Song became popular with rockabilly revivalists starting in the 1970s

Grandpa Jones

High Silk Hat and a Gold Top Walking Cane - 1954  

Eartha Kitt

Honolulu Rock and Roll - 1956  

Alex Pangman

Give Me Liberty or Give Me Love - 2001  

Louis Armstrong

Back O'Town Blues - 1946  

The Melody Echoes

Jesus Hits Like An Atom Bomb - 1950   One of ten versions recorded in a year - originally by The Charming Belles (male group)

The Blue Sky Boys

I'm Just Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail - 1936   Bill and Earl Bolick.

Blue Moon Marquee (feat. Duke Robillard)

Red Dust Rising - 2022  

Evelyn White

Mind Your Own Business - 1968  

The Rays

Daddy Cool - 1957   Flip side of Silhouettes - became top 10 pop hit on its own - XYZ 102 & Cameo C117

Cliffie Stone

Dirty Dishes - 1952   Written by Billy Vaughan

The "5" Royales

Cry Some More - 1954   With Charlie "Little Jazz" Ferguson Orch.

The Angelic Gospel Singers

I Shall Know Him - 1963   Margaret Allison, lead. Nashboro 787

Elvis Presley

Doncha' Think It's Time? - 1958   Recorded in Hollywood while he was filming King Creole. Last session for Bill Black on bass.

Hardrock Gunter

Where Have You Been - 1953   Chet Atkins, guitar - MGM K11596

Ruth Brown

Be Anything - 1952   Issued as the flip to 5-10-15 Hours (Of Your Love)

Fats Domino

Let The Four Winds Blow - 1961   Previously recorded by Dave Bartholomew, Roy Brown and Bobby Charles. Based on Let The Church Roll On and Midnight Special.

Earl Bostic

Jungle Drums - 1954  

Joe Morris

That's What Makes My Baby Fat - 1954   The first consistent hitmaker on Atlantic records, forgotten about when bigger stars came along

Cab Calloway

Everybody Eats When They Come To My House - 1948  

Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys

Whoa Babe - 1938   Louis Prima song

Whisky Howl

Caledonia - 1972   Featuring Michael Pickett

Earl Gaines

My Woman - 1967  

Fats Waller

Ain't Misbehavin' - 1943   Performed in movie Stormy Weather www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSNPpssruFY

The Jordanaires

Working On A Building - 1958   Original 1940s group was 4 brothers who were all ordained ministers. Line-up changed but were consistently excellent.

Hank Penny & His Radio Cowboys

Chill Tonic - 1939  

Terry Clement and His Rhythmic Five

Diggy Liggy Lo - 1953   link to YouTube video of Bugs Bunny created in 2019 www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2398463693607494

Muddy Waters

My Eyes - 1955  

Garden State Choir

Serve The Lord - 1963  

The Tokens

Please Write - 1963  

Duke Ellington And His Orchestra

You're Just An Old Antidisestablishmetarianist - 1937   The word Antidisestablishmentarianism refering to opposition to disestablishing a state church is thought to be the longest word in English (it isn't) Antidisestablishmentarianismist is not a real word

Django Reinhardt

Swing guitars - 1936  

Tommy Magness & His Tennessee Buddies

Little Country Preacher - 1951  

Levon And The Hawks

He Don't Love You (And He'll Break Your Heart) - 1964   Recorded after they split with Ronnie Hawkins, before they became The Band

Robert Bertrand

Mowater Blues - 1971  

Big Dave McLean

I Need You - 2016   Vocals, Harmonica, Acoustic & National Steel Guitars

The Platters

Beer Barrel Boogie - 1954  

Alex Hill

Shake That Jelly Roll - 1929  

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