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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

Roy Brown

Beautician Blues - 1951   Revived by B.B. King in 1964

The Famous Ward Singers

Further On Up The Road - 1957   Thelma Jackson, lead

The "5" Royales

Do Unto You - 1955  

Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant

Stratosphere Boogie - 1955   Bryant on guitar, West on pedal steel. Both worked extensively as session players for Capitol and other labels, both considered country-jazz innovators.

Big Maceo

Worried Life Blues - 1941   Maceo Merryweather, Tampa Red, Ransom Knowling (bass). Based on Someday Baby Blues by Sleepy John Estes. Early Chicago blues.

Marie Knight

Does Jesus Care - 1952  

Wayne Raney

Real Hot Boogie - 1950  

Wild Bill Moore

Balancing With Bill - 1950   Recorded for King, Moore playd sax for Paul William's Hucklebuckers and was always trying to balance jazz, R&B and pop styles.

Golden Gate Quartet

Stormy Weather - 1939  

Ray Charles

Dixie Moon - 1986   Produced by Billy Sherrill

Helen Humes With Bill Doggett Octet

He May Be Your Man - 1945   Includes Wild Bill Moore on sax. Philo PV105 & Aladdin AV105

Billy Jack Wills and his Western Swing Band

Jelly Roll Blues - 1952   Written by Jelly Roll Morton, Billie Moore, vocal (no relation to Wild Bill Moore)

Lattie Moore

Pretty Woman Blues - 1956   Country artist who made records now considered rockabilly, though he didn't call it that at the time.

Ray Barretto

Descarga Criolla - 1966   Willie Garcia, vocal

Sinead X Sanders

Up-Top Mystery Man - 2025   From Them Shadows. Web site: sineadxsanders.com

Charlie Booker

Baby I'm Coming Home - 1952   Mississippi Delta bluesman, steeped in the culture but made few recordings (for Modern and Sun) and did not move north to become a star.

The Vocaleers

Is It A Dream - 1953  

Benny Barnes

You Gotta Pay - 1956   Worked and recorded with George Jones

Bo Diddley

[Untitled Instrumental] - 1961  

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