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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

Ray Sharpe

Linda Lu - 1959   From Ft. Worth, Texas, started as a country musician, called "The best white-sounding black dude ever"

Ruth Brown

Ever Since My Baby's Been Gone - 1955  

Fort Worth Doughboys (AKA Light Crust Doughboys)

Sunbonnet Sue - 1933   Considered the first western swing recording released. Milton Brown, vocal; Bob Wills, fiddle; Derwood Brown, guitar; Sleepy Johnson, tenor guitar.

Roy Lanham & Doug Dalton

Trouble Trouble - 1950  

The R.S.B. Gospel Singers

My Lord and I - 1951  

Billy Boy Arnold

I Wish You Would - 1955   With Henry Gray, Piano & Jody Williams, Guitar - Vee Jay 146

Oscar Saldana

Mambo Hop - 1962  

Ella Fitzgerald And Her Four Keys

When I Come Back Crying - 1942   The Four Keys (AKA The Furness Bros.) were a vocal and instrumental group.

Lefty Frizzell

It Gets Late So Early - 1955  

The Staple Singers

Two Wings - 1961  

The Collins Kids

I'm In My Teens - 1956   Larry and Lorrie Collins, brother & sister. Columbia 4-21543

The Clovers

Yes It's You - 1956   Re-recorded in 1060 for United Artists

Stonewall Jackson

I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water - 1965   First recording, also recorded by Lonnie Mack and Charlie Rich in the same year, a year later by Johnny Rivers

Kitty Stevenson

It Couldn't Be True - 1950   Detroit singer with a very promising career, mother of Motown's Mickey Stevenson, died of cancer in 1952. Marv Goldberg article: https://www.uncamarvy.com/KittyStevenson/kittystevenson.html

Rosco Gordon

Booted - 1952   Gordon recorded this for both Chess and Modern at about the same time.

The Soul Satisfiers

Run On Home To Live With God - 1953   Philadelphia group

Dale & Grace

I'm Leaving It All Up To You - 1963   Written by Don "Sugarcane" Harris and Dewey Terry, who recorded it first - Montel 921

Ronnie Self

Big Fool - 1957   Columbia 4-40875

Merle Travis

Cannon Ball Rag - 1968  

The Phil Upchurch Combo

You Can't Sit Down, Part 1 - 1961   Boyd 3398

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