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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

Ruth Brown

Too Many Men - 1956  

Washboard Sam

Red River Dam Blues - 1942   Big Bill Broonzy, Guitar & Memphis Slim, Piano

The Pilgrim Travelers

Everybody's Gonna Have A Wonderful Time Up There - 1947   Originally by the Homeland Harmony Quartet, This is the second recording by a black artist (Rosetta Tharpe was the first)

The Maddox Brothers & Rose

I Wonder If I Can Lose the Blues - 1954   Recorded at Castle Studio (WSM) in Nashville. Chet Atkins, guitar

Johnny Young

Money Takin' Woman - 1947   With Otis Spann, Piano. Ora Nelle owned a record store on Maxwell St. in Chicago

Blue Moon Marquee

Trickster Coyote - 2024   From New Orleans Sessions album. Web site: bluemoonmarquee.com/

W. Lee O'Daniel's Hillbilly Boys

Don't Let the Deal Go Down - 1936   O'Daniels became governor of Texas then a senator

Charles Lijina

Andreya Twist - 1963  

Kenny Roberts

Choo Choo Ch'Boogie - 1950   Roberts was a member of the Down Homers with Bill Haley, who also recorded this song.

The Lloyd Lambert Band

Heavy Sugar - 1955   Seminal New Orleans R&B band, Guitar Slim on guitar, Originally had Huey P. Smith on piano - Specialty 553

Professor Longhair

Misery - 1958  

Charlie Rich

There's Another Place I Can't Go - 1962  

Lulu Belle and Scotty

Get Along Home Cindy - 1940  

Mahalia Jackson

Keep Your Hand On The Plow - 1955   Mildred Falls, piano; Milt Hinton, bass. One of her first recordings for Columbia. Lyrics allude to slavery, also recorded by Bob Dylan

Memphis Slim

Treat Me Like I Treat You - 1955   Money 212

Zeb Turner

Boogie Woogie Lou - 1950   He and and his brother Zeke were influentrial country boogie/rockabilly performers.

The Drifters

Honey Love - 1954  

Anita Tucker

Hop, Skip And Jump - 1956   with Big Dave & His Music - Capitol 3452

Johnny Cash

Folsom Prison Blues - 1955   His first version of the iconic song

Hank Jacobs

So Far Away - 1963   Sue 795

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