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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

Rosetta Tharpe

Every Time I Feel The Spirit - 1954  

Mabel Scott & Maxwell Davis and His Orchestra

Wailin' Daddy - 1952   Written by Leiber & Stoller, with Maxwell Davis

The Louvin Brothers

Lorene - 1958  

Django Reinhardt

I Saw Stars - 1934   Requested by Suzanne in Nova Scotia

Lonnie Johnson

Happy New Year Darling - 1947  

David Vest

Shake What You Got - 2012   With Teddy Leonard, Guitar. Song dates back to the 1920s

Sinead X Sanders

Extraordinary - 2025   Web site: sineadxsanders.com

African Dance Band of the Cold Storage Commission of Southern Rhodesia

Hamuchati Mandiwona - 1951   AKA The Bulawayo Sweet Rhythms Band lead by August Musarurgwa

The Soul Stirrers

Touch The Hem Of His Garment - 1956   Sam Cooke, lead

Reid Jamieson

This Could Be The Year - 2024   Web site: reidjamieson.com/holiday-music/

Buddy & Ella Johnson

I'm Just Your Fool - 1954   Requested by Hank in Puslinch (Guelph), ON

The Dominoes

Ringin in a Brand New Year - 1953  

Otis Redding & Carla Thomas

New Year's Resolution - 1967   Stax 244

David Wilcox

Mama - 2000   Requested by Jim in Vancouver

Gloria Jones

Tainted Love - 1964   Glen Campbell, guitar, song became a Northern Soul favourite in England, later recorded by Soft Cell - from Danny in Toronto

Bobby Parker

Watch Your Step - 1961   Record was popular in the UK, The Beatles used the riff for I Feel Fine and Day Tripper, also copied by The Allman Bros

The Orioles

What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? - 1949   First version to chart (R&B). Written by Frank Loesser who did not intend it as a holiday song. Lead by Sonny Till.

Sackville All Stars

Let It Snow - 1986  

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