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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.

Backbeat playlist for the week of December 8, 2024

This week is fundraising at CanoeFM in Haliburton, I will be live on-the-air from 9 AM until Noon on Sunday Morning. Listeners to the syndicated stations, and on-line, will hear this newly-recorded, regular show.

Artist - Title - Year - Comments/Links

Eddie Crosby

Blues Stay Away from Me - 1949   Released just weeks after the Delmore Bros. original came out.

The Staple Singers

Why (Am I Treated So Bad) - 1967   Written as a reaction to protests in the wake of the Little Rock 9

Little Anthony & The Duponts

You - 1956   Anthony Gourdine, later became lead of Little Anthony and the Imperials

Big Bertha

Little Daddy - 1956   Bertha Henderson, recorded in New Orleans, not to be confused with the pre-war blues singer of the same name

Cousin Emmy and her Kinfolks

Freight Train Blues - 1939  

Stuff Smith

I Don't Want To Make History (I Just Want To Make Love) - 1936  

The Famous Ward Singers

That's Enough For Me - 1957   Marion Williams lead

Smiley Lewis

One Night (Of Sin) - 1956   Recorded in 1952 - With Ernest McLean, Guitar, Edward Frank, Piano, Lee Allen & Clarence Hall, Tenor Saxes - Imperial 5380

Nations Brothers

Bankhead Blues - 1936   Sheldon Nations, fiddle; Marshal Nations, guitar

Ella Fitzgerald (w; Louis Armstrong)

The Frim Fram Sauce - 1946  

Redd Stewart & His Kentucky Colonels

Brother, Drop Dead (Boogie) - 1950   Former lead singer of Pee Wee King's Golden West Cowboys

Jean Shepard

Jeopardy - 1959  

The "5" Royales

Crazy, Crazy, Crazy - 1953   With Charlie "Little Jazz" Ferguson Orch. - Apollo 446

Rollee McGill

Rhythm Rockin' Blues - 1955   With Chuck Norris, Guitar , Ernie Freeman, Piano & Richard Brown, Tenor Saxophone

Lord Tanamo

Come Down - 1963   Joseph Johnson, recorded in Jamaica

Rockin' Sidney

No Future - 1977   Sidney Simien began recording in the 1950s, made over 50 sides for Goldband without scoring a hit. My Toot-Toon hit in 1985

Little Richard

Early One Morning - 1957   Based on Joe Turner's Wee Baby Blues, also recorded by Ike & Tina Turner

The Sensational Nightingales

I'm Going On With Jesus - 1954   Ernest James, lead. Peacock 1728

Carole King

Breaking Up Is Hard To Do - 1963   From Dimension LP 6001

"Little" Jimmy Dickens

(I Got) A Hole In My Pocket - 1958   Grady Martin & Harold Bradley, guitars; Tommy Jackson, fiddle - Columbia 4-41173

Art Baxter & His Rock 'N' Roll Sinners

Bax To The Wall - 1956   From The Phillips 10'' LP BBR 8107 "Rock You Sinners" 1956

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