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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

Dinah Washington

Evil Gal Blues - 1943   Milt Buckner, piano

Bill "Jazz" Gillum

Signifying Woman - 1947   With Judge Riley, Guitar & Robert Call, Piano. Part of the 'first wave' of Chicago blues artists - RCA Victor 20-3118

Carl Perkins

Perkin's Wiggle - 1956  

The Radio Four

The Road's Rough and Rocky - 1958  

Roy Hogsed

Ain't A Bump In The Road - 1952   Part of the wave of mid-westerners who migrated to Bakersfield and Modesto Cal.

Palakiko & Paaluhi

Maui - 1930   Frank Ferera and John K. Paaluhi

Brandon Isaak's Band

I Wanna Know - 2023   Fromm his 2023 CD One Step Closer. Web site: www.brandonisaak.ca/

Rev. Robert Ballinger

He's My Everything - 1962   Chicago-based pianist

Muddy Waters

Stuff You Gotta Watch - 1951   With Little Walter, Harmonica & Jimmy Rogers, Guitar - Originally On Chess LP 9180 "Rare & Unissued"

Earl Williams

Regal Boogie - 1948   Released on a small label with no catalogue #, same song both sides

Dave Rich

I'm Glad - 1956  

The Larks

Eyesight to the Blind - 1951   Sonny Boy Williamson song, Allen Bunn vocal & guitar

Piano Red

Red's Blues - 1955   Willie Perryman AKA Dr. Feelgood

The Harptones

A Sunday Kind of Love - 1954   Group formed in Harlem in 1953 features Willie Winfield, lead. Specialized in smooth ballads

Big Mama Thornton

I Smell A Rat - 1954   Written by Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller, backed by Johnny Otis Orch - the same as Hound Dog

Clarence "Frogman" Henry

A Little Too Much - 1961  

Chuck Willis & His Band

It's Too Late - 1956  

The Delicates

Black And White Thunderbird - 1959   Three-girl group from Belleville, NJ, later had a long career as back-up singers, especially for Connie Francis & Lou Christie

Wanda Jackson

Money Honey - 1958   Revival of the hit by Clyde McPhatter & the DriftersCapitol LP T1041

Chuck Alaimo Quartet

Leap Frog - 1957  

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