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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

Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys

Get With It - 1935   Tommy Duncan, vocal, Leon McAuliffe electric guitar, possibly first electric guitar solo recorded

Valaida Snow

Minnie the Moocher - 1939   Recorded in Stockholm as U.S. companies resisted recording a female trumpet player

Wayne Raney

Adam Come and Get Your Rib - 1953   First recorded by Wynonnie Harris, this version to cover the country market. Louis Innis, bass; Boyd Bennett, drums; Jethro Burns, guitar;Henry Glover, piano;

Harold Boggs

Have Faith In God - 1962   Blind pianist, recorded for Nashboro (716)

Lee Dorsey

Get Out Of My Life Woman - 1966   Also recorded by Paul Butterfield on LP East-West the same year

Joe Turner

The Sun Is Shining - 1951   Recorded in New Orleans, Fats Domino on piano

Buck Griffin

It Don't Make No Never Mind - 1954   Popular Texas performer who never scored a hit record

Arthur Alexander

Go Home Girl - 1962   Also recorded by Ry Cooder

The Hawks

Give It Up - 1954   Recorded in New Orleans with Dave Bartholomew

African Dance Band of the Cold Storage Commission of Southern Rhodesia

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

Silas Hogan

Go On Pretty Baby - 1995   1960s Excello recording Unissued until 1995

Benny Spellman

Lipstick Traces (On A Cigarette) - 1962   Spellman sang the backing vocal on Ernie K-Doe's Mother-In-Law - Minit 644

The Sensational Nightingales

Hard Fighting Soldier - 1961   Julius Cheeks, lead

The Louvin Brothers

Lorene - 1958  

The Big Bopper

Walking Through My Dreams - 1959   Mercury 71416

Stick McGhee

Blue Barrelhouse - 1950  

Betty Harris

His Kiss - 1963  

Lloyd Price

Georgianna - 1957   Recorded for his own label, KRC, in 1957, just as ABC Records re-released his first song for that label, setting him up for stardom

Wynonie Harris

Bite Again, Bite Again - 1948  

Young Jessie

Hit, Git And Split - 1956   With Mickey "Guitar" Baker, Guitar - Modern 1002

Earl Bostic

Earl's Rumboogie - 1947  

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