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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

Fats Waller & His Rhythm

T'Aint What You Do (It's The Way That You Do It) - 1939   Co-written by Sy Oliver & "Trummy" Young.Revived in 1989 by Fun Boy Three & Bananarama.

Milton Brown & the Musical Brownies

Do the Hula Lou - 1934   Ocie Stockard on banjo

Alex Bradford

Feel Like I'm Running For The Lord - 1955  

H.M. Barnes And His Blue Ridge Ramblers

Blue Ridge Rambler's Rag - 1929   Group was a loosely-knit organization of various musicians from other bands under the direction of Barnes, who was not a performer.

The Charioteers

Don't Play No Mambo - 1955   W/Sid Bass Orch. Josie 787

The Cats And The Fiddle

Wine Drinker - 1950   One of their last recordings

Cousin Joe with Sam Price and His Trio

Evolution Blues - 1948  

Don Drummond

Eastern Standard Time - 1964  

Annie Laurie

Time Out For Tears - 1962   Originally by Savannah Churchill, best known by Dinah Washington

Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith

Drifting and Dreaming - 1957   From Jumpin' Guitar, released in 1985 from recordings he made in a New York hotel room in the 1960s

Linda Carone

Free and Easy - 2025   Toronto vintage jazz vocalist, web site: www.lindacarone.com

Capitol City Four

Fire Down Yonder - 1938   Featuring Isiah Pelzer (bass)

John Lee Hooker

(Miss Sadie Mae) Curl My Babys Hair - 1950   With James Watkins, Piano - one of two reording he made of this song for small Detroit labels. Fortune 846 & LP 3002

Skip Easterling

Ooh Poo Pah Doo - 1979   "Blue-eyed soul" singer popular in New Orleans but didn't break nationally.

Bill Haley

Rockin Through The Rye - 1956   Based on Robbie Burns song Comin' Through The Rye

Larry Storch

I'm Walking - 1957   Storch was a comedian who appeard in many early comedy TV shows, best known for his regular role on F Troup.

The Dreamers

Do Not Forget - 1954   Written by Richard Berry, group includes Gloria Jones, eventually evolved into The Blossoms with Darlene Love

Sam Butera & The Witnesses

Dig That Crazy Chick - 1956   New Orleans-born bandleader & sax player backed up Lous Prima in his Vegas years.

The Staple Singers

Let's Go Home - 1960   Vee-Jay recording

Wes Dakus & The Rebels

Dance On - 1965  

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