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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

Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson

Lonesome Train - 1952   King recording

Merle Travis

Merle's Boogie Woogie - 1947  

Original Silver Echo

The Prodigal Son - 1944  

The Checkers

Love Wasn't There - 1952   Featuring Bill Brown & Charlie White, formerly of The Dominoes

Kay Starr & The Crystalette All-Stars

St. Louis Blues - 1949   Allan Reuss, Barney Bigard, Eddie Beal, Red Callender, Zutty Singleton - Crystalette 603

Duke Ellington

Just Squeeze Me (But Don't Tease Me) - 1946   Ray Nance, vocal and trumpet

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

God Don't Like It - 1943  

Harmonica Frank

Howlin Tomcat - 1952   One of the first white musicians to record at Sun studios in Memphis

Kanui & Lula

Oua Oua - 1933   William Kulii Kanui, Lucie Fernande Schmidt. Hawaiian duo based in Europe

Leon McAuliffe

Boot Heel Drag - 1953   Transcription recording made for radio pay

Doug & Rusty Kershaw

Your Crazy Crazy Heart - 1956  

Jimmy Witherspoon

Cain River Blues - 1947  

Dawn Tyler Watson

(I'm Feeling Kinda) Rotten - 2016   Montreal-based singer. With Ben Racine, Guitar, John Sadowy, Piano & "Little Frankie" Thiffault, Tenor Saxophone

Merle Kilgore

Seein' Double, Feelin' Single - 1954   Best known as a songwriter (Wolverton Mountain, Ring of Fire) & Hank Wiliams Jr.'s manager.

Ernie K-Doe

Wanted $10,000 Reward - 1961   Issued as flip of Mother-In-Law

Patsy Cline

She's Got You - 1962   Written by Hank Cochran

The Orchids

Newly Wed - 1955   Chicago group. Parrot 815

Jerry Lee Lewis

Night Train To Memphis - 1959   From Sun LP 114

Pete Johnson & His Boogie Woogie Boys

Buss Robinson Blues - 1939  

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