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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

Joe Turner

Jumpin' at the Jubilee - 1949   Recorded at Freedom Records, in Texas. Goree Carter, guitar; Conrad Johnson, sax. Review on Spontaneous Lunacy site: www.spontaneouslunacy.net/big-joe-turner-jumpin-at-the-jubilee-freedom-1546/

The Delmore Brothers

Del Rio Boogie - 1949   Wayne Rainey, harmonica. Possibly recorded in Del Rio, TX

Sidney Bechet

Viper Mad - 1938   With Noble Sissle's Swingsters. Vocal by O'Neil Spencer. Adapted from a song called Pleasure Mad

Sid King & The Five Strings

Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight - 1956   Columbia 4-21564

Lowell Fulson

Every Day I Have The Blues (Lonely Heart Blues) - 1949   With Lloyd Glenn, Piano - Swing Time 196 / Hollywood 1029 / Hollywood 1103

Marvin Gaye

One More Heartache - 1966   Written by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles. Also recorded by Paul Butterfield in 1967. Tamla 54129

Don Gibson

Be Ready - 1958   From his Gospel album No One Stands Alone.

The Four Internes

In That Great Gettin' Up Mornin' - 1952   Original members were internes at a local hospital

Shirley & Lee

Baby - 1953  

Webb Pierce

Freight train blues - 1950   With Buddy Attaway, recorded for Pacemaker Records

Sol Ho'opi'i

Ten Tiny Toes - 1934  

Pat Johnson

Love, Truth and Confidence - 2021  

The Zion Travelers

Charge To Keep I Have - 1953  

Hank Snow

Love's Call from the Mountain - 1955  

Jimmy Reed

Hush Hush - 1960   Vee Jay 357

Ivory Joe Hunter

No Money, No Luck Blues - 1948   With Owen Bradley, Electric Guitar, Sonny Turner, Trumpet, Andy Goodrich, Alto Saxophone & Sammy Ford, Tenor Saxophone - King 4255

Don Hinton

Honey Bee - 1960   Recorded at Sun, released on Phillips International

Carl Smith

Cut Across Shorty - 1960   Country cover of the Eddie Cochran hit. Also recorded by Freddie & The Dreamers and Rod Stewart & Faces

Shirley Matthews & The Big Town Girls

Big Town Boy - 1963   From Harrow, Ontario

Andy DeJarlis and his Early Settlers

Whiskey Before Breakfast - 1956   Traditional tune often credited to DeJaarlis, a Manitoba Metis fiddler

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