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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

Roy Milton And His Band

I'll Always Be In Love With You - 1946  

Lester Flatt

Head Over Heels In Love - 1971   Re-make of a song he first recorded with Earl Scruggs in 1951

The Trumpeteers

Motherless Child - 1950   From Baltimore, led by Joseph Johnson

Roosevelt Sykes

Living In A Different World - 1946  

Red Foley & Roberta Lee

I Gotta Have You - 1952   Also recorded by Ruth Brown with Clyde McPhatter

Al Russ

Mexican Hat Rock - 1958   Also recorded by Dave Appell & The Applejacks. Both artists claimed writers' credit thou it actually uses snippet of many songs

Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra

I'm Waitin' Just For You - 1951   Vocal Annisteen Allen & John Carol. First version of the oft-recorded song

Franco et l'O.K. Jazz

Makila Mabe - 1958   Calypso group from what was then known as The Belgian Congo

The Drifters

I Gotta Get Myself A Woman - 1956   Leads; Johnny Moore, Bill Pikney; Sam Taylor, sax

Moon Mullican

I Done It - 1953  

Skip Easterling

Don't Let Him (Come Between Us) - 1963   Written by Allen Tousaint

Bill Matte and the Five Classics

Parlez Vous L'francais - 1961  

Lightnin' Slim

Rooster Blues - 1959   With Lazy Lester, Harmonica - Excello 2169

Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne

Where Did My Baby Go? - 2002   With Mel Brown: Guitar

The Brown's Ferry Four

I've Got That Old Time Religion In My Heart - 1948  

The Everly Brothers

Love Of My Life - 1958   Flip side of Problems

Goree Carter

Every Dog Has His Day - 1951   His first release for Imperial. Read a detailed review: www.spontaneouslunacy.net/goree-carter-every-dog-has-his-day-imperial-5152/

Link Davis

Joe Turner - 1949   West Texas tenor sax player who played on records by The Big Bopper and Johnny Preston

The Gentlemen

Baby Don't Go - 1954   Classic street corner harmony group from Newark NJ. Read Marv Goldberg's biography: www.uncamarvy.com/Gentlemen/gentlemen.html

The Chantays

Pipeline - 1963   Downey 104 & Dot 16440

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