May 11, 2025 - Backbeat Radio

This week is fundraising at CanoeFM in Haliburton, I will be live on-the-air from 9 AM until Noon on Sunday Morning. Listeners to the syndicated stations, and on-line, will hear this newly-recorded, regular show.

Big Joe Turner

I Got Love For Sale - 1946

Adolph Hofner

Joe Turner Blues - 1940 Texas singer of Czech-German ancestry. Started playing Hawiian music, then western swing and later rockabilly and polkas

Skeets Tolbert And His Gentlemen Of Swing

W.P.A. - 1940 Played with Fats Waller who influenced his style and songwriting. Wrote Hit That Jive Jack for Nat King Cole among many other hits for others. WPA was a government works program that many deemed ineffecient.

Bill Haley & The Comets

Choo Choo Ch'Boogie - 1956

Percy Mayfield

Strange Things Happening - 1950 With Maxwell Davis Orch, - Specialty 375

Lucky Starr

I've Been Everywhere - 1962 AKA Leslie Morrison. First recording, used Australian place names, there are also versions for New Zealand, and Britain,