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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

Alex Hill

Baby Brown - 1934   Classically trained musician who wrote songs for and with Lous Armstrong and Fats Waller among others.

Milton Brown & the Musical Brownies

Show Me the Way to Go Home - 1938  

Bongo Herman; Eric "Bingy Bunny" Lamont

Know Fari - 1972   Early recording for Lamont, on guitar

Dave Bartholomew

Bad Habit - 1952   Flip side of My Ding-A-Ling

Hank Snow

La Cucaracha - 1954  

Jean Shepard

Big Midnight Special - 1961   Song originally by Wilma Lee & Stony Cooper. From an album recorded in 1958 featuring a more pop-oriented style than her usual honky-tonk fare.

Roy Montrell

Ooh-Wow - 1956   New Orleans session guitarist appeard on hundreds of records including Little Richard's biggest hits, and was a member of Fats Domino's band.

Julie London

Cry Me A River - 1955   Barny Kessel, guitar, Ray Leatherwood, double bass

The Soul Stirrers

John Saw The Holy Number - 1950   R.H. Harris, lead. Aladdin 2035

Harry Manx

Shame, Shame, Shame - 2001   Canadian-based musician who blends blues, folk and Hindustani classical music. Plays a 20-string mohan veena amongother instruments. Song originally by Jimmy Reed

Delbert McClinton

Sun Medley: Mystery Train/My Baby Left Me/That's All Right - 1993   With Danny Gatton, Guitar. A legendary musician, Mclinton played harmonica on Bruce Channel's Hey Baby,had a chart hit with giving It Up for Your Love.

Hubert Friar and Hilly Billy Hicks

Joe's Mandolin Boogie - 1950   Joe Baumgardner, mandolin

Howlin' Wolf

Baby How Long - 1954   One of the first records he made for Chess (earlier Chess releases were recorded at Sun)

The Davis Sisters

Baby Be Mine - 1955   Skeeter Davis & Georgia Davis (not related) one of their last recordings together.

The Browns

Beyond The Shadow - 1959  

Fats Domino

Goin' Home - 1963   Re-make of a song originally recorded in 1952 without Dave Bartholomew, who did produce this version.

Big Jay McNeely

Just Crazy - 1950  

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