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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

Wynonie "Mr Blues" Harris

Wasn't That Good? - 1953   King 4260

Sidney Bechet & His New Orleans Feetwarmers

V-Disc Blues (Bugle Call Rag / Ole Miss Rag) - 1944   Made for broadcast to U.S. soldiers overseas

Dinah Washington

There'll Be a Jubilee - 1956   First recorded by The Andrews Sisters in 1944

Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys

I'm On My Way to the Old Home - 1952   Recorded in1950

Soulstack

Warm Bed To Sleep On - 2013   Jon Knight - Vocals, Mark Wessenger - Organ and Vocals, Chris Latta - Guitar, Tom Bona - Drums and Vocals, Harpo Peterson - Bass and Vocals. YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/soulstack

Silvertone Singers

I Got a Home in That Rock - 1953   Excello 2013

Maxine Sullivan

Every Time We Say Goodbye - 1945   Cole Porter song. With the Teddy Wilson Orch.

Texas Ruby

Don't You Lie to Me - 1945   Ruby Owens (sister of Tex Owens) with her husband, Curly fox

Slim Guitar And His Band

Mapai Busuku - 1959  

Howlin' Wolf

My Baby Told Me -  

Slim Gaillard

Jumpin' At the Record Shop - 1946   Atomic Records 216

The Blind Boys of Alabama

I've Been Born Again - 1957   Specialty recording

The Davis Sisters

Don't Take Him For Granted - 1956   One of their last recordings - Georgia Davis and Skeeter Davis (Mary Penick - the two were not related)

Doc Watson

Nashville Pickin' - 1966   From his LP Southbound

Johnny Cash

Five Feet High & Rising - 1959   Inspired by an actual flood that Cash experienced when he was just under five years old

Lightnin Slim

I'm A Rolling Stone - 1957   Excello 2116

Barbara Lynn

You Can't Be Satisfied - 1963  

The Tokens

Tonight I Fell In Love - 1961   Their first chart hit - Warwick 615

Lew Williams

Bop Bop Ba Doo Bop - 1956   Yet another moderately successful rockabilly singer who found great success 40 years later in the European rockabilly revival

Ace Harris Orchestra

After Hours - 1946   Original version

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