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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

Baby You Don't Know - 1953   Specialty 480

Wayne Raney

Catfish Baby - 1952  

Billy Jack Wills

Blue Guitar Stomp - 1953   Radio transcription recorded at KFBK in Sacramento, CA

The Four Knights

Walkin' And Whistlin' Blues - 1951   Taken from Telefunkin C80146 (Capitol 1707) 78

Valaida Snow

Caravan - 1940   Recorded in Copenhagen, Denmark

Lord Tanamo

I'm In The Mood For Ska - 1965   Joseph Abraham Gordon

Big Boy Myles

She's so Fine - 1962   New Orleans trombone player who recorded solo and as part of various groups for Aladdin, Specialty and Chess without commercial success at the time. This was his final kick at the can with similar results.

Lance Anderson

Spann's Boogie - 2000   Pianist & Hammond B3 player, promoter and record producer based in Toronto & Orillia, ON.

Boots Woodall and his Radio Wranglers

Rattle Snakin' Daddy - 1947   King 616

Grandpa Jones

Bread and Gravy - 1953  

Utah Smith

God's Mighty Hand - 1944  

Sonny Boy Williamson #1 (John Lee Williamson)

Good Morning Little School Girl - 1937   Bluebird 7059

Ray Charles

Hide Nor Hair - 1962   Written by Percy Mayfield, its rise on the charts was slowed by Charles' own recording of I Can't Stop Loving You

Jimmy Nolen

Jimmy's Jive - 1956  

The Sensational Nightengales

Blood For Me - 1858  

Piano Red

Jumpin' The Boogie - 1950   Julius Cheeks

The String Breakers

Big City - 1959   Recorded in Tulsa, OK. Also Tex Harmer, Charlie Stacy, and Johnny Hunt.

Ward Gospel Singers

Packin' Up - 1956   Marion Williams, lead.

Unknown Artist

Unknown song - 2015   From test pressing 78 RCA E2 V8-800 .

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