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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 Montrell

(Everytime I Hear) That Mellow Saxophone - 1956   With Lee Allen, Tenor Sax - Prominent N.O. session guitarist & member of Fats Domino's band - Specialty 583

Blue Moon Marquee

Shake It and Break It - 2024   Newly recorded at Bigtone Studio in N.O., live-to-floor on vintage equipment. Pre-order the CD here: bluemoonmarquee.com/pre-order-new-orleans-sessions

Doug & Rusty Kershaw

Let's Stay Together - 1956   Rusty played slide guitar on Neil Young's On The Beach LP

Lonnie Johnson & Blind Willie Dunn

Handful of Riffs - 1929   Lonnie Johnson and Eddie Lang

Louis Armstrong

Heebie Jeebies - 1926   Said to be the first example of "scat singing" on record.

Little Richard

Heeby Jeebies - 1956   Roy Montrel on guitar. Otis Redding performed this song the first time he went on stage at a talent contest.

Jean Shepard

Go on with Your Dancing - 1962   One of the first successful female country stars. Her husband, Hawkshaw Hawkins died in the same plane crash that killed Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas and pilot Randy Hughes

Kansas City Gospel Singers

Trouble All About My Soul - 1950   Recorded for Swingtime in L.A.

Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs

My Cabin In Caroline - 1949  

Roy Milton

Junior Jumps - 1949   Features his guitarist Junior Rogers

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Singing in My Soul - 1947  

Jimmy Rushing

In The Moonlight - 1952  

Jimmy Masuluke

Salani -   South African musician

The Checkers

Without A Song - 1953   Features Bill Brown, bass lead

The Maddox Brothers & Rose

You Won't Believe This - 1962  

Sonny Dae and the Knights

Rock Around The Clock - 1954   Written by Max Freedman and performed live by Bill Haley, Haley's label at the time would not let him record it because of a feud with its publisher.

Billy Brown

He'll Have To Go - 1959   First recording of the song, later recorded by Jim Reeves (and hundreds of others)

Jan & Dean

Linda - 1963   Written in the 1940s by Jack Lawrence using the name of his lawyer's daughter, Linda Eastman (Linda McCartney)

Taj Mahal

Mind Your Own Business - 1997  

The "5" Royales

Do The Cha Cha Cherry - 1958   Lowman Pauling, writer & guitar, Royal Abbit, vocal. Cha Cha Cherry is actually the name of a plant.

Duke Ellington

Running Wild - 1930  

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