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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 Harris

Good Morning Judge - 1950   Written and first recorded by country singer Louie Innis

Amos Milburn

Milk And Water - 1954  

Big Fancy & The Shiddy Cowboys

Let Me Fade - 2024   Blake Bamford - Link to Bandcamp site: bigfancy.bandcamp.com/album/the-legendary-loser-wins-again

The Delmore Brothers

I've Got the Big River Blues - 1934   Recorded by Doc Watson (and others) as Deep River Blues

The Swan Silvertones

Where Shall I Go - 1960  

Nellie Lutcher

Rag Mop - 1950   One of many covers of this song

Charlie & Ray

Oh Gee Oo Wee - 1956   Charlie Jones and Ray Williams, NYC duo who were described as "unabashedly gay" in the 1950s

Danny Overbea

(Hey Pancho) - 1954   Overbea was fluent in Spanish and Italian

The Louvin Brothers

I'll Never Go Back -   From recordings of radio shows in the 1940s

The Harlem Hamfats

Root Hog or Die - 1937  

Baby Boy Warren

My Special Friend Blues - 1949   With Charley Mills, Piano - Detroit singer. Prize 706/Staff 706/Gotham 507

The Lambert Bros.

In The Land Beyond The River - 1953  

Hank Snow

Trouble, Trouble, Trouble - 1955  

Merl Lindsay

Safety Pin Rag - 1949  

Ruth Brown & Clyde McPhatter

I Gotta Have You - 1955  

B.B. King

Three O' Clock - 1951   Recorded at the Memphis YMCA, crude sound but his first hit

Wild Bill Moore (And Ensemble)

Neck Bones And Collard Greens - 1950   Recorded for King Records

Jimmy Breaux

Creole Stomp - 1991   From the film I Went to the Dance

The Everly Brothers

Should We Tell Him - 1957   B-side of their second Cadence release

The Gone All Stars

Seven Eleven - 1958   Featuring Buddy Lucas: Saxophone - Gone 5016

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