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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

Louis Jordan

That Chick's Too Young To Fry - 1946   Co-written by Tommy Edwards (It's All In The Game)

Patsy Montana & The Prairie Ramblers

I Want To Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart - 1935   Based on Stuart Hamblen's Texas Plains, first million-selling record by a female country artist. Also recorded by Patti Page, LeeAnn Rimes, Cyndi Lauper & Phish among many others

The Heavenly Echoes

Your God Is My God Too - 1955   Recorded in New Orleans, Eskew Reeder, piano (probably vocal too)

Marv Johnson

(You've Got To) Move Two Mountains - 1960   Recorded in New York and released on United Artists (2411) but considered a Motown record as it was written & produced by Johnson's manager, Berry Gordy.

Billy the Kid

Gwelo - 1962   Billy Pettinger. Recorded in South Africa, Zonk TV 282

Roosevelt Sykes & The Honeydrippers

Security Blues - 1952  

Little Red Walter

Aw Shucks Baby - 1960   Walter Rhodes, based in New York City.

George "Tautu" Archer & His Pagans

Les Femmes D'Amerique - 1944   Kepoikai " Splash " Lyons on steel guitar and vocals. Marcel René Tautu dit Céran born in Tahiti, known for combining Hawaiian & Polynesian music with modern, foreign influences.

Kid Ory & Creole Jazz Band

Blanche Touquatoux - 1945   Part of the New Orleans Dixieland revival, title roughly translates as referring to a white woman who is loud and attention-getting.

Blue Moon Marquee

Big Smoke - 2024  

Flatt & Scruggs

Cabin in Caroline - 1949  

The Fascinators

Chapel Bells - 1958   Italian-American street corner group from Brooklyn, NY. Capitol 4053 (1958) & Capitol 4544 (1961)

Patsy Cline

Shoes - 1962   Feat. Hank Cochran, guitar & The Jordanaires

Una Mae Carlisle and her Jive Band

Hangover Blues - 1938   Child prodigy of African-American and Native descent. Worked extensively with Fats Waller.

The Chosen Gospel Singers

When The Saints Go Marching In - 1956   Nashboro recording.

Louis Prima And Keely Smith

Oh Babe! - 1950  

Mable John

You're Taking Up Another Man's Place - 1966   Little Willie John's sister - Stax 205

Clyde McPhatter

Deep Sea Ball - 1956  

Bill Doggett

(Let's Do) The Hully Gully Twist - 1960  

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