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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

The Midnighters

Is Your Love For Real? - 1957   Lead by Hank Ballard whose early inspiration was Gene Autry

Roy Milton

Blues In My Heart - 1946   Roy Milton, vocal

Margaret Lewis

Reconsider Me - 1964   Louisiana based singer and songwriter, with Grace Tennessee (Mira Smith) who played guitar and owned the record label (Ram)

Happy, Doc and The Boys

Bayou Lafourche - 1947   Happy LeBlanc and Doc Guidry

Seven Melody Men

Nobody Knows Nobody Cares - 1947   Recorded for Aristocrat (Chess) AKA the Four-A Melody Men

The Wallace Brothers

Line Between Love And Hate - 1967   Members were actually cousins - Sims 316

Big Joe & His Washboard Band

I'm Through With You - 1940   Joe McCoy.

Guitar Gable and the Musical Kings

Congo Mambo - 1956   The house band for J.D. Miller who also roduced the Happy Fats cajun record heard earlier

The Bebop Cowboys

Let's Give It a Shot, Let's Give It a Whirl - 2006   Lead by Steve Biggs, guitar. Facebook page: www.facebook.com/p/Bebop-Cowboys-Swing-a-Billy-Orchestra-100069849871629/

Buddy Knox

Somebody Touched Me - 1956   Originally by Ruth Brown (though inspired by the gospel song of the same name)

Julia Lee With Her Boyfriends

Do You Want It? - 1949   Kansas City singer whose band included the top musicians in town. Her early records were distributed with a warning about lyrics - Capitol 956

Jimmie Revard & His Oklahoma Playboys

Does My Baby Love Me? - 1937   Adolph Hofner, vocal

Jack De Keyzer

Do Right Woman - 2018   British-born Canadian guitarist. Web site: jackdekeyzer.com/

Christine Kittrell

I Ain't Nothing But a Fool - 1952   Flip side of her hit Sittin' Here Drinking

Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers

Do You Love Me Pretty Baby? - 1954   Specialty recording

Ben E. King

First Taste Of Love - 1960   First recording after leaving The Drifters, written by Doc Pomus & Phil Spector - Atco 6185

George Jones

A Picture Of Me (Without You) - 1972  

Tommy Sands

I Know About The Bees - 1954  

The Mellows

Smoke From Your Cigarette - 1955   Featuring Lilian Leach, NYC group were only locally successful. Lou Reed listed this as one of his favourite songs - Jay-Dee 797

Johnny Preston

Do What You Did - 1961   Originally by Thurston Harris

Wes Dakus & The Rebels

Cavalier Twist -  

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