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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

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

The Lord Followed Me Here - 1947   With the Sam Price Trio

Hank Sanders

Been Gone A Long Time - 1958   Crest 1039

Ella Fitzgerald (w; The Mills Brothers)

I Gotta Have My Baby Back - 1949   Written by Floyd Tillman first recorded by Jimmy Davis, covered by Red Foley and Rex Allen

The Dixie Hummingbirds

He'll do The Same For You - 1959  

Lord Kitchener

The Road - 1963   Trinidadian performer "The grand master of calypso" also very popular in England and the U.S.

The Carolina Cotton Pickers

Moten Swing - 1937   From the Allen Lowe collection. See his comments: www.backbeatradio.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=122

The Bebop Cowboys

Shooting Star - 2006  

Big Bill Broonzy

Little City Woman - 1953   With Lee Cooper, Electric Guitar, Washboard Sam, Washboard & Ernest "Big" Crawford, Double Bass = Chess 1546

Lula Reed

I'm A Woman (But I Don't Talk Too Much) - 1961   R&B singer with a promising career but few hits. Never really comfortable in R&B, she returned to gospel in the 1960s - Federal 12407

Mercy Dee

Have You Ever - 1955  

Clara Ward & The Ward Singers

How I Got Over - 1950  

Bobby Charles

No More (I Aint' Gonna Do It) - 1957   Lee Allen, sax; Edgar Blanchard, guitar

Leo Ogletree

Crooked Dice - 1955   His only record, part of Starday Custom series (i.e. vanity pressing)

Chuck Hatfield

Steel Wool - 1954   Steel guitar player from Detroit, regularly backed up The Davis Sisters, this was issued as the flip of one of their early records

Jack Scott

Cry, Cry, Cry - 1962  

Johnny Ray

Just Walking In The Rain - 1956   Originally by The Prisonaires. Backed by The Ray Conniff Singers.

The Jewels

Natural Natural Ditty - 1955  

Bobby Comstock

Let's Stomp - 1963   Co-written by Jerry Goldstein and Richard Gottehrer, AKA The Strangeloves (I Want Candy)

Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith

Blue Boogie - 1957  

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