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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

Ruth Brown

Papa Daddy - 1959   Atlantic 2035. King Curtis, sax, Mike Stoller, piano

Shelly Lee Alley & His Alley Cats

Let Me Bring It To Your Door - 1938   Texas musician, said to have written his first song when he was six.

The Cats And The Fiddle

I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire - 1941   Original by Harlan Leonard and his Rockets in 1940. Co-wrtitten by Bennie Benjamin, one of the few black songwriters to break into the pop market.

Lincoln Gospel Singers

Lincoln Gospel Train -  

Danny Marks

Mixed Up Girl - 2012  

Bill Mounce

It's Just My Imagination - 1941  

Lee Dorsey

Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley - 1970   revived by Robert Palmer in 1974 on an album that included The Meters, Aaron Neville and Lowell George

Tiny Bradshaw

Soft - 1953   Red Prysock, sax

The Manhattan Brothers

Dubula Mfanandini - 1955  

Amos Milburn

Jitterbug Parade - 1949   AKA Jitterbug Fashion Parade, basically a re-make of Chicken Shack Boogie

Chester Smith

You Gotta Move - 1958   Oklahoma gospel musician based in California, part of Bakersfield scene, made a fortune owning radio stations. Decca 30603

Slim Harpo

I Got Love If You Want It - 1957   Also recorded by The Kinks & The Yardbirds. Excello 2113

Barbara Acklin

Love Makes A Woman - 1968   Brunswick 55379

White Lightning

Cantrice - 1963  

B.B. King, With The Maxwell Davis Orchestra

Blues At Midnight - 1962   ABC 10334

Jesse & Buzzy

Goin' Back To Orleans - 1958   Jesse Perkins, Vocals & Harmonica With Buzzy Lubinsky, Guitar. Savoy recording

The Beverly Sisters

Oh Ricky - 1959   Popular English trio active from the 1940s to early 2000s. Mar-Vel' 2000

Chuck Willis

Lawdy Miss Mary - 1956  

Freddie Hart

Dig Boy Dig - 1956   Merle Travis, Guitar. Columbia 4-21512

Benny Goodman Trio

Flying Home -  

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