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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

Strange Things Happening Every Day - 1945   Decca 8669

Mickey Baker

Rock With A Sock - 1955   With Warren Luckey, Tenor Saxophone - Rainbow 299

Ivory Joe Hunter

Stop Rockin' That Train - 1947  

Stranger & Patsy

Down by the Train Line - 1967   Wilburne Cole & Patsy Todd

Django Reinhardt

Tea For Two - 1939  

Harold & Hazel

Wait For Me - 1933   Duo who made several records in the 1930s then disappeared. Now how Harold inserts "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" into his solo break.

The Ravens

Marie - 1951   Irving Berlin song recorded for National in 1949. Revived by The Four Tunes in 1953.

Slim Gaillard

Matzoh Balls - 1939   Gaillard has claimed that his father was Jewish, but his early life not really known.

Modern Mountaineers

Mary Jane - 1941   Featuring Smokey Wood.

Swan's Silvertone Singers

I Got A Mother Done Gone - 1949   King recording, Solomon Womack, Roosevelt Payne, leads

Charles Perrywell & The Fairlanes

You're Lonesome Now - 1960   Louisiana group

Horace Andy

I Feel Good All Over - 1972  

Bobby Darin

Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey - 1967   Song written in 1902 about Willard Bailey, a jazz musician

Eugene Wright And His Dukes Of Swing

Pork 'N Beans - 1949   Released on Aristocrat (Chess). Group included Sun Ra.

David "Honeyboy" Edwards

Sweet Home Chicago - 1953   With Albert Williams, Piano, James Walker, Washboard & Dickie Houston, Drums Previously Unissued Sun Recording

Sabrina Weeks & Swing Cat Bounce

Boogie Downtown - 2010   Featuring Mike Hilliard, guitar. Web site: sabrinaandmikelive.com/bio

Lewis Lymon With The Teenchords

I'm So Happy (Tra-La-La-La-La-La) - 1956   Frankie Lymon's brother. Group did well in NYC but didn't chart nationally. Fury 1000

Carl Perkins

Right String But The Wrong Yo Yo. - 1956   Song written by Speckled Red, revived by his son Piano Red in 1950, also recorded by The Beatles in their Get Back sessions. Sun LP 1225

Matt "Guitar" Murphy

Matt's Guitar Boogie - 1990   With Floyd Murphy, Guitar

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