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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

Tiny Bradshaw And His Orchestra

Straighten Up And Fly Right - 1944   Recorded for Savoy, before his glory days as a rock & roll star on King

Duke Ellington And His Orchestra

Shout 'Em Aunt Tillie - 1930  

Lucha Reyes

Caminito De Contreras - 1942   Mexican singer (not to be confused with the Peruvian singer using the sme name). Known as Queen of Ranchera

Arthur Smith's Hot Quintet

Banjo Boogie - 1958  

Johnny Cash

Rock Island Line - 1957   From the Leadbelly version. Cash added extra verses.

Goree Carter

Back Home Blues - 1952  

Jean Shepard

One Less Heartache - 1962   Echoes of Brand New Heartache by The Everly Bros.

Misora Hibari

Futari No Hitomi - 1952   Japanese singer, actor and cultural icon. Song is from a Japanese film she starred in.

Evelyn Dell & The Vibra-Tones

Sincerely - 1961  

The Dell Vikings

Whispering Bells - 1957   Featuring Kripp Johnson, Lead Vocals - Fee Bee 214 & Dot 15592

John Mays

Jesus On The Mainline - 2011   From Electro-fi CD I Found A Love. Bucky Berger, drums, Lance Anderson, organ, Teddy Leonard, guitar

Mezzrow-Bechet Septet

Bad, Bad Baby Blues - 1964   Sydney Bechet, Mezz Mezzerow, Sammy Price, Pleasant Joseph (Cousin Joe) vocals

Clifford "King" Solomon

But Officer - 1955   Solomon had a long career in blues and jazz, was Ray Charles' musical director, toured with Canned heat

Duke Robillard

Brand New Fool - 2000   Member of Room Full of Blues, The Fabulous Thunderbirds

Eddie Kirkland

No Shoes - 1953  

Barbara Lynn

You Don't Sleep At Night - 1963  

Clarence "Frogman" Henry

It Won't Be Long - 1957  

Chad Allan & The Expressions (The Guess Who)

Tuff E Nuff - 1965   From their first LP in 1965, Johnny Otis song

Mark O'Connor

Pickin' in the Wind - 1978   Prominent Nashville session player

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