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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

Nat King Cole

Straighten Up and Fly Right - 1943   Based on a folk tale Cole's father referenced in a sermon

The Callahan Brothers

She Came Rollin' Down The Mountain - 1936  

Tennessee Jim

My Baby She's Rockin - 1956   Jim McDonald, Missouri

Leadbelly

The Eagle Rocks - 1944   Vocal and piano by Leadbelly, eagle rock was a dance move.

Anthony Butler Singers

Judgement's Comin' - 1955  

Alberta Adams with the Red Saunders Orch.

Messin' Around With The Blues - 1953   Chess 1551 - declared Queen of Detroit Blues. Continued recording and performing up until the early 2000s

The Delmore Brothers

Midnight Special - 1945   Based on the spiritual Let The Church Roll On

Bob Dunn's Vagabonds

Mama's Gone Goodbye - 1939   "Field" recording made in Houston, Moon Mullican on piano

The Wallace Brothers

(Those) Precious Words - 1964   Ervin & Johnny Wallace were cousins. Recorded at Fame Studio in Muscle Shoals Ala. - Sims 174

The Bells Of Joy

Well Well No No No - 1954  

Toto La Mompasina Y Sus Tambores

El Pescador - 1991   Columbian artist https://www.last.fm/music/Tot%C3%B3+La+Momposina/+wiki - or see https://www.songlines.co.uk/features/how-toto-la-momposina-became-the-queen-of-cumbia

Spade Cooley and His Orchestra

Crazy 'Cause I Love You - 1946   Vocal by Tex Williams

Chuck Jackson, with The Big Bad Blues Band

Cherry Red - 2012   From LP A Cup of Joe, tribute to Joe Turner

Rusty & Doug Kershaw

Louisiana Man - 1961   Recorded at J.D. Miller's studio in Crawley, LA

Willie Dixon, Vocals & Bass With Memphis Slim, Piano

Built For Comfort - 1959   Recorded before Howlin' Wolf's more famous version

Johnny Horton

Honky Tonk Man - 1956   His first Columbia release, Grady Martin and Harold Bradley on guitars, Bill Black on bass, recorded at Bradley's Barn

Lee Andrews & The Hearts

Teardrops - 1957   Lee Andrews was the son of Beachy Thompson, of the Dixie Hummingbirds

The Diamonds

Sneaky Aligator - 1959  

Big Walter, Vocals & His Thunderbirds

Pack Fair And Square - 1956   Also recorded by J. Geils Band - Peacock 1666

Pete Johnson

Cafe Society Rag - 1939   Pete Johnson with Meade Lux Lewis and Albert Ammons

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