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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

Newspaper Boy Blues - 1952   Tiny Kennedy doing a female impersonation

Leroy Foster And Muddy Waters

Locked Out Boogie - 1948   Recorded for Aristocrat

Ella Fitzgerald (w; Louis Armstrong)

Can Anyone Explain? - 1950  

Carl Butler

I'll Go Steppin' Too - 1954  

The Delmore Brothers

Gospel Cannonball - 1941  

The Staple Singers Featuring Mavis Staples

Slow Train - 1969   From the Stax LP Soul Folk in Action

Emmylou Harris

If I Could Only Win Your Love - 1975   Originally by The Louvin Bros.

Hazel Scott

Country Gardens - 1940   Great, clasically-trained pianist who was an outspoken advocate for civil rights - which derailed her career in the McCarthy era. YouTube video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kLKf7SUjxY

The Stars of Hope

Where Shall I Go (Be) -  

Larry Darnell

I'll Be Sittin', I'll Be Rockin' - 1952   w; The Howard Biggs Orchestra

The Hawketts

Mardi Gras Mambo - 1955   9-piece group included Art Neville - Chess 1591

Clarence "Frogman" Henry

I'm In Love - 1958   Paul Gayten, piano. Co-written by Bobby Russell (Little Green Apples)

Elmore James

It Hurts Me Too - 1965   Originally by Tampa Red

Rebekah Hawker

Twenty-Nine (Cowboy Version) - 2025   Web site: www.rebekahhawker.com/

Albert King

The Hunter. - 1967   From Stax LP 723 "Born Under A Bad Sign"

Buddy Covelle

Lorraine - 1959   Studio name for a singer belived to be Veline Hackert, nobody is sure

Brenda Lee

I Wonder - 1963   Originally by Cecil Gant, flip side of My Whole World Is Falling Down

Chuck Berry

Down The Road A-Piece - 1958   First recorded in 1940 by Will Bradley & Ray McKinley, also by Amos Milburn, Ella Mae Morse, The Rolling Stones etc.

Skeets McDonald

Heart-Breakin' Mama - 1956   Eddie Cochran, Lead Guitar - Capitol F 3461

Hen Gates & His Gators

Airmail Boogie - 1949   Featuring Freddie Mitchell, Tenor Saxophone - Derby 728

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