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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

Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five

Choo Choo Ch'boogie - 1946   Written for Jordan by two country performers, Vaughn Horton & Denver Darling. R&B and pop hit.

Dottie Mae

A Good Man Is Hard To Find - 1961  

Ole Rasnussen & his Cornhuskers

Sleepy Eyed John - 1950   Later recorded by Johnny Horton

The Christian Travelers

Oh What A Savior - 1954  

Solomon Burke

If You Need Me - 1963   Atlantic 2185

Muddy Waters

Still A Fool - 1951   Jimmy Rogers, Guitar. Chess 1480. AKA Two Trains Runnin'

Ella Mae Morse

Tennessee Saturday Night - 1951  

Tennessee Ernie Ford

Tennessee Border - 1949   Originally by Jimmy Work, Merl Travis, guitar, Speedy West, steel

The Wailers

Tall Cool One - 1959   Originally titled Scoth & Soda. Hit in 1959 and 1964

La Lupe

Fever - 1963   Cuban-born singer became Queen of Latin Soul in NYC. Was on Mongo Santamaria's Watermelon Man

James "Sugar Boy" Crawford

Jock A Mo - 1953   Chock-a-mo, tells the story of a confrontation between two Indian tribes in a Mardi Gras parade. Later recorded as Iko Iko.

Sleepy LaBeef

All The Time - 1957  

John Lee Hooker

Wheel And Deal - 1955   Jimmy Reed, Harmonica. Vee Jay Recording Released On Top Rank EP 136

Bull Moose Jackson And His Buffalo Bearcats

Houston Texas Gal - 1949  

Jimmy & Russ Williams

High On The Hog - 1966  

Jerry Byrne

Carry On - 1959   Dr. John

Norman Fox & The Rob-Roys

Tell Me Why - 1957   Later a hit by the Bemonts

Mickey & Sylvia

Love Drops - 1961   Written by them, later recorded by Barry Allen at Norman Petty's studio in Clovis, NM. Willow 23000

Chuck Berry

House Of Blue Lights - 1958   Previously Unissued Chess Recording

Earl Bostic

For You - 1956  

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