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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

A Chicken Ain't Nothin' But A Bird - 1940  

Hank Penny

Hot Time Mama - 1939  

Cab Calloway

I Gotta Go Places And Do Things - 1934  

Harmoneers

Weep Below Children - 1946  

Hank Snow

I Traded Love - 1953  

Harry Manx

Baby, Please Don't Go - 2001   Canadian-based musician who blends blues, folk and Hindustani classical music. Plays a 20-string mohan veena among other instruments.

James Wayne

Bad Morning Blues - 1952   New Orleans musician who struggled with mental health, which affected his careert

Harmie Smith

I'll Not Be Around - 1950   "The Ozark Mountaneer" had a long career in country music, one of the first stars of The Louisiana Hayride, worked closely with Hank Williams.

The Cats And The Fiddle

When Elephants Roost In Bamboo Trees - 1939   One of their signature songs

The Brown's Ferry Four

After The Sunrise - 1946  

The Blues Busters

There's Always Sunshine - 1962   Popular Jamaican duo Philip James and Lloyd Campbell.

Johnny Fontenette

Swingin' With Johnny -   Actually Roy Brown's Mighty, Mighty Men with their sax player on lead. Not issued originally.

Howlin' Wolf

Crying at Daybreak - 1951   Recorded at Sun Studio. Sounds a lot like Smokestack Lightnin' but taken from Tommy Johnson's Big Road Blues and Tampa Red's Stop and Listen.

Curtis Johnson

Baby Let's Play House - 1956   Not released until 1978 - Event E-4282

Smiley Lewis

Down The Road - 1954  

Esther Phillips

You Can Bet Your Life (I Do) - 1956  

James Hunter

Believe Me Baby - 1999   British bluesman who has backed up - and been backed up by - Van Morrison

Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown

Okie Dokie Stomp - 1954   With The Pluma Davis Orchestra - Peacock 1637

Ronnie Dawson AKA Ronnie Dee

Action Packed - 1958   His first rockabilly records were not successful, worked with Delbert McClinton, played on Bruce Channel's Hey Baby and Paul & Paula's Hey Paula

Vann 'Piano Man' Walls, Piano

After Hours Session - 1997   From Bros CD 7002-2

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