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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

Patsy Cline

Lovesick Blues - 1960   Made famous by Hank Williams though he didn't write it.

Joe Swift

Alligator Meat - 1949  

Merle Kilgore

Funny Feelin' - 1955   Early recording by artist best known for his songwriting - Wolverton Mountain (his mother's maiden name was Clowers), Ring of Fire

The Nic Nacs (With Mickey Champion)

Found Me A Sugar Daddy - 1951   Actually The Robins moonlighting. Champion worked with Johnny Otis and Roy Milton, whom she married. Without hits left music but returned in the early 2000s and was nominated for a grammy.

Mahalia Jackson

Didn't It Rain - 1958   Mildred Falls, piano; Milt Hinton, bass

Blue Moon Marquee

As I Lay Dying - 2022   From Bare Knukles & Brawn CD

Wayne Raney and Delmore Brothers

Red Ball To Natches - 1949  

Los Panchos

El Burro Soccaron - 1954   World's most popular trio

The Selah Jubilee Singers

Walk Together With My Jesus - 1949   AKA The Larks, Thermon Ruth, Allen Bunn

Brenda Lee

Always On My Mind - 1972   First recording, first released by Gwen McRae.

Owen Gray

Please Let Me Go - 1960   His first single. One of the first home grown Jamaican stars, also popular in the U.K.

Shirley & Lee

Let The Good Times Roll - 1956  

Janis Martin

Love Me Love - 1960   Written by Boudleaux Bryant.

Tennessee Ernie ford

Country Junction - 1949   Moon Mullican, piano; Merle Travis & Speedy West, guitars. Band also included Harold Hensley, fiddle and bandleader Wade Ray

George Jones

Nothing Can Stop - 1958  

Willie Egan

I Can't Understand It - 1956   LA based pianist, critically aclaimed but little commercial success. Had a brief revival in Europe in the 1980

Brenda Lee (Jones) With The Vocaltones

I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody (None Of My Love) - 1955   Jones later recorded as "Jean" in Dean & Jean - Apollo 490

Percy Mayfield

How Wrong Can I Be - 1949  

Louisiana Red

I'm Too Poor To Die - 1962   Iverson Minter, at one time married to folk singer Odetta, based in Hanover, Germany for most of his career

Smiley Lewis

Shame, Shame, Shame - 1956   First recording of the pop song also a hit for Billy Williams. Was not a hit for Lewis despite being used in the 1956 film Baby Doll.

Buddy Johnson

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