Backbeat - Episode 221 January 5 2025 - some weird, unusual and fun vintage popular music
I've got some unusual records cued up for Backbeat this week, as well as the usual mix of gospel, blues, country jazz and rock 'n' roll. We'll have a black vocal group backed up by a white clarinet player, one of Hoagy Carmichael's weirder songs, a novelty number about playing piano and a lively number by the Todd Rhodes Orch., a band whose story line stretches from 1930s jazz to 1950s rock 'n' roll to 1960s Motown