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Episode #729 - The R&B of RCA
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Like Columbia and Decca, RCA Victor released some stellar Rhythm & Blues during the late 1940s into the early 1950s, before the label signed Elvis ...

Bought by WOUB, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WUTC, KTRT RADIO INC, KMXT and more


  • Added: Apr 21, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Filmspotting 963 (04/19/24): Civil War / Ben-Hur (Wyler #4) / 1950s Madness Champ
From: WBEZ
Series: Filmspotting (weekly series)
Caption: 'Civil War'
Is Alex Garland’s new film, "Civil War," a warning or mere provocation? Adam and Josh discuss. Plus, the William Wyler Marathon continues with the ...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, WJCT, WMUU-LP, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Apr 19, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Episode #728 - Groove Records
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
In late 1953, RCA Victor launched a new subsidiary to focus on the Rhythm & Blues market, called Groove Records. It's hard to imagine, but Piano Re...

Bought by WHRV, Royalton Community Radio, KJZX-Austin, KCSM, WOUB and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Episode #727 - Lil Greenwood
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
The "Juke In The Back" pays tribute to the great R&B vocalist, Lil Greenwood. You'll hear her greatest early recordings from 1950-1954, before she ...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KCSM, KJZX-Austin, WHRV, WOUB and more


  • Added: Apr 07, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Episode #726 - Percy Mayfield: 1949-60
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Some songwriters and singers just know how to tap into deepest regions of sadness, passion and truth. Such is the musical prowess of Percy Mayfield...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KJZX-Austin, WHRV, WOUB, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 31, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
4 in 1 Volume 1
From: Mike Ficher
Series: The Ultimate Oldies Show
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Artists in the rock'n'roll era who scored 4 or more top ten hits in the span of 12 or fewer months

  • Added: Mar 27, 2024
  • Length: 01:55:53
Episode #725 - Guitar Slim
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Eddie Jones grew up in Hollandale, MS, pickin' cotton and dreaming of a better life when ambition and musical talent plucked him from his situation...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KJZX-Austin, WHRV, KCSM, WOUB and more


  • Added: Mar 24, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Filmspotting 960 (03/22/24): Love Lies Bleeding / The Best Years of Our Lives / 1950s Madness (Elite 8)
From: WBEZ
Series: Filmspotting (weekly series)
Caption: 'Love Lies Bleeding' / 'The Best Years of Our Lives'
Adam and Josh praise Rose Glass’s nasty new noir “Love Lies Bleeding” and are knocked out by 1946’s “The Best Years of Our Lives,” William Wyler’s ...

Bought by KSRQ, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), WMUU-LP, WJCT, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Mar 22, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
Episode #724 - The Cleftones
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, Matt The Cat looks at one of the greatest Doo Wop groups, The Cleftones, through an archival interview with the late Herbie Cox. Cox was...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, Royalton Community Radio, KCSM, WHRV, WOUB and more


  • Added: Mar 17, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Episode #722 - Duke & Peacock Records
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, the entire "Juke In The Back" is loaded with records from the catalog of Duke/Peacock Records. Don Robey created one of the great R&B la...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KJZX-Austin, KCSM, WHRV, WOUB and more


  • Added: Mar 03, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Episode #721 - Lucky Millinder
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
The "Juke In The Back" is loaded this week with records by one of R&B's greatest and most underrated bandleaders, Lucky Millinder. He worked with v...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KJZX-Austin, WHRV, Delmarva Public Media, WOUB and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Episode #720 - The Ray-O-Vacs
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
It's staggering, the number of R&B groups that have been left out of the history books and off radio station playlists just because they don't fit ...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, WHRV, KCSM, WOUB, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 18, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
You Gotta Have Heart!
From: Mike Ficher
Series: The Ultimate Oldies Show
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Valentine's Day - Heart records!

  • Added: Feb 14, 2024
  • Length: 01:56:00
Episode #719 - The Hollywood Flames
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
The Hollywood Flames recorded for nearly 20 different record labels and had numerous personnel changes over their 18 year history, but they always ...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, Royalton Community Radio, KCSM, Mountain Streams Radio WKYW-LP, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 11, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
Filmspotting 954 (02/09/24): Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window vs Vertigo
From: WBEZ
Series: Filmspotting (weekly series)
Caption: Hitchcock's 'Rear Window' vs 'Vertigo'
With “Rear Window” turning 70 this year, Adam and Josh give the double Sacred Cow treatment to a pair of Hitchcock masterpieces from the 50s, then ...

Bought by KTXK, KSRQ, WJCT, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
60th Anniversary - The Beatles - February 9, 1964
From: Mike Ficher
Series: The Ultimate Oldies Show
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60th anniversary of The Beatles' appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show!

  • Added: Feb 07, 2024
  • Length: 01:56:22
Episode #718 - R&B Influences: Lionel Hampton
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Lionel Hampton's big band was a training ground for so many of the all-time great musicians: Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Dexter Gordon, Joe Mo...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, KCSM, WHRV, KJZX-Austin and more


  • Added: Feb 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
The Day the Music Died
From: Mike Ficher
Series: The Ultimate Oldies Show
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65th anniversary of The Day The Music Died

  • Added: Jan 31, 2024
  • Length: 01:55:28
Episode #716 - R&B Influences: Delta Rhythm Boys
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
The "Juke In The Back" takes a deep look at The Delta Rhythm Boys, one of R&B's early influences. They never scored the hits like the Mills Brothe...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KJZX-Austin, WHRV, WOUB, KCSM and more


  • Added: Jan 21, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Episode #715 - The "5" Royales
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, the "Juke In The Back" features a rhythm & blues vocal group from Winston-Salem, NC that not only influenced James Brown, but quite poss...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, WHRV, KCSM, WOUB, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 14, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Episode #714 - 1954: Jukebox Rhythm Review, Pt. 2
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, the “Juke In The Back” transports you back 70 years. 1954 was a pivotal year for American Music. The lines between Rhythm & Blues and Po...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, WHRV, KSRQ, KJZX-Austin, KCSM and more


  • Added: Jan 07, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
Episode #713 - 1954: Jukebox Rhythm Review, Pt. 1
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
The Juke is taking you back 70 years! 1954 was a pivotal year for American Music. The lines between Rhythm & Blues and Pop were getting blurred as ...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, WHRV, KJZX-Austin, KCSM, WOUB and more


  • Added: Dec 31, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Episode #712 - Mabel Scott
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Mabel Scott was an incredibly versatile artist. She was a pianist, pop vocalist, R&B chanteuse and could shout the blues with the best of 'em. Howe...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, WHRV, KJZX-Austin, WUTC, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 24, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Episode #711 - Cool Yule: R&B Christmas, Pt. 2
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
The "Juke In The Back" presents part 2 of our 2 part vintage Christmas Rhythm & Blues extravaganza that Matt The Cat is calling "Cool Yule." Dig on...

Bought by KSRQ, Royalton Community Radio, KJZX-Austin, WHRV, WOUB and more


  • Added: Dec 17, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Class of 1962 Top 30 R&B Records
From: Mike Ficher
Series: The Ultimate Oldies Show
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Count 'em down--Top 30 R&B records from 1962.

  • Added: Dec 13, 2023
  • Length: 01:56:15