Air Week: October 18-24, 2021 Dinah Washington, Pt. 5 – 1954-59 Dinah Washington was more than just the “Queen of The Jukeboxes,” “Queen Of The Blues” and any other prestigious but vacant title you could pin on her. Dinah was the real deal. As one of the best selling artists of the 20th Century, Dinah […]

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Episode #598 – Dinah Washington, Pt. 5 – 1954-59

Air Week: October 11-17, 2021 Dinah Washington, Pt. 4 – 1951-53 Dinah Washington was more than just the “Queen of The Jukeboxes,” “Queen Of The Blues” and any other prestigious but vacant title you could pin on her. Dinah was the real deal. As one of the best selling artists of the 20th Century, Dinah […]

Episode #597 – Dinah Washington, Pt. 4 – 1951-53

Air Week: October 4-10, 2021 Dinah Washington, Pt. 3 – 1950-51 Dinah Washington was more than just the “Queen of The Jukeboxes,” “Queen Of The Blues” and any other prestigious but vacant title you could pin on her. Dinah was the real deal. As one of the best selling artists of the 20th Century, Dinah […]

Episode #596 – Dinah Washington, Pt. 3 – 1950-51

Air Week: September 27-October 3, 2021 Dinah Washington, Pt. 2 – 1947-49 Dinah Washington was more than just the “Queen of The Jukeboxes,” “Queen Of The Blues” and any other prestigious but vacant title you could pin on her. Dinah was the real deal. As one of the best selling artists of the 20th Century, […]

Episode #595 – Dinah Washington, Pt. 2 – 1947-49

Air Week: September 20-26, 2021 Dinah Washington, Pt. 1 – 1943-46 Dinah Washington was more than just the “Queen of The Jukeboxes,” “Queen Of The Blues” and any other prestigious but vacant title you could pin on her. Dinah was the real deal. As one of the best selling artists of the 20th Century, Dinah […]

Episode #594 – Dinah Washington, Pt. 1 – 1943-46

Air Week: September 13-19, 2021 Ike Turner  One of Rhythm & Blues’ greatest innovators was also one of its most notorious personalities. Ike Turner was born in the same place that the blues was born, in the heart of the Mississippi Delta in Clarksdale in 1931. He learned boogie woogie piano was the legendary Pinetop […]

Episode #593 – Ike Turner

Air Week: September 6-12, 2021 The Moonglows, Pt. 2 – 1956-61 Much has been written about the great R&B vocal groups of the 1950s. Many of the classic groups were either great musicians and vocalists and never had the recognition or record sales to back it up or these groups were thrown together, they couldn’t […]

Episode #592 – The Moonglows, Pt. 2 – 1956-61

Air Week: August 30-September 5, 2021 The Moonglows, Pt. 1 – 1953-55 Much has been written about the great R&B vocal groups of the 1950s. Many of the classic groups were either great musicians and vocalists and never had the recognition or record sales to back it up or these groups were thrown together, they […]

Episode #591 – The Moonglows, Pt. 1 – 1953-55

Air Week: August 23-29, 2021 Sun Records and R&B, Pt. 2 – 1954-55 On Part 2 of “Juke In The Back”‘s 2 part series on Sun Records’ early R&B releases, Matt The Cat spotlights 1954 and ’55. This was the most important year and a half in Sun’s history. In July, 1954, a young former […]

Episode #590 – Sun Records and R&B, Pt. 2 – 1954-55

Air Week: August 16-22, 2021 Sun Records and R&B, Pt. 1 – 1952-53 This week, the “Juke In The Back” salutes the most influential and important record label of all-time, Sun Records. Sam Phillips started the legendary label in Memphis, TN in March, 1952 after successfully recording the debut sides from B.B. King, Ike Turner, […]

Episode #589 – Sun Records and R&B, Pt. 1 – 1952-53

Air Week: August 9-15, 2021 Arthur Lee Maye & The Crowns Arthur Lee Maye did something that few had ever done. He concurrently had a career as a R&B singer, leading the LA-based group Arthur Lee Maye & The Crowns while also playing minor and major league baseball as an outfielder for the Milwaukee Braves. […]

Episode #588 – Arthur Lee Maye & The Crowns

Air Week: August 2-8, 2021 R.I.P. Willie Winfield of The Harptones On July 27th, we lost the amazing, soaring tenor of The Harptones’ Willie Winfield. The Harptones never had a national hit record, yet they are arguably the finest vocal group to come out of New York City during the 1950s. Winfield’s recognizable vocal style […]

Episode #587 – R.I.P. Willie Winfield of The Harptones

Air Week: July 26-August 1, 2021 The (original R&B) Diamonds The “Juke In The Back” takes a look at one of New York’s greatest, but almost unheard of R&B vocal groups: The Diamonds.  They only got 3 singles released by Atlantic Records during 1952 and ’53 and would fade into history by 1955, but their […]

Episode #586 – The (original R&B) Diamonds

Air Week: July 19-25, 2021 Chuck Berry, Part 3 – 1958 Chuck Berry has been called the “Father of Rock n’ Roll” and with good reason. He took the blues of T-Bone Walker and B.B. King, the guitar riffs of Carl Hogan and mixed it with the fiddle and Western Swing music of Bob Wills […]

Episode #585 – Chuck Berry, Pt. 3 – 1958

Air Week: July 12-18, 2021 Chuck Berry, Pt. 2 – 1956-57 Chuck Berry has been called the “Father of Rock n’ Roll” and with good reason. He took the blues of T-Bone Walker and B.B. King, the guitar riffs of Carl Hogan and mixed it with the fiddle and Western Swing music of Bob Wills […]

Episode #584 – Chuck Berry, Pt. 2 – 1956-57

Matt The Cat presents the soul that came before rock n’ roll: 1950s rhythm and blues. Each week, this underrated and rollicking music plays on that old Rockola Jukebox in the back.

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