On Backbeat we don't stick to any one genre, and this week's show provides lots of reasons. Singers like Ray Charles make pop hits from gospel songs, gospel singers make pop hits, or gospel hits from pop songs. Sometimes you can't tell which came first, and the stakes aren't worth fighting about in court. Just ask Paula Watson who had her hit record copied exactly by a bigger star. All this is filled out by music from Africa, Jamaica, Alberta and the Louisiana Bayou.
Artist - Title Year Ray Charles - Talkin' About You 1957 Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Lucky Millinder Orch. - Trouble in Mind 1941 Harold Boggs - Thats Where It's At 1963 The Shelton Brothers - Just Because 1935 Patsy Cline - Three Cigarettes In An Ashtray 1957 Paula Watson - A Little Bird Told Me 1949 Eric 'Monty' Morris - Solomon Gundie 1964 Abia Themba - First Stop Dube 1958 Roy Moss - You Don't Know My Mind 1957 The Harmonizers - Satisfied Eddie Gorman - Telephone Blues 1949 Blue Moon Marquee (feat. Duke Robillard) - Country Man 2022 Doctor Ross - Texas Hop 1953 Tony Joe White - Polk Salad Annie 1969 Rod Bernard - This Should Go On Forever 1959 Jimmie Widener - Come a Little Bit Closer 1950 Julia Lee - Tell Me Daddy 1948 Janis Martin - Barefoot Baby 1956 Wes Dakus & The Rebels - 20 75 1960