That Driving Beat

This episode is packed full of 1960s Rhythm & Blues, plus plenty of soul dancers, mod movers, and more! James dug up a test pressing with nothing written on the label, and it turns out it's rare soul from east Texas! Hear that and plenty more on this episode of That Driving Beat!

Originally broadcast November 12, 2023

Willie Mitchell / That Driving Beat

Fontella Bass / I Can't Rest

Chris Kenner / Land of 1000 Dances

Junior Walker & The All Stars / Ain't That the Truth

Dean Parrish / Skate Pt.1

Lucius Lawton / People Sure Act Funny

The Kit Kats / Distance

Anna King / Come And Get These Memories

Solomon Burke / Dance, Dance, Dance

Floyd Dixon / Tell Me, Tell Me

Ed Bruce / The Greatest Man

Rayford Tucker / If You Need More Time (Time Will Tell)

King Curtis / Jump Back

Popular Five / Little Bitty Pretty One

Lou Johnson / Unsatisfied

Little Carl Carlton / Competition Ain't Nothin'

Chuck Jackson & Maxine Brown / C. C. Rider

Johnny Thunder & Ruby Winters / Make Love To Me

Bernadette & Her Swingin' Bears / When You're Dancin' With Me

Varetta Dillard / Scorched

Jimmie Beaumont / Everybody's Cryin'

Timmy Shaw / I'm A Lonely Guy

Mickey Denton / How the Mighty Hath Fallen

Solomon Burke / Keep Looking

Don Covay / Take This Hurt Off Me

Shelley Du Pont & The Calendars / Stop Driving Me Crazy

The Dovells / Brisol Twistin' Annie

Johnny (Guitar) Watson / Broke and Lonely

Neil Darrow / Somethin' You Got

Ernie K. Doe / A Certain Girl

Maxine Brown / Yesterday's Kisses

Jackie Wilson / I'm So Lonely

Chuck Jackson / This Broken Heart (That You Gave Me)

James Carr / Coming Back to Me Baby

Kim Weston / You Hit Me Where It Hurt Me

Marvin Gaye / I'll Be Doggone

Dyke And The Blazers / So Sharp

Larry Williams & Johnny Watson / A Quitter Never Wins

Jackie De Shannon / Just Like in the Movies

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Two more hours of hip-shaking, foot-stomping, floor-filling soul and R&B from the 1960s! We play one genre-bending cover of a tune from a West End musical that barely escaped the vaults, recorded in 1967 and only getting its vinyl release in 2017!

Originally broadcast November 5, 2023

Willie Mitchell / That Driving Beat

The Holidays / I Keep Holding On

The Hearts / Don't Let Me Down

Gloria Taylor / You Got to Pay the Price

The Flirtations / I Wanna Be There

Serenaders / If Your Heart Says Yes

Fantastic Four / Romeo and Juliet's "I Don't Wanna to Live Without You (Play)"

The Fasinations / You Gonna Be Sorry

Georgia Gibbs / I Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way

Bobby Harris / Sticky, Sticky

Lou Johnson / (There's) Always Something There To Remind Me

Jacki Bond / Reviewing The Situation

The Ideals / You Lost And I Won

Tommy Raye / You Don't Love Me

Mike Kelly / I Know

Bedford Incident / It Ain't Me, Babe

Herman Griffin & the Boys in the Band / Are You For Me Or Against Me

Marlena Shaw / Let's Wade in the Water

The Goodees / Condition Red

The Titans / Hush Puppies

Sonny Hines / Nothing Like Your Love

Clyde McPhatter / In My Tenament

Joe Graves / It's Gotta be For Real

The Sensations / Too Shy

The Impressions / Can't Satisfy

Bettye Swann / Lonely Love

Kelly Jackson / In The Middle Of Nowhere

The Precisions / Why Girl

Thelma Jones / Stronger

The Capitols / Ain't That Terrible

Bill Johnson / It Ain't Never Gonna Die

The Continental 4 / The Way I Love You

King George / So Long Johnny

Dusty Springfield / I'll Try Anything

Theola Kilgore / I Know That He Loves Me

Ruby & The Romantics / Twilight Time

Paul Kelly / Sweet Sweet Lovin'

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Uwe and James bring stacks of Mod and Northern Soul 45 rpm favorites for today's 1960s all-vinyl dance party. Enjoy tunes from Nella Dodds, Little Milton, Darrell Banks, Irma Thomas, Pat Lewis, Chuck Jackson, Etta James, and hear the story of us playing a highly in-demand Northern Soul classic by Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes at a soul club night and clearing the dance floor!

Originally broadcast October 29, 2023

Willie Mitchell / That Driving Beat

Dee Clark / Crossfire Time

James Brown & The Famous Flames / Night Train

Marvin Gaye / Little Darling, I Need You

Patty LaBelle & the Bluebelles / You Forgot How To Love

Little Milton / Just A Little Bit

Alvin Cash & The Registers / The Philly Freeze

Tina Britt / You're Absolutely Right

The Vibrations / My Girl Sloopy

Major Lance / Too Hot To Hold

Darrell Banks / Somebody (Somewhere) Needs You

Jimmy Lewis / Two Women

The Lot / Loving You Is All I Do

Wilmer & The Dukes / Give Me One More Chance

Timmy Shaw / Gonna Sent You Back To Georgia

Lee Rogers / You're the Cream of the Crop

Nella Dodds / Your Love Back

Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes / Get Out (and Let Me Cry)

Maxine Brown / You Upset My Soul

Bobby Bland / Call On Me

Irma Thomas / Time Is On My Side

Bunny & Cindy / Sure Didn't Take Long

Mike Williams / If This Isn't Love

Pat Lewis / Warning

The Olympics / Fireworks

Anna King / The Big Change

Chuck Jackson / Any Day Now

Maxine Brown / One In A Million

Betty Everett / I Can't Hear You

The Preparations / Get-E-Up (The Horse)

Bobby Freeman / C'mon and Swim

Madeline Bell / Picture Me Gone

The Diplomats / There's Still A Tomorrow

The Cookies / Don't Say Nothin' Bad (About My Baby)

Lee Dorsey / Can You Hear Me

Jim Benson / Some Other Face

Etta James / Mellow Fellow

Garnett Mimms / Prove It To Me

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It's two more hours of rare soul and R&B dancers on original vinyl singles from the 1960s! We play (probably) Uwe's favorite version of "Harlem Shuffle", a soul group we know next to nothing about on a small label from Des Moines, Iowa, and a great Mod instrumental shaker record with several lies on the label. We've got a song that will make you hungry, one with some R&B nonsense about Muhammad Ali, and dozens that will make you want to dance!

Originally broadcast October 22, 2023

Willie Mitchell / That Driving Beat

Jimmy Holiday / The New Breed

Soul, Inc. / 727

Alvin Cash / Doin' the Ali Shuffle

The Traits / Harlem Shuffle

Arthur Conley / Funky Street

Jo Armstead / A Stone Good Lover

Gladys Knight & The Pips / Operator

The Martinels / I Don't Care

Spyder Turner / You're Good Enough For Me

Deon Jackson / That's What You Do to Me

Lloyd Price and His Orchestra / Cry On

The O'Jays / Stand Tall

John Stewart and Scott Engel / Greens

Lee Andrews & The Hearts / Never The Less

Betty Lavette / I Feel Good (All Over)

Tony Amaro & the Chariots / Runnin' Around

Lenny Williams / Feelin' Blue

Lonnie Youngblood / Soul Food (That's What I Like)

Ray Charles / You're Just About To Lose Your Clown

Myrna March / I Keep Forgettin'

Kathy Keegan / Nobody's Gonna Hurt You

The Dalton Boys / I've Been Cheated

The Kingston Trio / Parchment Farm

Bobby McClure / Peak of Love

Kim Tolliver / I Gotta Find A Way

Gary "U.S." Bonds / I Wanna Holler

Al "TNT" Braggs / You're Something Else

Bobby Williams / You Waited Too Long

Little Jerry Williams / I'm the Lover Man

Eddie Holland / What About Me

Joe Simon / No Sad Songs

Kim Weston / A Thrill A Moment

Ronnie Milsap / Total Disaster

Bobby Moore and the Formost / Girl You Do Something To Me

The Sherrys / Slop Time

Steve Mancha / You're Still In My Heart

McKinley Mitchell / No Love Like My Love

Dean Parrish / Determination

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James fills in for one of his favorite WXOX shows: POWER TRASH. Don't worry if that doesn't mean anything to you, this is one tight hour of garage rock, British Beat, 60s pop, etc. Rare local presses, major hit acts, B-sides, and missed opportunities, all on 45 rpm vinyl, of course.

Originally broadcast October 18, 2023

The Masque / Black is Black

The Last Word / Can't Stop Loving You

The Montanas / You've Got To Be Loved

Cousins / Take Your Love and Shove It

The Third Booth / I Need Love

The Clique / Superman

The Scotland Yardleys / Some Guys Have It (Some Guys Never Will)

The Pleasure Seekers / Light of Love

Peter And Gordon / Love Me, Baby

Tony Mason with the Starfires / Woe Is Me

The Satans / Big Boss Man

Load Of Rock / Sore Feeling

Them / Mystic Eyes

The Shadows of Knight / Bad Little Woman

The Yo-Yo's / Leaning On You

The Nocturnals / You Lied

The MC5 / I Can Only Give You Everything

The Who / Summertime Blues

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James is steering the ship solo today, and he mixes some popcorn and midtempo stuff into the driving beat soul. He also plays a few local tunes, including one by Sonny Fisher (aka Fishback), one produced in Nashville by a renowned country music producer, and one he had to buy a copy from England to bring back home to Louisville.

Originally broadcast October 15, 2023

Willie Mitchell / That Driving Beat

Bobby Marchan / I've Got A Thing Going On

Little Jerry Williams / Just What Do You Plan to Do About It

J.B. Troy / Ain't It The Truth

Edwin Starr / Twenty Five Miles

The Heartbreakers / I've Got To Face It

Chuck Edwards / Sweet Sweet Love

Sonny Fisher / I'm Going (All The Way)

Big Maybelle / Same Old Story

Freddie Houston / Soft Walkin'

The Sultans / I Feel Your Love Growing Cold

Barrett Strong / You Knows What to Do

Dionne Warwick / You Can Have Him

Jackie Wilson / Sing (And Tell the Blues So Long)

The Depressions / House of Silver

Louisiana Red / Sugar Hips

Jimmy Dee And The Mighty Dee Jays / I Don't Know What's Troubling Me

Andre Odom / Turn On Your Love Light

Alex Bradford / Am I Wrong?

Grady Lloyd / Lay Down Your Arms

Bobby Allen Poe / Concrete Jungle

Bobby Bland / A Piece of Gold

The Shirelles / Too Much of a Good Thing

The Marvelettes / Keep Off, No Trespassing

Dean Parrish / Tell Her

The Dells / Wear It On Our Face

The Berkshire Seven / Crazy Kind Of Feeling

Jimmy McCracklin / Beulah

Charlie Rich / Hurry Up Freight Train

The Furys / Never More

Tracey Dey / Blue Turns to Grey

Benny Lattimore / Snap Your Fingers

Freddie North / How to Cry

Edwin Starr / Girls Are Getting Prettier

The Mighty Hannibal / Jerkin' the Dog

Otis Clay / It's Easier Said Then Done

Mel "Pig" Robbins / Fidgety

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James has been out on the high seas and picked up a stack of old soul records in Maine, of all places! He spins them for the first time fresh out of the brown paper bag from the record store. Uwe brought some favorites out of his play box from our Soul Strike dance party nights at Vernon Lanes here in Louisville. It's two more hours of (mostly) 1960s Mod dance party!

Originally broadcast October 8, 2023

Willie Mitchell / That Driving Beat

Clarence Carter / Tell Daddy

Shorty Long / Wind It Up

Little Carl Carlton / Why Don't They Leave Us Alone

The Soul Twins / She's The One

Gene Chandler and Barbara Acklin / Will I Find Love

The Valli Boys / Night Hawk

The British Walkers / Diddley Daddy

The Tams / I've Been Hurt

The Pack / Next To Your Fire

The Raelets / One Room Paradise

Ella Washington / The Affair

Susan Barrett / It's No Secret

Jackie Ross / Don't Change Your Mind

The Radiants / I'm Glad I'm The Loser

Jimmy Hughes / You Really Know How To Hurt a Guy (You Really Know How To Make Him Cry)

Four Tops / Something About You

Jimmy Hughes / The Loving Physician

The Admirations / Don't Leave Me

Del Thompson / The Love Waiting For Me

The Darnells / Too Hurt To Cry, Too Much In Love To Say Goodbye

Tension / It's a Fact

Chuck Jackson / This Broken Heart That You Gave Me

The Minute Men / Over The Top

Chubby Checker / Hey You! Little Boo-Ga-Loo

Little Milton / Feel So Bad

Chuck Jackson / These Chains Of Love (Are Breaking Me Down)

Bob Seger / Jesse James

Micki Lynn / Some Of This And Some Of That

Oscar Toney Jr. / You Can Lead Your Woman to the Altar

Denise LaSalle / The Right Track

The Traits / Too Good To Be True

Teardrops / Tears Come Tumbling

Lee Rogers / Cracked Up Over You

Lorna Doone / Who Knows It?

The Flirtations / Nothing But a Heartache

Al Perkins / Snap Your Fingers

The Freeman Brothers / My Baby

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Another action-packed two hour rare soul vinyl dance party! Uwe is digging into some 1970s soul sounds he didn't always appreciate. They're not Too Funky anymore! The guys talk about how tastes migrate and evolve over years of record digging. Get your dancing (or record nerding) shoes on!

Originally broadcast October 1, 2023

Willie Mitchell / That Driving Beat

Marvin Gaye / Can I Get A Witness

Darrell Banks / Somebody (Somewhere) Needs You

The Sandpebbles / Forget It

Freda Payne / I Shall Not Be Moved

Jackie Ross / Dynamite Lovin'

Roscoe Robinson / That's It

The Spellbinders / A Little On the Blue Side

Edwin Starr / Agent Double-O Soul

Z.Z. Hill / No More Doggin'

Peggy Scott / Killing My Heart Again

Freddie Scott / (You) Got What I Need

Phillip Mitchell / The World Needs More People Like You

Harry Starr / Step Into My World

Solomon Burke / Down In the Valley

Don Covay / Take This Hurt Off Me

Gene Chandler / Don't Have to Be Lying Babe (Part 1)

The Blackbyrds / Walking in Rhythm

Sugar / Dynamite

Wilson Pickett / Night Owl

The Sugar Cakes / When I'm With You

Johnson, Hawkins, Tatum & Durr / You're All I Need To Make It

The Marvelettes / Too Many Fish in the Sea

The Tempests / Would You Belive

Billy Sha-Rae / Do It

The Moonlighters / Right On Brother

The Tams / Hey Girl Don't Bother Me

Jimmy McCracklin / The Walk

Edwin Starr / My Weakness Is You

Levon & The Hawks / He Don't Love You (And He'll Break Your Heart)

Bobby Hebb / Love Love Love

The Delcos / Arabia

Bettye Scott and the Del-Vetts / Good Feeling

Gerald Sims & The Daylighters / Cool Breeze

J.J. Barnes / Real Humdinger

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James runs the radio dance party solo this week, and plays a hot mix of Northern Soul, R&B, Motown, garage rock, and British Beat tunes, all with That Driving Beat.

Originally broadcast September 25, 2023

Willie Mitchell / That Driving Beat

Jay & The Techniques / Baby How Easy Your Heart Forgets Me

Four Tops / I'll Turn to Stone

William Bell / Never Like This Before

Bobby McClure / Peak of Love

Larry Barnes / Rags is Rags

The Trolls / Every Day and Every Night

Jackie Wilson / Soul Time

Brian Redmond and the Sound Box / Boogaloo Up Bord Du Lac

The McCoys / Dynamite

Mary Wells / The One Who Really Loves You

Radiants / I Got A Girl

Harvey Russell & the Rogues / Shake Sherry

Ronnie Milsap / Ain't No Soul Left in These Old Shoes

The Sensational Epics / I've Been Hurt

The Metros / Since I Found My Baby

Inez and Charlie Foxx / Undecided

The Diplomats / There's Still a Tomorrow

? and The Mysterians / Can't Get Enough of You, Baby

The Zephyrs / She's Lost You

The Chosen Few / The Earth Above The Sky Below

The Beeds / Run to Her

The World Column / Midnight Thoughts

The Younghearts / A Little Togetherness

The Velvelettes / These Things Will Keep Me Loving You

Chris Clark / I Want To Go Back There Again

The Yardbirds / Heart Full of Soul

Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders / Since You've Been Gone

The Executives / Bad Reputation

The Epic Splendor / It Could Be Wonderful

The Flock / Take Me Back

Jewel Akens / Little Bitty Pretty One

Timmy Willis / Mr. Soul Satisfaction

Sam Baker / I Can't Stand It

The Precisions / If This is Love (I'd Rather Be Lonely)

The Nerve / Satisfying Kind

Short Kuts / Stubborn Kind of Fellow

Bob Seger / Ramblin' Gamblin' Man

The New Yorkers / Seeds of Spring

Chuck Jackson / Girls, Girls, Girls

The Ikettes / Peaches 'n' Cream

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Two more action-packed hours of soul, R&B, and other 1960s dance tunes! You'll hear Gene Chandler, The Velvelettes, Lou Johnson, James Carr, J.J. Barnes, Tina Britt, Billy Stewart, Bobby Hebb, two by Chubby Checker, a silly thing about The Beatles, Northern Soul classics by The Valentines and Tony Clarke, plus one from somebody just called Tim?

Originally broadcast September 17, 2023

Willie Mitchell / That Driving Beat

Mitty Collier / Do It With Confidence

The Human Beinz / Nobody But Me

Otis Redding / Don't Mess With Cupid

The Velvelettes / These Things Will Keep Me Loving You

Gene Chandler / A Song Called Soul

The Impressions / You've Been Cheatin'

Smokey Johnson / I Can't Help It (Part 1)

Lynn Martini & the Jolly Jax / Now

The Valentines / Breakaway

Tony Clarke / Landslide 

Louis Curry / I'll Try Again Tomorrow

Long John Baldry / Let Him Go (And Let Me Love You)

Lou Johnson / If I Never Get To Love You

Billy Stewart / Summertime

Ernie K-Doe / Mother In Law

Paul Revere & The Raiders / Have Love, Will Travel

Chubby Checker / Back In The U.S.S.R.

The Contours / Just a Little Misunderstanding

The Olympics / Do the Slauson Shuffle

Edwin Starr / Agent Double-O-Soul

Jackie Wilson And Count Basie / Chain Gang

Chubby Checker / (At the) Discotheque

Jimmy George / It Was Fun While it Lasted

J. J. Barnes / Real Humdinger

Ray Charles / If You Were Mine

James Carr / That's What I Want To Know

The Best Of Both Worlds / Moma Bakes Buiscuits

Little Carl Carlton / Competition Ain't Nothin'

Gerry and the Pacemakers / Jambalaya

Martha & The Vandellas / One Way Out

Tina Britt / Look

The Elgins / Heaven Must Have Sent You

The Patty Cakes / I Understand Them (A Love Song to The Beatles)

Bobby Hebb / Love, Love, Love

Tim / I Need Your Love

Dobie Gray / Out on the Floor

Len Barry / 1-2-3

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