That Driving Beat

Originally broadcast February 19, 2023

It's the 250th episode of That Driving Beat! We gathered some of our absolute favorite soul and R&B records from our collections to celebrate 250 episodes over the last 5 years! These are some of the records that bring us the most joy as we browse our record vaults, the ones we're thrilled to have and to be able to share. We're talking gems by Terry Callier, Jerry Williams, Jackie Shane, The Showmen, Marlena Shaw, Chuck Wood, Pearlean Gray, Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, and even a few local Louisville records by artists like Sonny Fishback and Soul, Inc.

Willie Mitchell / That Driving Beat

Chuck Wood / Seven Days Too Long

The Dells / Wear It On Our Face

Gene Chandler / Mr. Big Shot

Bobby McClure / The Peak Of Love

Nelson Sanders / This Love is Here to Stay

Johnny Jones And The King Casuals / Purple Haze

Jackie Day / Come On Try Me

Pearlean Gray / I Don't Want to Cry

Fats Domino / Work My Way Up Steady

Bobby Brooks / Wise Like Soloman

Jackie Shane / Any Other Way

Baby Washington / Leave Me Alone

The Marriotts / Tell It Like it Is

Marlena Shaw / Let's Wade in the Water

Barbara Lynn / I'm a Good Woman

The Showmen / Our Love Will Grow

The Traits / Too Good To Be True

Betty Everett / It's Getting Mighty Crowded

Jerry Williams / If You Ask Me (Because I Love You)

Billy Joe Royal / Heart's Desire

Tommy Raye / You Don't Love Me

Bobby Bland / Shoes

Mary Ann Fisher / Forever More

The Heartbreakers / I've Got To Face It

Soul, Inc. / In The Midnight Hour

Sonny Fishback / Heart Breaking Man

Virgil Murray's Tomorrow's Yesterday / I Still Care

Terry Callier / Look At Me Now

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

Major Lance / You Don't Want Me No More

Pearl Woods / Don't Tell It All

Barbara Carr / Shake Your Head

Bobby Allen Poe / Concrete Jungle

Gloria Jones / Tainted Love

Barbara Acklin / Am I the Same Girl

The High Keys / Que Sera, Sera

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Originally broadcast February 12, 2023

It's another 2 hours packed full of 1960s soul, R&B, Mod, and other dancers, movers, and shakers. We feature some Burt Bacharach songs today, including some of his Northern Soul tunes, big pop ballads, and even a garage rock Bacharach cover. We also tell a couple of stores of finding records from your want list in places like Toledo, Ohio, or even your own play box!

Willie Mitchell / That Driving Beat

Timmy Willis / Mr. Soul Satisfaction

Dave Berry / Baby It's You

Bobby Bland / You're Worth It All

The Raelets / One Room Paradise

The Casualeers / You Betta Be Sure

Cilla Black / Anyone Who Had A Heart

Erma Franklin / Gotta Find Me a Lover (24 Hours a Day)

The Heartbreakers / I've Found a New Lover

Linda Jones / I Can't Stop Lovin' My Baby

Lou Johnson / If I Never Get To Love You

The Alphabetical Order / Little Red Book

Jimmy James & The Vagabonds / No Good to Cry

The Vibrations / Canadian Sunset

Len Barry / 1-2-3

The Rays / Louie Hoo Hoo

Bobby Marchan / Booty Green

The Sultans / You Got Me Goin'

Eskew Reeder / Never Again

Ruby & The Romantics / I Cry Alone

Bobby Boyd / My Type Of Dancin'

Johnny Nash / Strange Feeling

The Tams / Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy

The Jammers / Where Can She Run To

Dion Jackson / Love Makes the World Go Round

The Exotics / Man Power

Chuck Jackson / Any Day Now

Aaron Neville / Over You

Cliff Butler / You Name It

Etta James / Pushover

The Revlons / Dry Your Eyes

Lou Johnson / Magic Potion

The Steinways / My Heart's Not In It Anymore

Jay & The Techniques / Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie

Detroit Emeralds / (I'm an Ordinary Man) Take Me the Way I Am

Jimmy Radcliff / Long After Tonight Is Over

Cliff Nobles & Co / The Camel

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Originally broadcast February 5, 2023

James and Uwe dig into some new record acquisitions, old favorites, and a few forgotten gems. Two packed hours of 1960s soul, R&B, Mod, and other dance tunes with That Driving Beat!

Willie Mitchell / That Driving Beat

Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis / Come On In The House

The Adventurers / It's Alright

The Toys / I Got My Heart Set On You

Timmy Shaw / Gonna Sent You Back To Georgia

Clyde McPhatter / Try Try Baby

Barrett Strong / Money (That's What I Want)

Aaron Frazer / Over You

Donnie Elbert / Little Piece Of Leather

The Inclines / The Atlanta Boogaloo

Don Gardner / My Baby Likes to Boogaloo

Tim / I Need Your Love

Candy and the Kisses / The 81

The Toys / Sealed With A Kiss

The Casuals / Money (That's All I Want)

Ella Fitzgerald / These Boots Are Made For Walkin'

The O'Jays / Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette)

The Rays / Mediterranean Moon

Lee Dorsey / Can You Hear Me

The Sandpebbles / Forget It

Inez & Charlie Foxx / La De Da I Love You

Four Tops / Bernadette

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

The Freedom Affair / Heartaches Don't Come Easy

Googie Rene Combo / Smokey Joe's La La

The Spellbinders / A Little On the Blue Side

Gladys Knight & the Pips / Just Walk in My Shoes

Four Tops / I Got a Feeling

The Poets / She Blew a Good Thing

The Intruders / Every Day is a Holiday

Bunny Siegler / Let The Good Times Roll & Feel So Good

Joe Tex / The Peck

The Isley Brothers / Who's That Lady

Ricky Allen / It's A Mess I Tell You

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Originally broadcast January 29, 2023

Two more hours of Soul, R&B, and garage rock with That Driving Beat. We play a few tunes by artists getting outside of the sounds they're most known for, like Nina Simone, Fats Domino, and Ronnie Milsap, plus some Louisville 1960s garage rock from the vaults that never got released until the 2010s. We also have a conversation prompted by a recent episode of the Addicted to the Needle soul record podcast about playing well known hits versus the rare obscurities we love to try to get a dance floor going.

Willie Mitchell / That Driving Beat

Fats Domino / Work My Way Up Steady

Charlie Gracie / Walk With Me Girl

Ronnie Milsap / Ain't No Soul Left In These Ole Shoes

Gloria Taylor / You Got to Pay the Price

Kim Tolliver / I Gotta Find A Way

The Steve Karmen Big Band (Featuring Jimmy Radcliffe) / Breakaway, Pt. 1

Freda Payne / The World Don't Owe You a Thing

Kim Weston / Helpless

Exstacy, Passion & Pain / I Wouldn't Give You Up

Freda Payne / Band Of Gold

Lee Dorsey / Working In a Coal Mine

Chuck Berry / You Never Can Tell

Martha & The Vandellas / Heat Wave

Jackie Wilson / (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher

Andre Franklin with the Preston Epps Trio / Say Yeah!

Billy Butler / The Right Track (instrumental)

James Carr / Coming Back to Me Baby

Gene Chandler / There Was A Time

The James Gang / For a Little of Her Sunshine

Tami Lynn / I'm Gonna Run Away from You

The Sultans / I Know It's True

The Pigeons / (In The) Midnight Hour

Blues / Rats In My Room

Micki Lynn / I've got The Blues (What Can I Do)

The Rugbys / I Want You Baby

Reggie La Mont / How Lonely (Can One Man Be)

Nina Simone / It Be's That Way Sometime

Candy Cole / What's For Dessert?

Betty Lavett / I Feel Good (All Over)

Claudine Clark / Standing On Tip Toe

The M-3's / When the Party's Over

Dyke & The Blazers / City Dump

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Originally broadcast January 22, 2023

We spin tunes by Big Ella, Little Willie John, Ben E. King, Barbara Lynn, Edwin Starr, The Coasters, and more!

Willie Mitchell / That Driving Beat

Jackie Wilson / You Brought About a Change In Me

Edwin Starr / My Weakness Is You

Solomon Burke / (No, No, No) Can't Stop Lovin' You Now

The Manhattans / Teach Me (The "Philly" Dog)

Little Willie John / Doll Face

Theola Kilgore / I Know That He Loves Me

Marion Black / Who Knows

Major Lance / Little Young Lover

Mel & Tim / Do Right Baby

Five Stairsteps & Cubie / Little Young Lover

Barbara Lynn / I'm a Good Woman

The Furys / Zing! Went The String of My Heart

Les Chanceliers / La Génération D'Aujourd'hui

The Bobby Fuller Four / The Magic Touch

The RPM's / Memphis Beat

Bill Deal & the Rhondels / I've Been Hurt

Boyd Bennett / Ba-Beh

The Coasters / Bad Blood

Ben E. King / Stand By Me

The Starlets / Better Tell Him No

Paul Anka / Uh Huh

Baby Washington / Run My Heart

Shirley Ellis / I See It, I Like It, I Want It

Marty Balin / Nobody But You

Chubby Checker / Popeye the Hitchhiker

Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons / Hickory

The Spinners / I Cross My Heart

Tommy Hunt / The Clown

Johnny Thunder & Ruby Winters / Make Love To Me

Big Ella / The Queen

Harry Starr / Another Time, Another Place

Dean Parrish / Determination

The Metros / Since I Found My Baby

Linda Jones / A Last Minute Miracle

Anna King / Come And Get These Memories

The Casinos / I Still Love You

The Da-Kars / Shot In The Dark

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Originally broadcast January 15, 2023

Two packed hours of Motown, Northern Soul, R&B, and other Mod movers and shakers on original 1960s vinyl 45s!

Willie Mitchell / That Driving Beat

Chuck Jackson / You've Got To Be Strong

Ray Barretto / Soul Drummers

Four Tops / I'll Turn to Stone

Cookie Jackson / Uptown Jerk

Inez Foxx / Hi Diddle Diddle

Sharon Soul / You Found My Weak Spot

Jean DuShon / Feeling Good

Barbara McNair / It Happens Every Time

The Young-Holt Unlimited / California Montage

Kim Weston / It Should Have Been Me

Carl Henderson / Please Stop Laughing At Me

Jackie Wilson / Baby Workout

P.J. Proby / You Can't Come Home Again (If You Leave Me Now)

Mill Evans / Why, Why, Why

Jack Rainwater / Swamp Gas

Mongo Santamaria / Cold Sweat

Della Reese / If It Feels Good, Do It

The Yardbirds / Jeff's Boogie

Martha & The Vandellas / Wild One

Martha & The Vandellas / Quicksand

Chuck Edwards / Sweet Sweet Love

Teardrops / You Won't Be There

Jewel Akens / Little Bitty Pretty One

Sugar Boy and the Sugar Lumps / Mamma Won't You Turn Me Loose

The Chiffons / Stop, Look and Listen

The Sensations / Get On Up Mama

Wilson Pickett / Let Me Be Your Boy

The LaSalles / This Is True

Ruby Winters / Just Like a Yo Yo

The Isley Brothers / My Love Is Your Love (Forever)

The Fabulous Peps / So Fine

The Profiles / If I Didn't Love You

Gene Chandler / It's Time To Settle Down

Jeanette "Baby" Washington / Too Late

Hal Frazier / After Closing Time

The Packers / Boondocks

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Originally broadcast January 8, 2023

Uwe went digging and found a record by one of James's favorite performers! Here's 2 more hours of our Mod and Soul dance party radio! Sugar Pie Desanto, Bobby Freeman, Jackie Lee, Fontella Bass, Billy Joe Royal, Chuck Jackson, some Louisville groups, and a whole lot more!

Willie Mitchell / That Driving Beat

The Platters / Fear of Losing You

Ted Taylor / The Loving Physician

Joe Simon / Power of Love

The Tams / How Long Love

Johnny Moore / A Dollar Ninety Eight

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

Bobby Bland / Keep On Loving Me (You'll See The Change)

The Soul Twins / She's The One

Herman's Hermits / For Love

Claude François / Si tu veux être heureux

Mouse and The Traps / Cryin' Inside

Don Covay & The Goodtimers / You Got Me On The Critical List

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings / Calamity

Carter Brothers / (She's So Fine) So Glad She's Mine

Bobby Freeman / C'mon and Swim

Jackie Lee / The Shotgun and the Duck

Earl Gains / It's Worth Anything

Mark Valentino / Do It!

Charlie Rich / Lonely Weekends

The Blendtones / Come On Home

The Chateaus / Moanin'

Tommy Youngblood / Tremble Walk

The Mauds / Forever Gone

Lee Rogers / Love For A Love

Fontella Bass / I Can't Rest

George Freeman / Why Are You Doing This To Me

Timmy Shaw / I'm A Lonely Guy

Sugar Pie DeSanto / Soulful Dress

Jackie Wilson / I'm So Lonely

The Dovells / You Can't Sit Down

The Emperors / Karate

Chuck Jackson / Beg Me

Billy Joe Royal / Heart's Desire

Barbara & Brenda / Hurtin' Inside

Sam Baker / I Can't Stand It

The Ethics / I Want My Baby Back

Dora Hall / Pretty Boy

Mike Williams / If This Isn't Love

Brother Jack McDuff / Do It Now

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Originally Broadcast January 1, 2023

Uwe runs this show solo as James is traveling. He makes time for some 60s British Mod like Chris Farlowe and The Fleur De Lys, plus plenty of amazing soul and R&B from the Traits, Sheila Ferguson, Don Covay, Mitty Collier, Pearl Woods, Joe Bataan, and more.

Willie Mitchell-That Driving Beat

Little Charles and the Sidewinders-It's A Heartache

The Dalton Boys-I've Been Cheated

Sheila Ferguson-How Did That Happen

Anthony Raye-Give Me One More Chance

Chris Campbell-You Gotta Pay Dues

The Traits-Too Good To Be True

Chris Farlowe-Out of Time

The Fleur De Lys-Circles

The Spencer Davis Group-Looking Back

Georgie Fame-Yeh, Yeh

The Olympics-No More Will I Cry

Jackie Wilson-I'm Travelin' On

Brenda Holloway-When I'm Gone

Myrna March-I Keep Forgettin'

The Group-In Crowd

E. Rodney Jones-R & B Time (Part 1)

Mitty Collier-Don't Let Her Take My Baby

Pearl Woods-Sippin' Sorrow

Don Covay & The Goodtimers-See About Me

Sugarpie Desanto-Going Back Where I Belong

Joe Bataan-Too Much Lovin'

Tony Lawrence-I Need Somebody

The 21st-I Just Can't Forget Your Name

Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs-Try

Ann Sexton and the Soul Masters-You've Been Gone Too Long

J.P. Robinson-Say It

Bettye Scott and the Del-Vetts-Good Feeling

Lee Williams & The Cymbals-I Can Make Mistakes Too

The Fabulous Emotions-Number One Fool

The Hesitations-Is This The Way to Treat a Girl (You Bet It Is)

Clarence Murray-Let's Get On With It

Robert & Ron-It Ain't Finished Yet

The Voice Masters-If A Woman Catches A Fool

Billy Sha-Rae-Do It

The Soul Survivors-Tell Daddy

The Sugar Cakes-When I'm With You

Judy Green-I Can't Get Along Without You

Eddy 'G' Giles-Soul Feeling (Part 1)

Esther Phillips-Fever

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Originally Broadcast December 25, 2022

It's a Christmas Day soul radio dance party! We kept the holiday content to a minimum, and played some all-year-round bangers by Terry Callier, Syl Johnson, the Marvellos, Bobby Bland, Homer Banks, the Walker Brothers, James Brown, and more! So, this is good listening, whatever day you play it.

Willie Mitchell-That Driving Beat

Ovella and the Overtures-That's All You Gotta Do

The Cameos-Merry Christmas

Jr. Walker & The All Stars-Pucker Up Buttercup

The Marvellos-We Go Together

The Preparations-It Won't Be a Dance (If You're Not There)

Howard Tate-Half A Man

Bobby Bloom-Where Are We Going

The Blue-Belles-I Sold My Heart To The Junkman

The Walker Brothers-Tell The Truth

Darlene Love-Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)

James Brown & The Fabulous Flames-Mashed Potatoes U.S.A.

Bobby Bland-Getting Used To The Blues

Bill Black's Combo-My Babe

Richard Brown-Don't Listen To The Grapevine

The Flirtations-Christmas Time Is Here Again

Henrietta And The Hairdooz-You Got a Lot to Learn

Charley and the Jaguars-In The Middle Of A Heartache

Richard Berry-Everybody's Got A Lover But Me

Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich-The Sun Goes Down

Sound Foundation-Morning Dew (Walk Me Out In The)

The Special A.K.A.-Gangsters

Fun Boy Three-The Tunnel Of Love

The Lovables-Take Me For A Little While

Terry Callier-Look At Me Now

Wayne Champion-It's Christmas Time

Otis Redding-Merry Christmas, Baby

Jerry Woodard-Sweet Sweet Woman

Homer Banks-A Lot of Love

The Masqueraders-I Got It

Maxine Brown-Think Of Me

Syl Johnson-Back For A Taste Of Your Love

J.J. Barnes-Baby Please Come Back Home

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Originally Broadcast December 18, 2022

James is solo for this episode while Uwe is off doing his real job. When Uwe is away, James likes to spin the early 70s crossover funky stuff. Check out the wild greasy Johnny Cash cover with a little Beatles thrown in, Brother to Brother covering Gil Scott-Heron, some Dayton, Ohio instrumental funk, and Clarence Reid getting his share.

Willie Mitchell-That Driving Beat

The Raeletts Featuring Estella Yarbrough-Here I Go Again

Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose-Treat Her Like a Lady

The Flaming Ember-Westbound #9

The T. S. U. Toronadoes-Got To Get Through To You

Freddy-Henchi & the Soulsetters-Folsom Prison

John Edwards-Stop This Merry-Go-Round

Ann Peebles-99 Pounds

Syl Johnson-Try Me

Betty Lavette-Heart of Gold

Junior & The Classics-Kill The Pain

Barbara & The Browns-You Don't Love Me

Shirley Brown-I've Got to Go On Without You

Clarence Reid-Send Me Back My Money

The Sensations-Lonely World

The Turnarounds-Somewhere In This World (A Telephone Is Riging)

George Kerr Orchestra-Back Lash

Bill Withers-Harlem

Sam & Dave-Jody Ryder Got Killed

London Fog with the Continentals-Trippin

Brother to Brother-In The Bottle

Freddy Robinson-The Oogum Boogum Song

Lloyd Price-Bad Conditions

The Sheppards-Steal Away

Clarence Reid-Till I Get My Share

Etta James-The Love of My Man

The Vanguards-The Thought Of Losing Your Love

Tommy Wills-(Funky) 4 Corners

Vin Cardinal-There'll Be No City on the Hill

Otis Clay-Turn Back the Hands of Time

Ann Sexton-You're Losing Me

George Guess-No Matter What

The Interpretations-Soul Affection

Moses & Joshua-Get Out Of My Heart

Syl Johnson-I'm Yours

Wilmer & The Dukes-Heavy Time

Toussaint McCall-The Toussaint Shuffle

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