That Driving Beat

It's another 2 hour 1960s radio dance party, with tunes from Bob & Earl, Chuck Jackson, Betty Everett, Baby Washington, Eddie Holland, a big score from the Valentinos, a funky cover of a Johnny Cash signature tune, and more, all on 45 rpm vinyl!

-Originally broadcast April 27, 2025-

Willie Mitchell / That Driving Beat

Bob & Earl / Dancin' Everywhere

Baby Washington / You Never Could Be Mine

Etta James / Tighten Up Your Own Thing

Eddie Holman / You Know That I Will

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

Jerry Williams / Come And Get It

Freda Payne / (Desafinado) Slightly Out Of Tune

The Capitols / We Got A Thing That's In The Groove

Shorty Long / Night Fo' Last

Betty Everett / I've Got A Claim On You

The Jarmels / A Little Bit of Soap

Pearlettes / Duchess Of Earl

Eddy Giles / Losin' Boy

The Malibus / I Just Can't Stand It

Kelly Brothers / How Can True Love Be This Way

The Jades / You're So Right For Me

Hank Jacobs / Monkey Hips and Rice

Tina Britt / I Found A New Love

Dee Dee Warwick / Don't You Ever Give Up On Me

Barbara Mercer / Nobody Loves You Like Me

Freddy-Henchi & the Soulsetters / Folsom Prison

Billy Barnes / Until

Lee Rogers / Love For A Love

Dorothy Prince / I Lost A Love

Junior Parker / Why Do You Make Me Cry

The Valentinos / Sweeter Than The Day Before

The Hesitations / Soul Kind of Love

The Fascinations / I'm In Love

Jerry Butler / Windy City Soul

Eddie Holland / If It's Love (It's Alright)

Melodics / Ain't That Sharing My Love

Gloria Parker / Why Can't We Get Together

Otis & Carla / Knock On Wood

Baby Washington / I'm Good Enough For You

Jackie Paine / No Puppy Love

Boogaloo Joe Jones / Inside Job

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James ran this show solo, and played from the big stack of records he dug up on a 4-state midwestern road trip. We've got tunes from Nancy Wilson, Bobby Rush, Bobby Bland, Barbara Lynn, some mid-1950s King Records R&B, two versions of Turn on Your Love Light that sound nothing alike, and many more vintage soul, R&B, funk, and jazz movers!

-Originally broadcast April 20, 2025-

Willie Mitchell / That Driving Beat

Luther Ingram / You Got to Give Love to Get Love

The Impressions / You've Been Cheatin'

Nancy Wilson / You've Got Your Troubles

Bobby Bland / Wouldn't You Rather Have Me

Nancy Wilson / Uptight (Everything's Alright)

Lenny Miles / In Between Tears

Bobby Rush / Gotta Have Money

Jackie Ross / Glory Be

Barbara Lynn / Take Your Love and Run

Herman Grimes / Thought I Had it Made

Bobby Bland / Turn On Your Love Light

Bill Black's Combo / Turn on Your Love Light

Quovans / Boogaloo Part 1

The O'Jays / Whip It On Me Baby

Shack / Too Many Lovers

Little Royal and the Swingmasters / Razor Blade

Simtec & Wylie / Can't Break Away

The Soul Runners / Charley

Eddie Clearwater / True Love

Garnet Mimms / Look Away

The Del-Phis / I'll Let You Know

Nancy Wilson / My Sweet Thing

Darlene Paul / All Cried Out

Ivy Jo / Sorry is a Sorry Word

The Gum Drops / Natural Born Lover

Little Willie John / All Around The World

Archie & Al Perkins / You Can Belong to Someone

Chuck Langley / Tain't Me Baby

Tommy Tucker / Sitting Home Alone

Joyce Kennedy / Misunderstood

Tenison Stephens / Where Would You Be

Al Brown's Tunetoppers / The Madison

Phil Guilbeau and his Creole Stompers / Creole Walk

Bobby Rush / Camel Walk

The Popcorns / Pluto

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It's a crossover episode with another WXOX Art FM Louisville show today: Joey Mudd, the host of The Deep End, is with us to celebrate vinyl records, Vinylthon, and local records with That Driving Beat! You'll hear Louisville area and Kentucky artists doing Northern Soul, R&B, garage rock, a little bit of country go-go, and more! This was our special episode during WXOX's celebration of Vinylthon, an international celebration of vinyl on the airwaves. More info at vinylthon.com.

-Originally broadcast April 13, 2025-

Willie Mitchell / That Driving Beat

The Us Four / The Alligator

The Exiles / It's Alligator Time

The Perfections / Come Along

Emotions / Every Man

The Sultans / You Got Me Goin'

The Chateaus / Moanin'

The Tikies / Money

Blues / Rats In My Room

Charlie Ross & The Crossfires / Lord Have Mercy

Jim Boss & The Sundowners / You're Love Is Stronger Than Dirt

The Heartbreakers / I've Got To Face It

Mercy Men / You Made It Thunder

Prince Phillip Mitchell / I'm So Happy

Detroit Sounds Of Friction / I'm Leaving You

Sonny Fishback / Heart Breaking Man

The Presidents / Which Way

Deanna Brewer and The Titans / I've Gotta Know

Vernis Pratt / Good Good Man

Eller Davis with Billy Davis & The Red River Boys / Go Go Girl

Soul, Inc. / 727

The Berkshire Seven / Crazy Kind Of Feeling

Odell Brown & The Organizers / Think About It

Bobby Lanz and the Soul Celtics / Didn't I Blow Your Mind

The Heartbreakers / I've Found a New Lover

The Mersey Beats U.S.A. / 30 Second Lover

The Premiers / Ali Shuffle Pt.1

The Sultans / I Know It's True

The Friendly Room / Follow Me Back to Louisville

The Leaders / Cool Today

Mary Ann Fisher / Forever More

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The guys drove straight from Chicago to the studio in Louisville for this episode, and got there just minutes before going live on WXOX. They're exhausted but happy after a whirlwind Midwestern soul weekend as guest DJs at the Queen City Soul Club in Cincinnati, then attendees at the Heart of Chicago Soul Club at the famous Hideout in Chicago. They got a lot of record digging and trading in too, but you'll have to wait until next week to hear most of those finds, as this show was put together out of their playboxes from their night at Queen City. They also ate some famous stew!

-Originally broadcast April 6, 2025-

Willie Mitchell / That Driving Beat

Don Gardner / My Baby Likes to Boogaloo

Dean Parrish / Bricks, Broken Bottles and Sticks

The Soul City / Everybody Dance Now

The O'Jays / I'll Never Forget You

Andre Odom / Turn On Your Love Light

Billy Butler / Burning Touch Of Love

Ricky Allen / It's A Mess I Tell You

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

Al Haskins and the Mastertones / You Got Me

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

Rex Garvin & The Mighty Cravers / Emulsified

Vikki Styles / Mark My Words Love Will Never Die

Louisiana Red / Sugar Hips

The Freeman Brothers / My Baby

Big Lucky / Stop Arguing Over Me

The Dalton Boys / I've Been Cheated

Gerri Diamond / Mama, You Forgot

Brenda Holloway / When I'm Gone

Mitty Collier / Do It With Confidence

Jill Harris / His Kiss

Timmy Shaw / I'm A Lonely Guy

Darleen Carr / Anybody's Girl

Darrell Banks / I've Got That Feeling

Pat Powdrill / Fell By The Wayside

Jimmy James & The Vagabonds / No Good to Cry

Jimmy Conwell / Too Much

Nella Dodds / Come See About Me

Ronnie Milsap / Total Disaster

Mary Wells / Stop Takin' Me For Granted

The Formations / At the Top of the Stairs

The Diplomats / There's Still A Tomorrow

Hi-Fi White / "Bulldog" Pt. 1

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We've got some new finds rescued from a dusty forgotten bin of mistreated 45s, plus some old favorites from our DJ boxes. We've got tunes from the Raelets, Barbara Lynn, Fontella Bass, The Mighty Hannibal, Ann Sexton, Arthur Alexander, Etta James, and even an unusually 1960s Mod sound from the Everly Brothers!

-Originally broadcast March 30, 2025-

Willie Mitchell - That Driving Beat

Jimmy Robins - I Can't Please You

Cookie Jackson - Uptown Jerk

Jackie Day - Before It's Too Late

Ruby Johnson - Why Do You Want to Leave Me

Raelets - One Room Paradise

Ramona King - It's In His Kiss

Mike Williams - If This Isn't Love

Barbara Lynn - Club A-Go-Go

Barbara Lynn - You Left the Water Running

Marv Martin - Don't Misjudge Me

Everly Brothers - Somebody Help Me

The McCoys - Up and Down

Fontella Bass - Safe And Sound

The Exciters - Do-Wah-Diddy

Kris Peterson - Mama's Little Baby Is a Big Girl Now

The Masqueraders - I Ain't Gonna Stop

Oscar Toney, Jr. - Person To Person

Barbara Mason - Don't Ever Want To Lose Your Love

The Mighty Hannibal - Fishin' Pole

Lee Andrews & The Hearts - The Girl Around the Corner

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

Jackie Wilson - Higher And Higher

The Elgins - Heaven Must Have Sent You

Sugar & The Spices - Bye Bye Baby

Johnnie Taylor - You Can't Get Away From It

Arthur Alexander - Soldier Of Love

The Caravans - No Coward Soldier

Jimmy Holiday - You Won't Get Away

Etta James - I Prefer You

The Marvelettes - Strange I Know

Ike & Tina Turner - You Can't Miss Nothing That You Never Had

Lou Johnson - Unsatisfied

The Kelly Brothers - I'd Rather Have You

Billy Stewart - Sugar And Spice

Jerry Butler - Give It Up

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The guys are getting ready to hit the road soon, and thinking about what to play at the Queen City Soul Club. They audition a few for the dance floor on this episode, with plenty of R&B, popcorn, northern soul, and garage rock tunes for shaking your stuff!

-Originally broadcast March 23, 2025-

Willie Mitchell / That Driving Beat

Jimmy Hughes / I Want Justice

Shirley Ellis / Soul Time

Bobby Harris / Ain't That Love

Ray Peterson / Fever

Baby Washington / I've Got a Feeling

Van McCoy / Baby Don't Tease Me

Richard Berry / Have Love, Will Travel

Billy Graham & the Escalators / Oop-Poo-Pa-Doo

Bob & Peggy / Everybody's Talking

Dave and Vee / Do You Love Me

Jackie Shane / Stand Up Straight and Tall

The Wild Ones / Come On Back

Triangle / Magic Touch

The Kitchen Cinq / You'll Be Sorry Some Day

Kenny Wells / Isn't It Just A Shame

The Delacardos / She's the One I Love

Darell Banks / Open The Door To Your Heart

The Ronettes / I'm On the Wagon

Betty O'Brien / Why Me?

The Drifters / When My Little Girl Is Smiling

Aretha Franklin / Mockingbird

Lou Johnson / If I Never Get To Love You

Otis Clay / She's About a Mover

The Standells / Big Boss Man

Otis Redding / I'm Sick Y'All

The Sims Twins / A Losing Battle

Johnny (Guitar) Watson / Broke and Lonely

Billy Stewart / A Fat Boy Can Cry

Ben E. King / What Can a Man Do

Ronnie Love / Chills And Fever

Anna King / The Big Change

Baby Washington / Leave Me Alone

Bunny & Cindy / Sure Didn't Take Long

The Paramonts / Until I Met You

Bobby Boyd / My Type Of Dancin'

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

The Orlons / Rules of Love

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We've got Dr. Horse, The Cow, a Concrete Jungle, and a Boss with the Hot Sauce on the show today, plus the only song by a particular famous folk/pop group you're ever likely to hear on That Driving Beat. Tune in for your weekly all-vinyl 45 rpm 1960s soul, R&B, Mod radio dance party!

-Originally broadcast March 16, 2025-

Willie Mitchell / That Driving Beat

Ronnie Milsap / A Thousand Miles from Nowhere

Dee Dee Sharp / (Heart & Soul) Baby I Love You

Robert Parker / Everybody's Hip Huggin

Bill Robinson & The Quails / The Cow

Dr. Horse / Salt Pork, West Virginia

Carla and Rufus / Cause I Love You

Charlie Rich / Dance Of Love

Spencer / My Baby's Comin' Home

Jimmy Elledge / Your Funny Way Of Loving Me

The Sensations featuring Yvonne Baker / We Were Meant To Be

Otis Brown & Band / Will You Wait

Stevie Wonder / Nothing's Too Good For My Baby

The Poppies / He's Got Real Love

Bobby Bland / These Hands (Small But Mighty)

Del Thompson / The Love Waiting For Me

Bobby Allen Poe / Concrete Jungle

Tracey Dey / Blue Turns to Grey

The Starletts / Teco

Willie Mitchell / Wade In The Water

The Carolines / Big House

Pat Lewis / Warning

The Chips / Break It Gently

Chris Clark / I Want To Go Back There Again

Betty Everett / Getting Mighty Crowded

Big Maybelle / Same Old Story

Dee Dee Sharp / Let's Twine

The Valentines / Breakaway

The Platters / With This Ring

The Tempests / Out Of My Life

The Daytrippers / That's Part Of The Game

The Kingston Trio / Parchment Farm

The Mystics / I Got A Reason

The Alphabetical Order / My Little Red Book

The High Spirits / Tossin' And Turnin'

Davis & Jones and the Fenders / Boss With The Hot Sauce

Wyatt Earp McPherson & Paul Williams / You Broke My Heart

Radiants / Hold On

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Here's the cure for what ails you this week: another 2 hour That Driving Beat radio dance party! You can't fight the feeling, you just gotta move your feet!

Originally broadcast March 9, 2025-

Willie Mitchell / That Driving Beat

Jimmy Cliff / Give and Take

The Five C's / Love Is A Tricky Thing

Curtis Knight / Ain't Gonna Be No Next Time

The Sensations / It's Good Enough For Me

J.J. Barnes / Deeper in Love

Bettye Swann / Fall in Love with Me

Bobby Powell / Do Something for Yourself

Mary Wells / Coming Home

Marve and the Tinnon Bros. / Candy Man

The Luv Bugs / Soul In The Ghetto

Garnett Mimms / Prove It To Me

Carol Slade / I Saw You

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

Bunny Siegler / Will You Love Me Tomorrow

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

Will Sanders & The Duprees / Summertime

Rudy West & The Five Keys / You're The One

David & Jonathan / How Bitter the Taste of Love

The Lemon Pipers / Blueberry Blue

The Toys / I Got My Heart Set On You

Liverpool Five / She's Mine

The Sixpentz / Don't Say You're Sorry

Tommy T's Federal Reserve / Take The Midnight Train

The First Edition / Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)

Barbara Acklin / Am I the Same Girl

Theola Kilgore / I Can't Stand It

Bobby Smith and the Spinners / Too Young, Too Much, Too Soon

The Emotions / I Can't Stand No More Heart Aches

Melvin Davis / I Won't Come Crawling Back to You

The Fabulettes / Mister Policeman

Du-Ettes / Move On Down The Line

Baby Washington / There He Is

James & Bobby Purify / Do Unto Me

Bobby Mac / Keep On

J.T. Sears and the Rowbux / Walking On New Grass

The Superbs / Better Get Your Own One Buddy

The Capitols / I Got To Handle It

Cool Heat / Groovin' With Mr. Bloe

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We got to get out digging 45s again, and turned up some northern soul by Dee Dee Warwick, wild rhythm & blues from Don Gardner & Dee Dee Ford, funk from Etta James and Fontella Bass, one from Kentucky's own Magnificent 7, a motorcycle tune for the Rockers, and much more soul, popcorn, garage rock, and more!

Don't clean your records with Windex!

-Originally broadcast March 2, 2025-

Willie Mitchell / That Driving Beat

Otis Redding / I Can't Turn You Loose

The Manhattans / Manhattan Stomp

Dee Dee Warwick / Don't You Ever Give Up On Me

Alexander Patton / I Knew I Was Wrong

Eddie Miller / Sophisticated Walk

Don Gardner & Dee Dee Ford / You Upset My Soul

The Right Kind / I've Been Changed

Etta James / Out On the Street Again

Fontella Bass / It's Hard to Get Back In

Ike & Tina Turner / Betcha Can't Kiss Me (Just One Time Baby)

The Mad Lads / Tear-Maker

Varetta Dillard / Mercy Mr Percy

Willie Tee / You Better Say Yes

Junior Wells / Up in Heah

Irene and the Scotts / Why Do You Treat Me Like You Do

The Sweets / Mama Saw Me

Mary Wells / Me And My Baby

Jeanette Williams / A Friend Of Mine

Margaret & Carol / Larry

Dinah Shore / Thirteen Men

Floyd Robinson / Motorcycle Man

The Battalion Tweed / But It's Alright

The Hard Times / They Said No

The Coastliners / Wonderful You

Donnie Elbert / I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)

The Magnificent 7 / Never Will I (Make My Baby Cry)

Jesse Gee / Baby, I Need You

Bobby Jones and the Para-Monts / Beware A Stranger

Frankie Ford / Saturday Night Fish Fry

Donald Wilson / Find Somebody

James Brown & The Famous Flames / Shhhhhhhh (For A Little While)

Shep and the Limelites / The Monkey

Jackie Wilson / I'm So Lonely

The Ex-Cel Five / Dancing Girl

Leroy Jones / Do You Love Me

The Marvelettes / Locking Up My Heart

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The guys hit up a local record show and added some more vintage soul, R&B, and garage rock 45s to our collections from dealer friends old and new. We've got early Tammi Terrell tune from before she became Tammi Terrell, Irene and the Scotts with a Northern Soul floor filler, big sounds from two schoolteacher sisters at Motown, some garage rock from Birmingham, Alabama, a Boogie Cha Cha, and a trippy tune from 1968 that had a comeback in the 1990s.

-Originally broadcast February 23, 2025-

Willie Mitchell / That Driving Beat

Willie Tee / I Want Somebody (To Show Me The Way Back Home)

Mary Wells / (Hey You) Set My Soul On Fire

Kenny Ballard and the Fabulous Soul Brothers / I'm Losing You

Jeanette Williams / You Didn't Know Then

Margaret & Carol / (He's My Guy) Oh No, He's Mine

Little Frankie Lee / I Gotta Come Back

Irene and the Scotts / I'm Stuck On My Baby

Jackie Verdell / Are You Ready For This

The Eastmen / Bye Bye My Baby

Tammy Montgomery / It's Mine

Eddie Miller / Skate & Shuffle-loo

The Sensations featuring Yvonne Baker / We Were Meant To Be

Jo Ann Campbell / Sloppy Joe

The Lewis Sisters / You Need Me

Wild Vybrashons / One Track Mind

Sands ov Tyme / You've Got What It Takes (To Take What I've Got)

The Turtles / You Showed Me

The Coastliners / Alright

Gene and Wendell with the Sweethearts / The Roach

Eddie Holland / Leaving Here

J.J. Barnes / Say It

Kenny Smith / Keep On Walkin' Baby

Lenny Welch / Boogie Cha Cha

The Valentines / I Have Two Loves

LaVerne Baker / Tra La La

The Ikettes / I Had A Dream The Other Night

The Kelly Brothers / That's What You Mean To Me

Tony Jackson With The Vibrations / You Beat Me To The Punch

The Right Kind / (Tell Me) Why Do You Have To Lie?

Gayle Haness / We Got A Thing Going Baby

Jimmy Ruffin / If You Will Let Me, I Know I Can

Barbara Lewis / I Remember the Feeling

Al Haskins and the Mastertones / You Got Me

The Tams / Riding For A Fall

Jesse Gee / Don't Mess With My Money

The Ronettes / I'm Gonna Quit While I'm Ahead

Otis Redding / I'm Coming Home

The Miracles / Whole Lot Of Shakin' In My Heart (Since I Met You)

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