Halfway to Paradise - Stack 'O Records Special Part 2

Wednesday Mayhem 24 7PM-10PM
Hosted by Robert Emmett

I got a stack a records here,
A stack of records there,
I've got records scattered all over everywhere.
But I'm looking for one that I can't find,
The one where the guitar plays so fine,
'Cause that's the only one my baby loves to hear.

Before the digital age, before the age of CDs, there was vinyl and acetates spinning in juke joints, shotgun shacks, and smoky bars. In 1948, Billboard magazine started calling 'race music' rhythm and blues.

Hip hillbillies were going electric, suave entertainment personalities were flirting in these sweaty backwaters, and rock had a 4-letter-word connotation.

The 40's and 50's were a great time for music Jump Blues, Rockabilly, R&B - all just crazy hopping music.

On this special we'll be listening to the should-have-beens, the never-were's, the wish-they-were's and the importance of early radio braking this music to a wider public.

Some were big hits on small stations and sold in places like Motormouth Maybelle's Baltimore records store in John Waters Hairspray - R&B legend Ruth Brown played Maybelle.

And we'll be playing stuff rom all over the world, as well as the Southside.

Listen and Obey!