James got some record digging in this week, and he has a few newly unearthed vintage 45s to spin on this show this week by Fred Waters, Ann Duquesney, Donald Jenkins & The Delighters, Bobby Byrd, plus an unlikely cover by Lena Horne, and favorites you've heard on That Driving Beat before by Ruby Winters, Edwin Starr, Brenda Holloway, B.B. King, and so many more!

-Originally broadcast June 14, 2026-

Willie Mitchell / That Driving Beat

Homer Banks / 60 Minutes of Your Love

Fred Waters / Singing a New Song

Bobby Powell / Question

Paul Smith / Ain't That Something

Deon Jackson / Love Takes a Long Time Growing

Roddie Joy / If There's Anything Else You Want (Let Me Know)

Ann Duquesney / I Surrender

The William Singers / Part Time Love

Garnell Cooper & The Kinfolks / Green Monkey

Anna Walker and the Crownettes / Ode to Billy Joe

Ruby Winters / Sweetheart Things

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

The Soul Notes / How Long Will It Last

The Platters / Washed Ashore (On a Lonely Island In the Sea)

Lena Horne / Rocky Raccoon

Bob Cain / Ladies Man

Cannibal & The Headhunters / Land of 1000 Dances

Tenison Stephens / Where Would You Be

Edwin Starr / Time

Brenda Holloway / When I'm Gone

Donald Jenkins & The Delighters / Somebody Help Me

Etta James / Next Door to the Blues

Bobby Byrd / Write Me a Letter

The Untouchables / 60 Minute Man

George Young and the Youngsters / Mechanic From Hamtramck

B. B. King / The B.B. Jones

Youngblood / Bayou Town

Dan Brantley / It Must Be Love

And The Echoes / Million Dollar Bill

Irma Thomas / We Got Something Good

The Golden Toadstools / Silly Savage

Bobby Freeman / Everybody's Got a Hang Up

Kelly Brothers / How Can True Love Be This Way

Dee Brown & Lola Grant / You Need Loving

The Sapphires / I've Got Mine, You Better Get Yours

The Sherrys / Pop Pop Pop-Pie

Chuck Jackson & Maxine Brown / Can't Let You Out Of My Sight

Bob Wilson and The San Remo Quartet / All Turned On

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