You'll hear some Motown from the Marvelettes, Marvin Gaye, Martha & the Vandellas, and from a group out of and named for Vancouver, BC. We also have Bettye Lavette covering Neil Young, Ann Sexton, Z.Z. Hill, Jackie Shane, Dolly Parton, plus random assumptions, potentially misremembered facts, and a bunch of real songs by real artists, played from real records selected by a real person.

-Originally broadcast June 21, 2026-

Willie Mitchell / That Driving Beat

The Marvelettes / You're My Remedy

Jimmy Hughes / It Ain't What You Got

Marvin Gaye / You

The Sacred Four / Somebody Watching You

Dyke And The Blazers / City Dump

Betty Lavette / Heart Of Gold

Gerri Diamond / Give Up On Love

Sam Hawkins / Hold On Baby

Ann Sexton / You've Been Gone Too Long

Martha & The Vandellas / Heat Wave

George Torrence & The Naturals / (Mama Come Quick and Bring Your) Lickin' Stick

Z.Z. Hill / Oh Darling

Ray Charles and His Orchestra / I Don't Need No Doctor

Little Willie John / Doll Face

Van & Titus / The Vulture

Candi Staton / Too Hurt to Cry

The T.S.U. Toronadoes / What Good Am I?

The Natura'elles / Show Me The Way

Henry & His Kasuals / Workout

The Mar-Keys / Pop-Eye Stroll

Les Cooper & The Soul Rockers / Let's Do the Boston Monkey

The Olympics / Do the Slauson Shuffle

Bobby Marchan / Hooked

B.B. King / I'm Gonna Sit in Till You Give In

Charlie Rich / Hawg Jaw

The Fabulous Playboys / Nervous

Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs / High Blood Pressure

Martha & The Vandellas / Wild One

Four Tops / The Key

Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers / It's Growing

Jackie Shane / Any Other Way

Johnny Adams / Who's Gonna Love You

Tony Middleton / My Home Town

Barbara Acklin / Love Makes a Woman

Dolly Parton / Don't Drop Out

Alvin Cash / Doin' the Ali Shuffle

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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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"They drilled right through the little bunny's head!" The record box steers this show in a Funkier direction than the average episode of That Driving Beat. You'll hear late 1960s and early 1970s funky movers from Clarence Reid, Sir Joe Quarterman & Free Soul, Candi Staton, Ohio Players, Swamp Dogg (of course!), Junior & The Classics, Indianapolis's The Vanguards, and more. Plus, we've got funky covers of a country classic, a classic film theme, and a Creedence Clearwater Revival song!

-Originally broadcast June 7, 2026-

Booker T. Averhart & The Mustangs / Take Your Shoes Off (Part 1) - BONUS SONG!?

Willie Mitchell / That Driving Beat

The Interpretations / Soul Affection

Clarence Reid / Till I Get My Share

Sir Joe Quarterman & Free Soul / (I Got) So Much Trouble In My Mind Pt. 1

Paul Humphrey & His Cool Aid Chemists / Detroit

Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose / Treat Her Like a Lady

Leon Thomas / L-O-V-E

Danny White / Natural Soul Brother

Chuck Bernard / Hobo Flats

Natural Gas / What Do You Want From My Life

Bill Withers / Harlem

Candi Staton / Do It In the Name of Love

Ohio Players / Pain (Part 1)

Garland Green / I Can't Believe You Quit Me

The Bagdads / Green Power

Swamp Dogg / Do You Believe

Doris Duke / How Was I to Know You Cared

Syl Johnson / Try Me

The Bar-Kays / Midnight Cowboy

Lenny Williams / Feelin' Blue

The Staple Singers / I'll Take You There

Junior & The Classics / Kill the Pain

The Vanguards / The Thought of Losing Your Love

The Honey Drippers / Impeach the President

Freddy-Henchi & the Soulsetters / Folsom Prison

Dennis Coffey & The Detroit Guitar Band / Scorpio

Errol Gaye and the Imaginations / Love and Affection

Little Eva Harris / Mr. Everything

James Brown and the Famous Flames / Shhhhhhhh (For a Little While)

Fred Wesley & The J.B.'s / Doing It to Death

Rotary Connection / Love Me Now

Tony Owens / Got'a Get My Baby Back Home

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