That Driving Beat

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 Bobb...

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...

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 / D...

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 M...

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, a...

Here's another 2 hour radio dance party of northern soul movers, rhythm & blues shakers, popcorn steppers, and more tunes with That Driving beat! We've got an obscure smokin' R&B cover of the Everly Brothers, an early one by the Blue Notes, Lulu in Muscle Shoals, plus, as usual, a few new finds for our collections. -Originally broadcast February 16, 2025- Willie Mitchell / That Drivin...

We've been out digging up more vinyl treasures with That Driving Beat. We went to Cincinnati to check out the Queen City Soul Club's monthly all-vinyl dance party and made a little time for some local record sources. Check out our new northern soul, rhythm & blues, popcorn, psych rock, funk, and other scores!  -Originally broadcast February 9, 2025- Willie Mitchell / That Drivin...

James gets another chance to run things solo this week as Uwe is off, and he fills the 2 hours with 1960s rockers. We've got legitimate amateur garage rock, big names like Mitch Ryder and Tommy James, sneering 1960s punk, West Texas jet-setters, and small-town kids from garages in Indiana, Michigan, and more. -Originally broadcast February 2, 2025- Willie Mitchell / That Driving Beat The Oxfo...

Here's 2 more hours of music from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s with That Driving Beat. Turn up the volume! -Originally broadcast January 26, 2025- Willie Mitchell / That Driving Beat James Carr / Coming Back To Me Baby The Precisions / If This Is Love (I'd Rather Be Lonely) Ruby Johnson / Keep On Keeping On Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons / The Night Bobby Byrd / I'm Lonely Buster Brown / Is...

We've got two packed hours of 1960s party music for your 45 rpm vinyl radio dance party! You'll hear soul belters, R&B shakers, popcorn beat, jazzy movers, and more by The Broadways, Major Lance, Kim Tolliver, Shirley Ellis, lesser-known dancers from famous names like Wilson Pickett, Fats Domino, and Chubby Checker, and some fantastic steppers and shuffles from the Tams, Gene Allison, Dea...

The guys are excited to be back at full strength for this show after a few weeks missing one or two of us, and we've got boxes packed with 1960s and 70s party music. Expect the kind of soul, R&B, mod, garage rock, pop, psych, and upbeat dance tunes that you expect from That Driving Beat, plus an unearthed Stax demo recently pressed to vinyl for the first time! -Originally broadcast Januar...

James gets another whole episode to do his own things while Uwe is out of town this week, and his thing involves spinning 45 rpm singles packed full of rhythm & blues, garage rock, northern soul, funk, and more 1960s and 70s dancers! You'll hear a couple of rare tunes from the Lexington, Kentucky LEMCO label, some British Beat, a few Northern Soul floor fillers, and a funky, angry tune fr...

James gets a show all to himself this week, and brings a box full of Northern soul, garage rock, rhythm & blues, and other 45 rpm singles with That Driving Beat! **THIS IS A HOLIDAY-MUSIC-FREE-ZONE!* -Originally broadcast December 22, 2024- Willie Mitchell / That Driving Beat The Parliaments / (I Wanna) Testify Edwin Starr / Headline News The Platters / With This Ring Wales Wallace / Somebody...

A little garage rock, a little funk, plenty of rhythm & blues, and a healthy dose of northern soul in this episode of your radio dance party! James found a stack of records he forgot he bought in Nashville a few months ago, including a few real winners. Meanwhile, Uwe pulled a random cross-section of his collection, and it's all killer! -Originally broadcast December 15, 2024- Willie...

We spin some B-sides to bigger hits, 1960s Mod classics, some mid-1960s West Coast rock, Dolly Parton Northern Soul, Johnny Nash before he went reggae, and that big tune that Irma Thomas got to first, then the Rolling Stones made into a hit. -Originally broadcast December 8, 2024- Willie Mitchell / That Driving Beat Candy and the Kisses / Shakin' Time Eddie Holman / A Free Country Teardrops / Tear...

Uwe had a long weekend away and did some record digging in unfamiliar territory while James hit up a couple of the usual fruitful record spots in Louisville. They both added some great 45s to their collections from the likes of The Ikettes, Gino Washington, Percy Sledge, the Soul Brothers Six, OV Wright, Etta James, Marva Whitney, some raw early Motown from Sherri Taylor and "Singin" Sammy Wa...

We've got a small-town Alabama group's rare version of Mr. Pitiful for you today, plus R&B, northern soul, and more from Bobby McClure, Jackie Shane, The Traits, Trini Lopez, a Billy Joe Royal favorite, some British Psych from the Spencer Davis Group, and The Coasters' early 1970s take on Love Potion Number Nine. -Originally broadcast November 24, 2024- Willie Mitchell / That Driving Beat Juni...

This week among the vinyl treasures we share, we've got a 1970s crossover soul cover of a Merle Haggard tune, Chuck Berry's ode to the Club Nitty Gritty, a very early R&B non-hit by a legendary Welsh singer, a few Northern Soul classics, and a St Louis gospel shaker warning you you're not living right. -Originally broadcast November 17, 2024- Willie Mitchell / That Driving Beat Little Johnny T...

For the first time in many weeks, we each got some time this week to get out and dig for some forgotten vinyl treasures around Louisville. We both had good luck at some of our usual spots, unearthing some 1960s and 70s rhythm & blues, northern soul, garage rock, psych rock, and more! -Originally broadcast November 10, 2024- Willie Mitchell / That Driving Beat Troy Keyes / Love Explosion F...

This episode is packed full of Mod dancers, Northern Soul shakers, Motown classics, British Beat movers, a few tunes from the Batman 1966 craze, and a classic hit that means a lot to us hosts of That Driving Beat. It's a two hour radio 1960s dance party, all from original vinyl 45 rpm singles! -Originally broadcast November 3, 2024- Willie Mitchell / That Driving Beat Ray Charles and His Orch...

We've got a few spooky ones in this episode, including some Hitchcock-inspired bird nonsense, plus soul and R&B movers from Chicago, Detroit, New York, Texas, Los Angeles, Nashville, Louisville, England, Scotland via Germany, and more! -Originally broadcast October 27, 2024- Willie Mitchell / That Driving Beat Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels / Break Out Don Nero and the Full Flavour / Get...

Uwe runs the show solo this week while James was out of the country, spinning 2 hours of soul, R&B, and pop dance music from the 1960s and early 1970s, all on 45 rpm vinyl singles! -Originally broadcast October 20, 2024- Chubby Checker / The Weekend's Here Willie Mitchell / That Driving Beat Bobby Adeno / The Hands of Time The Exciters / I Want You To Be My Boy The Five Empressions / Hey Lover...

Uwe has a stack of new 45 rpm finds from his recent flea market digging. James hasn't been able to get out and shake the record trees for a few weeks, but he's got some favorites and forgotten tunes from his collection to spin, including a test pressing with no information on the label! Also, Uwe helps James fill out his collection of Dolly Parton's Northern Soul tunes! It's two mor...

Uwe runs the show solo on this episode while James is off doing his own thing. If you didn't already know, Uwe's got the records! Here are some favorites from Susan Barrett, Otis Clay, Bobby Bland, Mable John, Z.Z. Hill, Pearl Woods, Barbara Carr, plus a couple of monkey songs, some 1966 Louisville garage rockers, and a modern tune from Louisville's Butch Williams! -Originally broadcast...

We spin top 1960s and early 1970s dance tunes from Della Reese, The Fabulettes, Ben E. King, Etta James, Baby Washington, Tommy Tucker, Darrow Fletcher, plus some Kentucky tunes, British Mod numbers, and a few Northern Soul favorites. -Originally broadcast September 1, 2024- Willie Mitchell / That Driving Beat The Fabulettes / Screamin' and Shoutin' Bobby Hebb / Love Love Love Della Reese / If It...