Author: Paul Norton

This weekend, Roy Forbes marks eighteen years of Triple-R Radio on CKUA by spinning a bunch of Listener Highlights sent in by RRR fans. It’ll be a wild, eclectic musical ride, ranging from the late 60s hard rockin’ sounds of Edmonton’s Southbound Freeway to some cool early 50s organ-based jazz from the Count Basie Sextet. In between, you’ll hear some psychedelia, jump blues, country, R&B, soul, jazz vocalizing, rockabilly, and so much more. All chosen by the folks who tune in to The Room every week.

Join the celebration of this long-running radio show on Sunday, April 7^th, 2 PM, Mountain, via CKUA. We’re marking eighteen years of revolving and revealing on Rooooy’s Record Room.

This week on Triple-R Radio, it’s the Western Hour – A Fresh Fingerfulla C&W 45s, mostly from the 1950s. You’ll hear stellar Country sides from the Louvin Brothers, George Jones, Rose Maddox, Lefty Frizzell, Hank Snow, Homer & Jethro, Johnny Horton, Ray Price, and more.

The spin begins this Sunday, March 31^st, 2 PM, Mountain, on donor supported CKUA Radio.  If you love 50s Country, dial in for the Western Hour – A Fresh Fingerfulla 50s C&W 45s on Rooooy’s Record Room, the show that reveals the roots.

It’s an eclectic batch of 78s from the crates this week on Roy’s Record Room. Ninon Mondejar y su Orquesta provide some smooth Cha Cha Cha sounds. Dusty Williams’ String Busters lay out some vintage Canadian Western Swing from 1953. Jim Reeves sings one from his early honky-tonk days. Pop singer Margaret Whiting, shows her jazzier side. Eddy Arnold calls in the cattle.

And that’s just scratching the surface. You’ll also hear shellac from the Delta Rhythm Boys, Jack Teagarden & the Whoopee Makers, the Sons Of the West, the Maddox Brothers & Rose, Tiny Bradshaw, the Trumpeteers, and more.

The spin begins this coming Sunday, March 24^th, 2 PM, Mountain, on donor supported CKUA Radio. Dial in on your favourite device for a mess of 78s from the crates on Rooooy’s Record Room, the show that feeds the future by honouring the past.

Roy’s back shuffling through crates of 78s this week on Roy’s Record Room. Show # 69 in the ongoing ‘78s from the crates’ series. You’ll hear jazzy shellac from the likes of Jelly-Roll Morton, Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb, the Washboard Rhythm Kings, Al Bowlly with Ray Noble. James Moody & His Bop Men, the Harlem Footwarmers, Mildred Bailey, Oscar Peterson, and more

The spin begins this coming Sunday, March 17^th, 2 PM, Mountain, on donor supported CKUA Radio. Dial in for some Jazzy 78s from the crates on Roooy’s Record Room, revolving and revealing.

This coming Sunday, Roy’s Record Room celebrates International Women’s Day with a stack of Jazzy Women at 78 rpm. You’ll hear some stellar vocalizing from trail breakers like Lena Horne, Gladys Palmer, Anita O’Day, Ivie Anderson, Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Nellie Lutcher, and many more. All sounding from the original 78 rpm shellac discs.

The spin begins this Sunday, March 10^th, 2 PM, Mountain, on donor supported CKUA Radio. Tune in and celebrate with some Jazzy Women at 78 rpm on Roooy’s Record Room, the show that revolves the platters to reveal what matters.

Yep. There’s good rockin’ in the record room this week as Roy spins a mess of rockabilly 45s and 78s. You’ll shake, rattle, and roll to the sounds of Bob & Lucille aka the Canadian Sweethearts, Ray Harris, Robert Gordon with Link Wray, Buddy Burke & the Canadian Meteors, Wanda Jackson, the Renowns with Marjorie Lake, Johnny Carroll & His Hot Rocks, Andy Starr, and more.

The spin begins this coming Sunday, March 3^rd, 2 PM, Mountain, on donor supported CKUA Radio. See if you can sit still as you tune in to Rockabilly Time on Rooooy’s Record Room, the show that revolves, rocks, and reveals.

This week, Roy journeys back to the dawn of recorded sound via the RRR shellac archives for a celebration of some early African American musical pioneers. Things kick off with a 1909 78 of “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” from the Fisk Jubilee Singers. The show winds up in 1935 with a Coleman Hawkins Decca disc of “What Harlem Means To Me”

In between, you’ll hear gems from Bert Williams (1913), Kokomo Arnold (1934), Bessie Smith’s debut single (1923), Viola McCoy with Fletcher Henderson’s Jazz Five (1924), Cannon’s Jug Stompers (1928), Blind Mamie Forehand (1927), the Spirits of Rhythm (1933), and more.

It’s time for Triple-R Radio’s annual Mid-Winter Rockin’ 78 Dance party. In celebration of Black History Month, you’ll hear essential shellac from black rock ‘n’ rollers like LaVerne Baker, Bo Diddley, the Midnighters, Little Richard, the Heartbeats, Chuck Berry, the Cadillacs, Etta James, Tommy Edwards, and many more.

The spin begins this Sunday, February 18^th, 2 PM, Mountain, on donor supported CKUA Radio. Tune in for the annual Mid-Winter Rockin’ 78 Dance Party on Roooy’s Record Room, the show that spins the platters to reveal what matters.

This week, Triple-R Radio host, Roy Forbes, digs through another stack of seven-inch vinyl singles.  The playlist features an illustrious cast of characters including Jimi Hendrix, Albert King,Ruby & the Romantics, Eddie Harris, the Exciters, Gary (U.S) Bonds, and many more.

The platters revolve this Sunday, February 11^th, 2 PM, Mountain, on donor supported CKUA Radio. Dial in for Another Fresh Fingerfulla 45s on Rooooy’s Record Room, the show that feeds the future by shining a light on the past.

Roy has loved Buddy Holly’s music since getting one of his first albums, “The Buddy Holly Story”, back in 1961 or so, from an older sister’s boyfriend – most likely a pay off for making himself scarce. All through Roy’s musical life, Buddy has been there in one way or another, either through his own records or through The Beatles, The Stones, Blind Faith, The Grateful Dead, Linda Ronstadt, etc. And, of course, Buddy wore glasses.

This week, on Triple R Radio, Roy celebrates Buddy’s genius and the long shadow he continues to cast on all kinds of music, sixty-five years after his plane went down in that frozen Iowa cornfield, February 3rd, 1959.

The show begins with the 1955 Wichita Falls demos with Bob Montgomery, Moves through the Decca sides and the big hits on Brunswick and Coral, ending with the guitar-vocal Apartment Tapes, recorded in Greenwich Village in late ’58, early ’59.

The all-Buddy spin begins on Sunday, February 4^th, 2 PM, Mountain, on Roooy’s Record Room. The show that revolves, reveals, and reveres.