Category: Radio

Heck’s a-popping this week on Triple-R Radio as Roy works his way through another stack of 78s from the crates. Ella Mae Morse dispenses some serious advice on achieving true happiness. The Delta Rhythm Boys hand out a travel advisory, recommending that we take the ‘A’ train. Billy Eckstine warns against the perils of too much jellyroll.

And that’s just a taste. You’ll also hear sides from the Ravens, King Oliver, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Smiley Lewis, Ella Fitzgerald, the Billy Taylor Quartet, and so much more.

The shellac shuffles on Sunday, June 5th  at 1 PM, Mountain. Tune in for more 78s from the crates on Rooooy’s Record Room, the show that continues to revolve. Sixteen years and counting.

It’s doo-wop time this week on Triple-R Radio. Roy spins some familiar and unfamiliar vocal group sides from the fifties and early sixties by the likes of the Medallions, Donald Woods & The Bel Aires, Etta James & The Peaches, the Pearls, the Harptones, the Coasters, The Robins and more.

That’s Sunday, May 29^th, 1 PM, Mountain, for Doo-Wop Time on Roy’s Record Room, the show that continues to revolve. Sixteen years and counting.

Lots of action on Triple-R Radio this week as Roy dives deep into more 78 crates. Patti Page covers Memphis Slim. Louis Armstrong & the Mills Brothers team up for an Irving Berlin song about a walking stick. Coleman Hawkins & Orchestra present the first recording/release of an early Monk tune. Jimmie Rodgers & Sara Carter unite for a super-session collaboration. Hank Snow covers Calgary songwriter Hod Pharis.

As well, you’ll hear stellar sides from Autry Inman, Keray Regan, Kitty Wells, Dixie Bill Hilton & the Calgary Range Riders, Buddy Holly, and more

The shuffling of shellac begins Sunday, May 22^nd, 1 PM, Mountain, on CKUA. Tune in for another episode of ‘78s from the crates’ on Rooooy’s Record Room, the show that continues to revolve. Sixteen years and counting.

Roy’s back digging through crates of 78s this week on RRR. Some of the turned-up treasures include sides from Orquestra America, the Turbans, Zeb Turner, Grandpa Jones & His Grandchildren, Paul Williams & His Hucklebuckers with Connie Allen, Homer & Jethro, Lee Morse, and more.

The crate digging begins on Sunday, May 15^th, 1 PM, Mountain. Tune in for more 78s from the crates on Roooy’s Record Room, the show that continues to revolve and reveal. Sixteen years and counting.

This week, Roy journeys back to the dawn of recorded sound, via the RRR shellac archives, for a salute to 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 Cleo Brown’s Decca disc of “When Hollywood Goes Black And Tan”.

In the middle, you’ll hear gems from Bert Williams (1921), Kokomo Arnold (1934), Jelly-Roll Morton’s Red-Hot Peppers (1926), Viola McCoy with Fletcher Henderson’s Jazz Five (1924), Cannon’s Jug Stompers (1928), Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson (1932), and more.

Tune in on Sunday, May 8^th, 1 PM, Mountain, for a salute to some black musical pioneers at 78 rpm on Rooooy’s Record Room, the show that revolves and reveals. Sixteen years and counting.

RRR host, Roy Forbes, is joined once again by the amazing Lark Clark for a fundraising show full of fave Triple-R Radio 45s. You’ll hear from such RRR regulars as Michel Pagliaro, the Staples Singers, the Checkerlads, the Equals (with Eddy Grant), Dusty Springfield, Wes Dakus & the Rebels, Bob & Lucille (the Canadian Sweethearts), Nancy Sinatra, Wilson Pickett, and more.

We only have one hour on this last day of the CKUA fundraiser to weave the RRR magic so let’s put the pedal to the metal. Tune in at 1 PM, Mountain, to support Roy’s Record Room and CKUA.

Go to www.ckua.com to donate.

Roy is touring Alberta this weekend with shows in Red Deer, Calgary and Edmonton.

Since he happens to be in Edmonton on Sunday, April 24^th, Roy will be hosting Roy’s Record Room live from the CKUA Edmonton studio along with co-host Lark Clark, who also happens to be in that fine Alberta town.

The fundraising focus on this week’s RRR will be 78s, 78s, and more 78s. Roy and Lark invite you to join the fun on Sunday, April 24^th, at 1 PM, Mountain, for a fundraising Shellac Shack Shuffle on Rooooy’s Record Room, the show that revolves and reveals.

Go to ckua.com to find out how you can donate.

This week, Roy dives back into some 78s from the crates – #41 in this ongoing series. Get ready for some superb shellac from Fats Domino, Billie Holiday, Andre Williams & His New Group, Joe Turner, Benny Barnes, Don Gibson, Maxine Sullivan and more.

That’s Sunday, April 17 at 1 PM Mountain, for more 78s from the crates on Rooooy’s Record Room, counting sixteen years of revolving and revealing.

It’s party time on Triple-R Radio as Roy celebrates sixteen years of RRR on CKUA. He’ll be running at all three speeds with platters from Toots & The Maytals, Chuck Berry, the Rolling Stones (covering Chuck Berry), the Beatles, Janis Martin, Wanda Jackson, Randy Newman, Moon Mullican, and many more.

Join the festivities on Sunday, April 10^th, 1 PM, Mountain as Roy’s Record Room celebrates sixteen years of revolving and revealing.

This week, Roy takes a romp through the RRR 78 archives for a good old Shellac Shack Shuffle. You’ll hear stellar sides from Fats Waller & His Rhythm, the Ravens, the Delmore Brothers, Percy Mayfield, Annette Hanshaw, Homer & Jethro, Sarah Vaughan, and more.

That’s Sunday, April 3^rd, 1 PM, Mountain, for a good old all-78 Shellac Shack Shuffle on Rooooy’s Record Room, on the verge of sixteen years and counting.