If you like your blues with a bit of rhythm or your rhythm with a touch of blues, you’ll be right at home this week as Roy spins a stack of R&B 78s on Triple-R Radio. You’ll hear stellar sides from Anisteen Allen, Ruth Brown, Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters, Jay McShann, Jimmy Liggins & His Drops Of Joy, Huey ‘Piano’ Smith & The Clowns, Big Maybelle, Lonnie Johnson and more.

That’s Sunday, 2 PM, Mountain, on donor supported CKUA Radio. Dial in for an R&B Shellac Shack Shuffle on Roooy’s Record Room, the show that feeds the future by honouring the past.

Yep, it’s party time on Triple-R Radio. In honour of the July long weekend, Roy spins a lively mess of 78s from folks like Amos Milburn & His Aladdin Chickenshackers, Janis Martin, Tampa Red, the Maddox Brothers & Rose, Etta James, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, and so many more.

The spin begins this coming Sunday, July 2^nd, 2 PM, Mountain, on donor supported CKUA Radio. Dig out your favourite libation and put on your rockin’ shoes as we celebrate the long weekend on Roooy’s Record Room, the show that feeds the future by honouring the past.

Somebody call for the Doctor! That’s a phrase you’ll hear a bunch of times on this week’s edition of Triple-R Radio. Host, Roy Forbes, has scoured his slightly cluttered basement for physician-related tracks from the likes of John D. Loudermilk, Blossom Dearie, Dr. Humphrey Bate & His Possum Hunters, Jelly-Roll Morton’s Red-Hot Peppers, Aretha Franklin, the Spirits of Rhythm, Hank Williams, Doc Pomus, and many more.

The spin begins this Sunday, June 25^th, 2 PM, Mountain, on donor supported CKUA Radio. Tune in to see who keeps their appointment with Doctor Roy on Roooy’s Record Room, the show that’s got the musical pills to cure your ills.

Roy’s back digging out more 78s from the crates this week on Triple-R Radio. He’s uncovered some stellar shellac from folks like Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies, Patsy Cline, Chick Bullock & His Levee Loungers, Kay Starr & Tennessee Ernie, the McCormick Brothers, Ella Mae Morse, and more.

The spin begins this coming Sunday, 2 PM, Mountain, on donor supported CKUA Radio. Dial in for a stack of fine 78s from the crates on Rooooy’s Record Room, the show that feeds the future by honouring the past.

This week, on Triple-R Radio, Roy digs down deep into the extensive RRR 45 rpm archives for a star-studded playlist. As well as four early sides from Ike & Tina Turner, (in honour of Tina’s recent passing), you’ll hear platters that matter from Koko Taylor, Fred Neil, Sam Cooke, the Bob Seger System, Rusty & Doug, Bettye Swann, the 5 Royales, the Meters, Albert Collins, and more.

The spin begins this Sunday, June 11^th, 2 PM, Mountain, on donor supported CKUA. Dial in for an hour of 45s from the archives on Rooooy’s Record Room, the show that revolves and reveals.

This week, Roy dips into the Triple-R Radio archives for a mini-history lesson with a stack of Canadian country and folk 78s. You’ll hear sides from small Canadian labels such as Aragon, Arrow, Quality and Biltmore as well as a few RCA Victor sides. Pioneering Canadian country artists include Myrna Lorrie, the Hillbilly Jewels, Lennie Siebert & The Calgary Chuckwagon Gang, Keray Regan, Arthur Scammel, Billy Guitar, Buddy Reynolds, and so many more.

If you’re at all curious about Canadian country and folk from 1943 through to 1958, tune in on Sunday, June 4th, 2 PM, Mountain for some Canadian country & folk 78s on Rooooy’s Record Room, the show that continues to revolve.

This week, Roy picks out a few of his favourite 45s from the RRR archives for a lively hour of Triple-R Radio. The Staples Singers cover Buffalo Springfield. Wilma Lee & Stony Cooper countrify a Leadbelly folk standard. The Trials of Jayson Hoover provide some psychedelic Vancouver R&B circa 1968. Lambert, Hendricks & Ross prove why they were called the hottest (vocal) group in jazz. Dusty Springfield foreshadows “Good Vibrations”.

And that ain’t all. You’ll also hear platters that matter from the Sir Douglas Quintet, Rose Maddox, the 49^th Parallel, Albert Collins, Jack Scott, and more.

The spin begins this Sunday, May 28^th, 2 PM, Mountain, on donor supported CKUA Radio. Dial in for some fave 45s from the archives on Rooooy’s Record Room. The show that reveals, and reveals, and reveals, and…

This week on RRR, Roy celebrates sixty episodes of the ongoing ‘78s from the crates’ series by spinning classic and obscure shellac from Happy Fats & His Rayne-Bo Ramblers, Cleo Brown, Lonnie Johnson & Blind Willie Dunn, Harry McClintock & His Haywire Orchestra, the Dominoes, Ethel Waters, Patsy Cline, Pete Johnson, and more.

The spin begins this coming Sunday, May 21^st, 2 PM, Mountain, on donor supported CKUA Radio. Dial in for another stack of 78s from the crates on Rooooy’s Record Room, the show that revolves and reveals.

Roy’s back in the shellac saddle this week, digging up more 78s from the crates on Triple-R Radio. He’ll play a few stellar sides from the likes of Annie Laurie with Dallas Bartley & The Band That Comes On, the Shelton Brothers, Bobby Charles, Bessie Smith, the Beaver Valley Sweethearts, Red Kirk with Jerry Byrd & The String Dusters, the Girls Of The Golden West, Jimmy Yancey, and more.

The spin begins this coming Sunday, May 14^th, 2 PM, Mountain, on donor supported CKUA Radio. Dial in for more 78s from the crates on Rooooy’s Record Room. Ever revolving. Always revealing.