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.

This week, on Triple-R Radio, Roy spins some donor requests and gives a nod to the late Gordon Lightfoot. As well as early sides from Gord (including his folk group, The Two Tones, from 1962), you’ll hear an eclectic batch of donor-requested platters from Roy Hamilton, Jo-Ann Campbell, Frankie Trumbauer & Bix Beiderbecke, the Flamingos, Willie & the Walkers, Milton Brown & His Brownies, Barry Allen, and more.

The spin begins on Sunday, May 7^th, 2 PM, Mountain, on donor supported CKUA Radio. Dial in for an eclectic hour of tunes on Roooy’s Record Room, the show that continues to revolve.

Of special note, we will still be doubling your dollars on Sunday. Watch your donations multiply. www.ckua.com

This Sunday, on the last day of CKUA’s annual spring fundraising campaign, Roy’s Record Room host, Roy Forbes, and World Spinning host, Lark Clark, get together for an RRR Fundraising Dance Date. While folks like Amos Milburn, Ivey Anderson with Duke Ellington, Dee Dee Sharp, Wilson Pickett, the Beatles, Roy Newman & His Boys, Wynonie Harris, and Big Maybelle make with the musical dance moves, Roy and Lark will be encouraging RRR/CKUA listeners to donate, donate, donate! As well, every dollar you send our way will be doubled by CKUA’s Leadership Donors.

Join the community. Double your dollars. Amplify CKUA by contributing to the spring fundraiser. Roy and Lark look forward to hearing from you on Sunday, April 30^th, between 2 & 3 PM, Mountain, as they rock the bop on Roy’s Record Room.

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