Roy's Record Room on CKUA
Tune in every Sunday at 1 PM Mountain Time / Noon Pacific Time, to Roooooy’s Record Room, the show that continues to revolve. You can stream it live at www.ckua.com. Fifteen years and counting!
Roy’s Record Room is a weekly radio show on the CKUA Radio Network, Hosted by singer/songwriter/performer/broadcaster, Roy Forbes. RRR is a program that unravels and reveals the roots of today’s tunes, for the pure joy of it. Roy spins some familiar but mostly obscure 78s, 45s and LPs from his ever-expanding record collection – sides that don’t show up on many other stations. He loves all kinds of music and explores that eclectic passion weekly on Triple-R Radio.
Roy first came to CKUA at the age of twenty in 1973, when he was invited to guest on Holger Petersen’s legendary ACME Sausage Company program. CKUA has supported Roy and his music since those early days, with his new album, “Edge Of Blue”, having recently spent some time in the upper reaches of CKUA’s Top 20 album chart. Roy’s Record Room (RRR) launched in 2006.
"I love the sense of history that CKUA gives me as a listener as well as the sense of the now and the future," says Roy. "CKUA is the sound of surprise. You never know what you'll hear next”.
Roy’s record collection is more like a record library - running into the thousands of discs, with some even sent in by loyal RRR listeners. His appetite for music is virtually unlimited and he finds creative revelations everywhere.
Work Songs
This week, in honour of Labour Day, Roy digs out a stack of work-related sides to spin on Triple-R Radio. Jimmy Reed reveals that his boss ain’t so big. He’s just tall. That’s all. Dolly Parton plans to be a lady mule skinner. Keray Regan lists the ups and downs of being a poor, poor farmer. Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard put on their ragged, worn out working shoes. Merle Travis assures us that he owes his soul to the company store. Rusty Newby & the Saddle Serenaders have the musician blues. You’ll also hear work songs from the Two Tones, Waylon Jennings, Sam Cooke, Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Chuck Berry, Ruth Etting, and more.
The spin begins this coming Sunday, 2 PM, Mountain, on donor supported CKUA Radio. Dial in for a batch of Work Songs on Rooooy’s Record Room, the show that revolves and reveals.
78s From The Crates (#64)
This week, on RRR, Roy’s still stuck in 78-crate-land, with an eclectic playlist that includes several artists covering other artists. Lap steel pioneer, Jerry Byrd, covers Leon McAuliffe’s classic “Steel Guitar Rag”. The Maddox Brothers & Rose cover Eddy Arnold’s 1947 hit, “I Couldn’t Believe It Was True”. Elvis Presley covers Gene Autry. An R&B vocal duo, the Teen Queens cover a vocalese original from King Pleasure & Betty Carter. Country star Red Foley covers early rockabilly pioneer, Hardrock Gunter. You’ll also hear classic sides from Hank Williams, T-Bone Walker, Big Bill Broonzy, Red Nichols & His Five Pennies, Annette Hanshaw, and more. All blasting out of the original 78 rpm grooves.
The spin begins this coming Sunday, August 20th, 2 PM, Mountain, on donor supported CKUA Radio. Dial in for a stack of 78s from the crates on Rooooy’s Record Room, the show that feeds the future by honouring the past.
More 78s From The Crates (#63)
Hecks-a-popping this week on Triple R Radio as Roy digs deep into another crate of 78s. You’ll hear a 1956 Fats Domino B-side of one of his biggest hits as well as Gene Autry’s 1940 recording of that huge Fats hit. You can check out the roots of harmony vocal doo-wop singing via a 1934 Mills Brothers Decca disc. You’ll marvel at the first notable recording from an 18-year-old guitarist, Hank Garland, who’s fretwork would grace countless important country and rock recordings in the 1950s. You’ll be deeply moved by a stunning spiritual performance from Marian Anderson, the first African American to sing at the Metropolitan Opera. And there’s more…
The spin begins this Sunday, August 13th, 2 PM, Mountain, on donor supported CKUA Radio. Dial in for an eclectic batch of 78s from the crates on Roooy’s Record Room, the show that feeds the future by honouring the past.
78s From The Crates
Get ready for instalment # 62 of the continuing ‘78s from the crates’ series this week on Roy’s Record Room. Roy pulls out a stack of jazzy shellac from the likes of Kai’s Krazy Kats, the Four King Sisters, Tony Bennett, Joe Venuti’s Blue Four (vocal from Harold Arlen), the Country All-Stars (Chet, Homer, Jethro, Jerry Byrd), Peggy Lee with the Capitol Jazzmen, the King Cole Trio, and more.
The spin begins this coming Sunday, Aug 6th, 2 PM, Mountain, on donor supported CKUA. Dial in for a cool stack of Jazzy 78s from the crates on Rooooy’s Record Room, the show that feeds the future by honouring the past.
Summer Songs
Roy dives into an eclectic batch of Summer Songs this week on RRR. You’ll hear all about beach parties, hot dogs, solid potato salad, heat waves, picking blackberries, going fishing, walking on a sidewalk hotter than a match head, and more
The spin begins this coming Sunday, July 30th, 2 PM, Mountain, on donor supported CKUA Radio. Tune in for an eclectic batch of Summer Songs on Rooooy’s Record Room, the show that feeds the future by honouring the past.
17th Annual Mid-Summer Rockin’ 78 Dance Party
We’ll be rockin’ in the record room this Sunday as Roy pulls out a stack of red-hot shellac from the dawn of rock ‘n’ roll. See if you can sit still as he plays classic sides from Little Richard, Buddy Holly, LaVerne Baker, Fats Domino, the Hollywood Flames, Billy Lee Riley & his Little Green Men, Ronnie Self, Brenda Lee and many more – all blasting from the grooves of the original 1950s 78s.
The spin begins this Sunday, July 23rd, 2 PM, Mountain, on donor supported CKUA Radio. Dial in for a Mid-Summer Rockin’ 78 Dance Party on Rooooy’s Record Room, the show that feeds the future by honouring the past.