Juke In The Back
Hosted by Matt The Cat · Matt The Cat
4.9from 80 ratings
- 85
- Episodes
- 25
- Transcribed
- 80
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2010
- First episode
About Juke In The Back
At the end of the Second World War, economics forced the big bands to trim their once great size and thus, the Jump Blues combo was born. Between 1946-1954, rhythm and blues laid the tracks for what was to become Rock n’ Roll. So how come, 75 years later, this vibrant and influential music is still so unknown to so many? Matt The Cat is going to change that with the radio program, “Juke In The Back.” These were the records that you couldn’t hear on the jukebox in the front of the establishment. To hear all this great 1950s rhythm & blues, you had to go to “Juke In The Back.”
- Publisher
- Matt The Cat
- Category
- music · music · music
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 17 May 2010
- Latest episode
- 11 Oct 2026
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25 of 85 episodes have a transcript.
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Episode #858 – Louis Jordan, Pt. 5 – 1948-50
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Episode #857 – Louis Jordan, Pt. 4 – 1947-48
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Episode #856 – Louis Jordan, Pt. 3 – 1946
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Episode #858 – Louis Jordan, Pt. 5 – 1948-50
Published 11 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Before that, we heard Louis Jordan and his Timpani Five's previous single, Roman Blues, which was cut in November of 48 and released in March of 49, where it topped out at number 10. I'm Matt the Cat, and we're featuring the king of the jukeboxes, the most influential artist of the 1940s, Louis Jordan. No African-American singer sold more records during that decade than Jordan. And from 1943 to 1951, Jordan scored 18 number one R&B records. We haven't heard a number one yet on this week's show, part five of my six-part series on Jordan, but one is coming up in just a couple of minutes. But first, a tune that should be very familiar to those of you cats and kittens who dig on the juke in the back each week. […]
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- 63 ratings
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- 4.7 / 5
- 17 ratings
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- Engagement
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