In this show, we take a look at songs that have references to illegal drugs and were recorded before the 1960s.
- Junker’s Blues – Champion Jack Dupree
- Everybody Loves That Hadacol – Basin Street Six
- Who Put The Benzedrine In Mrs Murphy’s Oveltine? – Henry ‘The Hipster’ Gibson
- Smoking Reefers – Larry Adler
- Kickin’ The Gong around – Cab Calloway
- Lotus Blossom (Sweet Marijuana) – Julia Lee
- Reefer Man – Baron Lee & The Blue Rhythm Band
- Weed – Bea Foote
- You’re A Viper – Stuff Smith & His Onyx Club Boys
- When I Get Low, I Get High – Ella Fitzgerald
- Fixin’ To Die Blues – Bukka White
- Sweet Marijuana Brown – Barney Bigard Sextet
- Save The Roach For Me – Buck Washington
- That Cat Is High – The Ink Spots
- Reefer Headed Woman – Jazz Gillum & The Harlem Hamfats
- Cocaine Blues – Luke Jordan
- The Candy Man – Rosetta Howard
- Refeer Hound Blues – Curtis Jones
- Cocaine Habit Blues – Memphis Jug Band