Boss-Tones has been played on NTS in shows including Lux & Ivy's Favourites , featured first on 5 July 2020. Songs played include Mope-Itty Mope.

The Bosstones were an African American musical group in the 1950s who performed in the instrumentally-sparse, a cappella-based harmonic style known as "Philadelphia doo-wop."

The best-known song by the Bosstones is "Mope-Itty Mope" which was released as a 45 rpm single in 1959. In describing one of the many compilation CDs on which this song appears, Allmusic writes:

it's a treat to have access to songs by...the Bosstones [and other groups] that received regional attention but never achieved...