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221203 The First (and Second) Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Veltones
Songs about "I want my baby back," "stronger than dirt" and the probable origin of the song, Twenty Flight Rock as we search for the first rock and...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KPRG, KFCF FM, WQCS and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 7
221029 Searching for Good Radio is the Search for the First Rock and Roll Song.
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Rockin' R's
The first rock and roll songs catered to being on the radio on the hope of catching the masses' ears. And radio catered to this new sound of hot m...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KFCF FM, KPRG, Prairie Public, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Oct 24, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 6
221015 Searching for the First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Bobby Martin and the Tune Twisters
Songs about hickies!

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KFCF FM, KPRG, Prairie Public, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Oct 12, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 7
221008 Songs About The Third Girl's Revenge, Judy, and Reggae Where You Least Expect It
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Exploring the beginnings of post WWII musical culture. When a new, "hot" music emerged from the orthodoxy of established musics. Later we would c...

Bought by KFCF FM, Prairie Public, WQCS, KPRG, and WYAP


  • Added: Oct 03, 2022
  • Length: 03:58:59
  • Purchases: 5
220820 The Aura of Late Night Radio
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Les Rhythm Checkers
Tonight's search for the first rock and roll song focuses o girl groups, New Orleans music, and the aura of late night radio is the same aura of la...

Bought by KCHU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KPRG, KFCF FM, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Aug 17, 2022
  • Length: 03:50:44
  • Purchases: 7
220604 Texas Musicians, The Mysterious Walter Spriggs, and Wildcat Records of Sweden
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Monte Easter in Los Angeles 1990
It's always an audio history of the first rock and roll records focusing on the pioneers instead of the tired old "hits." It's perfect for public ...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Prairie Public, KFCF FM, and KPRG


  • Added: Jun 03, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:01
  • Purchases: 4
220320 The Dating Game for Dogs and Oil Songs
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Azzurri the Bachelorette
Hi, I'm Jim Lange and this is the Dating Game for dogs. In the post-WWII world, this music that was later called "Rock and Roll" was simply popula...

Bought by WQCS, Prairie Public, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KPRG, KFCF FM and more


  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 02:56:45
  • Purchases: 6
220108 First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Rudy Ray Moore kneeling
These are songs you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of so this is a deep dig into the non-commercial arts instead of pop music as de...

Bought by KCHU, KFCF FM, KPRG, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Jan 05, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:11
  • Purchases: 4
201227 "Bad Skills" plus Lamp Records and Matt Lucas
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Matt Lucas at the (pre-Katrina) Fats Domino Compound
Whether we like it or not, we pick up skills from our habits. Everyone talks up the good habits and their good skills but nobody talks up the bad ...

Bought by Prairie Public and KFCF FM


  • Added: Dec 24, 2020
  • Length: 02:56:58
  • Purchases: 2
181201 Ginny!
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Songs about Alaska and the Frozen North plus that girl, Ginny.

  • Added: Dec 05, 2018
  • Length: 02:31:47
171125 Music You've Never Heard
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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  • Added: Nov 27, 2017
  • Length: 02:56:51
171125 California Songs
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: That's me, compliments of Andy Kerr
Substituting for California girl, Peggy Lou, so just songs about the idea fo "California."

  • Added: Nov 27, 2017
  • Length: 01:57:35
170909 Songs About Shorty plus "Uncle Bud - The Radio Musical"
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Long sets of Louisiana music and music about names like "Bud, Shorty and Irma. Bud as in "Uncle Bud" the dirty ditty that is based on Froggy Goes ...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2017
  • Length: 02:52:04
150912 "Rock Music You've Never Heard
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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By musicians you've never heard of..." Collectors music without the burdens of the music's provenance. Good music just works.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2015
  • Length: 02:54:16
Pinto Pete - Goodbye My Lover Goodbye
From: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Series: Pinto Pete and His Ranch Hands
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Pinto Pete and His Ranch Hands is an old time radio cowboy music show. Songs in this episode are Goodbye My Lover Goodbye, Accordian Instrumental, ...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2015
  • Length: 12:29
140503 Mr. Dewey Decimal Wonders What Jam Bands Have to do With New Orleans
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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WWOZ - an outlet for JazzFest music heads to hear the golden era of New Orleans music (the 1950s to 1970s). Tonight, "New Orleans music you've nev...

  • Added: May 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:55:07
140112 Tootsie Rolls, Hunting and Car Donations
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: From a record trading shop - the dreck that can't even be given away., Credit: WFMU at WFMU.org home of my favorite radio show - Seven Second Delay
Collectors music from the era just before rock and roll established a formulaic sound. "Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard o...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2014
  • Length: 02:55:15
131027 Hiccup Music (Really), Singing Athletes and Dean's Ringing Cell Phone is Answered With a Hammer
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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More music you've wished you had heard by musicians deprived of radio exposure. Music that reached across the separation line of a segregated US i...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2013
  • Length: 02:47:26
131020 Rosemary Woods Erased 18 Minutes of My Show
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of... collector's music without the pedantics of the music's provenance. After I retriev...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2013
  • Length: 02:46:09
130629 WWOZ's First Phone Patch Since Katrina as Jamie Dials It In
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: That's me, compliments of Andy Kerr
"Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of." From the golden era of Americana, 1950s to 1970s before R&B, R&R, Blues and Rockabi...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2013
  • Length: 02:51:26
130512 Songs About Dishwashing, Boys/Cops/Car ? Romance?, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah and Molly Cobb
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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This week from the WWOZ studio, music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. 1950s to 70 Americana music from when race and popula...

  • Added: May 12, 2013
  • Length: 03:52:16