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19th Amendment: Part 1
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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We explore the myths and unveil the realities of the story of the Nineteenth Amendment in part one of two episodes.

  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 24:22
230226 Searching for The First Rock and Roll Song is Finding Ourselves
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: The Sinders
It's the researcher dream thesis so there have been uncounted attempts but no one has credibly defined the first rock and roll song. The difficul...

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  • Added: Feb 20, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 6
230211 The First Rock and Roll Song - A HIll of Beans
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Superbs
It's easier to count beans than count the huge number of songs about beans. Even more difficult, the number of songs that could have been the firs...

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  • Added: Feb 07, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
230128 The First Rock and Roll Song - When Guitars Met Outer Space
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Velventeens
What sound leads a rock and roll song? Group harmony is one of the most original and foundational identifying sounds of rock and roll because grou...

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  • Added: Jan 23, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 6
221217 Songs About Oil and New Orleans Music
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Tonight's focus is on New Orleans music and songs about oil as our search for the first rock and roll record looks into themes that match our weekl...

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  • Added: Dec 12, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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...

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  • Added: Nov 29, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 7
221120 The Decency Embodied in Soul Music
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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In the post WWII era soul music also emerged along with rock and roll. Soul lyrics were especially light, sweet, and even introspectively sweet. ...

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  • Added: Nov 14, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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...

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  • Added: Oct 24, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 6
221022 The First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Bronzettes
Plenty of girl groups tonight.

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2022
  • Length: 02:58:59
  • 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!

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  • 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...

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  • Added: Oct 03, 2022
  • Length: 03:58:59
  • Purchases: 5
221001 Answer Songs and The Root Songs of Root Music
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Kathy Lynn and the Playboys
Searching for the first rock and roll song in all the music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. This week, we'll start with son...

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  • Added: Sep 21, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 6
220925 First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Vaqueros from MN
Integrated into the expected sound of the show, a narrative on art versus commercialism. Culminates with a hard close for membership in last two m...

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  • Added: Sep 19, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 5
220920 First Rock and Roll Song - Surf and Vocal Group Harmony Songs
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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A focus on surf and vocal group harmony songs tonight. California can claim a regional, indigenous music; surf music. Ironically, the blonde Ca...

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  • Added: Sep 14, 2022
  • Length: 03:58:00
  • Purchases: 5
220905 The First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Rodney and the Blazers
In the early 1950s, before "Rock and Roll," before Elvis, there were "doo wop" bands. More broadly, there were vocal group harmony bands. Think o...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2022
  • Length: 03:58:00
  • Purchases: 6
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...

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  • Added: Aug 17, 2022
  • Length: 03:50:44
  • Purchases: 7
220806 The First Rock Songs By "Little ...." Musicians
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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The post-WWII musical culture was different. Something was happening. From the bottom up and all around the world, our ears opened up to an accep...

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  • Added: Aug 02, 2022
  • Length: 03:00:00
  • Purchases: 6
220709 Fabric Bands, The New Jersey Record Companies, and That Mrs. Jones.
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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A twist on the "bird bands" names of the 1950s, the first two hours feature bands named after ... fabrics. Tweeds, wool, cotton, velvet, denim, s...

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  • Added: Jul 05, 2022
  • Length: 03:00:00
  • Purchases: 8
220619 The Search for the First Rock and Roll Song Includes Amazing Dutch and Finnish Rockers
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Fletcher Smith
After airing well over 40,000 potential first rock and roll songs over the last 16 years, we find that the first rock and roll song has more to do ...

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  • Added: Jun 20, 2022
  • Length: 03:00:00
  • Purchases: 6
220611 Rock and Roll as Dance Music
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Tracey Dey
The conjoinment of music to dance is assumed but before rock and roll, it was big band swing with musicians like Artie Shaw filling huge arenas wit...

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  • Added: Jun 09, 2022
  • Length: 04:17:17
  • Purchases: 8
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 ...

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  • Added: Jun 03, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:01
  • Purchases: 4
220416 This Music, The Heart of Radio.
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Roddy Jackson Then
Defining the first rock and roll song has been passionately argued because to find "the first rock and roll song" requires ignoring tons of music t...

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  • Added: Apr 11, 2022
  • Length: 02:56:28
  • Purchases: 8
220402 Pre-Ska Jamaican Music is The Mash Potato Sound
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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85 songs you've never heard but could have been titled, "the first rock and roll song" featuring musicians you've never heard of. This show ignore...

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  • Added: Mar 31, 2022
  • Length: 02:56:57
  • Purchases: 6
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...

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  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 02:56:45
  • Purchases: 6
220316 The First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Eddie Seacrest and the Rollin Rockets
There's a half dozen popular myths defining the first rock and roll record but every week we feature 85 songs you've never heard any and all of the...

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  • Added: Mar 06, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:02
  • Purchases: 7