Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Series produced by Jamie Dell'Apa
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We, the rock and roll generation, have never found our self-defining first rock and roll song. Host Jamie Dell'Apa presents music and musicians you've never heard from the small regional record companies who pioneered rock and roll. Songs that could have been the first rock and roll song. Songs that fill the gap in understanding where we came from and who we are.
Searching For The First Rock and Roll Song features records coveted by collectors from the era when rock and roll was emerging but hadn't yet settled on a definition of itself. Music from before rock and roll was domesticated into a commercial music industry. When country and western sounded like swing, pop music sounded like rockabilly, rockabilly sounded like rhythm and blues, and doo wop sounded like girl groups and all those musics sounded an awful lot like what we now call, “rock and roll”.Not a hits, oldies, or “history of” radio show. it's all the songs that influenced our now-legendary musicians who are regularly featured in all those hits, oldies, and “history of” radio shows. Hosted by WWOZ in New Orleans for the last 18 years, the show is carried by a dozen stations. ... Show full description
654 Pieces
- Added: Jul 24, 2024
- Length: 02:59:00
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Delmarva Public Media, Raven Radio, and KSLU
- Added: Jul 24, 2024
- Length: 02:58:59
- Purchases: 4
Bought by KPRG, WOMR, KFCF FM, Delmarva Public Media, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more
- Added: Jul 09, 2024
- Length: 03:00:00
- Purchases: 6
Bought by Raven Radio, KSLU, Prairie Public, KPRG, KFCF FM and more
- Added: Jul 01, 2024
- Length: 02:58:59
- Purchases: 7
Bought by Raven Radio, KPRG, KFCF FM, Delmarva Public Media, Prairie Public and more
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- Length: 02:59:00
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Bought by KFCF FM, Prairie Public, KPRG, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Delmarva Public Media and more
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 03:58:00
- Purchases: 7
Bought by KPRG, KFCF FM, Delmarva Public Media, Prairie Public, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more
- Added: Jun 09, 2024
- Length: 02:58:58
- Purchases: 7
Bought by KFCF FM, KPRG, Prairie Public, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Raven Radio and more
- Added: Jun 03, 2024
- Length: 02:59:00
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Bought by KPRG, Prairie Public, KFCF FM, KSLU, Delmarva Public Media and more
- Added: May 27, 2024
- Length: 02:59:00
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Bought by KPRG, KFCF FM, Prairie Public, Delmarva Public Media, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 02:59:00
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Bought by KPRG, Prairie Public, KFCF FM, Delmarva Public Media, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more
- Added: May 13, 2024
- Length: 02:57:00
- Purchases: 7
Bought by KSRQ, KPRG, Prairie Public, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KFCF FM and more
- Added: May 08, 2024
- Length: 02:59:00
- Purchases: 6
Bought by KFCF FM, KPRG, Delmarva Public Media, Prairie Public, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more
- Added: Apr 29, 2024
- Length: 02:59:00
- Purchases: 7
Bought by Raven Radio, KFCF FM, KPRG, Prairie Public, Delmarva Public Media and more
- Added: Apr 23, 2024
- Length: 02:57:00
- Purchases: 6
Bought by KSLU, Raven Radio, KFCF FM, KPRG, Prairie Public and more
- Added: Apr 16, 2024
- Length: 02:53:59
- Purchases: 7
Bought by Prairie Public, KFCF FM, KPRG, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Delmarva Public Media and more
- Added: Apr 07, 2024
- Length: 02:54:01
- Purchases: 7
Bought by KFCF FM, KPRG, Prairie Public, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Delmarva Public Media and more
- Added: Apr 01, 2024
- Length: 02:54:00
- Purchases: 6
Bought by Prairie Public, KFCF FM, Delmarva Public Media, KSLU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more
- Added: Mar 24, 2024
- Length: 02:54:00
- Purchases: 6
Bought by KFCF FM, KPRG, Prairie Public, Delmarva Public Media, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more
- Added: Mar 17, 2024
- Length: 02:57:00
- Purchases: 7
Bought by KPRG, KFCF FM, Prairie Public, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Delmarva Public Media and more
- Added: Mar 11, 2024
- Length: 02:57:01
- Purchases: 7