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220716 Songs Using Stringed Instruments From 230 to 1 Strings and Songs With Car Names

From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song

A piano uses 230 strings while a diddley bow uses one string and between there's all different string counts. Tonight, we start with musicians pl...

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

220522 The Southern Chauvinism of Col. Parker Marketing Elvis As the First Rock and Roll Musician

From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song

Caption: Eddie Seacrest and the Rollin Rockets

Thoughts on "group harmony" as a category of music (including "doo wop" and the wide range of group vocals with instrumentation). This music was e...

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

220326 Answer Songs

From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song

Where we search for the first rock and roll song, is where autocracies die and "hits" are a distraction. All the music you've never heard by music...

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

220320 The Dating Game for Dogs and Oil Songs

From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song

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

Jazz-O-Rama #5: "Betty Boop Meets Popeye"

From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: The Jazz-O-Rama Hour

Caption: Joe Bev hosts an hour of Popeye & Betty Boop 78s., Credit: Lorie B. Kellogg

Joe Bev hosts an hour of rare 78 RPM Jazz records of Helen Kane & Billy Costello, who were also cartoon voice actors.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, XRAY.fm, and Radio New Zealand

Summer Session Friends

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

This is a glimpse at some of those talented bands of the 1920s and ‘30s who only recorded a few sides in their brief careers. There is some buried...

Warren's Notes

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

In 1922 composer Harry Warren created his first hit, "Rose of the Rio Grande," with lyrics by Edgar Leslie. From that successful launch came a prod...

Satchmo

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

There are three audible stages in the career of Louis Armstrong: The years prior to recording when he performed with Fate Marable, Oscar Celestin a...