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231230 The Hip Couple
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Janis Peters
As always, the show is a restatement of who we were after the horrors of WWII. When a new whimsical and hopeful music of youth was adopted across...

Bought by KFCF FM, Prairie Public, KPRG, KSLU, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Dec 25, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
231028 Searching For the First R&R Song Is A Search For a Feeling
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Orlons
Rock and roll is the great undefined feeling that is foundational to how we define ourselves, the post-WWII generation. Unfortunately, the first r...

Bought by KPRG, WYAP, KFCF FM, KSLU, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Oct 23, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:01
  • Purchases: 7
Want a Better Country? Here's a Wish List
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
August is the month when we mark Women's Equality Day, when the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote passed in 1920. But we're still behi...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2023
  • Length: 02:30
230528 Nightowls
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Teddy "Mr. Bear" McRae
Bands and songs featuring the character of a "night owl." Usually a male who stays out all night every night. She's waiting on him at the front ...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KFCF FM, Prairie Public, and WQCS


  • Added: May 23, 2023
  • Length: 04:09:21
  • Purchases: 4
230429 Keep a Knockin' From 1928, Pacific NW Sound, Vocal Group Harmony
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Floyd Dakil
Surely Little Richard was a rock and roll founder but who and what influenced him? We track the origin of Little Richard's song "Keep a Knockin" b...

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


  • Added: Apr 26, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
230426 This Week We Almost Found the First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: The Turbans
The joy of music isn't finding the first, It's the search through all the "possibly the firsts." Who could have even imagined there are so many co...

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


  • Added: Apr 18, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 8
230106 The First Rock and Roll Song - Canada
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: The Teardrops
To believe you know the first rock and roll song, means you've never listened to this show. The show features 85 songs per week (over 17 years) o...

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


  • Added: Jan 04, 2023
  • Length: 02:56:01
  • Purchases: 6
221231 The First Rock and Roll Songs From Texas
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Tonight, the first rock and roll records from musicians you've never heard of. Focusing on music out of Texas with a side trip east on the old Rou...

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


  • Added: Dec 28, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • 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...

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


  • Added: Dec 12, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 6
220701 Heirs to Ritchie Valens - The Chicano Guitarist Niche
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Vilas Craig
Ritchie Valens made it as a big success without "passing." That is; without sacrificing his Chicano ethnicity but when he "passed away" the record...

Bought by KCHU, Delmarva Public Media, KPRG, Prairie Public, KFCF FM and more


  • Added: Jun 27, 2022
  • Length: 03:58:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Big Ponder #38: Cartoons
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Have you ever heard of the cartoonist Oliver Harrington? Probably not, but the artist played an instrumental role in German-American history. From ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
'The Hayride' Program 206
From: Daniel Wargo
Series: 'The Hayride with Dan Wargo'
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'The Hayride' Program 206 explores the roots music of North America for one hour, and is designed for all audiences to enjoy.

Bought by KEOS


  • Added: Dec 18, 2021
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 1
'The Stone Age' Program 261
From: Daniel Wargo
Series: "The Stone Age" with Dan Wargo
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This one hour show explores and celebrates the electric music of the mid 60's to the mid 70's.

Bought by WOUB, GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), and KEOS


  • Added: Nov 30, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 4
609: Living In Skin / 610: The Sound Of Silence, 8/7/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Living In Skin" - All over America, people have stopped touching faces and hugging friends. This hour, explore the inner life of your sk...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
'The Stone Age' Program 257
From: Daniel Wargo
Series: "The Stone Age" with Dan Wargo
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This program highlights studio, and live recordings from the electric music of the '60's and '70's for one hour.

Bought by WOUB, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KEOS


  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 9: All That's Worth Doing with Brian Turner and Mariah Smith
From: Justin Hudnall
Series: Incoming
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Today’s episode takes its name after a quote by Lewis Carrol, “All That Is Really Worth Doing is Worth the Doing is What We do for Others,” and we ...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2021
  • Length: 58:01
S2:E2 Beethoven Symphony Show - Part 2
From: Classic107.3
Series: Slatkin Shuffle
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Slatkin on Beethoven.

  • Added: Nov 23, 2020
  • Length: 01:55:46
S2:E3 Beethoven Symphony Show - Part 3
From: Classic107.3
Series: Slatkin Shuffle
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Slatkin on Beethoven.

  • Added: Nov 23, 2020
  • Length: 01:53:09
S2:E4 Beethoven Symphony Show - Part 4
From: Classic107.3
Series: Slatkin Shuffle
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Slatkin on Beethoven.

  • Added: Nov 23, 2020
  • Length: 01:54:36
'Renaissance Fables For The World' 76
From: Daniel Wargo
Series: Renaissance Fables For The World
Caption: 'The Conjuror', Credit: Hieronymus Bosch
This program is a 5 minute spoken word program that is a recitation of renaissance fables. Part of the 76 episode series available on Public Radio ...

  • Added: May 17, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
'Renaissance Fables For The World' 2
From: Daniel Wargo
Series: Renaissance Fables For The World
Caption: 'Statue Of Leonardo da Vinci', Credit: Luigi Pampaloni
This program explores some of the renaissance fables of Leonardo da Vinci. It is part of a series that celebrates three other great renaissance wri...

  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Episode 7: The Pianists Vol. 1
From: Classic107.3
Series: Slatkin Shuffle
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Leonard hits shuffle on his iPad.

Bought by 'The Sea'


  • Added: Apr 27, 2020
  • Length: 01:54:40
  • Purchases: 1
Variety is the Spice of Life for the Delphia Cello Quartet
From: KBEM
Series: Minnesota Music Profiles
Caption: Delphia Cello Quartet, Credit: Kate Wilson
The Delphia Cello Quartet plays a mix of classical music and pop and folk songs, all arranged for 4 cellos. Phil Nusbaum asked manager Julia Flober...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2019
  • Length: 08:00
Meow! The Kids Book That Changed The Genre Forever
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Wanda Gag and her cat, Snoopy., Credit: Children's Literature Research Collections, University of Minnesota Libraries
Decades before "Cat in the Hat," another children’s book surprised readers with its inventiveness. "Millions of Cats," by Minnesota's Wanda Gag, co...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 30, 2018
  • Length: 04:39
  • Purchases: 2
The One Who Came Back
From: Matt Frassica
Series: The Briny
Caption: Howard Blackburn, Credit: Cape Ann Museum
Howard Blackburn should have been a statistic. Instead, he became a hero.

Bought by WMPG, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 03, 2017
  • Length: 13:20
  • Purchases: 3