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210621 Cuca, Swastika, and Delta Records, The Sick Sound, Chicano Soul
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Brenton Wood and Wendel Williams
Musical riffing off Greg Adams writings on his Weird Music website. Greg Adams wrote for the All-Music Guide for 10 years and has written liner no...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KFCF FM, Prairie Public, and WYAP


  • Added: Jun 22, 2021
  • Length: 02:55:30
  • Purchases: 4
210619 The First Rock and Roll Record
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Billy Mcallister
Music from the post World War II era when a new music captured the imagination and hope of people in the US and around the world. The first music w...

Bought by KCHU, KPRG, KFCF FM, GCR (Global Community Radio), and Prairie Public


  • Added: Jun 14, 2021
  • Length: 02:56:42
  • Purchases: 5
210612 The First Rock and Roll Record
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Music from the post World War II era when a new music captured the imagination and hope of people in the US and around the world. The first music ...

Bought by KCHU, KPRG, GCR (Global Community Radio), KFCF FM, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Jun 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:08
  • Purchases: 5
210605 First Rock and Roll Record
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Groovy Joe Poovey
Music from the post World War II era when a new music captured the imagination and hope of people in the US and around the world. At first it wasn...

Bought by KCHU, KPRG, KFCF FM, GCR (Global Community Radio), Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Jun 03, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:11
  • Purchases: 6
210530 The First Rock and Roll Record - An Hour of Lyrics Using Numbers
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Sugar Pie and Pee Wee
Music from the post WWII era when a new music caught fire in the US and around the world. At first it wasn't called rock and roll, it was just "ho...

Bought by KCHU, KPRG, Prairie Public, KFCF FM, and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: May 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:04
  • Purchases: 5
210522 The First Rock and Roll Record
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Music from the post WWII era when a new music caught fire in the US and around the world. At first it wasn't called rock and roll, it was just "hot...

Bought by KCHU, KPRG, Prairie Public, KFCF FM, and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: May 20, 2021
  • Length: 02:56:31
  • Purchases: 5
210515 Before Elvis Was Lloyd Price (and so many others)
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Lloyd Price with Muhammad Ali
Lloyd Price passed away last week but he accomplished so much more than the many musicians who followed his lead (badly). A comparison of Price wi...

Bought by KPRG, Prairie Public, GCR (Global Community Radio), KFCF FM, and WYAP


  • Added: May 14, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:04
  • Purchases: 5
210509 The Endless Search for the First Rock and Roll Record
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Louisiana music, sublimely familiar music, and some very funny girl group songs (along with the usual dreck).

Bought by KPRG, Prairie Public, KFCF FM, and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:06
  • Purchases: 4
210502 Still Searching For The First Rock and Roll Record
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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It's in here somewhere.

Bought by KCHU, KPRG, Prairie Public, KFCF FM, and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Apr 30, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:15
  • Purchases: 5
210425 Searching For the First Rock and Roll Record
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Ray Columbus
Tonight it's girl groups, instrumentals, and songs from guys named Blackie.

Bought by KCHU, KPRG, KFCF FM, GCR (Global Community Radio), Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Apr 22, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:25
  • Purchases: 6
210418 The First Rock and Roll Record and the Les Paul Influence
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Songs about Monkeys and Missiles too
Every week we explore the tens of thousands of post WWII songs that could have been declared "the first rock and roll record" all the time realizin...

Bought by KCHU, KPRG, KFCF FM, GCR (Global Community Radio), and Prairie Public


  • Added: Apr 16, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:08
  • Purchases: 5
210411 The First Rock and Roll Records
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Record Label of Sirloin Burg and his orchestra
More music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of from the post-WWII era. Might as well serve up a set of songs about buzzards an...

Bought by KCHU, KPRG, GCR (Global Community Radio), KFCF FM, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Apr 08, 2021
  • Length: 02:56:55
  • Purchases: 5
210404 The First Rock and Roll Record
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Lucia Pamela
Rock and roll records were recorded long before Elvis and even WWII but Elvis' manager, Col. Parker, was a manager who created the mold for rock an...

Bought by KCHU, KPRG, GCR (Global Community Radio), KFCF FM, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Apr 02, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:11
  • Purchases: 5
210328 Songs About The Planets, Gossip, High School, and Synthetic Chinese Sound
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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We're always searching for the first rock and roll song in the 750,000 song library. This week I was looking for songs about each planet in our so...

Bought by KFCF FM, GCR (Global Community Radio), KPRG, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Mar 24, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:32
  • Purchases: 4
210324 Satellites Zooming, Mexico Singing, and Girl Groups
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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This week's search for the first rock and roll record is in songs about satellites, songs with the word "zoom" in the lyrics, Mexican rocanrol, and...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KFCF FM, Prairie Public, and KPRG


  • Added: Mar 18, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:34
  • Purchases: 4
210314 The First Rock and Roll Record - Fund Drive Edition
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: The Creeps (with Ronnie Dawson on the far left)
A special show featuring songs that include mouth noises as a substitute for SFX (special effects) noises. Unlike SFX, humans imitate natural soun...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:16
  • Purchases: 1
210307 The First Rock and Roll Record
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Music from the post WWII era when a new music emerged and caught fire in the US and around the world. At first it wasn't called rock and roll, it ...

Bought by KFCF FM, GCR (Global Community Radio), and Prairie Public


  • Added: Mar 04, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:03
  • Purchases: 3
210228 Rock and Roll Music You've Never Heard by Musicians You've Never Heard Of
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Caption: The Pacifics (Australian Surf Band)
Music from the post WWII era when a new music emerged and caught fire in the US and around the world. At first it wasn't called rock and roll, it ...

Bought by KUPR low power FM and KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:13
  • Purchases: 2
210228 Songs of the Post WWII Beginnings of Rock and Roll
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Esquerita!
Music from the post WWII era when a new music emerged and caught fire in the US and around the world. At first it wasn't called rock and roll, it ...

Bought by KPRG and Prairie Public


  • Added: Feb 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:05
  • Purchases: 2
210221 There Wasn't A First Rock and Roll Record
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Ernie K-Doe As a Mardi Gras Indian, Credit: From "Ernie K-Doe - The R&B Emperor of the Universe by Ben Sandmel
There were a hundred thousand "first rock and roll songs," all of them expressing the cultural upheaval of WWII and the realization we better enjoy...

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


  • Added: Feb 19, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:42
  • Purchases: 4
210214 Mardi Gras and Girl Groups
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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It's Covid time so Mardi Gras is going to be less on the streets and more in our heads. But Mardi Gras and music are so similar that we really don...

Bought by KFCF FM, KPRG, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:21
  • Purchases: 3
210131 Music Versus Commercials
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Music plays an outsized role in commercials but usually the music is so simplistic and devoid of emotion. All the more reason that the exceptions ...

Bought by KPRG, KFCF FM, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Jan 29, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:05
  • Purchases: 3
210124 Music You've Never Heard By Musicians You've Never Heard Of
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: The show is this and so much more.
Music from the post WWII era when a new music emerged and caught fire in the US and around the world. At first it wasn't called rock and roll, it ...

Bought by KFCF FM, Prairie Public, and KPRG


  • Added: Jan 22, 2021
  • Length: 02:56:48
  • Purchases: 3
210117 Harmony, Swamp, and Midnight Songs
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Leroy Abernathy
The early songs featuring harmony were gospel but harmony soon wandered into popular songs with the sisters/brothers/twins group such as The Mills ...

Bought by KFCF FM and Prairie Public


  • Added: Jan 15, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:20
  • Purchases: 2
210110 Music From Musicians Named Curley, Hamburger Joints and Primitive Rock and Roll
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Moon Mullican
After six decades of life, I still don't know a single person named "Curley" yet my bottomless music library has a couple dozen musicians named, "C...

Bought by KPRG, KFCF FM, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Jan 08, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:13
  • Purchases: 3