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200620 Girl Groups, New Orleans Music, and Robin The Boy Wonder's Creepy Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: One of these army men is me at Mardi Gras
Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of (except in the case of Burt Ward who you've heard of but isn't a musician and what he c...

Bought by WXXI Rochester and Prairie Public


  • Added: Jun 19, 2020
  • Length: 02:56:42
  • Purchases: 2
200613 Early South African Rockers
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Rockin' R's
"Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of" from my endless music library. Tonight, we're mixing-in a handful of 78 rpm recordin...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, WYAP, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Jun 12, 2020
  • Length: 02:56:44
  • Purchases: 3
200606 Singers With Special Voices
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Washington Phillips with his homemade instrument
Singers who's voices alone are incredibly soulful and evocative. CORRECTED VERSION

Bought by Prairie Public and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Jun 05, 2020
  • Length: 02:57:13
  • Purchases: 2
200523 Selling! Beer and Whiskey Product Placement Lyrics and Dance Instructional Songs.
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Mad Mike and the Maniacs
Not the jingles, not the advertising department's idea of music but songs that were written by the musician who's muse decided that a single produc...

Bought by Prairie Public, WXXI Rochester, and WYAP


  • Added: May 22, 2020
  • Length: 02:58:03
  • Purchases: 3
200516 Music From New Orleans and Michigan
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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All the musicians and music you've never heard.

Bought by Prairie Public and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 03:00:46
  • Purchases: 2
200509 Canadian Rock Bands
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of with a focus on a handful of Canadian rock bands.

Bought by Prairie Public and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: May 08, 2020
  • Length: 02:57:35
  • Purchases: 2
200503 You're Grounded Forever For Seeing UFOs and Robbing Banks
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of and plenty of songs about robbing banks and seeing UFOs. And that's why you're grounde...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: May 01, 2020
  • Length: 03:00:43
  • Purchases: 1
200425 Songs About Johnny
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Teenagers!
Oh the usual dreck followed by the last hour of songs about the most dreamy teenage boy ever!!!! Johnny, Johnny, Johnny!

Bought by WXXI Rochester and Prairie Public


  • Added: Apr 24, 2020
  • Length: 03:00:13
  • Purchases: 2
200418 You're Still Grounded!
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: T. Valentine Bio
The "Your Grounded!" series, this is show #3 of ... oh gawd how many will it be.

Bought by WXXI Rochester and Prairie Public


  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 03:08:28
  • Purchases: 2
200410 You're Grounded!
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Screaming Joe Neal!!!
Everyone is grounded but you can frolic with your invisible friends on the radio. Tonight's show is the devil's bargain - working in public radio....

Bought by WXXI Rochester and Prairie Public


  • Added: Apr 10, 2020
  • Length: 02:53:48
  • Purchases: 2
200404 Outer Space For Shut Ins
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Arthur Lee and Love (and some other guy)
Music of your youth listening to the radio after midnight. Plenty of UFO songs and all the songs are music you've never heard by musicians you've...

Bought by WXXI Rochester and Prairie Public


  • Added: Apr 03, 2020
  • Length: 03:04:25
  • Purchases: 2
200328 Best Of My Music For The Worst Of Times.
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Broadcasting as an underground liar from my underground lair some of the best of my musical library. A voice for the isolation.

Bought by Prairie Public, WSLR, and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Mar 29, 2020
  • Length: 02:51:44
  • Purchases: 3
200314 Girl Group and Other Favorites
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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A bit of indulgence before the semi-quarantine. (I'll have the third hour published early next week.)

Bought by Prairie Public, WXXI Rochester, and WSLR


  • Added: Mar 22, 2020
  • Length: 02:54:27
  • Purchases: 3
200307 Music You've Never Heard
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Readymen
With Daylight Savings Time and gas service station songs. See, you never even thought there were songs about these topics.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2020
  • Length: 03:44:36
200307 Ghost With Rider
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Gene Vincent
The Writer takes over to program music and run the board.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2020
  • Length: 02:52:49
Ghost and Writer - Writer Sings Along
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: That's me, compliments of Andy Kerr
End of the show are Paladins songs as they probably first heard them.

  • Added: Mar 03, 2020
  • Length: 02:58:58
200229 TV Theme Songs and Mambo Influenced Rock
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Arthur Brown On Fire
The title says, well, not all of it but most of it. Don't miss the story of my friend who was run over by a train.

  • Added: Mar 03, 2020
  • Length: 03:10:26
200222 A Radio Musical
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Ernie K-Doe at His Lounge
The show got exciting so we went into overtime with a four hour show. Another radio musical at the front end.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2020
  • Length: 04:00:11
Music To Beat Back Today's Space-Age-A-Go-Go Fascism.
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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The feel of post WWII American was joyful, whimsical, hopeful and you can hear it in the music.

  • Added: Feb 17, 2020
  • Length: 02:55:50
200202 Roadside Amusement, Wobble, and Wake Up Songs
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Songs about those roadside attractions that line the highway with billboards. Yep, there's plenty of songs about them even within the narrow "soun...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Feb 03, 2020
  • Length: 03:19:34
  • Purchases: 1
200125 Too Young
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Dixie Cups
Ending the show with girl group songs about being "too young" to go steady, to get married, to fall in love, to tango, etc. Before that shmaltzy s...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2020
  • Length: 03:33:08
200104
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Washington Phillips
Washington Phillips music placed next to contemporary musicians.

  • Added: Jan 21, 2020
  • Length: 02:06:23
200128 Ringo's Groupies, Girl Groups, and The Best Of
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Loren Greene On the Ponderosa
I never guessed there would be so many singing groupies for Ringo Starr but you would never believe how many songs I didn't play because they were ...

Bought by WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Jan 20, 2020
  • Length: 02:55:32
  • Purchases: 1
202018 Ghost Without The Rider
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Cowboy meets jazz hepster in music.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2020
  • Length: 02:52:14
200111 Pianist's Missing Fingers and Radio's Human Equalizer
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: H-Bomb Fergeson
More Washington Phillips music contrasted with contemporary songs and a "whisper in your ear" talk about imagery, radio and the ideal of an audio p...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2020
  • Length: 03:36:46