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It Came from R&D!
From: San Francisco Mime Troupe
Series: Tales of the Resistance
Caption: Cover art, Credit: Lawton Lovely
Greg seemed to everyone like a mild mannered software developer. No one could predict that his invention could either save democracy, or lock the c...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:03
200816 Free Covid Vacations!
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: My friend Thai opening the "drive up window" for me to spend some time with my mom.
A vacation give-away on the radio that you don't need to be the fifth caller or know the name of any of the songs or musicians. (In fact, you bett...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Aug 14, 2020
  • Length: 02:56:15
  • Purchases: 1
200816 Elevator Music and Indiana Music
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Harry Glenn the welder/owner of Mar Vel Records of Hammond, Indiana
Songs about elevators and songs from Indiana (that you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of). Post WWII when rock and roll wasn't a t...

Bought by KFCF FM and Prairie Public


  • Added: Aug 07, 2020
  • Length: 02:56:32
  • Purchases: 2
200802 Aladdin and Kent Records
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Lee Denson / Jesse James
Record companies often have a "sound" that's uniquely identifiable to them. Of course, Chess and Sun Records had their sounds but they recorded a...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Jul 31, 2020
  • Length: 02:55:51
  • Purchases: 1
200726 Music You've Never Heard (About Shotgun Weddings, The West, NYC, and A Bunch of Other Dreck).
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Hank Ballard
Songs about shotgun weddings, the West, NYC, and every wacky place and thought in between. Music you've never heard by musicians you've never hear...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Jul 24, 2020
  • Length: 02:59:38
  • Purchases: 1
200719 Music You've Never Heard
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Hank Ballard
The first part of the show is pre-rock and roll music with a primitive sound. All the music that wasn't Elvis.

Bought by Prairie Public, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., and WYAP


  • Added: Jul 17, 2020
  • Length: 02:57:39
  • Purchases: 3
200710 Rattlesnakes
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Marvin and Johnny with Johnny Otis
Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of - tonight some of the thoughts behind why this music works after a half century.

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Jul 09, 2020
  • Length: 02:55:44
  • Purchases: 1
200705 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: Center is Shorty Long and Dolly Dimples (Emidio Vagnoni and Gladys Ulrich) with the Santa Fe Rangers (who all live in Exeter Township, PA)
Music from the French Quarter of New Orleans. After the conventioneers have left the clubs with their souvenir plastic drink cups. After the drun...

Bought by Prairie Public, WXXI Rochester, and WYAP


  • Added: Jul 02, 2020
  • Length: 02:56:40
  • Purchases: 3
200627 Regional Music - Minnesota Rocks!
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Augie Garcia in Shorts
In the post WWII era, music was not nationalized yet. That is; the music industry hadn't consolidated. Radio stations played their local favorite...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Jun 26, 2020
  • Length: 02:58:31
  • Purchases: 1
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
200314 Girl Group and Other Favorites
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Piece image
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

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