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210828 The Gravity Test and The First Rock and Roll Song

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

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

Added: Aug 25, 2021
Length: 02:57:06
Purchases: 4

210815 Searching for the First Rock and Roll Record

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

The first rock and roll song with a focust on music and musicians from the bayous of Louisiana. Where the sticky humidity and ever-present liquor ...

Bought by Prairie Public and WYAP

Added: Aug 20, 2021
Length: 02:56:45
Purchases: 2

Notes from the Jazz Underground #41 (repeat)

From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground

repeat from 2019. A celebration of Ginger Baker's life and music, just in time for Ginger's birthday this week.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KRPS, RADIOLEX, and KRCB 104.9

Added: Aug 17, 2021
Length: 58:00
Purchases: 4

210822 Searching for the First Rock and Roll Record

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

Searching for the first rock and roll record, means finding tens of thousands of records that could legitimately be the "first record," I think t...

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

Added: Aug 09, 2021
Length: 02:56:59
Purchases: 4

210808 The Audio Similarities Between Ska and The First Rock and Roll Records

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

Tonight's show focuses on the similar sounds of early ska and rock and roll. Not a technical presentation, your ears will hear it and your soul wi...

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

Added: Aug 05, 2021
Length: 02:57:01
Purchases: 5

210731 Listening To Chuck Weiss In The Mushroom Factory

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

Picking mushrooms in the factory was dark, dismal, and without a future. The only light came from the radio where in 1973, Chuck E. Weiss would pl...

Bought by KPRG, KFCF FM, and Prairie Public

Added: Jul 30, 2021
Length: 02:57:15
Purchases: 3

210724 Music From the Louisiana Bayous - The First Rock and Roll Record

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

The bayous of South Louisiana were virtually isolated from the US by its watery jungles of bayous so we developed differently than the rest of the ...

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

Added: Jul 21, 2021
Length: 02:56:51
Purchases: 5

210417 Atomic Bomb and Jazz Songs = First Rock and Roll Songs

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

Searching for the first rock and roll record leads us to country and western songs about the atom bomb and jazz. Mix them together and you get the...

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

Added: Jul 14, 2021
Length: 02:57:01
Purchases: 5

210710 Searching for the First Rock and Roll Song.

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

Vocal groups and a set of lyrics about Romance Without Finance.

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

Added: Jul 06, 2021
Length: 02:57:12
Purchases: 6

210702 Australians, Green Stamps, and Cartoons - Looking for the First Rock and Roll Song

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

Tonight we feature Australian rock and rollers, songs about green stamps, and cartoons in our search for the first rock and roll song. We search i...

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

Added: Jul 02, 2021
Length: 02:57:11
Purchases: 4

Notes from the Jazz Underground #14 (repeat)

From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground

a blast from the past from 2019 with Wayne Krantz, Kamasi Washington and more!

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KRPS, RADIOLEX, and KRCB 104.9

Added: Jun 28, 2021
Length: 58:11
Purchases: 4

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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