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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
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
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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
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
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
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
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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
Caption: Tonettes
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 w...

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


  • Added: Feb 05, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:20
  • Purchases: 4
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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
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
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
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
Caption: Andy Kerr Of More Science High School at His Pep Rally
Live performances are out and putting a record on the hi fi has been obsolete for decades so what's replaced the joy of music? Radio. Music radi...

Bought by Prairie Public and KFCF FM


  • Added: Dec 18, 2020
  • Length: 02:57:37
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Candle Light Dinner For My Dogs
Music from the post WWII era when rock and roll wasn't a term yet but something profoundly different was in music from around the world as the worl...

Bought by KFCF FM and Prairie Public


  • Added: Dec 11, 2020
  • Length: 02:57:48
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Bullet that came down 10 feet from my house
The characters in New Orleans this time from a perspective of who's doing crime around here.

Bought by KSLU, KFCF FM, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Dec 04, 2020
  • Length: 02:56:33
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Tank the Modern American Aluminum Miner
It's not the hits and celebrities that predominate your everyday experiences. It's the the local music that never makes it to the big stage and th...

Bought by WYAP, Prairie Public, and KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 27, 2020
  • Length: 02:57:08
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: That's me, compliments of Andy Kerr
A tour of the characters of my neighborhood. From the "urban camper" who sleeps on my front porch and the neighbor who forgets to put on his pants...

Bought by Prairie Public and KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 20, 2020
  • Length: 02:56:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Tielman Brothers on Stage
New Orleans is one of the most integrated cities in the US. Black, Brown, White, poor, rich, sober, and drunk all living on top of each other. An...

Bought by Prairie Public and KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 13, 2020
  • Length: 01:56:38
  • Purchases: 2
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From my eyes, my Hurricane Zeta experiences and just Louisiana music tonight. Be sure to watch the videos through the attached links. Louisiana m...

Bought by WYAP and Prairie Public


  • Added: Nov 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:57:17
  • Purchases: 2
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We're without power, internet, or music bars and I spent the day in Bay St. Louis with the chainsaw, Lumpy the truck, and my tool so I've spent the...

Bought by KFCF FM, Prairie Public, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 30, 2020
  • Length: 02:56:54
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Wynonie Harris with fans
The best radio show out of New Orleans. Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of that all circles back to "who we are."

Bought by Prairie Public and KFCF FM


  • Added: Oct 24, 2020
  • Length: 02:57:21
  • Purchases: 2

  • Added: Oct 16, 2020
  • Length: 02:57:16
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Marvin and Johnny
As with every Saturday night, we try to find meaning in music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. Why does this music work and...

Bought by KFCF FM, WYAP, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Oct 09, 2020
  • Length: 02:56:15
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Soap Box Derby Cheater and Privilege
Music from the post WWII era when authoritarian, top-down governance was out of fashion and America's third way of using bottom up creativity resul...

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


  • Added: Oct 02, 2020
  • Length: 02:57:28
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Howie Casey Derry Wilkie and Band
It's the basis of this radio show, "how did this music work?" without the interference of a commercial narrative. Not the hits, not the oldies, no...

Bought by KFCF FM, Prairie Public, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 02:56:04
  • Purchases: 3