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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
210207 Saturday Night Music Comes From Here
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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
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
201220 Covid Music is Covid Radio
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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
201213 Australian, New Zealand, Jamaican Rock and Roll Bands of Post WWII (and my dog's-eye view of my neighborhood).
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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
201206 New Orleans Characters
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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
201129 Neighborhood Characters
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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
201122 People in my Neighborhood
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: PRX default Piece image
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
201115 Neighborhood Characters
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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
201108 Experiencing Hurricane Zeta From My Front Porch
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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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
201101 Post Hurricane Zeta Show
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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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
201025 Crystal Blue Persuasion Re-cast as Chicano Soul
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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
201018 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
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Plus stories from a poi boy wanderings.

Bought by KFCF FM and Prairie Public


  • Added: Oct 16, 2020
  • Length: 02:57:16
  • Purchases: 2
201011 Authenticity - Musical Friendships
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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
201004 Music You've Never Heard
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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
200927 America to Liverpool to Hamburg - Before The Beatles
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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