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110416 Romance Story, Diddley Bow,

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

Caption: That's me, compliments of Andy Kerr

A 15-song sequence of songs put into a sequence where they told the complete story of a romance from start to a memory. Plus the usual unusual.

Bought by KFCF FM and Prairie Public

Added: Sep 18, 2020
Length: 02:56:50
Purchases: 2

200913 Music You've Never Heard

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

Between a great start and finish, is a good show.

Added: Sep 10, 2020
Length: 02:56:27

200906 Rare Little Richard and Other Music You've Never Heard

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

What's the universal feeling we get listening to this show? What brings us back every week? That's tonight's theme. (Partial credit for simply...

Bought by Prairie Public

Added: Sep 04, 2020
Length: 02:57:05
Purchases: 1

200830 New Orleans Music and Music and Musicians You've Never Heard.

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

Caption: Willie Mays Sings "If You Love Me" (and he does a good job of it)

Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. A good sprinkling of New Orleans music tonight and the sounds of 38 cents rattling a...

Bought by Prairie Public

Added: Aug 27, 2020
Length: 02:56:26
Purchases: 1

200823 Covid Masking For Everyday Mardi Gras

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

New Orleans does masking like no other place so let's get started with great masks.

Bought by Prairie Public

Added: Aug 20, 2020
Length: 02:56:07
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

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

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

Night Has Fallen on the Desert

From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio

From our secure, undisclosed Mojave Desert radio studio, tonight we bring you our 100th episode, with strange tales of the Amboy Ghost Lights and a...

Bought by KFCF FM

Added: Jul 17, 2020
Length: 28:00
Purchases: 1

200719 Music You've Never Heard

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

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

Notes from the Jazz Underground #80

From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground

this week, we'll hear Latin Jazz from the Underground, with stops in San Juan, Havana, Chicago, Sing-Sing Prison, Yankee Stadium and more!

Bought by KLCC, KRPS, and KRCB 104.9

Added: Jul 07, 2020
Length: 58:00
Purchases: 3

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

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

Notes from the Jazz Underground #78

From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground

this week, we'll hear some fantastic slabs of 1970's Jazz funk from Grover Washington, Jr, Bob James, Eddie Harris, Ramsey Lewis and more. And, we'...

Bought by KRPS, KLCC, and KRCB 104.9

Added: Jun 22, 2020
Length: 58:00
Purchases: 3

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

Notes from the Jazz Underground #77

From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground

this week, we'll take a listen to some excellent Jazz-Funk, some free jazz, some freer jazz, and a set of music that fuses Jazz, Post-Rock and Hous...

Bought by KRPS and KRCB 104.9

Added: Jun 16, 2020
Length: 58:00
Purchases: 2

200613 Early South African Rockers

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

"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

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

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

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

Notes from the Jazz Underground #71

From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground

this week, we're spending most of the hour with Medeski, Martin and Wood. We'll hear them acoustic and electric, on their own, and with John Scofie...

Bought by KRPS, KLCC, and KRCB 104.9