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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
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
210103 The Covid Christmas
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: I purchased this Corona when I first read about the Corona Virus making it to the USA. My mom was inoculated with the Covid vaccine on December 31st, 2021. I will drink this Corona after I'm inoculated.
A touch of retrospection and melancholy as we live out our pandemic. Audio postcards of the first and hopefully the last Covid Christmas. (And...

Bought by KFCF FM and Prairie Public


  • Added: Dec 31, 2020
  • Length: 02:57:51
  • 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: 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
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
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
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
Caption: wynona carr
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
Caption: upsetters with Little Richard
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
Piece image
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 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