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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
Folktale of Fear
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: \\\\
Yikes! Beware the evil that lurks around this week's edition of Folktales. It's spooktacular!

Bought by WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), KLCC, WFIU, and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Oct 27, 2020
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 5
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: PRX default Piece image
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
Notes from the Jazz Underground #89
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, we'll hear some great Jazz from Nigeria, Mali, London, and Chicago. We'll hear some great pairings, including George Benson and Tony Wil...

Bought by KRPS, KLCC, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Sep 08, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
02 BT Robert Plant 9-11-20
From: Gregarious Recluse
Series: BackTracking
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02 BT Robert Plant 9-11-20

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Sep 06, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
Episode 24
From: Classic107.3
Series: Slatkin Shuffle
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Leonard hits shuffle on his iPad. Surprises abound.

  • Added: Aug 24, 2020
  • Length: 01:53:53
200823 Covid Masking For Everyday Mardi Gras
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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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
Episode 23: Planes, Trains & Automobiles
From: Classic107.3
Series: Slatkin Shuffle
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Leonard hits shuffle on his iPad.

  • Added: Aug 17, 2020
  • Length: 01:57:16
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
Episode 20: Takes on Bach
From: Classic107.3
Series: Slatkin Shuffle
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Betsy shuffles "Bach"

  • Added: Jul 27, 2020
  • Length: 01:53:26
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
Folktale of Doom & Gloom
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Doom & Gloom, Credit: Julia Meek
Woe is me! And that's what this week's Folktale is all about.

Bought by WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), and KLCC


  • Added: Jul 21, 2020
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 4
Tim Sparks Shifts Gears to Complete a University of Wisconsin Guitar Residency Despite Covid-19
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Tim Sparks, Credit: Ali Hasbach
Tim Sparks is one of the most versatile guitarists you’ll ever meet. That’s why he was asked to be in residence in the Guitar program of the univer...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2020
  • Length: 08:00
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