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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
Piece image
Leonard hits shuffle on his iPad.

  • Added: Aug 17, 2020
  • Length: 01:57:16
It Came from R&D!
From: San Francisco Mime Troupe
Series: Tales of the Resistance
Caption: Cover art, Credit: Lawton Lovely
Greg seemed to everyone like a mild mannered software developer. No one could predict that his invention could either save democracy, or lock the c...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:03
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
Petroglyphs
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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We explore petroglyphs from a park ranger and an Acoma Pueblo tribal historian, and we find out about the Junior Ranger Program.

Bought by KQRU FM LP, WLRH, Allegheny Mountain Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Aug 03, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 8
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
The Mystery Pig
From: Desert Oracle
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What is this weird creature that turned up dead in Yucca Valley, in the Mojave High Desert? Wildlife biologists are baffled, and so are we.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jul 10, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
Episode 16: Brahms
From: Classic107.3
Series: Slatkin Shuffle
Piece image
Leonard hits shuffle on his iPad.

  • Added: Jun 29, 2020
  • Length: 01:53:27
200627 Regional Music - Minnesota Rocks!
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Augie Garcia in Shorts
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
Contiguous (episode 8)
From: Growing Old Project
Series: Growing Old: Tales from an Urban Canopy
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In the season one finale of Growing Old, travel forward to the year 2070, and explore the contiguous forest of Seattle’s future. Visit Eagle Villag...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 24, 2020
  • Length: 29:17
  • Purchases: 2
Anti-Racist Kids
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
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The kids learn about racism, being anti-racist, and they find out what a state Attorney General does.

Bought by KQRU FM LP, WLRH, Allegheny Mountain Radio, WCNY, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 8
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
Episode 14: Soundtracks
From: Classic107.3
Series: Slatkin Shuffle
Piece image
Leonard hits shuffle on his iPad.

  • Added: Jun 15, 2020
  • Length: 01:53:03
Biblical Scholar Dr. Alicia Myers Discusses Her Beliefs
From: Free Epistemology with Mark Solomon
Series: Being Reasonable
Caption: Being Reasonable
The challenge of our time is that Americans do not agree on common sets of facts. This show questions the reliability of a belief (regardless of th...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:00
200613 Early South African Rockers
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Rockin' R's
"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

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