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210502 Still Searching For The First Rock and Roll Record
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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It's in here somewhere.

Bought by KCHU, KPRG, Prairie Public, KFCF FM, and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Apr 30, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:15
  • Purchases: 5
210425 Searching For the First Rock and Roll Record
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Ray Columbus
Tonight it's girl groups, instrumentals, and songs from guys named Blackie.

Bought by KCHU, KPRG, KFCF FM, GCR (Global Community Radio), Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Apr 22, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:25
  • Purchases: 6
Notes from the Jazz Underground #120
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, we'll listen to a bunch of great music from Bob James, Medeski, Martin and Wood, The Messthetics and more.

Bought by KRPS, KRCB 104.9, and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Apr 21, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
210418 The First Rock and Roll Record and the Les Paul Influence
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Songs about Monkeys and Missiles too
Every week we explore the tens of thousands of post WWII songs that could have been declared "the first rock and roll record" all the time realizin...

Bought by KCHU, KPRG, KFCF FM, GCR (Global Community Radio), and Prairie Public


  • Added: Apr 16, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:08
  • Purchases: 5
210411 The First Rock and Roll Records
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Record Label of Sirloin Burg and his orchestra
More music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of from the post-WWII era. Might as well serve up a set of songs about buzzards an...

Bought by KCHU, KPRG, GCR (Global Community Radio), KFCF FM, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Apr 08, 2021
  • Length: 02:56:55
  • Purchases: 5
Charred Bones In the Sunlight
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
Caption: DESERT ORACLE RADIO
What does the cave art of 30,000 years ago have to do with the new Solar Orbiter we sent from Planet Earth to explore our star? Quite a lot, it tur...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
Notes from the Jazz Underground #117
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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get your passports ready, because we'll be heading to Brazil, Mexico and India, checking out 70's fusion, and brand new Jazz, too!

Bought by KRCB 104.9 and KRPS


  • Added: Mar 30, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
210328 Songs About The Planets, Gossip, High School, and Synthetic Chinese Sound
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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We're always searching for the first rock and roll song in the 750,000 song library. This week I was looking for songs about each planet in our so...

Bought by KFCF FM, GCR (Global Community Radio), KPRG, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Mar 24, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:32
  • Purchases: 4
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
Notes from the Jazz Underground #115 - Chick Corea part 4: The Elektric Band
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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In this, the fourth and final look back at Chick Corea, we check both versions of Chick Corea's Elektric Band, plus their reunions in 2004 and 2011!

Bought by KRCB 104.9 and KRPS


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
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
Notes from the Jazz Underground #113 - Chick Corea part 2: Return to Forever
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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This week, we continue our look back at Chick Corea's career, and this time, we're cranking up the volume and jamming to Return to Forever. We're c...

Bought by KMUW, KRPS, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Feb 23, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
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
Notes from the Jazz Underground #111 - Ani DiFranco & Bill Laswell
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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This week, we'll take a listen to the work of bassist and producer Bill Laswell, and guitarist, vocalist and composer Ani DiFranco.

Bought by KRCB 104.9 and KRPS


  • Added: Feb 09, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
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
Baixo
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: The Wind
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Investigating subversion - written and voiced by Emily Pratt. Emily and I get trapped in a necropolis in São Paulo, then speak to bassists Joe Lal...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2021
  • Length: 25:31
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
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
Notes from the Jazz Underground #104 - Avant-Garde Saxophones
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, we'll take a listen to some of the titans of the avant-garde...Yusef Lateef, Eric Dolphy, Ornette Coleman, Dewey Redman and a few modern...

Bought by KRPS and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Dec 21, 2020
  • Length: 58:04
  • Purchases: 2
Notes from the Jazz Underground #103 - Frank Zappa
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, it's the annual Notes from the Jazz Underground tribute to Frank Zappa, with selections from Hot Rats, Chunga's Revenge, Sleep Dirt, and...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2020
  • Length: 58:04

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