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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 (Manual Downloads)
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 (Manual Downloads)
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
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 (Manual Downloads)
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 (Manual Downloads)
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 (Manual Downloads)
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 (Manual Downloads)
Caption: From Regular Listener JT Lindroos of Finland
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
201115 Neighborhood Characters
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song (Manual Downloads)
Caption: Tielman Brothers on Stage
New Orleans is one of the most integrated cities in the US. Black, Brown, White, poor, rich, sober, and drunk all living on top of each other. An...

Bought by Prairie Public and KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 13, 2020
  • Length: 01:56:38
  • Purchases: 2
Notes from the Jazz Underground #98
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, we'll take a listen to music from Frank Zappa, Dave Holland, Fred Anderson, Herbie Hancock, and more!

Bought by KRPS, KRCB 104.9, and KLCC


  • Added: Nov 10, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
201108 Experiencing Hurricane Zeta From My Front Porch
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song (Manual Downloads)
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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 (Manual Downloads)
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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 (Manual Downloads)
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 (Manual Downloads)
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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 (Manual Downloads)
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 (Manual Downloads)
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: Overtime - Free Form After The Show
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 (Manual Downloads)
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
200906 Rare Little Richard and Other Music You've Never Heard
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song (Manual Downloads)
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 (Manual Downloads)
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 (Manual Downloads)
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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
200816 Elevator Music and Indiana Music
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song (Manual Downloads)
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 (Manual Downloads)
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 (Manual Downloads)
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

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