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230416 New Orleans Music and Some Familiar Songs
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Dr. John and Freddie Staehle
An edited version of the May 9th, 2021 show.

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  • Added: Apr 11, 2023
  • Length: 02:56:59
  • Purchases: 6
230407 The Search Takes Us to the Most Unusual of Places
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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It's a show unlike any other rock and roll history show because we capture the feel of the music instead of making it a museum piece. Rock and rol...

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  • Added: Apr 03, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
230318 Synthetic Indian Chief and Drive In Movie Songs
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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The first rock and roll song pre-dated Elvis and everyone else credited by commercial interests as "discovering rock and roll." The first rock and...

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  • Added: Mar 15, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 6
230312 We Found the Second Rock and Roll Song(s)
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: The Gales
Unfortunately, there were at least 85 second rock and roll songs (and counting). Tonight's twist, most of tonight's bands begin their names with e...

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  • Added: Mar 07, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
230305 Searching for The First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Sparkle Moore
It's bands and musicians who's names start with "Roy" as in Royaltones, Roy Hall, Royal Teens, etc. with just a touch of Sparkle Moore.

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 5
230226 Searching for The First Rock and Roll Song is Finding Ourselves
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: The Sinders
It's the researcher dream thesis so there have been uncounted attempts but no one has credibly defined the first rock and roll song. The difficul...

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  • Added: Feb 20, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 6
230219 The Faustian Bargain For The First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Little Ralph Molina and the Personalties
You've heard the mythical beginnings of rock and roll a thousand times. The White musicians who experiences Black music and then creates rock and ...

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  • Added: Feb 14, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
230211 The First Rock and Roll Song - A HIll of Beans
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Superbs
It's easier to count beans than count the huge number of songs about beans. Even more difficult, the number of songs that could have been the firs...

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  • Added: Feb 07, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
230204 The First Rock and Roll Song - Cha Chas, Group Harmony, Does the Same Foundational Lyric Create Similar Sounding Songs?
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Chic Lets
A show about why musical creativity can't be measured by commercial success. It's why our search for the first rock and roll record using songs yo...

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  • Added: Jan 31, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 6
230128 The First Rock and Roll Song - When Guitars Met Outer Space
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Velventeens
What sound leads a rock and roll song? Group harmony is one of the most original and foundational identifying sounds of rock and roll because grou...

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  • Added: Jan 23, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 6
230113 The First Rock and Roll Song By Musicians Named Tommy and Tony
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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We search for the elusive first rock and roll song in recordings about teenage royalty, "Baby Don't Go" songs, and for no aesthetic reason, focus o...

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  • Added: Jan 10, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 6
221217 Songs About Oil and New Orleans Music
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Tonight's focus is on New Orleans music and songs about oil as our search for the first rock and roll record looks into themes that match our weekl...

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  • Added: Dec 12, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 6
221120 The Decency Embodied in Soul Music
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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In the post WWII era soul music also emerged along with rock and roll. Soul lyrics were especially light, sweet, and even introspectively sweet. ...

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  • Added: Nov 14, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 6
221029 Searching for Good Radio is the Search for the First Rock and Roll Song.
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Rockin' R's
The first rock and roll songs catered to being on the radio on the hope of catching the masses' ears. And radio catered to this new sound of hot m...

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  • Added: Oct 24, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 6
221022 The First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Bronzettes
Plenty of girl groups tonight.

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2022
  • Length: 02:58:59
  • Purchases: 6
221008 Songs About The Third Girl's Revenge, Judy, and Reggae Where You Least Expect It
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Exploring the beginnings of post WWII musical culture. When a new, "hot" music emerged from the orthodoxy of established musics. Later we would c...

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  • Added: Oct 03, 2022
  • Length: 03:58:59
  • Purchases: 5
220925 First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Vaqueros from MN
Integrated into the expected sound of the show, a narrative on art versus commercialism. Culminates with a hard close for membership in last two m...

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  • Added: Sep 19, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 5
220920 First Rock and Roll Song - Surf and Vocal Group Harmony Songs
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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A focus on surf and vocal group harmony songs tonight. California can claim a regional, indigenous music; surf music. Ironically, the blonde Ca...

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  • Added: Sep 14, 2022
  • Length: 03:58:00
  • Purchases: 5
220912 The Search for the First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Mae West Sings Roy Head's "Treat Her Right."
It's the music that defines "us," the post WWII generation so why do we hear the same couple hundred songs over and over and over again? Not here,...

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  • Added: Sep 07, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 6
220905 The First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Rodney and the Blazers
In the early 1950s, before "Rock and Roll," before Elvis, there were "doo wop" bands. More broadly, there were vocal group harmony bands. Think o...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2022
  • Length: 03:58:00
  • Purchases: 6
220828 Searching For The First Rock and Roll Song in Cowboy Music
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Willie Dixon
It wasn't exclusively "the blues" that started rock and roll. In previous shows we heard how the cha cha, mambo, bolero, and even sea shanty were ...

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  • Added: Aug 22, 2022
  • Length: 04:59:00
  • Purchases: 8
220820 The Aura of Late Night Radio
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Les Rhythm Checkers
Tonight's search for the first rock and roll song focuses o girl groups, New Orleans music, and the aura of late night radio is the same aura of la...

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  • Added: Aug 17, 2022
  • Length: 03:50:44
  • Purchases: 7
220806 The First Rock Songs By "Little ...." Musicians
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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The post-WWII musical culture was different. Something was happening. From the bottom up and all around the world, our ears opened up to an accep...

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  • Added: Aug 02, 2022
  • Length: 03:00:00
  • Purchases: 6
220730 Looking for the First Rock and Roll Song and Finding Hula Songs and Rockabilly From Brazil
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Chuck Miller Posing as Bob Dobbs
Brazilian rockabilly, hula songs, and the many ska musicians who write songs about fictional spies characters are what makes "us" - the post WWII r...

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  • Added: Jul 26, 2022
  • Length: 03:32:50
  • Purchases: 7
220709 Fabric Bands, The New Jersey Record Companies, and That Mrs. Jones.
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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A twist on the "bird bands" names of the 1950s, the first two hours feature bands named after ... fabrics. Tweeds, wool, cotton, velvet, denim, s...

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  • Added: Jul 05, 2022
  • Length: 03:00:00
  • Purchases: 8