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Wordsworth & Jazz
From: Michael Henrik Wynn
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A public domain reading of Wordsworth's "I wandered lonely as a cloud" set to public domain jazz. The result was surprisingly good.

  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 03:52
230426 This Week We Almost Found the First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: The Turbans
The joy of music isn't finding the first, It's the search through all the "possibly the firsts." Who could have even imagined there are so many co...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WYAP, Delmarva Public Media, KFCF FM, KPRG and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 8
World Bridges - 23 - 70 Host: Tom Berich
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: World Bridges
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Join host Tom Berich on a musical journey around the world!

Bought by KAMU and KMXT


  • Added: Jan 19, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:20
  • Purchases: 2
DWFC 2202-13: Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique and more with the Aurora Orchestra: Beethoven Festival, 12/26/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts
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When it comes to creative and impressive performances, the London-based Aurora Orchestra really stands out. In this concert from the 2022 Beethoven...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:58
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...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KPRG, KFCF FM, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Dec 12, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 6
220813 The First Rock Songs Were Mambos
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: The Prophets
Starting with rock songs that were placed atop a mambo progression because rock has always been an undefined category of music.

Bought by KCHU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KPRG, Prairie Public, KFCF FM and more


  • Added: Aug 07, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 8
220416 This Music, The Heart of Radio.
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Roddy Jackson Then
Defining the first rock and roll song has been passionately argued because to find "the first rock and roll song" requires ignoring tons of music t...

Bought by KPRG, KCHU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KFCF FM, KPRG and more


  • Added: Apr 11, 2022
  • Length: 02:56:28
  • Purchases: 8
220402 Pre-Ska Jamaican Music is The Mash Potato Sound
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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85 songs you've never heard but could have been titled, "the first rock and roll song" featuring musicians you've never heard of. This show ignore...

Bought by KCHU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KFCF FM, WQCS, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Mar 31, 2022
  • Length: 02:56:57
  • Purchases: 6
220316 The First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Eddie Seacrest and the Rollin Rockets
There's a half dozen popular myths defining the first rock and roll record but every week we feature 85 songs you've never heard any and all of the...

Bought by KCHU, KFCF FM, KPRG, Prairie Public, WQCS and more


  • Added: Mar 06, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:02
  • Purchases: 7
210808 The Audio Similarities Between Ska and The First Rock and Roll Records
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Count Ossie
Tonight's show focuses on the similar sounds of early ska and rock and roll. Not a technical presentation, your ears will hear it and your soul wi...

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


  • Added: Aug 05, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:01
  • Purchases: 5
DWF 20-23: Schwetzingen Festival: Beethoven in Mysterious Company, 3/8/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts
Caption: Statue at the house in Bonn where Ludwig van Beethoven was born
"In Mysterious Company" is the name of a concert by the Belcea Quartet from England. At the Schwetzingen Festival, they played two of Beethoven's l...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2021
  • Length: 01:57:58
DWF 20-22: Schwetzingen Festival: Beethoven and his role models , 3/1/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts
Caption: Academy of Early Music Berlin
Méhul, Holzbauer, Cherubini and Knecht were among the composers whom Ludwig van Beethoven esteemed – and emulated. The parallels between their wor...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2021
  • Length: 01:57:58
Notes from the Jazz Underground #68
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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This week...we've got Jazz...with a twang! Jazz renditions of Country and Folk tunes by John Scofield, Bill Frisell, Bryan and the Haggards, Sara G...

Bought by KRPS, KLCC, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Apr 13, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
200328 Best Of My Music For The Worst Of Times.
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Broadcasting as an underground liar from my underground lair some of the best of my musical library. A voice for the isolation.

Bought by Prairie Public, WSLR, and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Mar 29, 2020
  • Length: 02:51:44
  • Purchases: 3
Lives in Music: The Men who Make Mellotrons
From: Robin Valk
Series: Lives in Music
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The legendary Mellotron story from the team who carry on the work that started in the 60s with Streetly Electronics in the UK.

  • Added: Oct 24, 2019
  • Length: 34:17
Nobody Swung Harder: The Jazz Violin of Stuff Smith
From: David Schulman
Caption: Stuff Smith and friends, Credit: family photo
Hezekiah Leroy Gordon “Stuff” Smith was the most important American jazz violinist of the 20th Century. He recorded with Ella Fitzgerald. Oscar Pet...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 22, 2019
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
Episode #129
From: Sigil Of Brass
Series: DJ Scooby's Sound Of Wonder
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World music show presented by a Yorkshireman. Spoken links.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2018
  • Length: 01:00:00
180217 Music You've Never Heard...
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Lyrics made of lists, New Orleans music and mostly music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2018
  • Length: 03:04:01
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1582 (Hour 1 & 2) - 05/25/2017
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Starting at the location of Roy Gaines’ blues, there is no time like now for the polytonality of Woody Shaw. The old Rotten Kid Buddy Rich plays a ...

Bought by WMOT, WYAP, WVBI-LP, WJSU, WOUB and more


  • Added: May 24, 2017
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 7
170429 Sound Alikes - Bo Diddley, Indo Rock and Surf
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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In preparing my show, I rapidly listen to many snippets of many songs which is a process of dis-assembling and re-assembling sounds separate from t...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2017
  • Length: 04:01:26
141026 No Classifications on Saturday Night Music
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: That's me, compliments of Andy Kerr
Working out why I don't use identifiers for myself or the music in the first hour of the show.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2014
  • Length: 02:50:16
Unusual Orchestral Transition
From: Paul Messing
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A brief musical transition, orchestral in nature.

  • Added: Oct 15, 2014
  • Length: :21
Martin Woods on Challenges for Black Opera Singers
From: WBEZ
Series: Vocalo Presents
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Martin Woods talks to Audra Wilson about the challenges and the rewards of being a Black Operatic Baritone from the West Side of Chicago, and takin...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 08:55
  • Purchases: 1
140913 New Orleans Music and Few Words About Cosimo Matassa
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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At its heart, my show is about presenting music absent its racial components. For instance, we focus on music from the 1950s to 1979s when musicia...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 02:54:35
140614 Pirate Ship Bike and Morse Sugar
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Collector's music from the golden age of Americana - the 1950s to 1970s. All the music from just before the first rock and roll song because once ...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2014
  • Length: 02:55:30