All Pieces for Jamie Dell'Apa

 
240721: 210721 Jefferson High School (Los Angeles) Musicians and Atmospherics, 7/24/2024
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: One of the first "girl groups" Shirley Gunter and the Queens
Searching for the elusive first rock and roll song means searching where other explorer's lights haven't shined. Tonight it's Jefferson High Scho...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2024
  • Length: 02:59:00
240714: 240721 Favorite Songs, 7/17/2024
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Velvetones Beetle Walk
Trying to summarize the sound of my almost two decades long show for the new stations previewing the program; this is a show featuring some of my f...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Delmarva Public Media, Raven Radio, and KSLU


  • Added: Jul 24, 2024
  • Length: 02:58:59
  • Purchases: 4
240714 Foods You Don't Want To Eat and FinBarr and Imperial Records
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Cordell Jackson!!!!
Before FM radio and public radio were licensed to broadcast, there were a limited number of AM radio stations per market. Limited by radio spectru...

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


  • Added: Jul 09, 2024
  • Length: 03:00:00
  • Purchases: 6
240704 Phone Number as Lyrics and Early Canadian Rockers
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: The Ideals Gorilla
Also songs about playing spin the bottle and various showdowns. What? I didn't write these songs. I'm playing them because nobody would believe ...

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  • Added: Jul 01, 2024
  • Length: 02:58:59
  • Purchases: 7
240630 Early New Zealand Rock and Roll and "B" Sides
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Maori Troubadours
Where would the first rock and roll song emerge? The physical sciences' ideas of gradualism, law of inertia, and common sense says the first rock ...

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  • Added: Jun 23, 2024
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 7
240623 Swamp Pop
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Billy Lee Riley
Of the many regional musics of rural south louisiana, swamp pop was most successful in reaching audiences outside of South Louisiana. It's rock a...

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  • Added: Jun 17, 2024
  • Length: 03:58:00
  • Purchases: 7
240616 Songs About Mobile Alabama and Songs From The Gulf Coast
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Chaino from Jet Magazine. He and his manager pulled off a scam where he was a survivor of inter-tribal warfare in Africa rescued by missionaries (of course). His bongo playing hands were fast as lightening... you can imagine the hype. Turns out he was
A handful of songs about Mobile, Alabama and songs coming from the nearby Louisiana Gulf Coast. For that matter, plenty of songs which could have ...

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  • Added: Jun 09, 2024
  • Length: 02:58:58
  • Purchases: 7
240608 The Primitive Sound and Wild Man Songs
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Ramplers, Falcons, and Fabulous Playboys (Wilson Pickett passed through these bands)
By definition, the first rock and roll record was new and unheard so it couldn't have been popular much less well capitalized. It wouldn't have be...

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  • Added: Jun 03, 2024
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 7
240601 Cees Klopp's White Label Records
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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In the post-WWII devastation of Europe, Dutchman Cees Klopp hears the hope, whimsey, and excitement of the new rock and roll music from America and...

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  • Added: May 27, 2024
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 6
240526 Cool Records of New Jersey
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: George and Teddy, The Condor!
Being across the Hudson River from New York City's big music industry meant Cool Records needed to be scrappy because they were only getting the sc...

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


  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 7
240518 "Congo" songs and Kit Records of Nashville
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Elroy Peace
We search for the first rock and roll record in songs referring to "Congo," the small but notable music catalog from Kit Records of Nashville, and ...

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


  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
240511 Songs About Women's Socks
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Tino and the Revelons
Searching for socks lost in the dryer is like searching for the first rock and roll song. Both are mysteriously missing. Tonight's show focuses o...

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  • Added: May 08, 2024
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 6
240504 Eanie Meanie Miney Mo Songs Plus Music From Texas
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Hi Lites
I quit counting after finding a dozen very good songs all titled "eenie meanie miney moe." Also songs from Texas that don't have a "Texas Sound" a...

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  • Added: Apr 29, 2024
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 7
240428 Accordions In Rock Music
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Bobby and the Poe Kats
This week is a deep dive into the endless amount of bands who put out one or two 45 RPM record then disappeared. Depending on your definition of "...

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  • Added: Apr 23, 2024
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Mousetrap Enthusiasts
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
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It's the "snap" sound of a mousetrap that thrills. It's the sound of revenge over a home invasion from pestilence and it's the sound of mangled fi...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
240421 Looking For Munsters, UFOs, and Rockets
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Clinton Ford Looking Like a Dandy
There isn't agreement on the definition of rock and roll much less the first rock and roll record. There isn't even agreement on the broad topics ...

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  • Added: Apr 16, 2024
  • Length: 02:53:59
  • Purchases: 7
240414 Music From The Aladdin, Imperial, and Kent Record Labels
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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We often present music based on it geographic region of origin. Another cut is by "record label" who also have an identifiable "sound" permeating ...

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  • Added: Apr 07, 2024
  • Length: 02:54:01
  • Purchases: 7
240409 Indiana and Louisiana Musics and Elevator Songs
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Boxing Writer Mike Marley with Kris Kristofferson
It was a time when music wasn't commoditized into national least-common denominator blandness because the country was more distinctly regionalized....

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 02:54:00
  • Purchases: 6
240330 Our Music, Ourselves.
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: The Dynamics
Willie Mays swings a good bat and a great song. Pinky Pinkston is equally amazing for the opposite reasons. Plus plenty of New Orleans music incl...

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  • Added: Mar 24, 2024
  • Length: 02:54:00
  • Purchases: 6
240324 Searching for the First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Ronnie Dee (Dawson) and the D-Men
Every week we search songs you've never heard by musicians you've heard of in trying to find the first rock and roll song before rock and roll caug...

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


  • Added: Mar 17, 2024
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7

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