All Pieces for Jamie Dell'Apa

 
230813 Overtime, Free Form Radio. Youthful Hope. The Loss of My Parents and Friends
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song on Saturday Night New Orleans Radio
Caption: Nason putting his father's ashes in The Mississippi River after the Krewe Of St. Anne parade on Mardi Gras Day. A few years later, Nason's ashes followed Nason's steps in the paraded and into the river.
Free form radio in the middle of the night where the surrounding darkness uncovers music and stories about ourselves. Tonight, music of youthful ...

Bought by WPVM 103.7


  • Added: Aug 28, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
230827 Why We Search For the First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song on Saturday Night New Orleans Radio
Caption: Fabulous Combo Kings
Two generations of experts and they still haven't found the first rock and roll song. The structure of their inquiry is generating too many "first...

Bought by WPVM 103.7, KPRG, KFCF FM, Delmarva Public Media, WQCS and more


  • Added: Aug 21, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 9
230813 Overtime, Free Form Radio - The Great Voices
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song on Saturday Night New Orleans Radio
Caption: Van Morrison
It is 3am on Sunday morning. I've finished my formal show but the radio muse still whispers for more. It's free form radio. Unplanned, improvisa...

Bought by KFCF FM, KPRG, Prairie Public, and Delmarva Public Media


  • Added: Aug 17, 2023
  • Length: 58:53
  • Purchases: 4
230813 Searching For The First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song on Saturday Night New Orleans Radio
Caption: Slim Lay
To be first to create new art means you must start as unpopular so that is where we search for the first rock and roll song; in all the music you'v...

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


  • Added: Aug 15, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
Overtime - Free Form Radio Featuring Judy Collins
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
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After the first rock and roll record show, we drop the restrictions of format and sound in favor of the wandering muse of "free form radio." Tonig...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
230813 RCA's Attempt to Create an Alternative Elvis
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song on Saturday Night New Orleans Radio
Caption: Skee Brothers
Searching for the first rock and roll song without regard to "hits" means finding surprises. Some beyond belief such as the competitors to the #1 ...

Bought by KPRG, KFCF FM, Prairie Public, WQCS, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Aug 08, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
Overtime Free Form Radio - Evolution of "Heaven" Lyrics
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song on Saturday Night New Orleans Radio
Caption: Washington Phillips
The mystery of who and what happens in heaven from scolding abstractions to humerous specifics, pop song lyrics have evolved over the last 100 year...

Bought by KFCF FM and Delmarva Public Media


  • Added: Aug 01, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
230805 Who Did That Song First
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song on Saturday Night New Orleans Radio
Caption: Brothers Stick and Brownie McGhee
Popular songs done by the song's originators and if rock and roll broke up the orthodoxy, then Spike Jones could be considered the original rock an...

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


  • Added: Jul 31, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 4
230729 Teenager Weddings Turned to Funerals, Nordic Guitar Masters, Romeo and Juliette Go To Indian Country
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song on Saturday Night New Orleans Radio
Caption: Los Indonesios aka Black Dynamites
Rock and roll guitar instrumentals have always been a mainstay. Paraphrasing Dan Hicks, "All our songs are instrumentals but here's one we added l...

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


  • Added: Jul 24, 2023
  • Length: 02:56:56
  • Purchases: 7
230723 Songs Organized Into Themes
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song on Saturday Night New Orleans Radio
Caption: Sam Mateparae and the Rockin Rockers (New Zealand)
A variety of theme including lyrics about Alaska, Pig Latin, schoolyard chants, and twists on "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke that Cigarette" as we search for...

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


  • Added: Jul 18, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
230716 When Cowboy Music Swings.
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song on Saturday Night New Orleans Radio
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Louisiana music, girl groups, and a cluster of musicians who played cowboys but would have musically fit better on Sugar Hill than the Black Hills....

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


  • Added: Jul 12, 2023
  • Length: 02:56:59
  • Purchases: 6
230709 Dumbest Record Company's Business Plans - Delta, Swastika, and Cuca Records
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song on Saturday Night New Orleans Radio
Caption: Lou Christie
Also Lou Christie's back up singers and Chicano soul.

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


  • Added: Jul 04, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
230702 Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song on Saturday Night New Orleans Radio
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This week we almost had it!

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


  • Added: Jun 25, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 6
230624 (Free show!) Going To A 1961 Teenager Party
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song on Saturday Night New Orleans Radio
Caption: Bobby Lee Trammell
An hour of songs who's lyrics that take us from the gleeful invitations to the tearful breakup of every 1961-era teenage sock hop and party. Also...

Bought by Prairie Public and KFCF FM


  • Added: Jun 19, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 2
230618 Frankie Lee Sims Sound
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song on Saturday Night New Orleans Radio
Caption: Tameers
Walking With Frankie is an hard blues with a beautiful pop hook making its riffs one of the most common and copied riffs in blues and rock music. ...

Bought by KPRG, WYAP, KFCF FM, Prairie Public, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Jun 12, 2023
  • Length: 03:56:00
  • Purchases: 7
230611 Music and Musicians You've Never Heard
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song on Saturday Night New Orleans Radio
Caption: The Cookies
Who could have meritoriously claimed, "The First Rock and Roll Song"

Bought by KPRG, KFCF FM, Prairie Public, Delmarva Public Media, WQCS and more


  • Added: Jun 05, 2023
  • Length: 02:56:59
  • Purchases: 6
220604 Searching for the First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song on Saturday Night New Orleans Radio
Caption: Goldie and the Gingerbreads
This week we almost found it.

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


  • Added: Jun 01, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 5
230528 Nightowls
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song on Saturday Night New Orleans Radio
Caption: Teddy "Mr. Bear" McRae
Bands and songs featuring the character of a "night owl." Usually a male who stays out all night every night. She's waiting on him at the front ...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KFCF FM, Prairie Public, and WQCS


  • Added: May 23, 2023
  • Length: 04:09:21
  • Purchases: 4
230521 The Heart and Soul of the First Rock and Roll Song(s)
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song on Saturday Night New Orleans Radio
Caption: The Mysterious Montells
It was a music that was shared around the globe. It was based on a univeral feeling. What is the heart and soul of music? Of humanity?

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


  • Added: May 16, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
230507 Searching Through 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 on Saturday Night New Orleans Radio
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It's not a "hits" or an "oldies" show because was play collector's music - those songs that were meritorious artistic successes but not commercial ...

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


  • Added: May 10, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 6

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