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190302 New Orleans and its Mardi Gras
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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New Orleans music and Mardi Gras is a reflection of us. We who are New Orleans.

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Mar 04, 2019
  • Length: 02:50:26
  • Purchases: 1
181208 Mushroom Farm, Chuck E. Weiss and Unadorned Neglected Black Culture of 1974
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Long title and a winding story that includes mushroom farms, shotguns, and plenty of electrified land mines all leads to Isaac Hayes' Hot Buttered ...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2018
  • Length: 02:59:27
180303 Emile Griffith, Music From Boston and Music About The Back Door
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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I always equated boxing with "manhood" until the boxer Emile Griffith proved that decency is the path to "manhood." Emile had a more dramatic stor...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2018
  • Length: 02:49:23
180120 Substitute for Peggy Lou
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Music referring to Africa plus Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Sun Ra, Mingus and some others from my youth as an uninvited guest (more like a pest) at radio ...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 01:35:35
170304 Donna's Bar - Charlie Sims Memorial
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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It was a classic New Orleans ad hoc lunch at the corner bar, three hours of talk, laugh, drink, eat and repeat. Bar owner, Donna and Charlie plus ...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2017
  • Length: 03:24:04
160917 Originators of Americana Music - Wild Jimmy Spruill and Doc Pomus
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Playing off our usual catch phrase of, "Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of," tonight we will focus on music you've heard b...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2016
  • Length: 03:23:48
160604 Muhammad Ali Tribute
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Mike Marley with his old friend Muhammad Ali and Mike's former employer Don King.
Interrupting my Saturday night music radio show with some words about Muhammad Ali who passed earlier in the day. Ali's impact on me as an 8th gra...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2016
  • Length: 46:15
150829 Katrina, The River and Us
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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New Orleanians were not keen on last week's media-contangion to "regurgitate" their Hurricane Katrina stories on the ten-year anniversary of the st...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2015
  • Length: 02:52:13
Howard Smith interivews Mick Jagger 10/20/1969
From: Ezra Bookstein
Series: The Smith Tapes
Caption: Collection 5 - Altamont, Credit: Masaki Koike
Howard Smith's interview with Mick Jagger, Oct. 20th, 1969. The Stones have just arrived in the US for a historic tour, which ends at the infamous ...

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 02:49
  • Purchases: 1
Harry Nilsson Special Schmecial
From: Joyride Media
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Friends and family talk about the life and music of Harry Nilsson

Bought by KPSQ-LP, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, Prairie Public, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Aug 19, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 18
Louis Armstrong
From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes
Caption: Louis Armstrong
Trumpeter Louis Armstrong is consider one of the most important musicians of the 20th century. With his innovations in ensemble playing and his dis...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 18, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Elvis Presley: Prince From Another Planet
From: Joyride Media
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Highlights from Elvis' one and only appearance in New York City.

Bought by KPSQ-LP, Harford Community Radio, Harford Community Radio, KMXT, KPVL and more


  • Added: Dec 05, 2012
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 10
All Mixed Up-Thanksgiving
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
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The Holiday classic: "A Shortcut Back Home" plus music from Charlie Chaplin, Neil Young, the Avett Brothers, Laura Nyro, Ray Davies, Kronos Quartet...

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KUCB, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KRCB 104.9 and more


  • Added: Nov 20, 2012
  • Length: 58:19
  • Purchases: 41
Remembering Eric Lowen of Lowen and Navarro
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: Dan Navarro and Eric Lowen
Eric Lowen of the singing/songwriting duo Lowen and Navarro died March 23rd, 2012 at the age of 60 after an extended experience with Lou Gehrig's d...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2012
  • Length: 19:19
JazzStories: Todd Barkan - Part I
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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"In San Francisco…I had a jazz group of my own... and I went to a beer bar on Vallejo Street. And I said I want to really get my band in here. I ca...

Bought by KALW, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 08, 2011
  • Length: 13:06
  • Purchases: 4
Jazz at Lincoln Center: James Moody
From: Murray Street Productions
Caption: James Moody, Credit: Tom Pich
In memory of saxophonist and flutist James Moody, Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio offers its edition featuring Moody's 75th birthday celebration with ...

Bought by KMUW, WJSU, WEKU, WVRU, WNCU and more


  • Added: Dec 10, 2010
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 9