Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Series produced by Jamie Dell'Apa
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We, the rock and roll generation, have never found our self-defining first rock and roll song. Host Jamie Dell'Apa presents music and musicians you've never heard from the small regional record companies who pioneered rock and roll. Songs that could have been the first rock and roll song. Songs that fill the gap in understanding where we came from and who we are.
Searching For The First Rock and Roll Song features records coveted by collectors from the era when rock and roll was emerging but hadn't yet settled on a definition of itself. Music from before rock and roll was domesticated into a commercial music industry. When country and western sounded like swing, pop music sounded like rockabilly, rockabilly sounded like rhythm and blues, and doo wop sounded like girl groups and all those musics sounded an awful lot like what we now call, “rock and roll”.Not a hits, oldies, or “history of” radio show. it's all the songs that influenced our now-legendary musicians who are regularly featured in all those hits, oldies, and “history of” radio shows. Hosted by WWOZ in New Orleans for the last 18 years, the show is carried by a dozen stations. ... Show full description
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Bought by KFCF FM, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Prairie Public, Delmarva Public Media, KPRG and more
- Added: Oct 19, 2022
- Length: 02:58:59
- Purchases: 6
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KFCF FM, KPRG, Prairie Public, Delmarva Public Media and more
- Added: Oct 12, 2022
- Length: 02:59:00
- Purchases: 7
Bought by KFCF FM, Prairie Public, WQCS, KPRG, and WYAP
- Added: Oct 03, 2022
- Length: 03:58:59
- Purchases: 5
Bought by KFCF FM, WQCS, KPRG, Prairie Public, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more
- Added: Sep 21, 2022
- Length: 02:59:00
- Purchases: 6
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- Added: Sep 19, 2022
- Length: 34:13
- Purchases: 1
Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KFCF FM, KPRG, and WQCS
- Added: Sep 19, 2022
- Length: 02:59:00
- Purchases: 5
Bought by KFCF FM and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]
- Added: Sep 14, 2022
- Length: 21:56
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Bought by KPRG, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Prairie Public, Delmarva Public Media, and WQCS
- Added: Sep 14, 2022
- Length: 03:58:00
- Purchases: 5
Bought by KFCF FM, Prairie Public, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Delmarva Public Media, WQCS and more
- Added: Sep 07, 2022
- Length: 02:59:00
- Purchases: 6
Bought by KPRG, KFCF FM, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Prairie Public, Delmarva Public Media and more
- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- Length: 03:58:00
- Purchases: 6
Bought by KPRG, KCHU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WYAP, KFCF FM and more
- Added: Aug 22, 2022
- Length: 04:59:00
- Purchases: 8
Bought by KCHU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KPRG, KFCF FM, Prairie Public and more
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- Length: 03:50:44
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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
Bought by KCHU, Prairie Public, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KFCF FM, Delmarva Public Media and more
- Added: Aug 02, 2022
- Length: 03:00:00
- Purchases: 6
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KFCF FM, KPRG, Delmarva Public Media, WQCS and more
- Added: Jul 26, 2022
- Length: 03:32:50
- Purchases: 7
Bought by KFCF FM, KPRG, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Prairie Public, Delmarva Public Media and more
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 03:59:00
- Purchases: 7
Bought by KFCF FM and Prairie Public
- Added: Jul 13, 2022
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 2
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KFCF FM, KPRG, Prairie Public, WYAP and more
- Added: Jul 13, 2022
- Length: 02:59:00
- Purchases: 6
Bought by Delmarva Public Media, Delmarva Public Media, KFCF FM, Prairie Public, KPRG and more
- Added: Jul 05, 2022
- Length: 03:00:00
- Purchases: 8
Bought by KCHU, Delmarva Public Media, KPRG, Prairie Public, KFCF FM and more
- Added: Jun 27, 2022
- Length: 03:58:00
- Purchases: 7