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Tonic: The Funky Groove Show: #092-MARDI GRAS
From: KGOU
Series: Tonic: The Funky Groove Show
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On this week’s special edition of Tonic: The Funky Groove Show, we’re celebrating Mardi Gras with a trip down Bourbon Street, for a musical celebra...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 01:56:30
230318 Synthetic Indian Chief and Drive In Movie Songs
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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The first rock and roll song pre-dated Elvis and everyone else credited by commercial interests as "discovering rock and roll." The first rock and...

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


  • Added: Mar 15, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 6
221203 The First (and Second) Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Veltones
Songs about "I want my baby back," "stronger than dirt" and the probable origin of the song, Twenty Flight Rock as we search for the first rock and...

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


  • Added: Nov 29, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 7
221126 The Second Rock and Roll Recording
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Connie Allen
Pre WWII songs revived by rock stars and the songs "Crazy Legs" and "Good Lovin.'" Plus a focus on the original songs covered by The Paladins as ...

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


  • Added: Nov 22, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 5
221105 The Second Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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The predominate musical culture of post WWII is loosely called rock and roll yet we don't know where it started and almost all the founding musicia...

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


  • Added: Nov 02, 2022
  • Length: 04:26:04
  • Purchases: 5
221015 Searching for the First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Bobby Martin and the Tune Twisters
Songs about hickies!

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
221008 Songs About The Third Girl's Revenge, Judy, and Reggae Where You Least Expect It
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Exploring the beginnings of post WWII musical culture. When a new, "hot" music emerged from the orthodoxy of established musics. Later we would c...

Bought by KFCF FM, Prairie Public, WQCS, KPRG, and WYAP


  • Added: Oct 03, 2022
  • Length: 03:58:59
  • Purchases: 5
Walking through the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience
From: World Footprints LLC
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Tune in to learn more about the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience, why it was founded, its significance beyond the Jewish community, and the...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2022
  • Length: 40:28
220820 The Aura of Late Night Radio
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Les Rhythm Checkers
Tonight's search for the first rock and roll song focuses o girl groups, New Orleans music, and the aura of late night radio is the same aura of la...

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


  • Added: Aug 17, 2022
  • Length: 03:50:44
  • Purchases: 7
220722 Dance Instructional Songs and Synthetic Chinese and Arabic Songs
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Johnny and the Jammers - Johnny Winter's Earliest Band
Back in the mechanical days, for a song to go "viral" required it to be associated with a dance that everyone wanted to learn. Up sprang the "Dan...

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
220716 Songs Using Stringed Instruments From 230 to 1 Strings and Songs With Car Names
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Frogmen
A piano uses 230 strings while a diddley bow uses one string and between there's all different string counts. Tonight, we start with musicians pl...

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
220618 The Search for the First Rock and Roll Song finds the Radio Musical
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Boyd Bennett And His Rockets
Theater musicals tell a long story frequently interrupted by songs and dancing. Radio musicals are long series of songs interrupted by my idiotic...

Bought by KCHU, KFCF FM, and KPRG


  • Added: Jun 16, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 3
220604 Texas Musicians, The Mysterious Walter Spriggs, and Wildcat Records of Sweden
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Monte Easter in Los Angeles 1990
It's always an audio history of the first rock and roll records focusing on the pioneers instead of the tired old "hits." It's perfect for public ...

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


  • Added: Jun 03, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:01
  • Purchases: 4
220529 Searching for the First Rock and Roll Record
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Rhythm Rockers
This weeks searches are in vocal group harmony bands, boleros, and girl groups. Not Motown or Phil Spector girl groups because we present "Music y...

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


  • Added: May 24, 2022
  • Length: 04:14:43
  • Purchases: 6
220522 The Southern Chauvinism of Col. Parker Marketing Elvis As the First Rock and Roll Musician
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Eddie Seacrest and the Rollin Rockets
Thoughts on "group harmony" as a category of music (including "doo wop" and the wide range of group vocals with instrumentation). This music was e...

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


  • Added: May 19, 2022
  • Length: 04:04:55
  • Purchases: 5
Dancing in the Streets: A History of the Second Line
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: Dancing in the Streets book cover, Credit: The Historic New Orleans Collection
Put on your alligator shoes and Sunday best as we explore the history of the Second Line while we go dancing in the streets of New Orleans.

  • Added: Apr 30, 2022
  • Length: 28:55
220326 Answer Songs
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Where we search for the first rock and roll song, is where autocracies die and "hits" are a distraction. All the music you've never heard by music...

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


  • Added: Mar 23, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:07
  • Purchases: 5
220320 The Dating Game for Dogs and Oil Songs
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Azzurri the Bachelorette
Hi, I'm Jim Lange and this is the Dating Game for dogs. In the post-WWII world, this music that was later called "Rock and Roll" was simply popula...

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


  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 02:56:45
  • Purchases: 6
220101 First Rock and Roll Song (and Audio Pizza!)
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Original Checkmates
These are songs you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of so this is not a "hits" or "oldies" presentation. It's purposely not the ...

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


  • Added: Dec 24, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 5
201227 "Bad Skills" plus Lamp Records and Matt Lucas
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Matt Lucas at the (pre-Katrina) Fats Domino Compound
Whether we like it or not, we pick up skills from our habits. Everyone talks up the good habits and their good skills but nobody talks up the bad ...

Bought by Prairie Public and KFCF FM


  • Added: Dec 24, 2020
  • Length: 02:56:58
  • Purchases: 2
Musician's Spotlight -Dirty Dozen Brass Band-Galactic Remix Mspot Part One - 728
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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To warm up listeners in early December, a remix encore broadcast from the Musician’s Spotlight archives of two great bands that will bring the heat...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KMXT, WMUU-LP, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 09, 2019
  • Length: 29:10
  • Purchases: 4
181201 Ginny!
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Songs about Alaska and the Frozen North plus that girl, Ginny.

  • Added: Dec 05, 2018
  • Length: 02:31:47
The List of Trumps New Appointees
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Caption: Top of the List is This Famous Face
This confidentially-sourced list, is made radio friendly because of the announcer's delivery.

  • Added: Apr 09, 2018
  • Length: :53
171125 Music You've Never Heard
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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  • Added: Nov 27, 2017
  • Length: 02:56:51
171125 California Songs
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: That's me, compliments of Andy Kerr
Substituting for California girl, Peggy Lou, so just songs about the idea fo "California."

  • Added: Nov 27, 2017
  • Length: 01:57:35