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230211 The First Rock and Roll Song - A HIll of Beans
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Superbs
It's easier to count beans than count the huge number of songs about beans. Even more difficult, the number of songs that could have been the firs...

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


  • Added: Feb 07, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
OHR080: OHR Presents: Leyla McCalla, 2/20/2023
From: Ozark Highlands Radio
Series: Ozark Highlands Radio
Caption: Leyla McCalla
New York born Haitian-American classical & folk music sensation and former Carolina Chocolate Drops member Leyla McCalla recorded live at the Ozark...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
Living In New Orleans Isn't Like Living Anywhere Else
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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3am Sunday morning introspections on life in New Orleans from the only sober guy in the French Quarter - the all-night show guy at the community ra...

Bought by KPRG


  • Added: Sep 19, 2022
  • Length: 34:13
  • Purchases: 1
220730 Looking for the First Rock and Roll Song and Finding Hula Songs and Rockabilly From Brazil
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Chuck Miller Posing as Bob Dobbs
Brazilian rockabilly, hula songs, and the many ska musicians who write songs about fictional spies characters are what makes "us" - the post WWII r...

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
220212 Lou Reed, Jim Messina, Leon Russell, Answer Songs - All Music You've Never Heard
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Lou Reed before he was "Lou Reed"
Every week, another 85 songs you've never heard as we search for the heart and soul that later was declared "rock and roll." Fact is, there was no...

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


  • Added: Feb 08, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:02
  • 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
211226 The Fleetwoods Demos Aligned With Sun Ra's Doo Wop
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Little Joe Cook and The Thrillers
The Fleetwoods of Olympia Washington were White kids who did precise harmonies much like the more ethnic "doo wop" groups of the same era. Sun Ra...

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


  • Added: Dec 19, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 4
OHR078: OHR Presents: “A.J. Croce: Two Generations of American Music”, 12/6/2021
From: Ozark Highlands Radio
Series: Ozark Highlands Radio
Caption: A.J. Croce
American singer-songwriter and musical legacy A.J. Croce recorded live at Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Arkansas. Also, hear A.J....

  • Added: Nov 24, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
Musician's Spotlight - Jon Cleary- 803
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Pianist and singer Jon Cleary visits with host John Floridis and discussed his several decade musical journey. Born in the rural British village of...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Nov 07, 2021
  • Length: 58:31
  • Purchases: 2
OHR139: OHR Presents: Nick Shoulders, 2/15/2021
From: Ozark Highlands Radio
Series: Ozark Highlands Radio
Caption: Nick Shoulders
Ozark original, singer-songwriter, yodeler, multi-instrumentalist and one man band Nick Shoulders recorded live at Ozark Folk Center State Park in ...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
140406
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: That's me, compliments of Andy Kerr
Under construction

  • Added: Apr 27, 2019
  • Length: :16
OHR Presents: “A.J. Croce: Two Generations of American Music”
From: Ozark Highlands Radio
Series: Ozark Highlands Radio (Specials)
Caption: A.J. Croce
American singer-songwriter and musical legacy A.J. Croce recorded live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Arkansas. Also, hear ...

Bought by Ohm Radio and WEZU


  • Added: Apr 24, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
OHR Presents: Leyla McCalla
From: Ozark Highlands Radio
Series: Ozark Highlands Radio (Specials)
Caption: Leyla McCalla
New York born Haitian-American classical & folk music sensation and former Carolina Chocolate Drops member Leyla McCalla recorded live at the Ozark...

Bought by Ohm Radio and WEZU


  • Added: Apr 24, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
171111 Community Radio Versus Top Down Radio Models
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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We can fall deeply, madly in love with late-night radio. This doesn't happen with any of the visual mediums. Never with a screen. Thing is, radi...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2017
  • Length: 02:50:05
Musician's Spotlight - Anders Osborne - 661
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Between the potency of his richly detailed songwriting, his intensely emotional, soulful vocals and his piercing, expert guitar work, New Orleans’ ...

Bought by Ohm Radio , KGLT, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 06, 2017
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 3
Life of the Law #85: Live Law New Orleans - A Scholar's Life
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: Host Osagie Obasogie, Credit: Riverview Photography
This week we take you to New Orleans, for stories told by legal scholars about what life's like as a legal scholar.

  • Added: Jun 17, 2016
  • Length: 01:00:41
150214 Mardi Gras - New Orleans Music by New Orleans Musicians
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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And as always, music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of.... A theme in anticipation of Mardi Gras, it will work any year.

  • Added: Feb 18, 2015
  • Length: 02:58:04
Tribute to the Studio Owner Who Changed Music History
From: Gianluca Tramontana
Caption: Cosimo Matassa at the mixing desk
A Tribute to the late Cosimo Matassa who's J&M Studio and engineering skills recorded history and defined the way rock and roll would sound.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 04:28
Market on LaSalle Brings New Life to Central City Commercial Corridor
From: Nina Feldman
Caption: Market on Lasalle Pods
A mobile market aims to revitalize a formerly thriving commercial district in New Orleans' historic Central City neighborhood.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 04:37
  • Purchases: 1
NOLA's Petals
From: WWNO
Series: Storyville
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This story is about a New Orleans native who leaves the city after Hurricane Katrina, only to find his way back...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Oct 10, 2013
  • Length: 05:47
  • Purchases: 2
Back to New Orleans
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
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Legendary musicians from New Orleans are featured in this program doing what they do best. This program contains the best of the New Orleans sound ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WSLR, WEZU, and Radio New Zealand


  • Added: Aug 22, 2013
  • Length: 55:35
  • Purchases: 4
130324 Request Line Is Open
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Also skinny and running songs and a bunch of music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of

  • Added: Mar 24, 2013
  • Length: 02:46:54
Hoofie the Deer
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This story was first told on July 10, 2012, and later produced for radio broadcast by Laine Kaplan-Levenson and Nina Feldman. The theme of that eve...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2012
  • Length: 33:19
Producer Profile: Monique Verdin and Sharon Linezo Hong
From: Vision Maker Media
Series: Native Producer Profile
Caption: Monique Verdin and Sharon Linezo Hong
Reporter Ben Kreimer speaks with filmmakers Monique Verdin (Houma) and Sharon Linezo Hong about their new film, My Louisiana Love.

  • Added: Apr 16, 2012
  • Length: 18:03
In Desperation, Seafood Workers Sign Away Their Rights
From: Richard Ziglar
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
Caption: Unemployed oyster shucker Tam Nguyen , Credit: Barry Yeoman
For many of Louisiana's oyster shuckers, shrimp peelers, and deckhands, survival after the BP oil spill meant accepting one-time payments of $5,000...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jul 17, 2011
  • Length: 06:14
  • Purchases: 1