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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
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
230219 The Faustian Bargain For The First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Little Ralph Molina and the Personalties
You've heard the mythical beginnings of rock and roll a thousand times. The White musicians who experiences Black music and then creates rock and ...

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


  • Added: Feb 14, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
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
220611 Rock and Roll as Dance Music
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Tracey Dey
The conjoinment of music to dance is assumed but before rock and roll, it was big band swing with musicians like Artie Shaw filling huge arenas wit...

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


  • Added: Jun 09, 2022
  • Length: 04:17:17
  • Purchases: 8
Take Me To The River: New Orleans - a celebration of music history and legacy
From: World Footprints LLC
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Music is a powerful universal language where white musicians and black musicians come together, protect and stand by each other to create something...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2022
  • Length: 34:06
220429 Rock and Roll Songs That Young Arnold Schwarzenegger Heard
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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The bottomless pit of my music library includes a handful of songs from 1963 Austria that are indistinguishable from the best of American rock and ...

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


  • Added: Apr 25, 2022
  • Length: 02:56:57
  • Purchases: 6
220409 Radio as Art and Art as Civilization
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Bobby Page and the Riff Raffs
An inspired, heartfelt show. Based around an essay on radio as art and art as both a personal way of making a better life and civilization's savio...

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


  • Added: Apr 05, 2022
  • Length: 04:55:05
  • Purchases: 6
JAZZ FEST: A NEW ORLEANS STORY -- Frank Marshall Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Frank Marshall talks spontaneity, living his two loves, and a shoebox full of treasures.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2022
  • Length: 11:36
220115 The First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Jumping Bill Carlisle
The first rock and roll song is centered in the post World War II era when a new music captured the imagination and hope of people in the US and ar...

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


  • Added: Jan 10, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:02
  • Purchases: 6
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
Spencer Bohren: A Traveling Life
From: Music Inside Out
Series: Music Inside Out
Caption: Spencer Bohren, Credit: Scotty Hall
Singer-songwriter Spencer Bohren (1950-2019) was raised in Casper, Wyoming, and made his home in New Orleans. In between, for seven straight years,...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2020
  • Length: 51:59
Irma Thomas: The Influences and the Business
From: Music Inside Out
Series: Music Inside Out
Caption: Irma Thomas, Credit: Rick Olivier
A return visit with singer Irma Thomas, who pays tribute to her musical influences - some surprising - and tells Gwen all about the bottom line of ...

Bought by KMUW


  • Added: Aug 14, 2020
  • Length: 51:59
  • Purchases: 1
This "Bad Child" Became a Judge With a Passion for Justice, Poetry, and Decency
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1.5, Episode 3 Retried Judge Calvin Johnson was a lot of firsts, including the first elected African American judge in New Orleans. Johnso...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 11:51
A New Orleans rabbi and her congregants are starting new conversations about mass incarceration
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1, Episode 7 Congregants at a New Orleans synagogue study and educate themselves about mass incarceration and form bonds with formerly inca...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 08:16
  • Purchases: 1
Musician's Spotlight -Dirty Dozen Brass Band-Galactic Remix Mspot Part Two - 729
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: 29:34
  • Purchases: 4
180526 Southern Soul
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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It wasn't until the 1980s that music featured anger. Some would say that introduction was liberating and progressive. That the anti-war music was...

  • Added: May 30, 2018
  • Length: 03:39:09
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
Musician's Spotlight Promo- Ellis Marsalis - 662
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight MTPR Promos
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Ellis Marsalis is regarded by many as the premier modern jazz pianist in New Orleans. His legacy as a music educator and as the father of several w...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2017
  • Length: :45
Musician's Spotlight - Ellis Marsalis - 662
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Ellis Marsalis is regarded by many as the premier modern jazz pianist in New Orleans. His legacy as a music educator and as the father of several w...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KMXT, KGLT, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 13, 2017
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 4
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
Musician's Spotlight Promo- Anders Osborne - 661
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight MTPR Promos
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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’ ...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2017
  • Length: :45
The Self-Rattling House
From: The Organist
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In houses that double as musical instruments, Solange Knowles, Will Oldham, and five-year-old children perform on sonic architecture that reflects ...

Bought by KALW and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 26:19
  • Purchases: 2
THE DUNNING MAN -- Michael Clayton, Kevin Fortuna, and Ian Blume Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Michael Clayton, Kevin Fortuna, Ian Blume talk origins, the presence of the past, and surrendering to the storm.

  • Added: Mar 30, 2017
  • Length: 18:54
Remembering Allen Toussaint (1938-2015)
From: Music Inside Out
Series: Music Inside Out
Caption: Allen Toussaint
Gwen Thompkins revisits past conversations with Allen Toussaint in celebration of his life and music.

Bought by Prairie Public and WYSO


  • Added: Nov 12, 2015
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 2