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Episode #725 - Guitar Slim
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Eddie Jones grew up in Hollandale, MS, pickin' cotton and dreaming of a better life when ambition and musical talent plucked him from his situation...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KJZX-Austin, WHRV, KCSM, WOUB and more


  • Added: Mar 24, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
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
230709 Dumbest Record Company's Business Plans - Delta, Swastika, and Cuca Records
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Lou Christie
Also Lou Christie's back up singers and Chicano soul.

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


  • Added: Jul 04, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
230528 Nightowls
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Teddy "Mr. Bear" McRae
Bands and songs featuring the character of a "night owl." Usually a male who stays out all night every night. She's waiting on him at the front ...

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


  • Added: May 23, 2023
  • Length: 04:09:21
  • Purchases: 4
230429 Keep a Knockin' From 1928, Pacific NW Sound, Vocal Group Harmony
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Floyd Dakil
Surely Little Richard was a rock and roll founder but who and what influenced him? We track the origin of Little Richard's song "Keep a Knockin" b...

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


  • Added: Apr 26, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
230416 New Orleans Music and Some Familiar Songs
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Dr. John and Freddie Staehle
An edited version of the May 9th, 2021 show.

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


  • Added: Apr 11, 2023
  • Length: 02:56:59
  • Purchases: 6
230401 Singing Duos, Arkansas Rockabilly, and Songs About Stabbings and Rock and Roll Schools.
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Larry Donn
A show for everyone who's ever said, "Why haven't I heard this musician before?" Music and musicians you've never heard of but who invented rock ...

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


  • Added: Mar 27, 2023
  • Length: 04:39:30
  • Purchases: 5
230326 Rock-a-billy from Kentucky, Rock-a-Kiwi from New Zealand, and the Rarest of the Rare; Demo Tapes from Harry Glenn of Mar-Vel Records
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Teen Queens
We go to the unexplored in our search for the first rock and roll song. New Zealand had a rich flowering early rock and roll era and Kentucky isn'...

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


  • Added: Mar 20, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 6
Episode #671 - Huey "Piano" Smith - 1934-2023
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Unfortunately, Huey Smith is another "hard luck" story of R&B and early Rock n' Roll. He was a talented boogie woogie pianist and as a session play...

Bought by KMUW, KCSM, Royalton Community Radio, KSRQ, KJZX-Austin and more


  • Added: Mar 12, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 11
Episode #665 - Smiley Lewis
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, the "Juke In The Back" looks at the great Smiley Lewis, another influential force out of New Orleans that time has chosen to forget. He ...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, WHRV, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WUTC, WOUB and more


  • Added: Jan 29, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
230106 The First Rock and Roll Song - Canada
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: The Teardrops
To believe you know the first rock and roll song, means you've never listened to this show. The show features 85 songs per week (over 17 years) o...

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


  • Added: Jan 04, 2023
  • Length: 02:56:01
  • Purchases: 6
221224 The First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Lion and the Leperchans
No references to Christmas Eve (or that horrible scandal that follows me).

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


  • Added: Dec 21, 2022
  • Length: 02:56:59
  • Purchases: 5
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
220920 First Rock and Roll Song - Surf and Vocal Group Harmony Songs
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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A focus on surf and vocal group harmony songs tonight. California can claim a regional, indigenous music; surf music. Ironically, the blonde Ca...

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
220416 This Music, The Heart of Radio.
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Roddy Jackson Then
Defining the first rock and roll song has been passionately argued because to find "the first rock and roll song" requires ignoring tons of music t...

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


  • Added: Apr 11, 2022
  • Length: 02:56:28
  • Purchases: 8
Take Me To The River New Orleans
From: Joyride Media
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The official radio companion to the film, "Take Me To the River New Orleans." The Story of of NOLA's diverse music culture told through a series o...

Bought by KPSQ-LP, WYSO, KALW, and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 22, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
220305 First Rock and Roll Song - Sandy Nelson and Glen Campbell As You've Never Heard Them
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Los Crazy Boys
The great rock drummer Sandy Nelson sound like a very traditional swing drummer and Glen Campbell sounds like a primitive surf band as our perspect...

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


  • Added: Feb 27, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:07
  • Purchases: 6
Episode #617 - Roy Byrd aka Professor Longhair
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
What better way to celebrate Mardi Gras than with the “Grandaddy of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues”? That, cats & kittens, is Henry Roeland Byrd, aka R...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, WHRV, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, KMXT, WOUB and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
220226 FM Radio Challenges AM Radio's Orthodoxy
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Norman Thrasher of the Royal Serenaders Cuts Loose
We feature the very first rock and roll songs but only those you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of because by removing the overwhel...

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


  • Added: Feb 21, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:06
  • Purchases: 5
Episode #616 - New Orleans R&B, Pt. 3 - 1955-57
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Get ready for Carnival with part 3 of "Juke In The Back"'s 3 part series on the great, influential and infectious music that came out of New Orlean...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, WHRV, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WOUB, KMXT and more


  • Added: Feb 20, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
UpFront Soul #2022.08-February 21-28, 2022 - Carnival Spectacular
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Al "Carnival Time" Johnson
It's Carnival time! We'll take you to the Crescent City with hot brass from the Soul Rebels, Rebirth Brass Band, the Sixth Ward All-Stars, and Los ...

Bought by KMUN, WOMR, RADIOLEX, KCHW, KHNS and more


  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 13
Jazz, Brass and Voices
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
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This title says it all. This is a program featuring Jazz ensembles accompanied by a choral group or a spiritual setting. This is a good quality J...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2022
  • Length: 01:01:33
Episode #615 - New Orleans R&B, Pt. 2 - 1953-55
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Get ready for Carnival with part 2 of "Juke In The Back"'s 3 part series on the great, influential and infectious music that came out of New Orlean...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, WHRV, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WYAP, WOUB and more


  • Added: Feb 13, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • 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
Epidode #614 - New Orleans R&B, Pt. 1 - 1940-53
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Get ready for Carnival as the "Juke In The Back" begins a 3 part series on the great, influential and infectious music that came out of New Orleans...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, WHRV, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WOUB, KTRT RADIO INC and more


  • Added: Feb 06, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6