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SHINY OBJECT
From: Bradley Wester
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The worst U.S. mass murder of homosexuals in the 20th century was by a gruesome fire in a New Orleans French Quarter nightclub. Yet, the Upstairs L...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2023
  • Length: 19:45
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
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
221210 The First Rock and Roll Song - Early Canadian Instrumentals
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Gaylarks - a band Frank Zappa saw and swooned over while he was in high school.
The geographic assumption underlying the first rock and roll record was an origination in the Southern U.S. This assumption was superior to, and ...

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


  • Added: Dec 05, 2022
  • Length: 04:22:10
  • Purchases: 6
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
220402 Pre-Ska Jamaican Music is The Mash Potato Sound
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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85 songs you've never heard but could have been titled, "the first rock and roll song" featuring musicians you've never heard of. This show ignore...

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


  • Added: Mar 31, 2022
  • Length: 02:56:57
  • Purchases: 6
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
220316 The First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Eddie Seacrest and the Rollin Rockets
There's a half dozen popular myths defining the first rock and roll record but every week we feature 85 songs you've never heard any and all of the...

Bought by KCHU, KFCF FM, KPRG, Prairie Public, WQCS and more


  • Added: Mar 06, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:02
  • Purchases: 7
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
220219 Beatles and Bonaparte's Retreat, Bands Named "The Monarchs," and James Pagliasotti's book; What It Was; Growing Up When The Music Mattered.
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Monarchs
We feature the first rock and roll songs that you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of because public radio can ignore the overwhelmin...

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


  • Added: Feb 14, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:01
  • Purchases: 5
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
220129 First Rock and Roll Song - The Short Instrumentals
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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In the post World War II era a new music captured the imagination and hope of people in the US and around the world. This music wasn't called rock ...

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


  • Added: Jan 23, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:02
  • Purchases: 6
220122 The First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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In the post World War II era a new music captured the imagination and hope of people in the US and around the world. This music wasn't called rock ...

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


  • Added: Jan 19, 2022
  • Length: 02:56:59
  • Purchases: 5
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
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
Rescuing the Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: Cover of Economy Hall
Join us as author Fatima Shaik uncovers the hidden history of a free Black brotherhood that was almost lost forever.

  • Added: Feb 21, 2021
  • Length: 24:52
Reggie Scanlan: Bass Lion
From: Music Inside Out
Series: Music Inside Out
Caption: Reggie Scanlan, Credit: Fantail Media/Flickr
Gwen meets up with bassist Reggie Scanlan, a founding member and 33-year veteran of the Radiators, and who still keeps the groove going on stages i...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2021
  • Length: 51:58
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
The Liverpool to Hamburg Scene Before The Beatles
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Howie Casey Derry Wilkie and Band
There was the usual Liverpool music scene in Liverpool but there was a spectacular Liverpool musical scene that flourished in ... Hamburg, Germany....

Bought by Prairie Public and KFCF FM


  • Added: Sep 27, 2020
  • Length: 57:42
  • Purchases: 2
WoodSongs 801: Preservation Hall Jazz Band
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Preservation Hall Jazz Band make their debut on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's encore broadcast of WoodSongs, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes the torchbearers of Traditional New Orleans Jazz The Preservati...

Bought by KENW, Yellowstone Public Radio, KHNS, KKRN, WETS and more


  • Added: Jul 09, 2020
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 23
All Hail The Night Tripper: An Appreciation of Dr. John
From: Paul Ingles
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Music historian Paul Ingles takes listeners through a heart-felt retrospective of New Orleans music-legend Mac Rebennack - best known as Dr. John. ...

Bought by KMUW, KUNM, Spokane Public Radio, KSUT, KVNF and more


  • Added: Jun 07, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 18
This Week in Blues History #44 - January 27-February 2
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History
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This time, we profile Guitar Slim, who — much to everyone’s surprise — hit the top of the R&B charts with “The Things That I Used To Do,” in 1954.

  • Added: Jul 26, 2018
  • Length: 03:29
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
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