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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
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
230204 The First Rock and Roll Song - Cha Chas, Group Harmony, Does the Same Foundational Lyric Create Similar Sounding Songs?
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Chic Lets
A show about why musical creativity can't be measured by commercial success. It's why our search for the first rock and roll record using songs yo...

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


  • Added: Jan 31, 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
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
221022 The First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Bronzettes
Plenty of girl groups tonight.

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


  • Added: Oct 19, 2022
  • Length: 02:58:59
  • Purchases: 6
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
221001 Answer Songs and The Root Songs of Root Music
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Kathy Lynn and the Playboys
Searching for the first rock and roll song in all the music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. This week, we'll start with son...

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


  • Added: Sep 21, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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
Piece image
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
220912 The Search for the First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Mae West Sings Roy Head's "Treat Her Right."
It's the music that defines "us," the post WWII generation so why do we hear the same couple hundred songs over and over and over again? Not here,...

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


  • Added: Sep 07, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 6
220905 The First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Rodney and the Blazers
In the early 1950s, before "Rock and Roll," before Elvis, there were "doo wop" bands. More broadly, there were vocal group harmony bands. Think o...

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


  • Added: Sep 01, 2022
  • Length: 03:58:00
  • Purchases: 6
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
220806 The First Rock Songs By "Little ...." Musicians
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Piece image
The post-WWII musical culture was different. Something was happening. From the bottom up and all around the world, our ears opened up to an accep...

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


  • Added: Aug 02, 2022
  • Length: 03:00:00
  • Purchases: 6
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
220709 Fabric Bands, The New Jersey Record Companies, and That Mrs. Jones.
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Piece image
A twist on the "bird bands" names of the 1950s, the first two hours feature bands named after ... fabrics. Tweeds, wool, cotton, velvet, denim, s...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, Delmarva Public Media, KFCF FM, Prairie Public, KPRG and more


  • Added: Jul 05, 2022
  • Length: 03:00:00
  • Purchases: 8
220619 The Search for the First Rock and Roll Song Includes Amazing Dutch and Finnish Rockers
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Fletcher Smith
After airing well over 40,000 potential first rock and roll songs over the last 16 years, we find that the first rock and roll song has more to do ...

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


  • Added: Jun 20, 2022
  • Length: 03:00:00
  • Purchases: 6
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
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
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
220402 Pre-Ska Jamaican Music is The Mash Potato Sound
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Piece image
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
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...

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  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 02:56:45
  • Purchases: 6
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
220108 First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Rudy Ray Moore kneeling
These are songs you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of so this is a deep dig into the non-commercial arts instead of pop music as de...

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


  • Added: Jan 05, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:11
  • Purchases: 4
2111219 The First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: The Girls (From Athens, Greece Approximately 1962-64
As we search for the first rock and roll record in those songs you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of, we're hearing the tens of tho...

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


  • Added: Dec 16, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:01
  • Purchases: 8