PRX - Pieces for Tone: Unconventional

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Caption: The First Family, Credit: Courtesy Cadence Records
A 60th Anniversary review of the funniest album of the Kennedy era. The Grammy Award winning Album of the Year that was ultimately withdrawn from c...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 57:17
Caption: The Sinders
It's the researcher dream thesis so there have been uncounted attempts but no one has credibly defined the first rock and roll song. The difficul...

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


  • Added: Feb 20, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Velventeens
What sound leads a rock and roll song? Group harmony is one of the most original and foundational identifying sounds of rock and roll because grou...

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


  • Added: Jan 23, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 6
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
Caption: Rock n' Tones Bop Boy LP Cover
85 song's you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of but all could claim to have made "the second rock and roll song." (Because finding...

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


  • Added: Nov 07, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: WBAI Staff, Credit: 1960s
In honor of radio pioneers Larry Josephson, Steve Post and Bob Fass, a look back at the early days of free form radio at Pacifica and WBAI in New Y...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 21, 2022
  • Length: 59:39
  • Purchases: 1
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Ira Karp lives on a farm in northern Vermont, surrounded by music, puppets, and a family of incredible storytellers. Over his brief lifetime, he ha...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 06, 2022
  • Length: 27:37
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Eddie Dugosh
Tonight we talk to the first time listener to explore their feelings on hearing music they've never heard by musicians they've never heard of yet t...

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


  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 02:56:56
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Fay Simmons
Every show we explore the endless examples of rock and roll music from before Elvis and from unexplored locations. This radio show presents the te...

Bought by KFCF FM, KPRG, GCR (Global Community Radio), WQCS, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2021
  • Length: 03:56:16
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Edgar Blanchard
Scratching through another corner of my endless musical library - songs you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. All of which could...

Bought by KCHU, KPRG, GCR (Global Community Radio), Prairie Public, KFCF FM and more


  • Added: Nov 22, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:01
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Cats and the Fiddle
There is a belief that the first rock and roll song was centered around Elvis but in the post World War II era there was a new music with so many s...

Bought by KCHU, KPRG, KFCF FM, GCR (Global Community Radio), and Prairie Public


  • Added: Nov 18, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:01
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: The billiard ball removal saw.  (Cut 'em in half and spit 'em out.)
While listing all his boring traits, Jamie tries to demonstrate a "cool trick" but gets a billiard ball stuck in his mouth. He performs an billiar...

Bought by KFCF FM, WQCS, KPRG, GCR (Global Community Radio), Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Nov 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:56:59
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Earthquakes
Starting with music from outer space because that's what was considered the origination of the first rock and roll song. In its time it was as ali...

Bought by KPRG, GCR (Global Community Radio), KFCF FM, Prairie Public, and WQCS


  • Added: Nov 03, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:04
  • Purchases: 5
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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, GCR (Global Community Radio), KPRG, KFCF FM, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Oct 27, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:26
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Shake Spears
There are endless examples of rock and roll music from before Elvis, The Beatles, or whoever else has the title of "first rock and roll song." Thi...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KFCF FM, Prairie Public, KPRG, and WQCS


  • Added: Oct 19, 2021
  • Length: 02:56:29
  • Purchases: 5
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A focus on the Denver and Toronto regional record companies of Band Box and Quality plus a long segment on "music from outer space" based on the in...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KFCF FM, KPRG, Prairie Public, WQCS and more


  • Added: Oct 11, 2021
  • Length: 03:46:26
  • Purchases: 6
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Songs that are only between 90 and 100 seconds are the communications professor's dream of - "the direct, active voice." No lengthy introduction o...

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


  • Added: Oct 04, 2021
  • Length: 04:11:25
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Supersecos
After a hurricane reminds you that only a veneer of safety keeps you alive, it's easy to get wistful about what is important. It's not the posses...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KPRG, KFCF FM, Prairie Public, and WYAP


  • Added: Sep 28, 2021
  • Length: 04:47:45
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: That's me, compliments of Andy Kerr
1. (Short) Searching for the 1st R&R record on Saturday Night NOLA radio from Saturday 9pm to midnight on KFCF Fresno 2. (Short) Locally o...

Bought by KFCF FM and KFCF FM


  • Added: Sep 24, 2021
  • Length: 02:58:38
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The Universals
Scratching through another corner of my endless musical library - I found a great deal of songs you've never heard by musicians you've never heard...

Bought by KCHU, GCR (Global Community Radio), KPRG, Prairie Public, and WYAP


  • Added: Sep 23, 2021
  • Length: 03:56:06
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Little Ray
Little Ray was a Los Angeles sensation because he could command a stage and audience - a talent that stood out even in a city full of entertainers....

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KPRG, KFCF FM, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Sep 16, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:14
  • Purchases: 4
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Featuring the music from J&S records, a record company started by a Black woman in 1956, Zell Sanders. Also couplets of sound-alike songs. Two un...

Bought by KCHU, GCR (Global Community Radio), KFCF FM, WYAP, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Sep 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:21
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: 4 Pennies
The first rock and roll music arguably was centered in the post World War II era when a new music captured the imagination and hope of people in th...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KPRG, KFCF FM, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Sep 02, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:15
  • Purchases: 4
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Music from the post World War II era when a new music captured the imagination and hope of people in the US and around the world. The first music w...

Bought by KFCF FM, KPRG, GCR (Global Community Radio), and Prairie Public


  • Added: Aug 25, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:06
  • Purchases: 4
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Searching for the first rock and roll record, means finding tens of thousands of records that could legitimately be the "first record," I think t...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KPRG, KFCF FM, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Aug 09, 2021
  • Length: 02:56:59
  • Purchases: 4