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Caption: Clinton Ford Looking Like a Dandy
There isn't agreement on the definition of rock and roll much less the first rock and roll record. There isn't even agreement on the broad topics ...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Apr 16, 2024
  • Length: 02:53:59
  • Purchases: 2
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We often present music based on it geographic region of origin. Another cut is by "record label" who also have an identifiable "sound" permeating ...

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


  • Added: Apr 07, 2024
  • Length: 02:54:01
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Boxing Writer Mike Marley with Kris Kristofferson
It was a time when music wasn't commoditized into national least-common denominator blandness because the country was more distinctly regionalized....

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


  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 02:54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: The Dynamics
Willie Mays swings a good bat and a great song. Pinky Pinkston is equally amazing for the opposite reasons. Plus plenty of New Orleans music incl...

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


  • Added: Mar 24, 2024
  • Length: 02:54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Ronnie Dee (Dawson) and the D-Men
Every week we search songs you've never heard by musicians you've heard of in trying to find the first rock and roll song before rock and roll caug...

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


  • Added: Mar 17, 2024
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Jan Lanhom (Oklahoma)
In contrast to crisp music from urban areas, music from the rural swampy bayous is slower, muddier, funkier. The third hour is early rock and roll...

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


  • Added: Mar 11, 2024
  • Length: 02:57:01
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Augie Garcia
The common sound of rock and roll's origination is indistinguishable across two hemisphere separating musicians living under the Southern Cross and...

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


  • Added: Mar 03, 2024
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Sweet Katie Sweet was 3 years old when she recorded this
Long before the child singer Michael Jackson extended his childhood musical career past his voice change, there were countless little kids propped ...

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


  • Added: Feb 25, 2024
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Johnny Sardo When He Was With Randy and the Rainbows
Also song lyrics specifically about boxers and songs sung by boxers (and other athletes). And oh so many musicians named "Johnny." Oh yeah, songs...

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


  • Added: Feb 18, 2024
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 8
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A series of songs similar to "The Stroll" but wackier; Gorilla Walk, Panther Walk, Wild Man Walk, Wee Gee Walk, Cat Walk, etc. Then music and musi...

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


  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Lord Luther
What is it with teenagers commanding popular music of the last 3/4 century then defaulting to the stupidest lyrics imaginable? Songs featuring cre...

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


  • Added: Feb 05, 2024
  • Length: 02:57:01
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Miles Conner
Songs about drinking milk, the hip lexicon lyric and its opposite, extremely goofy lyrics. Plenty of vocal group harmony songs because vocal grou...

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


  • Added: Jan 29, 2024
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: The Aquatones
We wipe out more pesky teenagers with overly dramatic teenage angst songs ranging from splatter platters / death disks about car crashes to shotgun...

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


  • Added: Jan 21, 2024
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: The Mysterious "Marie Bourbarere" of New Orleans "I'm Coming Home"
Belgium, Japan, Italy, and US guitar slingers; musicians who worked radio and their bands, songs about giant canaries and little Yosemite Sam. All...

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


  • Added: Jan 15, 2024
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Jeannie and the Big Guys (Cindy Cole was "Jeannie"))
Music goes through eras of innovation followed by imitation which eventually becomes codified into commercial formula. The blandness is then follo...

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  • Added: Dec 31, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
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This week I wandered into the "Mar" portion of my bottomless musical library to pull 85 songs from "Marvin, Marvel, Mary, etc" musicians and bands....

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


  • Added: Dec 18, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Meloaires
Also Sputnik and Rocket City (Huntsville, AL) Songs plus corny songs by corny actors including Jerry Mathers (Beaver Cleaver), the cast of McHale's...

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


  • Added: Dec 12, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:01
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Jimmy "Chickie" Horne
Music from "Jimmys" who all predate Jimi Hendrix. All these "Jimmys" could have been awarded "the first rock and roll song" but few to none of the...

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


  • Added: Dec 01, 2023
  • Length: 02:56:59
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Dreamtones
The joy of this show isn't finding the first rock and roll song. As in life, it is the the journey through all this music you've never heard that...

Bought by KFCF FM, KPRG, Raven Radio, Prairie Public, KSLU and more


  • Added: Nov 20, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Tracy Pendarvis
Songs by musicians insisting on being referred to as, "Mr." as we search for the first rock and roll song in all the music that you've never heard.

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


  • Added: Nov 13, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Songs from the late 1950s / early 1960s about how skinny legged pants making the wearer a cooler, better dancer. Yep, I'm gonna buy my way into bei...

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


  • Added: Oct 30, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:01
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Sandy Posey
We were so close I could smell it. All my listeners agreed, the show smelled.

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


  • Added: Oct 16, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Polly Possum
Sly Stone's first record at age 14 when he walked in on established vocal harmony group, The Viscaynes, and told them to follow him to success. Al...

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


  • Added: Oct 09, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Sammy Masters and Jimmy Bryant
No seatbelts, air bags, safety glass, padded dashboards, etc. of the bad old days and we get dead teenager song lyrics. Oh also songs about wine a...

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


  • Added: Sep 26, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: George Martin Along With The Beatles.  Producer For The Beatles.  As "Ray Cathode," Martin Created a 45 rpm Record of "Electronic Music" in the Early 1960s
We won't find the first rock and roll record but in the search we will find the roots of our post WWII generation's musical sensibilities.

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


  • Added: Sep 20, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:01
  • Purchases: 7