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From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song on Saturday Night New Orleans Radio
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song on Saturday Night New Orleans Radio
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
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song on Saturday Night New Orleans Radio
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song on Saturday Night New Orleans Radio
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
An empty church, an orphaned organ, a solo organist. Scott Lariviere is 26 years old and volunteers to try to keep a magnificent 4,500 pipe Casavan...
Bought by PRX Remix and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Nov 25, 2019
- Length: 08:27
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Oct 10, 2019
- Length: :12
The shofar, an instrument made from a ram’s horn, is heard in synagogues all over the world during the Jewish High Holidays. It has also been heard...
Bought by WRTI, WWFM, WRGY, Georgia Public Broadcasting, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more
- Added: Jul 11, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 23
This time, we profile the March 1932 recording sessions held by Vocalion in New York City, as the nation was in the grips of the Great Depression.
- Added: Aug 30, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile “Rocket 88,” by Jackie Brenston — widely considered to be one of the archetypal records of rock ‘n’ roll.
- Added: Aug 28, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile “Baby Scratch My Back” by Slim Harpo — the only number one hit on the Excello label during its 23 year run.
- Added: Aug 26, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile “Key to the Highway” — one of the enduring classics of the blues, first recorded by pianist Charlie Segar in 1940.
Bought by KLCC
- Added: Aug 24, 2018
- Length: 03:29
- Purchases: 1
This time, we profile Stick McGhee’s 1949 anthem to good times and cheap booze — a big hit that saved a fledgling Atlantic Records from bankruptcy.
- Added: Aug 21, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile B.B. King, who hit the number one spot on the Billboard R&B charts with “Three O’Clock Blues,” this week in 1952.
- Added: Aug 18, 2018
- Length: 03:29
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song on Saturday Night New Orleans Radio
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song on Saturday Night New Orleans Radio
A live broadcast from after the future floods and disasters of New Orleans. Yeah, I know a bit too cryptic but it works on radio.
- Added: Jul 30, 2018
- Length: 02:54:07
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
January 1953 was a busy month for recording in Chicago, involving sessions, this week, with “Homesick” James Williamson and Johnny Shines.
- Added: Jul 21, 2018
- Length: 03:29
January 1953 was a busy month for recording in Chicago, involving sessions, this week, with Elmore James, Arthur Spires, and Johnny Williams.
- Added: Jul 17, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile “Open the Door, Richard” — a 1947 novelty record that quickly embedded itself into the American consciousness.
- Added: May 15, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Son House and B.B. King, who both made historic live appearances in Chicago the Saturday night before Thanksgiving, 1964.
- Added: Apr 19, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile James “Beale Street” Clark — barely a footnote in blues history — who recorded an enduring classic, this week in 1945.
- Added: Apr 12, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Windy City keyboard legend Little Johnny Jones, who was in the studio with Muddy Waters and Leroy Foster in 1949.
- Added: Apr 07, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, who recorded an iconic slice of down home blues, "That's All Right," this week in 1946.
- Added: Apr 04, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Mississippi guitarist Tommy Johnson, who cut one of the prophetic masterpieces of the blues, this week in 1928.
- Added: Apr 03, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Saunders King and Elder Utah Smith — two early pioneers of the electric guitar.
- Added: Mar 22, 2018
- Length: 03:29
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song on Saturday Night New Orleans Radio
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song on Saturday Night New Orleans Radio
Band Box Records was a 1950's rarity, a woman-owned recording business. More exceptional, Vicki Morosan was a Romanian immigrant making a daily be...
- Added: Sep 25, 2017
- Length: 02:39:22
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song on Saturday Night New Orleans Radio
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song on Saturday Night New Orleans Radio
Band Box Records was a 1950's rarity, a woman-owned recording business. More exceptional, Vicki Morosan was a Romanian immigrant making a daily bet...
- Added: Sep 25, 2017
- Length: 03:56:19
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song on Saturday Night New Orleans Radio
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song on Saturday Night New Orleans Radio
In a theatrical musical, songs break out during the story line. In a radio musical, a story line breaks out during a set of music.
In the radio...
- Added: Sep 12, 2017
- Length: 29:38
