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A Shortcut Back Through 1994
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Nixon RIP
A retrospective of the entire year in sixty minutes, "A Shortcut through 1994" feature no narration, it's message evolves from the careful juxtapos...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2024
  • Length: 01:00:28
Scrambled Shortcuts
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Diner Chatter
Let's eat! A virtual audio buffet featuring food songs and visits to classic diners and restaurants with vintage movie, television clips and Spam o...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2024
  • Length: 31:42
230528 Nightowls
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Teddy "Mr. Bear" McRae
Bands and songs featuring the character of a "night owl." Usually a male who stays out all night every night. She's waiting on him at the front ...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KFCF FM, Prairie Public, and WQCS


  • Added: May 23, 2023
  • Length: 04:09:21
  • Purchases: 4
230226 Searching for The First Rock and Roll Song is Finding Ourselves
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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
230211 The First Rock and Roll Song - A HIll of Beans
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Superbs
It's easier to count beans than count the huge number of songs about beans. Even more difficult, the number of songs that could have been the firs...

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


  • Added: Feb 07, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
230128 The First Rock and Roll Song - When Guitars Met Outer Space
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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
230120 The First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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The search for the first rock and roll record never finds its "Patient Zero" because it's not an infection, it's a vast amalgamation of our musics ...

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


  • Added: Jan 17, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
230106 The First Rock and Roll Song - Canada
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: The Teardrops
To believe you know the first rock and roll song, means you've never listened to this show. The show features 85 songs per week (over 17 years) o...

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


  • Added: Jan 04, 2023
  • Length: 02:56:01
  • Purchases: 6
221217 Songs About Oil and New Orleans Music
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Tonight's focus is on New Orleans music and songs about oil as our search for the first rock and roll record looks into themes that match our weekl...

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


  • Added: Dec 12, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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
221120 The Decency Embodied in Soul Music
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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In the post WWII era soul music also emerged along with rock and roll. Soul lyrics were especially light, sweet, and even introspectively sweet. ...

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


  • Added: Nov 14, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 6
221029 Searching for Good Radio is the Search for the First Rock and Roll Song.
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Rockin' R's
The first rock and roll songs catered to being on the radio on the hope of catching the masses' ears. And radio catered to this new sound of hot m...

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


  • Added: Oct 24, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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
220925 First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Vaqueros from MN
Integrated into the expected sound of the show, a narrative on art versus commercialism. Culminates with a hard close for membership in last two m...

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


  • Added: Sep 19, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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
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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
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
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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
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
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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
220701 Heirs to Ritchie Valens - The Chicano Guitarist Niche
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Vilas Craig
Ritchie Valens made it as a big success without "passing." That is; without sacrificing his Chicano ethnicity but when he "passed away" the record...

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


  • Added: Jun 27, 2022
  • Length: 03:58:00
  • Purchases: 7
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
220618 The Search for the First Rock and Roll Song finds the Radio Musical
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Boyd Bennett And His Rockets
Theater musicals tell a long story frequently interrupted by songs and dancing. Radio musicals are long series of songs interrupted by my idiotic...

Bought by KCHU, KFCF FM, and KPRG


  • Added: Jun 16, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 3
220529 Searching for the First Rock and Roll Record
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Rhythm Rockers
This weeks searches are in vocal group harmony bands, boleros, and girl groups. Not Motown or Phil Spector girl groups because we present "Music y...

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


  • Added: May 24, 2022
  • Length: 04:14:43
  • Purchases: 6
220429 Rock and Roll Songs That Young Arnold Schwarzenegger Heard
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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The bottomless pit of my music library includes a handful of songs from 1963 Austria that are indistinguishable from the best of American rock and ...

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


  • Added: Apr 25, 2022
  • Length: 02:56:57
  • Purchases: 6