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1stRR: Early Rock and Roll Songs About Hamburgers., 9/18/2024
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song (Auto Download Version)
Caption: Bobby Davis and the Dazzlers <New Zealand>
Hamburgers and the first rock and roll song(s) are universally associated with America. Let's search for the first rock and roll song in songs a...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2024
  • Length: 02:59:00
240918 Early Rock and Roll Songs About Hamburgers.
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song (Manual Downloads)
Caption: Bobby Davis and the Dazzlers
Hamburgers and the first rock and roll song(s) are universally associated with America. Let's search for the first rock and roll song in songs a...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media and Raven Radio


  • Added: Sep 14, 2024
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Introduction to the Show
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song (Manual Downloads)
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A representative of "the sound, tempo, and presentation" of the show

Bought by Prairie Public, Delmarva Public Media, and Raven Radio


  • Added: Sep 03, 2024
  • Length: 03:00:00
  • Purchases: 3
240911 Early Rock and Roll From Austrian and Nordic Musicians
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song (Manual Downloads)
Caption: From Regular Listener JT Lindroos of Finland
Not that you can tell their nationalities as they sing in English with perfect American accents. (Sometimes the instrumentals have a dialect.) Whil...

Bought by Prairie Public and Raven Radio


  • Added: Aug 31, 2024
  • Length: 02:58:59
  • Purchases: 2
240911 1stRR: Early Rock and Roll From Austrian and Nordic Musicians, 9/11/2024
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song (Auto Download Version)
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Not that you can tell their nationalities as they sing in English with perfect American accents. (Sometimes the instrumentals have a dialect.) Wh...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2024
  • Length: 02:58:59
240623 Swamp Pop
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song (Manual Downloads)
Caption: Billy Lee Riley
Of the many regional musics of rural south louisiana, swamp pop was most successful in reaching audiences outside of South Louisiana. It's rock a...

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


  • Added: Aug 31, 2024
  • Length: 03:58:00
  • Purchases: 7
240904 1stRR: Songs About Brown Eyes, Romances On The Moon, and Housewife Blues and Revenges, 9/4/2024
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song (Auto Download Version)
Caption: Masked Men and His Agents
Looking for the first rock and roll song in the unexplored corners of the trash cana of Americana. Rooting around in unsung, talking "lyrics" and ...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2024
  • Length: 02:59:00
240316 Music From The Swampy Bayou
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song (Manual Downloads)
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: Aug 29, 2024
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 7
240904 1stRR Songs About Brown Eyes, Romances On The Moon, and Housewife Blues and Revenges, 9/4/2024
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song (Manual Downloads)
Caption: Masked Men and His Agents
Looking for the first rock and roll song in the unexplored corners of the trash cana of Americana. Rooting around in unsung, talking "lyrics" and s...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media


  • Added: Aug 28, 2024
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 1
240828: 240828 Martha Reeves and Sly Stone's First Songs, 8/28/2024
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song (Auto Download Version)
Caption: The Del-Phis (Martha Reeves and the Vandellas)
Searching for the first rock and roll song means looking before songs and musicians found acceptance and popularity. Before the art could be a com...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2024
  • Length: 02:59:00
240828 Martha Reeves and Sly Stone's First Songs
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song (Manual Downloads)
Caption: The Del-Phis Soon To Be "Martha Reeves and the Vandellas"
Searching for the first rock and roll song means looking before songs and musicians found acceptance and popularity. Before the art could be a comm...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Aug 20, 2024
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 1
240821: 240821 Border Songs, Original Recordings, Car Imitations, Louisiana City Names, 8/21/2024
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song (Auto Download Version)
Caption: Rudy Preston
Before rock and roll was dollars, it was mere cents so a song featuring a car noise meant the studio wouldn't buy a $1 special effects record. "Yo...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2024
  • Length: 02:58:59
240807: 240807 Imitation Crying and Laughing In Songs, 8/7/2024
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song (Auto Download Version)
Caption: Ada "Cry Baby" Ray
Of all the song lyrics about tears, crying, and laughing; it's a rarity when the singer actually cries or laughs during the song. That's why this ...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2024
  • Length: 02:59:00
240814: 240814 Synthetic Chinese Music and Suicide Songs, 8/14/2024
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song (Auto Download Version)
Caption: Kathy Lynn and the Playboys (Buffalo, NY)
At the beginning of rock and roll a fad was to add a couple gong strokes and play the black keys on a piano to imitate what Americans thought was a...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2024
  • Length: 02:59:00
240821 Border Songs, Original Recordings, Car Imitations, Louisiana City Names
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song (Manual Downloads)
Caption: Rudy Preston
Before rock and roll was dollars, it was mere cents so a song featuring a car noise couldn't afford to buy a $1 special effects record. "You're a ...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Aug 16, 2024
  • Length: 02:58:59
  • Purchases: 1
240814 Synthetic Chinese Music and Suicide Songs
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song (Manual Downloads)
Caption: Kathy Lynn and the Playboys (Buffalo, NY)
At the beginning of rock and roll a fad was to add a couple gong strokes and play the black keys on a piano to imitate what Americans thought was a...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2024
  • Length: 02:59:00
240807 Imitation Crying and Laughing In Songs
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song (Manual Downloads)
Caption: Ada "Cry Baby" Ray
Of all the song lyrics about tears, crying, and laughing; it's a rarity when the singer actually cries or laughs during the song. That's why this ...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Aug 06, 2024
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 1
240707 Foods You Don't Want To Eat and FinBarr and Imperial Records
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Caption: Cordell Jackson!!!!
Before FM radio and public radio were licensed to broadcast, there were a limited number of AM radio stations per market. Limited by radio spectru...

Bought by Raven Radio, KPRG, WOMR, KFCF FM, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Aug 02, 2024
  • Length: 03:00:00
  • Purchases: 7
240728: 240728 Songs Using Noises, 7/31/2024
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song (Auto Download Version)
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Adding noises to a song was a phase in music around the beginning of rock and roll. Familiar examples are barking dogs, hot rod car engines, and c...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2024
  • Length: 02:59:00
240721: 210721 Jefferson High School (Los Angeles) Musicians and Atmospherics, 7/24/2024
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song (Auto Download Version)
Caption: One of the first "girl groups" Shirley Gunter and the Queens
Searching for the elusive first rock and roll song means searching where other explorer's lights haven't shined. Tonight it's Jefferson High Scho...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2024
  • Length: 02:59:00
240714: 240721 Favorite Songs, 7/17/2024
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song (Auto Download Version)
Caption: Velvetones Beetle Walk
Trying to summarize the sound of my almost two decades long show for the new stations previewing the program; this is a show featuring some of my f...

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


  • Added: Jul 24, 2024
  • Length: 02:58:59
  • Purchases: 4
240704 Phone Number as Lyrics and Early Canadian Rockers
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song (Manual Downloads)
Caption: The Ideals Gorilla
Also songs about playing spin the bottle and various showdowns. What? I didn't write these songs. I'm playing them because nobody would believe ...

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


  • Added: Jul 01, 2024
  • Length: 02:58:59
  • Purchases: 7
240630 Early New Zealand Rock and Roll and "B" Sides
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song (Manual Downloads)
Caption: Maori Troubadours
Where would the first rock and roll song emerge? The physical sciences' ideas of gradualism, law of inertia, and common sense says the first rock ...

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


  • Added: Jun 23, 2024
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 7
240616 Songs About Mobile Alabama and Songs From The Gulf Coast
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song (Manual Downloads)
Caption: Chaino from Jet Magazine. He and his manager pulled off a scam where he was a survivor of inter-tribal warfare in Africa rescued by missionaries (of course). His bongo playing hands were fast as lightening... you can imagine the hype. Turns out he was
A handful of songs about Mobile, Alabama and songs coming from the nearby Louisiana Gulf Coast. For that matter, plenty of songs which could have ...

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


  • Added: Jun 09, 2024
  • Length: 02:58:58
  • Purchases: 7
240601 Cees Klopp's White Label Records
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song (Manual Downloads)
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In the post-WWII devastation of Europe, Dutchman Cees Klopp hears the hope, whimsey, and excitement of the new rock and roll music from America and...

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


  • Added: May 27, 2024
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 6