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210828 The Gravity Test and The First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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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
210815 Searching for the First Rock and Roll Record
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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The first rock and roll song with a focust on music and musicians from the bayous of Louisiana. Where the sticky humidity and ever-present liquor ...

Bought by Prairie Public and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 20, 2021
  • Length: 02:56:45
  • Purchases: 2
210822 Searching for the First Rock and Roll Record
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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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
210731 Listening To Chuck Weiss In The Mushroom Factory
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Little June and the Januaries
Picking mushrooms in the factory was dark, dismal, and without a future. The only light came from the radio where in 1973, Chuck E. Weiss would pl...

Bought by KPRG, KFCF FM, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Jul 30, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:15
  • Purchases: 3
210724 Music From the Louisiana Bayous - The First Rock and Roll Record
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: The Dazzlers
The bayous of South Louisiana were virtually isolated from the US by its watery jungles of bayous so we developed differently than the rest of the ...

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


  • Added: Jul 21, 2021
  • Length: 02:56:51
  • Purchases: 5
210417 Atomic Bomb and Jazz Songs = First Rock and Roll Songs
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Bobby Byrd and the Flames
Searching for the first rock and roll record leads us to country and western songs about the atom bomb and jazz. Mix them together and you get the...

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


  • Added: Jul 14, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:01
  • Purchases: 5
210710 Searching for the First Rock and Roll Song.
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Collegians
Vocal groups and a set of lyrics about Romance Without Finance.

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


  • Added: Jul 06, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:12
  • Purchases: 6
210702 Australians, Green Stamps, and Cartoons - Looking for the First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Tonight we feature Australian rock and rollers, songs about green stamps, and cartoons in our search for the first rock and roll song. We search i...

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


  • Added: Jul 02, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:11
  • Purchases: 4
210621 Cuca, Swastika, and Delta Records, The Sick Sound, Chicano Soul
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Brenton Wood and Wendel Williams
Musical riffing off Greg Adams writings on his Weird Music website. Greg Adams wrote for the All-Music Guide for 10 years and has written liner no...

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


  • Added: Jun 22, 2021
  • Length: 02:55:30
  • Purchases: 4
210619 The First Rock and Roll Record
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Billy Mcallister
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 KCHU, KPRG, KFCF FM, GCR (Global Community Radio), and Prairie Public


  • Added: Jun 14, 2021
  • Length: 02:56:42
  • Purchases: 5
210612 The First Rock and Roll Record
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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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 ...

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


  • Added: Jun 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:08
  • Purchases: 5
Magnificent Salad Episode 1 - Climate Change
From: dj I.A.U.
Series: Magnificent Salad
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The theme of this episode revolves around Climate Change, a global issue effecting all of us. With things getting hotter and temperatures rising, w...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2021
  • Length: 49:54
210605 First Rock and Roll Record
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Groovy Joe Poovey
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. At first it wasn...

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


  • Added: Jun 03, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:11
  • Purchases: 6
210530 The First Rock and Roll Record - An Hour of Lyrics Using Numbers
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Sugar Pie and Pee Wee
Music from the post WWII era when a new music caught fire in the US and around the world. At first it wasn't called rock and roll, it was just "ho...

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


  • Added: May 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:04
  • Purchases: 5
210522 The First Rock and Roll Record
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Music from the post WWII era when a new music caught fire in the US and around the world. At first it wasn't called rock and roll, it was just "hot...

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


  • Added: May 20, 2021
  • Length: 02:56:31
  • Purchases: 5
01-32 Rear and Obscure 45's
From: KSJE
Series: Turntable Taxi
Caption: Turntable Taxi Host Carl Freuden
Host Carl Freuden shears his rear obscure 45 records

  • Added: May 19, 2021
  • Length: 55:21
210515 Before Elvis Was Lloyd Price (and so many others)
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Lloyd Price with Muhammad Ali
Lloyd Price passed away last week but he accomplished so much more than the many musicians who followed his lead (badly). A comparison of Price wi...

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


  • Added: May 14, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:04
  • Purchases: 5
210509 The Endless Search for the First Rock and Roll Record
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Louisiana music, sublimely familiar music, and some very funny girl group songs (along with the usual dreck).

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


  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:06
  • Purchases: 4
210502 Still Searching For The First Rock and Roll Record
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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It's in here somewhere.

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


  • Added: Apr 30, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:15
  • Purchases: 5
210425 Searching For the First Rock and Roll Record
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Ray Columbus
Tonight it's girl groups, instrumentals, and songs from guys named Blackie.

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


  • Added: Apr 22, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:25
  • Purchases: 6
Notes from the Jazz Underground #120
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, we'll listen to a bunch of great music from Bob James, Medeski, Martin and Wood, The Messthetics and more.

Bought by KRPS, KRCB 104.9, and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Apr 21, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
210418 The First Rock and Roll Record and the Les Paul Influence
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Songs about Monkeys and Missiles too
Every week we explore the tens of thousands of post WWII songs that could have been declared "the first rock and roll record" all the time realizin...

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


  • Added: Apr 16, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:08
  • Purchases: 5
210411 The First Rock and Roll Records
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Record Label of Sirloin Burg and his orchestra
More music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of from the post-WWII era. Might as well serve up a set of songs about buzzards an...

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


  • Added: Apr 08, 2021
  • Length: 02:56:55
  • Purchases: 5
Notes from the Jazz Underground #117
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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get your passports ready, because we'll be heading to Brazil, Mexico and India, checking out 70's fusion, and brand new Jazz, too!

Bought by KRCB 104.9 and KRPS


  • Added: Mar 30, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
210328 Songs About The Planets, Gossip, High School, and Synthetic Chinese Sound
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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We're always searching for the first rock and roll song in the 750,000 song library. This week I was looking for songs about each planet in our so...

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


  • Added: Mar 24, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:32
  • Purchases: 4