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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
Caption: The Mysterious Montells
It was a music that was shared around the globe. It was based on a univeral feeling. What is the heart and soul of music? Of humanity?

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


  • Added: May 16, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Floyd Dakil
Surely Little Richard was a rock and roll founder but who and what influenced him? We track the origin of Little Richard's song "Keep a Knockin" b...

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


  • Added: Apr 26, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: The Turbans
The joy of music isn't finding the first, It's the search through all the "possibly the firsts." Who could have even imagined there are so many co...

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


  • Added: Apr 18, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 8
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It's a show unlike any other rock and roll history show because we capture the feel of the music instead of making it a museum piece. Rock and rol...

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


  • Added: Apr 03, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Larry Donn
A show for everyone who's ever said, "Why haven't I heard this musician before?" Music and musicians you've never heard of but who invented rock ...

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


  • Added: Mar 27, 2023
  • Length: 04:39:30
  • Purchases: 5

  • Added: Mar 20, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 6
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The first rock and roll song pre-dated Elvis and everyone else credited by commercial interests as "discovering rock and roll." The first rock and...

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


  • Added: Mar 15, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: The Gales
Unfortunately, there were at least 85 second rock and roll songs (and counting). Tonight's twist, most of tonight's bands begin their names with e...

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


  • Added: Mar 07, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Sparkle Moore
It's bands and musicians who's names start with "Roy" as in Royaltones, Roy Hall, Royal Teens, etc. with just a touch of Sparkle Moore.

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


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 5
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
Caption: Little Ralph Molina and the Personalties
You've heard the mythical beginnings of rock and roll a thousand times. The White musicians who experiences Black music and then creates rock and ...

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


  • Added: Feb 14, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
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

  • Added: Jan 31, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 6
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
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
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Tonight, the first rock and roll records from musicians you've never heard of. Focusing on music out of Texas with a side trip east on the old Rou...

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


  • Added: Dec 28, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 6

  • Added: Dec 21, 2022
  • Length: 02:56:59
  • Purchases: 5
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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
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
Caption: Veltones
Songs about "I want my baby back," "stronger than dirt" and the probable origin of the song, Twenty Flight Rock as we search for the first rock and...

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


  • Added: Nov 29, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Connie Allen
Pre WWII songs revived by rock stars and the songs "Crazy Legs" and "Good Lovin.'" Plus a focus on the original songs covered by The Paladins as ...

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


  • Added: Nov 22, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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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