We, the rock and roll generation, have never found our self-defining first rock and roll song. Host Jamie Dell’Apa presents music and musicians you’ve never heard from the small regional record companies who pioneered rock and roll. Songs that could have been the first rock and roll song. Songs that fill the gap in understanding where we came from and who we are.
Searching For The First Rock and Roll Song features records coveted by collectors from the era when rock and roll was emerging but hadn’t yet settled on a definition of itself. Music from before rock and roll was domesticated into a commercial music industry. When country and western sounded like swing, pop music sounded like rockabilly, rockabilly sounded like rhythm and blues, and doo wop sounded like girl groups and all those musics sounded an awful lot like what we now call, rock and roll.
Not a hits, oldies, or history of radio show. it’s all the songs that influenced our now-legendary musicians who are regularly featured in all those hits, oldies, and history of radio shows.
