The First Rock and Roll Record Show with Jamie Dell’Apa

Saturday 2-5 PM and Sunday 2-5 AM

A big thank you to Jamie Dell’Apa for his donation to WPVM of over 600,000 music tracks that he has collected during his decades of producing and DJ-ing a music show for radio stations including the famous WWOZ in New Orleans.  See below for his own description of the type of music he appreciates and why he has that appreciation for that golden age of Rock & Roll music.

All the music that didn’t follow the genre or formulas because it was coming from that early muse that created rock and roll, that muse still works. Today’s musical culture still searches for that muse (and we prove it every week). Each Saturday afternoon on WPVM the first rock and roll record pops up in Australia, Indonesia, Canada, Mexico, Spain, etc. While we’re listing places, a set of songs with lyrics that list those places. You know, like Route 66’s lyrics; except more. So many more places. Just like after WWI, when jazz began in a burst of exuberance, after WWII we again expressed those tumultuous times in the new music and this time we called it rock and roll.

Music from the post WWII era when a new music emerged and caught fire in the US and  around the world. At first it wasn’t called rock and roll, it was just “hot” music played with a passion (much as “hot music” (later “jazz”) arose in New Orleans in the Post WWI era. It’s not an “oldies” or “hits” or even a “historical” format. It’s songs and musicians you’ve never heard yet sound is fresh and familiar.

That it works today means that the essential core of our musical culture is solidly non-commercial.

Playlists on this link