Oklahoma Rock and Roll: Show #14
Saturday Night – Sunday Morning
On this week’s show, we make the connection between Saturday night and Sunday morning. Probably the most important of any and all of the roots of rock and roll is Gospel music and the church. And I suppose an argument could be made that, throughout [...]
Show #9 (number 9 number 9) Singers and Dancers: Oklahoma stars Jim Edgar & The Roadrunners and The 5 Americans! Dwight Twilley and Billie Holiday. Fats Waller, Bob Wills, and James Brown. Oh Baby!
Oklahoma Rock and Roll: Show #7 – Ain’t Nobody’s Business But Our Own
This week’s radio show is a bit of a free-for-all with no real specific theme – just a lot of our favorite music. All with the all-powerful Oklahoma connection, of course.
The show kicks off with a band originally from Norman called The [...]
All 20 episodes of the popular “Oklahoma Rock And Roll with Steve Ripley” will be rebroadcast on public radio stations across Oklahoma.
KOSU, Oklahoma State University, rebroadcast the series 8 p.m. Fridays, beginning April 2. KOSU broadcasts on 91.7 in Stillwater and Oklahoma City, 107.5 in Tulsa and Northeast Oklahoma, and 101.9 in Okmulgee.
KRSC, Rogers State [...]
Oklahoma Rock and Roll: Show #14
Saturday Night Sunday Morning
On this week’s show, we make the connection between Saturday night and Sunday morning. Probably the most important of any and all of the roots of rock and roll is Gospel music and the church. And I suppose an argument could be made that, throughout history, [...]
Oklahoma Rock and Rollabilly! This week’s show focuses on Rockabilly Okies. A few you’ll know like Wanda Jackson and The Collins Kids. Some, maybe not… Do you know about Dave and Lee? Also managed to slip in a little Rockabilly Johnny Cale. baby baby baby (say a bunch of times with lots of slap back [...]
Big show: Singers and Dancers Pt. 2. Wanda Jackson’s original record recorded when she was 16. James Brown gets funky. Leon does a track with Martin Luther King. Tales of the Magic Duffle Bag. Red Dirt Rangers & Blazers. Freddy Fender speaks some kind of cajun that you can’t understand. George Harrison speaks cosmic something [...]
Show #9 (number 9 number 9) Singers and Dancers: Oklahoma stars Jim Edgar & The Roadrunners and The 5 Americans! Dwight Twilley and Billie Holiday. Fats Waller, Bob Wills, and James Brown. Oh Baby!
Oklahoma Rock and Roll: Show #7 – Ain’t Nobody’s Business But Our Own
This week’s radio show is a bit of a free-for-all with no real specific theme – just a lot of our favorite music. All with the all-powerful Oklahoma connection, of course.
The show kicks off with a band originally from Norman called The [...]
Oklahoma Rock and Roll: Oklahoma POP pt. 2 – On this week’s show, we continue our look at rock & roll’s pop side – Pop Music and Pop Culture. Our favorite R&B piano player, Joe Liggins, from Guthrie, Oklahoma, returns with his 1952 pop hit, “Pink Champagne,” which kicks off a segment on overindulgence, with [...]