Bill Stewart 1970

  

Bill Stewart was another of the KMPC talent that had the AFRTS gig, He was the Bill of the KMPC jingle..."Ira, Johnny, Bill and Dick!" Bill graced LA playing his mixture of Swing, jazz and MOR at several great stations.

KMPC, 1951-59; KGIL, 1965-66; KRHM, 1966 and 1969; KGIL, 1973-75. For Armed Forces Radio he hosted "A Quarter Century of Swing." In 1969, the 30-year veteran was honored with a concert at the Palladium. For 20 years he did in-flight airline music programming. Bill died in 1993 of congestive heart failure.

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Ira Cook 1970

   

Ira Cook with Singer Becca Adler

It's a Friday in 1970, and a happy day!

Hear Ira every morning at 5am Central on mybestsounds.com

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Army Hour 1970

 The Army Hour had a long run.  PAO shops all over the country getting the message out.  Aired on hundreds of stations in the US, most of the time it was also aired on AFRTS.

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Chris Noel 1970

 

Chris Noel brought sunshine into the day for a lot of Vietnam era troops.

Hear Chris every day at 11pm Central

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AFN Berlin - Henry Michaels 1970

 

Robert Barker shares more memories of 1970 in Berlin:

AFN building Berlin 1945-79

Here is Specialist Henry Michaels hosting his AFN-Berlin morning Wake-Up Easy program from 26 Oct 70. It is apparent that Henry was still waking up at the beginning of his program for he misreads his time-check several times. Preceeding Michaels program you will hear a "Project Partnership" (the German word for tank is "panzier") promo, AFN Europe Morning sign on with the the songs of our armed forces, station frequencies, the National anthem, six hrs European time check, news with Jan Wood, USO Mail Call promo, Hymns from Home and NATO promo. Henry's program begins at 15:30 into the segment. Enjoy. Robert

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AFVN Jim Huntley 1970

 

Years ago I was talking with Bob Casey.  Bob had quite the story.  One of the things he did at AFVN was start the Million Dollar Music oldies show.  After he left the show continued.  Here's Jumpin' Jim Huntley

AFVN Million Dollar Music

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Jim Pewter 1970

 

In 1970 Guenther was in Germany listening to the Americans on AFN.  He saved a lot of it.

Here's a 1970 visit.

Be sure to hear Jim at 6pm Central on www.mybestsounds.com

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Roger Carroll 1970

Here's Roger at the Hollywood Palladium

Roger spent decades with us and did some wonderful radio.  His day job was at KMPC but he grabbed a lot of announcing work at the civilian networks.  A few years ago he shared his collection with us and I'm glad I can help share it.

Roger did some very stylish radio.  But you've never heard it  begin quite like this...

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Chris Noel 1970

 

Chris Noel has some rocking memories, take a listen.

Chris Noel - 1970

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Roger Carroll 1970

 

Roger's first publicity photo at ABC

I'm ready for a Happy Hour.  Roger Carroll is back with some 1970 voices from home for a Wednesday.

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Jim Pewter 1970

  

Jim Pewter in a 1967 promo picture at AFRTS 

(picture courtesy Jim Pewter)

Jim spent 30 years at AFRTS from 1966 through 1996, every show a painless education of rock.

Guenther recorded a bunch of these from AFN and it's some great listening.  Thank you Guenther and Jim!

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Chris Noel 1970

 

Chris Noel back with another hour of memories of 1970.

Chris has a new book "Filming Cease Fire" about the movie she did with Don Johnson. "Cease Fire" was the first movie to deal with PTSD.   

Date With Chris - 1970

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AFKN New Year 1970

  

We're on our way to Yongsan.  Maybe Itaewon.  AFKN is bringing in the New Year 1970  First with Roger Schulman who went on to big things in Tampa radio and then Bruce Dorton, later with WABE Atlanta and NPR.  I can smell the kimchi!

AFKN End of year 1969

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AFVN Day after Thanksgiving 1970

  

On Thanksgiving it's hard to not think about home.  When Billy Williams was at AFVN a few years later, he found a station composite of the day after Thanksgiving with AFVN.  Nicely done.  Take a listen.

AFVN - November 27, 1970

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Chris Noel 1970

 

Chris always made the music sound better.  This is a 1970 visit.  The voice of home...

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Date With Chris - 1970

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Joe Allison, 1970

 

Joe Allison was still going the Country Corner well into the 1970s.  Somehow the music didn't need autotune...

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Roger Carroll 1970

 

Roger Carroll has another hour of the Happy Hour, this time from 1970.  Roger shared all of the shows he saved with us and that was a great thing.  Thanks RC!

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Chris Noel 1970

 

The Memorial Day weekend is here.  Let's go back to a Friday in 1970 and celebrate with Chris Noel and A "Date With Chris"

Date With Chris - 1970

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Chris Noel 1970

 

Chris Noel made a bunch of long tours a little shorter.  Date With Chris touched a lot of troops.

Date With Chris - 1970

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Music and the Spoken Word 1970

 

The Salt Lake Tabernacle Choir was an early tradition of radio.  AFRTS ran the show many years in an extended Sunday morning block.

Music and the Spoken Word 1970

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