Friday, July 26, 2013
Jubilee 1945
JUBILEE 157 has on it LIONEL HAMPTON : "Air Mail Special" and "Hey Bobba Rebop" "Hamp's Boogie Woogie" LENA HORNE: "You Go To My Head" DELTA RHYTHM BOYS: "920 Special". Also the famous ROCHESTER from the Jack Benny Show and star athletes JOE LEWIS, MAXI BEAR and MAXI ROSENBLOOM doing a comedy skit
Thursday, July 25, 2013
AFVN Bruce Wahl 1970
AFVN Detachment 3
Bruce volunteered for an electronics MOS and was trained as a missile guidance system repairman, but shortly thereafter he was selected for OCS, and received his commission at Fort Benning in April 1969. His first assignment was as Executive Officer in a Basic Training Company at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and this was followed 8 months later by an assignment to Vietnam. For the next four months he served as Battalion Training Advisor at the Army of the Republic of Vietnam Infantry Officer Candidate School in Thu Duc. This ended in April 1970 when he was promoted to First Lieutenant and reassigned to AFVN as Commander of Detachment 3 in Pleiku.
This was right up Bruce's alley. It was like Br'er Rabbit in the briar patch. Since childhood, a career in radio was all he ever wanted. Although only 21 years old, he had an FCC license by virtue of several years' experience in commercial and college radio. His first assignment at Pleiku, however, was a tough one. The station used worn and outdated equipment, and his job was to improve the maintenance and update the facilities.
Through intricate negotiations, including official requisitioning and unofficial scrounging, Bruce built a TV studio with two state-of-the-art cameras, also he remodeled the radio studio and built a second fully-equipped radio studio, replaced the TV transmitter, built a shed over the equipment van, improved the barracks, and repainted the building with a colorful floral design, and . . . he waxed the floors.
Returning to the civilian side of life in 1971, Bruce knew he wanted to stay in radio, so he hunted a job in the Washington, DC area where he had grown up. There was a new radio network, of sorts, still in the developmental stage, and he thought it had potential. He applied for a job, and soon became one of the very first employees of National Public Radio. He worked in engineering, and was a part of the first production of "All Things Considered" on 3 May 1971.
In 2008 Bruce was elected mayor of Chesapeake Beach.
While Bruce continues his NPR job, wife Becky manages a local housing complex. The Wahl's have two daughters and two sons, and the Mayor is proud of his four grandchildren.
Biographical information from our friends at www,macoi.net
AFVN Bruce Wahl 1970
It appears to have been recorded from midnight - 1am on Sunday 16th August, 1970. Bruce gives the time, and the date can be established from the Whitehall, Columbus OH bombing story in the news.
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1970,
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Bruce Wahl
Sunday, July 21, 2013
AFN has cool promo items
When I was doing this on the other side of the mic, one of my biggest complaints was the lack of promo items. Sean sent a bundle of what they're doing now. Stickers, temporary tattoos, bags, pencils, key chains and such. Promo items have always re-enforced the branding. More and more like stateside radio, in a good way..
Melody Roundup - Roy Acuff
Melody Roundup was the "country show", In the 1940s many local stations did live country programs. Sometimes they'd send copies to AFRS. The network would edit these to fit in the 15 minute program.
Roy Acuff was country music from WWII until well through the 1980s. Lets visit Roy in 1945.
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1945,
Melody Roundup,
OTR
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Sugar Report 1945
This one was sure a story. Sugar Report was apparently never sent out on vinyl. Each disk apparently unique and broadcast on shortwave at the time. Bakedalaska got this one for us, thanks for the donation!. When it came in there was a thick gray film and severe chipping and cracking. Doing anything aggressive to remove the film will cause the chips to come off. So... I gently cleaned it as best I could and did a transfer. It was noisy but mostly complete. With that being done, I tried a much better cleaning.
Acetate disks are actually made of organic cellulose. When stored poorly something called palmyric acid leeches into the grooves. That's important because it looks like a normal dirt. Warm water and soap tends to make it worse. Water with a small concentration of vinegar will dissolve it. Windex is pretty close. Most of it dissolved, Noise reduction removed the majority of the pops but it was still rough. The pops were places where the cellulose was actually cracked.
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1945,
OTR,
Sugar Report
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
AFN Bremerhaven 1992
In 1992 AFN Bremerhaven took the Keith L Ware award.
Here's why:
Great sounding station! Thanks Bill Boyd!
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1992,
AFN,
Bill Boyd,
Bremerhaven
Jim Ameche 1964
Sometimes I miss "beautiful music", orchestral arrangements mostly of pop songs of the 1930s-1960s. It was the rhythm of the grocery stores. AFRTS had a history of playing it, going back to WWII. Carrying the mantle in the 1960s was Jim Ameche. Jim had been a big radio star in the "Golden Days of Radio" but his big success was being the first to nationally syndicate a DJ show.
In 1964, we heard "The Best Sounds Around"
In 1964, we heard "The Best Sounds Around"
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1964,
Jim Ameche
Thursday, July 11, 2013
AFKN 1969 Year End Show - Roger Schulman
And now from Yongsan, Roger Schulman who later did big things in Tampa radio. In 1969 he escorted us through decades of hits!.
I can't find a current location for Roger, but this was a couple of years ago:
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AFKN,
Roger Schulman
Sunday, July 7, 2013
Thursday, July 4, 2013
AFN Berlin - Mark White 1967
Mark White went to AFN during the 1950s and stayed to be the voice of America to several generations. Here's Mark with some swinging sounds, 1967
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1967,
AFN,
Mark White
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