We'll hear bits and pieces from Roger Carroll, Roland Bynum, Humble Harve and more. 1977 was a big year in AFRTS history, it was the year they stopped using system cues "This is the American/Armed Forces Radio and Television Service". You'd never believe how many memos there were about that. The system cue was your warning that there was just fill music til the top of the hour. Somehow we managed to figure it out. This is great listening:
Saturday, May 31, 2014
AFRTS - 1977
Vicente recorded this from the Torrejon station in 1977. I think we can all be grateful.
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1977,
Humble Harve,
Roger Carroll,
Roland Bynum
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Roger Carroll - 1971
Young Roger Carroll
Roger Carroll back with memories of 1971. Roger's on facebook you should friend him and say hi. Television, radio, business. Wonderful guy.
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1971,
Roger Carroll
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Chris Noel - 1969
Chris did the show for roughly four years and still has an impact over four decades later. A while back she shared her copies of these shows with us. There will be new ones every week for a long time. Thank you Chris!
Now Chris helps vets with a shelter for homeless vets. Visit Vetsville (click here)
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1969,
Chris Noel,
Date With Chris
Monday, May 26, 2014
Air Force Weekly - 1983
Air Force Weekly was the official news show of the USAF
Jan Garman and Dave Ellswick were the anchors but PAO shows from all over the world phoned in the latest.
We had horrible network lines. These were probably 2k. That's how all news broadcasts sounded...
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1983,
Air Force Weekly,
USAF
Danny Kramer - 1983
Danny Kramer from KSL Salt Lake City was one of the jocks that did shows for a 1983 project when the Voice Of Home included cities all over the country.
Vicente in Madrid recorded many of these.
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1983,
Danny Kramer
Sunday, May 25, 2014
Golden Days Of Radio - 1969
Frank Bresee started doing the Golden Days of Radio show in 1968. "Network Radio" had stopped in 1962 with the last of the big shows going off of the air so the memories were fairly recent. Frank had the biggest moments of radio from the 1930s-50s and kept that going until 1996, making the last recrorded show for AFRTS-LA. They are in the process of digitizing all of the shows to make them available online. When I have more information, I'll be passing it along.
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1969,
Frank Bresee,
Golden Days Of Radio,
OTR
Saturday, May 24, 2014
Clem Stein - 1964
Last year we lost AFNer Clem Stein. Clem had shared memories and sent along a couple of nice airchecks. This is a 1964 "Weekend World" broadcast with him being the booth announcer. Before that sharing some memories.
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1964,
AFN,
Clem Stein
Thursday, May 22, 2014
Marine Band Concert - 1962
"The President's Own" The United States Marine Band had been on the radio back to the 1920s. BY the 1960s they had weekly broadcasts on CBS. Those broadcasts were rebroadcast by AFRTS.
Monday, May 19, 2014
Chris Noel - 1967
Chris Noel is having a lot of pictures scanned. This one is previously unseen, recording the show. Here's a 1967 Date With Chris. Visit Vetsville, click here
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1967,
Chris Noel,
Date With Chris
Sunday, May 18, 2014
Enchantment Of Music - 1962
"Enchantment of Music" was a light classical show originated by KCBH-FM, Beverly Hills "in the matchless Fidelity of Frequency Modulation." I'd bet it was usually run on our AM stations.
That was the studio. Bruce Wendell was the talent he bounced through several stations before becoming an executive at Capitol records.
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1962,
Enchantment Of Music
World Of Show Business - 1962
Bud Widdom was a jack of all trades at AFRS, hosting variety shows during WWII, hundreds and hundreds of interviews. He did it all. In 1962 Bud was making "The World Of Show Business" a nice interview show. On this one he talks with Jackie Gleason.
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1962,
Bud Widdom,
World of Show Business
Friday, May 16, 2014
AFRTS - 1978 from Torrejon
Here's more memories from 1978. We'll hear from Johnnie Darren, Gene Price, the Bishop show (who was that guy??) Tom Campbell and a bunch of other memories. This is my weekend barbecue tape!
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1978,
Johnnie Darin,
Torrejon
Thursday, May 15, 2014
Roland Bynum - 1973
Roland Bynum with his daughter and son
It's the best Bynum. Roland has the songs of 1973 in this Air Force recruiting program recorded for Roger Carroll's company and heard from coast-to-coast.
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1973,
Recruiting,
Roland Bynum,
USAF
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Chris Noel -1970
Chris Noel... still making memories. She's still giving her all with her veterans shelter. You should help out Click here
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1970,
Chris Noel,
Date With Chris
Sunday, May 11, 2014
Jim Ameche - 1965
From Jack Armstrong to being the first to succeed with a syndicated DJ show, the voice of the Longines Symphonette, KMPC, WNEW. It was quite a career. Jim played beautiful music for us.
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1965,
Jim Ameche
Saturday, May 10, 2014
Freedom Sings - 1962
We had patriotic shows... We had martial music... The Freedoms Foundation sponsored a lot of patriotic radio programs. Freedom sings was one of the better ones. All of the services bands had radio programs at one time or another. This one featured the Army Band and chorus.
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1962,
Freedom Sings
AFRTS - 1980
I was going through the AFRTS Spain recordings that Vicente did. I was listening to this one and was going to cut it up and it's just too cool. There are nice clips of the summer 1980 AFRTS-LA talent. An hour and a half worth. I think it tells a story by itself. Wherever you were, we had this memory:
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1980,
AFRTS Spain,
Gene Price,
Kris Erik Stevens,
Tom Campbell,
Torrejon
Thursday, May 8, 2014
AFRTS - 1961
That'll keep us busy...
Arrived. It's a good day when the postman is cursing me. Bunch of One Night Stands, Grand Old Opry, Rocketing Rhythms, Continental Varieties, Swingin' Years, Broadway is My Beat and many more...
Roger Carroll - 1974
Roger Carroll welcomes us to another Happy Hour. Memories of 1974. Roger is on facebook. Be sure to say 'hi"!!
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1974,
Roger Carroll
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Many thanks!
The following contributors are some of the people that have made this a better place. With your help we get more material and better tech for better transfers. Thank you very much, it goes a long way!
Linda Lord
Erkan Acar
Ken Hissong
William James
Dale Nulik
John Miller
Chris Andrews
Glen May
Burt Schneider
Steven Kuhn
Jeff McKnight
Gary Schneider
Robert Baucik
Joseph Webb
Chris Noel - 1970
Chris Noel has always been a special person from being such an amazing film talent through the Date With Chris years to running veterans shelter in Florida. We have a lot to be thankful for. Here's a plate of memories:
Date With Chris - 1970 click that link to hear Chris in 1970
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1970,
Chris Noel,
Date With Chris
AFRTS Torrejon - Keith Anderson 1981
Aerial view of Torrejon AFB
May of 1981 and Air Force SGT Keith Anderson has your favorites.
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1981,
AFRTS Spain,
Keith Anderson,
Torrejon
Monday, May 5, 2014
Jim Ameche - 1965
From the greatest orchestra libraries, it's the best sounds around. Easy Listening music from large orchestras was something we don't hear much of anymore. AFRTS had a long tradition of it going back to the beginnings. Jim Ameche (Don's brother) was the first to succeed with a nationally syndicated DJ show in the 1950s. He really began the tradition continued by John Doremus and Pete Smith. Dinnertime, the end of a long, hard day and time for some easy favorites.
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1965,
Jim Ameche
Sunday, May 4, 2014
Benny Brown - AFN - 1994
Nice surprise in the mail last week. Benny had sent in a 1994 "Saturday Gold" show. Benny had been a trooper in Vietnam and eventually parlayed that into rocking at AFN. After that staying in Europe with a long-term gig at flamethrower Radio Luxembourg. Play it loud!
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1994,
AFN,
Benny Brown
Saturday, May 3, 2014
Chuck Cecil - 1961
In the late 1950s Chuck Cecil was doing an oldies show on KFI. "The Swingin' Years" spotlighted the hits of the 30s and 40s. It was picked up by AFRTS and was still running well into the 1980s. Chuck was still doing the show in 2014 on a public station in Los Angeles although he recently retired. Quite a run, a bit of fun, The swingin' years...
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1961,
Chuck Cecil,
Swingin' Years
AFN to a local citizen
I'm Julius, living in Munich, Germany.
I was born in Mannheim in 1950 and lived there till 1975. My absolute favorite Station was AFN FRANKFURT. I heard them all: Wolfman, Roger Carroll, Charlie Tuna, Caseys' Count Down, Old Gold Retold, Hawaii Calls etc.
I recorded a lot of their music, but not the complete shows. Sometimes only the trailers with the voice of the DJs.
For decades I tried to find out the name of the title music from WEEKEND WORLD. Last Year, the SHAZAM-Program on my Mobile answered the question: "Super Chief" by Bob Thompson. I was happy like a child!
My "AFN-YEARS" in Mannheim were an important part of my life, and when I now listen to the clips on your web-site, I always feel the spirit of that time.
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AFN,
AFN Frankfurt
Roger Carroll - 1976
This is from the Torrejon airchecks. Wolfman finishes a show, station break and then Roger Carroll with the happy hour. Were Roger and the Wolf scheduled adjacent? That'd be odd.
It's a great listen
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1976,
AFRTS Spain,
Roger Carroll,
Torrejon
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