Thanks Doug Jennings!
Monday, July 28, 2014
AFVN - Jim Huntley 1970
Sunday, July 27, 2014
Torrejon - 1981
In Spain in the late late 70s and early 80s Vicente recorded a lot of bits and pieces from our station there. The station was FM, the cassettes were well recorded. There's Wolfman, Casey, the Afternoon show and Dallas Burnett with the Parade of Sports. On some weekend in 1981 all of our stations sounded a lot like this..
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Larry McKay - 1985
Larry worked all over the city:
KHJ, 1974-75; KKDJ, 1975; KIIS, 1975-81; KFI, 1981-82; KMPC, 1982-92; KRLA, 1992-96; KFWB, 1996-97; KRTH, 1997-2008; KFWB, 1998-2000. Larry did swing at "K-Earth" for many years.
So with the day job being KMPC, Larry played worldwide:
Sunday, July 20, 2014
Monitor - 1967
"Monitor" was a big deal at NBC. It was a mixture of new, interviews, features and music. They started the show in 1955 and ran until 1975. AFRTS ran it much of the time.
Dennis Hart is the authority of all things Monitor:
NBC gave the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service access to "Monitor" segments, which were edited to remove commercials and much of the hosts' continuity. An hour of the AFRTS version of "Monitor" would be culled from several hours of "Monitor" as it had originally aired over NBC. So what you'll hear in the hour is a compilation of Barry Nelson as he hosted a four-hour Sunday afternoon "Monitor" segment in 1967. (And, yes, the "strange" intro to the segment is something AFRTS put in -- not something NBC aired.)
Barry had left Monitor in December 1966. This show went out in 1967.
Barry had left Monitor in December 1966. This show went out in 1967.
Monitor has a tribute page. Click here
Saturday, July 19, 2014
Danny Kramer - 1983
Always tons of talent. Danny Kramer from KSL in Salt Lake City was one of the hometown jocks that did shows for the network in 1983.
Covering the world, it's the Danny Kramer show. Danny updated us on Facebook:
thanks for responding to this. AFRTS came to me and asked me to do a 26 week series of 3 hour shows based on what I was doing on KSL at the time. Had great response, but it took most of every Sunday doing the prep and engineering. Made my year, for sure.
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
AFRTS 1982
Here are some memories, Dick Clark and Kris Erik Stevens jingles and a piece of Humble Harv with the survey...
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
One Night Stand - 1962
Well into the 1960s radio had remote broadcasts from the big bands. AFRTS played these for the troops worldwide on One Night Stand. A little piece of home.
Si Zentner had a very good band. Unfortunately the big bands were dying out. But they'll always have a magic:
Sunday, July 13, 2014
Saturday, July 12, 2014
Bob Crosby - 1944
Bob Crosby did a lot of shows for us during WWII, usually as a DJ sometimes with his band.
"Yank Swing Session" was interesting. Sometimes they played records. Usually they played unissued music from radio shows. Here's a 1944 visit.
Friday, July 11, 2014
Jim Ameche - 1965
Jim Ameche continues his review of the most beautiful music from the world's greatest orchestras with the Jim Ameche show.
There's a majesty to it that we heard from Pete Smith, John Doremus and Jim Ameche.
It's time to relax
Monday, July 7, 2014
AFN Kaiserslautern Radio Club
Michael Shimp had the following memories, thank you!
I was part of a work study program at AFN Kaiserslautern in the early seventies. I (and many others) read news about our local high school (Zweibruecken American) and played musical requests from the students and faculty. We alternated weeks with the K-Town American high school. This is a page from the Zweibruecken yearbook of 1973. Despite what the pictures show, we seldom touched the equipment, we just wrote scripts together and read them. Army Specialist Dennis Mclintock (sp) recorded and edited the show. I joined the Army a few years later, intending to enlist as a broadcast announcer (I believe a 71R M.O.S.), but my recruiter convinced me to enlist as a medic and surgical assistant (91D), a profession I've worked in for a few decades now.
Saturday, July 5, 2014
Command Performance - 1942
How do you come up with words for something like this? In 1942 the US radio networks and all of the stars of radio and movies cooperated to make the biggest variety show ever, Command Performance. The program continued well into 1951. The wartime shows in particular were a big deal.
Here's how it all began:
Thursday, July 3, 2014
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Small World - 1965
NBC did Monitor, ABC had Flair, AFRTS had Small World.
Small World is where we first heard Chris Noel (I'm looking for those). Today George's guest is Freddie Martin.