In 1966, Chris Noel started "A Date With Chris". This is from the second show she did for us and you can hear talent in the making. Must have been scary...
Monday, August 24, 2015
Sunday, August 23, 2015
Polka Party - 1967
By the 1950s, Polka was a link to home for European families in the United States. Even today sometimes a polka show will come on on the radio or usually cable access TV, but in the 50s and 60s Dick Sinclair was the voice of the polka. Dick was one of the first AFRS jocks in the pacific and after the war went to Los Angeles, created very successful polka radio and television shows that were syndicated from coast to coast. These shows were picked up by AFRTS.
Dick still does a weekend Polka Party show for CRN Click here
It's available on TuneIn Click Here
Saturday, August 22, 2015
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
To The Rear March
A couple of weeks ago we posted "To The Rear March". Michael came up with another one, in really great quality. Since they "go back to 1945", this is probably a 1946 broadcast
Sunday, August 16, 2015
Chris Noel - 1967
A pretty girl, nice music and Chris Noel was perfect for this. During the Vietnam war Chris did "A Date With Chris". In 1967, this was the third week of the broadcast and it starts to fall in place.
Saturday, August 15, 2015
Navy Swings - 1965
Thursday, August 13, 2015
AFKN Tony Booth 1969
Wouldn't this be the career that we've always wanted. Tony Booth was at Yongsan in 1969 with "Tempo"
He has a pretty decent career.
KAYC [Beaumont TX] 1966
AFKN Good Morning, Korea [Seoul, Korea] 1968
KDOK [Tyler TX] 1970
KLIF [Dallas TX] 1970
KBBC [Phoenix AZ] 1974
WFBG [Altoona PA] 1977 - Nat PD, Gilcom Corp
WLEE [Richmond VA] 1984 - GM
WHJB [Pittsburgh PA] 1990 - GM
WLEE [Richmond] 1992 - GM
WRCL [Richmond] 1999-2002
WCHV [Charlottesville VA] 2004
WBBT [Richmond] 2007-date
So from September 1969 (OJ Simpson is still in the AFL) AFKN presents "Tempo"
AFKN 1969 Tempo - Tony Booth
If you're in Richmond hear Tony Booth on WBBT.
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Army Hour - 1967
SGM Stan Bishop goes to Vietnam to talk with the demolition troops and about their mission of destroying dud rounds before they are retrieved by the Viet Cong. Will Thompson on Okinawa talks about sysops and the battle for minds.
Sunday, August 9, 2015
Just Music - 1967
Just music had several incarnations. Sometimes an hour of segues, sometimes back announced. In 1967 Bruce Wendell, originally from KCBH in Beverly Hills had the reigns. Several years earlier Bruce was the host of "Enchantment of Music", an early show to show off Hifi and FM. Today it's "Just Music"
Saturday, August 8, 2015
Arthur Godfrey - 1967
Arthur Godfrey was a bridge to a much more genteel era of radio. His show was on from the 1940s through the 1970s and was the last big deal show on the networks. He was the voice of mid-America. In 1967 he was talking about a trip to Vietnam. It's an interesting perspective.
Thursday, August 6, 2015
Spectrum USA - 1967
We've heard Spectrum USA before. In 1967 it went out on AFRTS. LTC Richard Stark USMCR is your host and narrator, with a look
Dick Stark was born on November 7, 1911 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA as Richard Salisbury Stark. He died on December 12, 1986 in Sotogrande, Andalusia, Spain of a heart attack.
Besides being a Marine officer he had quite a career, beginning in silent films, with TV announcing credits on What's my Line, Marge and Jeff, Perry Como's Music Hall, Danger and It Pays To Be Ignorant.
Monday, August 3, 2015
21st Precinct - 1967
We had stations in a lot of places without television. Some of the Old Time Radio still worked. AFRTS had a huge library of programs that were still available.
21st Precinct was an early 1950s CBS show with a realistic, gritty sound. This is from a 1967 issue.
AFN - Berlin at Night - Ray Tubberville - 1971
Robert Barker was troop in Berlin in 1971. At the time he had a nice reel to reel, recorded AFN and saved the tapes. It's a great thing. At night Ray Tubberville had the sound of Berlin...
Saturday, August 1, 2015
Our Musical Heritage - 1967
AFRTS introduced a lot of listeners to classical and orchestral music. In 1967 Donald Higood (sic?) hosted "Our Musical Heritage", with light classical music and stories.
