Chris Noel - 1969

It's 1969 and Chris Noel made home much closer.  Thank you for sharing these.  Thanks for all you've done!

Date With Chris - 1969

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Spectrum USA - Time Capsule 1975

By 1975 Spectrum USA got hipper.  Dick Stark seems to be having a lot of fun with these in his 13th year of doing the show.  41 years in radio.  The USMC Reserve needs you...

Spectrum USA - 1975

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Early AFN Munich

Here are some memories of the early years of AFN in the 1950s.  I wish I had more information but it's a fun listen. Starting with a 1954 visit with Larry Butcher.

Early AFN

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GI Jive - 1945

In WWII GI Jill was big.  The show started in San Francisco as "Hi Neighbor", a request show with news tidbits about back home with Martha Wilkerson and her husband, Robert Warner.  After 56 shows Warner was out but GI Jill kept the show going well into the 1950s.

GI Jive - 1945

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AFN 1989

Here's what's coming up on AFN!  Thank you Bernd for sharing these.  It took a long time to get them posted.

My Living Doll

"My Living Doll" is an American science fiction sitcom that aired for 26 episodes on CBS in 1964/65.

Just got off the phone with Peter Greenwood. Peter is a producer/archivist trying to get the TV series "My Living Doll" out on DVD, streaming maybe syndication. This would be a totally legitimate release. Julie Newmar is still around and she's really like to see these again.

The issue is that there were 26 shows. He's only located about a dozen. It was never in proper syndication. The only known syndication was on Teleprompter cable in NYC.

We get involved because AFN Berlin aired it in the late 70s. I'm sure I saw it on SCN in the early 80s. There were AFRTS prints. They were in libraries.

1. Would you have any of these, in any format.

2. Where did the film libraries go and when? I've always heard they were sent to AFRTS-LA and from there to the Library of Congress. Is that correct?
3. Do you know anyone who may be able to assist?

Please let me know. Click here to email Thom

Chris Noel - 1969

One of my favorite movies, with Chris Noel

It's 1969.  The Beatles have "Hey Jude" and Chris Noel brings home to you radio.

Date With Chris - 1969

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Bob Kingsley - 1973

Bob with Johnny Cash

Bob Kingsley was an AFRTS.  He bounced around as a jock but became the voice of country music when he took over American Country Countdown.  Bob did a rock show for AFRTS.  Take a listen..

Bob Kingsley - 1973

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Jim Ameche - 1965

Jim Ameche was on "Jack Armstrong, the All American Boy" and later became one of the first to successfully syndicate a DJ show, the voice of the Longenes Symphonette.  In the 1950s he became a part of AFRTS, playing "the most beautiful sounds around".  The spotlight is on Hal Mooney...

We lost Jim in 1983.

Jim Ameche - 1965

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Chris Noel - 1968

Before Chris shared her disks with us it was a trick to get these shows.

Finally they've arrived, 5 disks from 1968-70, a little hacked up but I think we all are.  The disks themselves were from AFVN but the specifics are gone "Grampa brought them back from Vietnam."

She needs our help for the vets shelter. Donate NOW. Thanks

Date With Chris - 1968

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Major Glenn Miller 1944

 

If you ever come across these, they have nothing to do with AFN or AFRTS but are very interesting.  The American Broadcasting Station in Europe (ABSIE) was a propaganda station we piped to the Nazis.  Glenn Miller made several broadcasts at EMIs Abbey Road studios with Ilsa Weinberger with Glenn speaking in phonetic German. These particular broadcasts were recorded October 30^th and November 6^th, 1944 and aired November 8^th and November 15^th respectively.

 

Joseph Krug of the Colony Record Shop in NYC somehow acquired dubs of these and issued them as bootlegs circa 1951.  These bootlegs actually had wide distribution at the time, being sold by major retail chains, to include Sam Goody.  The Miller Estate started the lawsuits in 1951 and it took five years to resolve.

 

Decades later a more complete better sounding version was issued on RCA as "Glenn Miller - the Lost Recordings"

Navy Hour - 1950

The Navy Hour was very well done and usually pretty entertaining.  The program ran on NBC for many years.

Navy Hour - 1950

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Windows 10 update

Microsoft just put up a Windows 10 anniversary update.  I don't recommend it.  It made some big system changes here, which I'll battle for a couple of days and then probably roll back to something that works.

It killed Citrio, a Chrome clone browser that I have to use with some applications.

It's giving me issues with Edge, that's the new Microsoft Explorer for Windows 10.

The tech in me is trying to figure out exactly what they did, but you've been warned...