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Christmas is coming. Losing Charlie Tuna in 2016 was a terrible thing. The week of Christmas shows was always special. Charlie Tuna's were no exception. Lets go back to 1983
Friday, December 20, 2024
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
My Best Sounds
Happy holidays! Over on the stream, it's 24 hour Christmas memories, with the music and your AFRTS friends. I remember holidays far away from home...
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Christmas in Vietnam 1971 - Bruce Blackburn
I couldn't find a biography for Bruce, he may have went to KLAW after his hitch. But it's early morning Christmas 1971, recorded in DaNang and time for the Orient Express.
Roger Carroll 1979
Roger and Beverly Carroll
Roger's back! It's a Friday in 1979 and time for the best sounds in town, with the happy hour! Thank you Roger for sharing these.
Mary Turner 1991
Mary Turner really rocked. Hard to believe how much that rattled the brass and talked to the troops. An amazing talent. Hard to conceive the amount of talent at Fort McCadden..
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
Wolfman Jack Christmas 1975
It's 1975 and the Wolf brings in the holiday. Christmas week the AFRTS network talent did a week of Christmas shows. Rare when it wasn't week 48-x did they ever play songs of the holiday season. It was too unpredictable when the shows would be aired. The Christmas week shows went out 3 or 4 weeks before Christmas week so we'd be ready to go.
Vance Graham Christmas 1964
Vance Graham did some very neat radio here, celebrating the Latino culture at Christmas
Herman Griffith 1972
Here's Herman with Roger Carroll, Jim Pewter, Gary Owens and the rest
In the early years of the Vietnam war there was not a lot of rock programming coming from the network. Herman Griffith played rockin soul for the "brave and bold on the Records Caravan."
Herman was at KGFJ between 1963-66 and we know little else.
Herman had helped Roland Bynum get is first big Los Angeles gig and a few years later disappeared.
During those years, Herman was on our team. I just wish I had more of these...
Monday, December 16, 2024
Turn Back the Clock 1958
Andy and Virginia Mansfield did a charming, quirky show with records from Andy's personal collection. These are the oldies.
AFRTS Torrejon 1978
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!
Thursday, December 12, 2024
Bill Stewart 1969
Relax and pull up a chair. Bill Stewart with another really swinging hour from 1969.
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Jim Pewter 1967
Jim with Chris Noel
Jim had recently returned from AFKN and proceeded to unlock the vault...
Don Tracy 1980
Don Tracy now
The weekend is always almost here!! On a Friday in 1980 it began like this...
Chris Noel 1967
Kinda hard to do a show when the only thing you really know is what day it is. The ETs could be aired at noon or midnight. Could be a hurricane or a drought. These guys did great. It's a Monday in 1967 and Chris Noel is the Voice of Home...
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Joe Ferguson 1983
In 1983 Joe Ferguson was jocking in Portland OR and recording shows for the network. AFRTS found jocks all over the country to be the voice of home. It's Monday and time for the Joe Show.
Pete Smith 1993
Pete Smith has your easy favorites, with great stories. "Sketches in Sound". Roger Carroll told me Pete had a pretty incredible day job. KMPC had him as full-time standby. Fulltime check for just being able to cover any shift. I don't think that's done anymore.
Saturday, December 7, 2024
Wake Island 1953
The families were sent a recording of the ceremony. This is from one of those sets.
Wake Island ceremony - 1953
Bonnie Gilbert has been researching Wake Island civilian contractors and Marines Click Here
Bonnie Gilbert has been researching Wake Island civilian contractors and Marines Click Here
Friday, December 6, 2024
Thursday, December 5, 2024
Mary Helen Barro 1983
After Vance Graham, there were a few false starts but eventually they found Mary Helen Barro for the Latin show. It's a Thursday in 1983, Vamos...
Charlie Tuna 1981
Charlie Tuna, Brooke Shields and Leo Sayer
Charlie, thanks for the memories and letting me crib off of these shows
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Joe Allison 1969
Birth Name: Joe Marion Allison
Birth Date: October 03, 1924
Place of Birth: McKinney, Texas
Deceased: August 02, 2002
Place of Death: Nashville, TN
Joe Allison had a phenomenal career. Writing, performing, DJing.
From that wonderful cache of late 60s shows, here's Joe in 1969 with the Country Corner:
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Roger Carroll 1980
In 1980, singer Leslie Gore popped to the Happy Hour with Roger Carroll. She talked about her career, Brother Michael had just done "Fame", Roger gets us some neat stories.
Hear Roger Carroll every morning at 7am Pacific/ 10am Eastern on www.mybestsounds.com
Monday, December 2, 2024
Mary Turner 1983
In the 80s and 1990s Mary Turners show was so popular she had two programs on the network. Her regular Mary Turner Show and "Off The Record", where she interviewed rock's biggest stars.
She made waves in Los Angeles radio too, and eleven year run at KMET and returning in the 90s to KSLX. Now she's involved in many charitable causes including the Betty Ford Center in Ranch Mirage.
AFN Latin Tempo 1980
Norteno is a type of primarily Mexican music that's closely related to polka. Not surprisingly it was quite the hit with Germans listening to AFN. It's a small world after all...
AFN Frankfurt did a local Spanish show. Take a listen.
Herman Griffith 1967
Martha Reeves and the Vandellas "Jimmy Mack"
"Time for something for the brave and the bold, it's the Records Caravan". The music was changing. Herman made it better.
Play it loud
Sunday, December 1, 2024
Enchantment of Music 1964
Throughout the years, AFRTS has showcased an extensive array of classical music, often introducing it to listeners for the first time and fostering an appreciation for this timeless art form. "Enchantment of Music," initially broadcast by KCBH-FM in Beverly Hills, underwent significant efforts to transition its city of license from Los Angeles to the more prestigious Beverly Hills. Their broadcasts were known for "the matchless fidelity of frequency modulation," a quality anyone could appreciate. And now, Bruce Wendell...
Thursday, November 28, 2024
Andy Mansfield 1967
Andy Mansfield did his first oldies show with AFRTS in the 1950s. Andy and his wife Virginia "Turn Back the Clock" featured music from the turn of the century to the 1950s. In the 1960s the show was more focused and renamed "America's Popular Music". Here's a 1967 visit.
AFVN Day after Thanksgiving 1970
On Thanksgiving it's hard to not think about home. When Billy Williams was at AFVN a few years later, he found a station composite of the day after Thanksgiving with AFVN. Nicely done. Take a listen.
Happy Thanksgiving 1944
Surprisingly hard to find Thanksgiving shows. From 1944 Lionel Barrymore (Mr. Potter on It's a Wonderful Life) and an all-star cast share the holidays.
My best to you and yours.
Monday, November 25, 2024
Bill Stewart 1969
Today Bill talks with Mel Lewis and Thad Jones. They had a wonderful big band. The music's great and so is the conversation.
Jim Pewter 1980
Jim with Little Richard
Hey everybody, jump up in your seats.
Here is the man with a million beats.
They make you jump, they make you sing.
He'll do just about anything.
Everybody gonna rock and roll steady with the Jim Pewter Show.
Jim lived up to the slogan. I could always feel the respect and love for the music. He introduced me to a lot of amazing memories.
Hear Jim Pewter everyday at 6pm Central on www.mybestsounds.com
Don Tracy 1980
Don Tracy has some music to start the weekend. It's a Thursday show from 1980 but the concept works...
Friday, November 22, 2024
AFN Liza Minelli interview 1975
Chris Noel 1970
Chris always made the music sound better. This is a 1970 visit. The voice of home...
Hear Chris Noel every night at Midnight Eastern, 10pm Pacific on www.mybestsounds.com
Thursday, November 21, 2024
Joe Ferguson 1983
Joe Ferguson has some 1983 fun on AFRTS
Share your lunch every day at noon eastern, 9AM Pacific on www.mybestsounds.com
John Doremus 1967
I remember John Doremus and his overnight show, syndicated on some of the biggest AMs in the states, when there was such a thing. In flight music, without the flight. We had him on AFRTS.
Gene Price 1974
Gene Price and Marc Yablonka at a 1981 remote at Universal on KLAC.
Here's Gene in 1974 on the Country Express. There's some great opportunities in today's army!
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
AFN Jim Reeves Special 1973
Earl Freudenberg driving the train
It was the anniversary of the plane crash that took his life. Paul Kryer, one of the PD's. was good friends with Reeves. He produced his show when he came to Germany. He asked me to do a special.
Charlie Tuna 1982
Charlie Tuna and Sugar Ray Leonard
Charlie Tuna has always been a champ. This broadcast is from around the Leonard/Duran "no mas" fight. That was a night to be in Panama.
Sunday, November 17, 2024
Roger Carroll 1972
In all of the stations we had promo photos of the AFRTS-LA talent. Roger really didn't like his. It wasn't a bad photo, but a very 1970s haircut. Here's something we can all agree on from 1972:
Mary Turner 1992
It was a scandal. In the early 80s when the network started the Mary Turner show. Loud Rock and Roll. What will the generals say? We'll find out. Mary brought her KMET show to the world and it was a very good thing.
Vance Graham 1973
Vance Graham, known as Victor, had been performing for the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service since the 1950s. Originally from Utah, he relocated to California in the 1930s and emerged as a leader in the Latino community.
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Herman Griffith 1968
Indeed, the music was fantastic. Herman Griffith, who joined us from KGFJ, was known for not "hitting the posts." This was due to the lack of a proper headphone output when AFRTS upgraded their studios. Given his style, Herman relied on the headphone output more than others. His energy and the music are truly memorable.
America's Popular Music 1965
Andy Mansfield was with the network in the 1950s and 60s, playing records from his own collection.
Andy's original show was "Turn Back the Clock" with his wife, former big band singer Virginia. Always some interesting choices...
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