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Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Martin Block Xmas 1954

 



Christmas time is coming, Martin Block did his show for AFRTS-NY (Hi Jim!). Christmas was a special time in the Make Believe Ballroom...


Don Tracy 1980

  

Don Tracy in Hartford


A few years ago I had a chance to chat with Don.  I wish I'd have taped that.  Interesting guy.  Longtime AFRTS favorite.  Right now, some magic.



Sunday, December 22, 2024

Music By Candlelight 1966

 


A happy Colonel is a very good thing.  "Music By Candlelight" was an inhouse production with music for the dinner hour.



Friday, December 20, 2024

Charlie Tuna - Christmas 1983

 








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


Wednesday, December 18, 2024

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 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

 



Hours after Pearl Harbor was attacked, Wake Island was also assaulted.  In 1953 the bodies were re-interred in Hawaii at the National Cemetery at Punchbowl.  Lt Edward Fernandez explains. 



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

Friday, December 6, 2024

Gene Price 1974

  


Gene and Willard are back with your country favorites.  



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

So where were you in 1981.  I was at SCN in Panama, still getting settled in and playing these shows.  Charlie Tuna was a big part of the network.

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:



Wolfman Jack 1975

 


A lot of stations/jocks saved these. Right now the world needs a howl.





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

Roland Bynum 1973

 




So it's a hot summer day, it's August 1973, Friday and Roland brings the party!


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




In 1975 Liza was touring Europe.  AFN was there. Craig Miller and Bill Swisher caught up with her at the American Clipper Lounge in Frankfurt.





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.
That special got a write up in stars and stripes.

Let's take a listen..




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

Joe Allison 1969

 


Joe's excited.  Program 1500 of the Country Corner.  That should be six full years.



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: