John Doremus 1969

  

Talk about a voice.  John Doremus was an Easy listening giant.  In the states he was probably the first voice of music in flight.  Had nightly radio shows on the biggest AM stations for the airlines, and did his show for AFRTS.  Music for the dinner hour...

John Doremus - 1969

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Gene Price 1975

   

Welcome back Gene Price!  In 1975 I was making my career choices and you helped me decide on the army.  Many Thanks.  Here are all four shows for Roger Carroll's company.  2/75

Gene Price - 1975 

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GI Jive 1944

 

GI Jill (Martha Wilkerson) was our first big DJ.  She was the voice of home to thousands.

GI Jive 1944

The program continued well into the Korean War.

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AFN Latin Tempo 1980

  

1980 was HOW many years ago?  Anyone know who was doing the Spanish show on AFN in 1980?  Good stuff.

AFN Latin Tempo 1980

Charlie Tuna 1986

 

Charlie's career was amazing.  Oklahoma City to Boston to Los Angeles. He was part of our team from 1971 until 1996.  An incredible run.  Hard to believe it's been years since we lost him.

Charlie has a neat biography with sound at the Radio Hall of Fame. Click here Find out what it sounds like to be on the air during a major earthquake.

Hear Charlie in the morning.  8AM Central on www.mybestsounds.com

Charlie Tuna 1986

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Joe Allison 1965

 

Joe Allison had a neat part of history.  He's been called the DJ that bridged the gap between hillbilly radio and what he call country radio today.  Take a listen:

Country Corner - Joe Allison 1965

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Jubilee 1943

 I certainly wish I had both parts of this.  In 1943, Art Tatum, Billie Holiday, Red Allen and an All-Star cast were part of Jubilee.

Los Angeles 10/April/1943  Henry Allen Sextet

Henry ‘Red’ Allen(t), J.C. Higginbotham (tb), Don Stovall (as), Alfred Williams(p), Benny Moten (b), Alvin Burroughs (d), Billie Holiday (v)

NBC Studios in Hollywood, and dubbed March 22. The broadcast took place on April 9 or 10, as they were normally transmitted on a Friday night.

Jubilee - 1943   

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Wolfman Jack 1977

  

This is nice, Wolfman recorded off of AFN in Germany in 1977, at the end Wolfman is on voice tracks talking about USAEUR.  Did all of the AFRTS-LA team record these?  Howl!

Wolfman Jack - 1977

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Roger Carroll 1967

 

Roger enlisted during the Korean War and ended up at the network as an announcer.  Perfect place as he was an ABC network announcer.  Shortly after the war he was doing the Roger Carroll Show until well into the early 80s.  Super talent and a great guy.  Let's remember 1967

Roger Carroll - April 1967

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Parade Of Sports 1991

Ric Crawford - Radio News Manager for AFRTS

 I remember the games, when I was in Korea or Panama we were using very lo-fi network lines (probably 1 or 2k).  In 1991 AFN had a better line and Ric Crawford filling in the breaks. 

March 3, 1991 Bradley takes on SW Missouri State

AFRTS Parade of Sports

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..

Mary Turner - 1991

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Mary Helen Barro 1983

  

Mary Helen Barro continued a long line of latin hosts on the network, with a broad spectrum of hits.

Mary Helen Barro 1983

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Herman Griffith 1968

     

Jim Pewter, Herman and Roger Carroll

Herman was the first of the really great soul jocks at AFRTS.  He was making waves at KGFJ and went worldwide.  Herman was the one that brought Roland Bynum in..

1968 was great year for music.  Take a listen:

Herman Griffith 1968

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Jasin Street 1971

  

Jay with Joi Lancing

So sometimes it's still a surprise.  I just received a bundle of disks and in there was "Jasin Street".  Never heard of it.  Jay Jasin (Herman Jasinski) started jocking in the late 40s, mostly through the Midwest.  By 1962 he had teamed with Jim Ameche to syndicate a jazz show.  Around then he started acting and was in Spinout and Hillbillies in A Haunted House. In 1971 it was traditional jazz on AFRTS.  We lost Jay in 1984.

Jasin Street - 1971

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Turn Back The Clock 1958

   

Andy and Virginia Mansfield brought their brand of oldies to NBC and shortly around that time to AFRTS.

Turn Back the Clock 1958

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Tom Campbell 1979

    

So what kind of jock would put his home phone number in ads?  Tom Campbell would.  You can say he was accessible... In 1971 Tom joined the network for a long run.

Hear Tom every day at 11am Pacific, p2m Eastern on the Hook:

https://onlineradiobox.com/us/thehook/

or:The Hook

Tom Campbell - 1979

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Roland Bynum 1981

 

Roland and his daughter are Lakers fans...

But on the radio 1981 never sounded better

Roland Bynum - 1981

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National Guard Assembly 1947

 

Paul Whiteman with Hildegard

I was copying a bunch of AFRS ETS and saw "National Guard Assembly".  I thought it was another normal recruiting show.  In 1947 The Guard was doing a show on ABC with bandleader Paul Whiteman.  This would have been around the time that Roger Carroll was a staff announcer there, unfortunately not on this program..

National Guard Assembly 1947 

AFN Berlin - Henry Michaels 1970

 

Robert Barker shares more memories of 1970 in Berlin:

AFN building Berlin 1945-79

Here is Specialist Henry Michaels hosting his AFN-Berlin morning Wake-Up Easy program from 26 Oct 70. It is apparent that Henry was still waking up at the beginning of his program for he misreads his time-check several times. Preceeding Michaels program you will hear a "Project Partnership" (the German word for tank is "panzier") promo, AFN Europe Morning sign on with the the songs of our armed forces, station frequencies, the National anthem, six hrs European time check, news with Jan Wood, USO Mail Call promo, Hymns from Home and NATO promo. Henry's program begins at 15:30 into the segment. Enjoy. Robert

AFN Berlin 1970 - Henry Michaels