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Christmas time is coming, Martin Block did his show for AFRTS-NY (Hi Jim!). Christmas was a special time in the Make Believe Ballroom...
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 24, 2024
Sunday, December 22, 2024
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
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.
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
Sunday, December 24, 2023
Chris Noel - Christmas 1967
Because of the way the transcription disks were sent out, there was no way to tell when they were actually broadcast... Except for Christmas week. That week we would get disks with actual airdates. They'd send them almost a month early to make that happen.
Chris Noel rings in Christmas 1967, take a listen
Wednesday, December 20, 2023
Jubilee - Christmas 1948
It's Christmas 1948. Bud Widdom with some amazing talent, it's Jubilee!!!
Jubilee. Program #302. 12/0/1948. A Christmas show with all the continuity in rhyme. Well done! The first tune is, "The Peanut Vendor." Kay Starr sings, "Ain't Misbehavin'." This sounds like an assembled program. Bud Widdom (announcer), Stan Kenton and His Orchestra, Toni Harper, Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra, Kay Starr, Benny Goodman and His Orchestra, Dizzy Gillespie.
Saturday, December 16, 2023
Chris Noel - Christmas 1966
Chris had just started doing "Date With Chris" and it was the holiday season
Bob Hope -Christmas in Vietnam 1968
We've made it to December. Christmas is coming. This is Bob Hope's 1968 Christmas show from Long Binh, Vietnam. Whet was it like to be at one of these shows?
Command Performance - Christmas 1942
Command Performance was an amazing thing. All of the biggest stars made themselves available for the troops. It didn't matter which network or studio. It was the biggest stars and it was all for he troops. This is the big Christmas show from the first year of the network. Merry Christmas!
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Kris Erik Stevens - Christmas 1979
Kris Erik Stevens was a longtime star of ours. Kris went on to be THE voice of the theaters before the movie.
From Krismas 1979, the American Disco Network presents Kris Erik Stevens.
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Feliz Navidad de Puerto Rico
Ramey AB, Puerto Rico
Ralph Gebes sent along some 1971 memories from AFCN. Ramey was (mostly) closed with a 1973 base re-alignment. Time for "Radio Strikes Back"
NORAD Tracks Santa
Our pals at NORAD track Santa every year. In almost 20 years I've never posted it. By request...
The story about how that happened
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
Roger Carroll - Christmas 1979
That's a long day...
Roger brought the holiday season. Vicente was in Madrid, recording the station at Torrejon.
I really wish Roger Records was playing Carols on this..
Christmas is coming...
Friday, December 1, 2023
Jim Pewter Christmas In Korea 1964
Jim Pewter with Little Richard and Bumps Blackwell 1966
Jim Pewter sent this along, Greetings during the Christmas season 1964. At the time I was PFC Jim Pewter, soon to be SP/4. I wrote Don French, PD at KFWB Los Angeles and requested the DJs send a holiday greeting to Radio Cavalier, which later became radio tomahawk.
In 1959 Don French was the PD at KDWB in St Paul. Don added my beta single Little Girl b/w Blue Blue Denims to the KDWB fab 40.
Greetings from, Johnny G, Larry McCormick, Bill Balance, Roger Christian, Gene Weed, Joe Yokum, Sam Riddle.
From 1958-1963 KFWB was the best top 40 station I ever heard. Later when I returned I became close friends with Roger Christian and co-hosted rock n roll shows with Bill Balance.
Thursday, December 23, 2021
Merry Christmas 1947
Three G. I.'s in Germany, away from home at Christmas time for the first time, try to share the holiday spirit. Edmund Penny, Frank Gerstle, Howard Culver, Irvin Lee, James W. Talbot (producer), Jerry Farber, Richard Crenna, Rye Billsbury, Steve Allen (writer).
I know that MacGregor produced similar material to this (under a contract for AFRS)
Monday, December 21, 2020
Wolfman Jack Christmas
Here's a 1975 visit with the Wolfman. It really is the most wonderful time of the year! Mark sent this in last year. Great stuff!
Tuesday, December 24, 2019
Arthur Godfrey Xmas 1964
Arthur Godfrey was broadcasting, from his mournful coverage of the funeral of President Roosevelt to the franchise he had built in the 1950s, to his CBS radio show which was the last bigtime network entertainment show, he was America with a genius in giving America what they wanted. The Christmas 1964 show (recorded Christmas 1963).
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