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Saturday, June 11, 2016
Chris Noel - 1969
Chris Noel in Pleiku 1967
Chris Noel was the girl next door to Vietnam era troops. Movie star good looks and caring. It showed. Date With Chris was very very popular. Chris made hundreds of these shows available to us and it's a great listen.
Friday, June 10, 2016
Wednesday, June 8, 2016
Guess Who - 1944
In the early years of the network, we rebroadcast a lot of stateside shows and created our own "Guess Who" was sort of a reverse request show. Joan Marshall would play records and the folks at home see if they knew what they were. Joan was a dancer that later was on the original pilot for the Munsters and was later on a Star Trek. How many songs do you know?
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Sunday, May 29, 2016
Spectrum USA - 1971
Spectrum USA and the Marine Corps Reserve present stories about the presidents. Today Dick Stark has the story of Andrew Jackson.
Friday, May 27, 2016
AFN France - 1964
Thursday, May 26, 2016
If Freedom Failed - J. Carrol Naish 1951
If Freedom Failed is back with command information. Today, Life With Luigi star J. Carrol Naish in "The Traitor"
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Adventure Theater - 1976
Announcer William Conrad
We had a lot of great Old Time Radio, repackaged over the decades. That worked well because in a lot of countries we had radio but not television well into the 80s. Adventure Theater had the classics. Today a 1955 show, well calculated to keep you in... Suspense.
Sunday, May 22, 2016
There went another PC
The PC I'd been using for the website locked up and died.
Fortunately I had just finished up one I was working on. So I'm a little behind. Everything was saved from the old PC hard drive!
If you could throw in a couple of bucks, it'd help...
If you could throw in a couple of bucks, it'd help...
It's always an adventure. How was your day?
Saturday, May 21, 2016
Thursday, May 19, 2016
East Of Eden - 1979
For 30 years Rabbi Allen A Secher did the "East of Eden" Show. It was light hearted look at Judaism, with interviews and contemporary music. Today he shows how the music of Chicago is similar to spiritual music. The Chaplains Board sought out inspiring shows that weren't "preachy".
Sunday, May 15, 2016
Unsafe to download?
Microsoft is doing it again:
Microsoft removed the option of getting the file.
When you try to download audio on a Microsoft browser, Internet Explorer or Edge you'll get that message. You will not get that message on any other browsers Windows, MacIntosh or Android Here's the deal. 4shared is a site to transfer files. Our files are hosted there. Some people share software with viruses. So when they "share" a bootleg copy of Windows and create havoc on a computer it ends up flagging the site.
Redoing 2500 pages isn't going to happen, even if I did that the files have to be hosted somewhere and the same thing could happen again.
Redoing 2500 pages isn't going to happen, even if I did that the files have to be hosted somewhere and the same thing could happen again.
Data files (sound and audio) are safe files.
Microsoft removed the option of getting the file.
Saturday, May 14, 2016
Chris Noel - 1967
During the Vietnam war troops around the world had a Date With Chris. The girl next door was the Voice of Home. Here's a 1967 visit.
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
AFN - A GI in Germany
In 1962 AFN assembled a portrait of a tour in Germany. It was released as an album, I'd love to know how they did that. It's very well done. If you ever come up with a spare copy...
This had been posted before but this is a much better transfer. Thanks Garry!!!
Friday, May 6, 2016
Chris Noel - 1967
Chris Noel has memories of 1967. She's always been dedicated to us. Please take a moment and see what you can do to help ou with Chris's homeless shelter for our less fortunate veteran brothers. Vetsville
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
Jim Ameche - 1965
Jim Ameche has some beautiful music. Jim was one of the first to really be successful as a syndicated DJ, later becoming the voice of the Longines Symphonette.
Friday, April 29, 2016
Chris Noel - 1969
The weekend is here and Chris Noel brings the entertainment. When you think about the importance of the show to troops all over the world it's hard to believe it was only on for a half dozen years. Seems like only yesterday.
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Saturday, April 23, 2016
If Freedom Failed - 1951
If Freedom Failed continues with a look at what will happen when the communists take over the trade unions.
Chris Noel - 1969
It's a "Date With Chris". Chris Noel has spent her life giving to the troops, for doing to the AFRTS show to running a shelter for our homeless brothers. Support Vetsville
Saturday, April 16, 2016
Marine Band Concert 1962
In 1962 CBS was broadcasting weekly concerts by the Marine Corps Band. AFRTS aired them worldwide.
Friday, April 15, 2016
Chris Noel - 1968
Chris Noel got a lot of people through some difficult times with "A Date With Chris". She was the girl back home. A few years ago Chris made her shows available to us so we can hear them again. Thanks Chris!!! Take a listen.
Enchantment of Music - 1961
Here's some light classics for your dinner hour. "Enchantment of Music" was originally from KCBH-FM, Beverly Hills. They presented their shows in "the matchless fidelity of frequency modulation". Bruce Wendell was the host. Most of the time they would have been heard on AM stations. Such is life.
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Sound Effects.
So do you remember these? I think it was a repackaged Major library. Valentino kept repackaging the same library from the 1940s over and over again.
There was a long history of sound effects libraries. Usually awful ones. If you have to read the jacket to figure out what it is, it wasn't done very well. But when we got the CBS library it was a world of difference, no download link on these. I don't know anyone at Major to ask...
Saturday, April 9, 2016
If Freedom Fails
In 1951, AFRTS addressed communism and our freedoms. All star casts, good writing "If Freedom Failed". It certainly has a message/
Chris Noel - 1969
Chris Noel brought a little piece of home to Vietnam era troops. If you get errors trying to play this, use any non-Microsoft browser. Google Chrome, Firefox, any Macintosh or Android browser work.
Friday, April 8, 2016
Mister DJ, Don't Play That Song
Eric Burdon - Sky Pilot
Simon and Garfunkel - Homeward Bound
Peter Paul and Mary - Leaving On A Jet Plane
Mel Tillis - Stateside
Barry McGuire - Eve Of Destruction
Freda Payne - Bring the Boys Home
Bobby Bare - Detroit City
Animals - We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
Boyd Bennett and his Rockets - My Boy Flattop
Edwin Starr - War
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son
When I was in Panama and we had troops in Nicaragua, there was a rather corny big band song "Managua Nicaragua", recorded by both Freddie Martin and Guy Lombardo Lyrics were rather interesting.
Did you have other ones?
At AFKN-TDC they got a new general and a not very smart DJ dedicated Stevie Wonder's "You Haven't Done Nothin' Yet" after a diatribe. BAD idea.
Do they play Ray Stevens "Ahab the Arab" in Iraq/Afghanistan?
What did you play that they didn't care for...
Sunday, April 3, 2016
Why We Fight - 1942
In 1942, Troops needed to understand what we were getting into. There was no AFRS yet so outreach was very hit and miss. CBS broadcast a series of speeches to help. The mandate was to get these to the troops. Difficult to say how effective that was. Correspondent Lee White was in Europe when that part of the war started. He shares his thoughts.
One Night Stand - 1962 Teddy Wilson
This is my favorite "One Night Stand". The show was mostly big band remotes from all over the country. It's surprising how many orchestras were working well into the 1960s. Mostly regional ones that never had a national impact, but take 12-20 musicians playing well with good scores and it can be great.
"One Night Stand" wasn't always big bands. Teddy Wilson was a great pianist on hundreds of sessions backing Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday and the rest of the best.
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