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It's 1983 and the return of the Joe Show, Joe Ferguson from Portland OR
Monday, May 27, 2024
Sunday, May 26, 2024
Mary Helen Barro 1983
Hay una fiesta con Maria Elena Barro.
Mary Helen Barro did the Spanish show for ten years. She spotlighted the spectrum of latino music, carrying on a tradition that went back to WWII.
Monday, May 20, 2024
Charlie Tuna 1980
Charlie with Steve Allen in 1999
Charlie used to have an amazing website. News, stories, jokes. We miss you Art.
Right now it's a 1980 visit with Charlie.
Thursday, May 16, 2024
Wolfman Jack 1975
Hey another Minnesotan! Not really. Bob Smith was a New Yorker that ended up running KUXL a soul station in Minneapolis. That's where he worked out his act before working at the border blasters in Mexico. Here's a 1975 visit with Wolfman.
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Roger Carroll 1969
The Best Sounds in Town. Roger is shared some wonderful radio with us. When the AFRTS-LA talent would record their shows, every week they would be sent copies of their programs on LP. The same disks we played in the field. But a familiar DJ story is not seeing the value in airchecks until years later. Most of the talent didn't save them Roger saved a lot of them and is made them available to us.
Today it's late 1969... and time for the Roger Carroll show!
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Andy Mansfield 1964
Andy Mansfield continues his 1964 tribute to Major Glenn Miller on "America's Popular Music" on AFRTS,
New Facebook page
My book Facebook profile was hijacked. The new page for afrtsarchive, My Best Sounds and Roger Carroll Best Sounds in town
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Thursday, May 9, 2024
Chris Noel 1969
Chris did the show for roughly four years and still has an impact over four decades later. A while back she shared her copies of these shows with us. There will be new ones every week for a long time. Thank you Chris!
Now Chris helps vets with a shelter for homeless vets. Visit Vetsville (click here)
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
BennyBrown AFN 1994
Benny had sent in a 1994 "Saturday Gold" show. Benny had been a trooper in Vietnam and eventually parlayed that into rocking at AFN. After that staying in Europe with a long-term gig at flamethrower Radio Luxembourg. Play it loud!
Joe Ferguson 1983
The Joe Show returns. Joe Ferguson was at KUPL in Portland OR and the show went worldwide. Joe was kind enough to share his copies and these are good...
Sunday, May 5, 2024
Charlie Williams 1972
After Joe Allison, KFOXs Charlie Williams hosted the Country Corner for a short while.
Roger Carroll 1970
In 1970 Roger visited the stations and troops in Germany and did a show from AFN. The network picked this up and ran it worldwide. Helping out out was future Baltimore personality Bob Moke. Bob later did shows for AFRTS. But on a day in 1970...
Saturday, April 27, 2024
The Old Woodsman 1974
I don't know what this is, but it ran on the Thailand network in 1974. It may have been a local production. After Chickenman a lot of stations and syndicators tried their hand at short comedy features. I get a kick out of it. Any idea who did it or where it originated?
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Monday, April 22, 2024
Roland Bynum 1980
Let's see what's shaking in the Creators Workshop. It's Roland Bynum and time to enjoy!
Saturday, April 20, 2024
USAF Recruiting
Before you go home, I need you to knock out some recruiting spots...
Roger Carroll's company put these together with the assistance of Ralph Carmichael's wife Vangie and his daughter Carole who did the arrangements and vocals.
RC did recruiting projects for the Army, Air Force and Navy.
Chuck Cecil 1979
Chuck Cecil is back with the Big band Countdown. This time looking at 1939. Seems ancient now but when this aired in 1979 it was music of 40 years ago. Yikes. Chuck also did "The Swingin Years" Great radio, take a listen. After the show we check into the AFN newsroom.
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Jim Pewter 1980
Welcome back Jim. Minnesotan Jim Pewter was an AFKN vet in the mid 60s and then took on Los Angeles radio and was a part of rock, writing, producing, performing and jocking. A quadruple threat? Jim made the memories happen again and introduced me to a lot of great music. Here's a 1980 visit.
Monday, April 15, 2024
Chris Noel 1969
Chris Noel is back with another hour of great radio. Date With Chris went from 1966-70 and was an important link to home for thousands of GIs.
Joe Ferguson 1983
The Joe Show returns. Joe Ferguson was at KUPL in Portland OR and the show went worldwide. Joe was kind enough to share his copies and these are good...
Friday, April 12, 2024
Adventure Theatre 1977
Well into the 1980s, we ran a lot of oldtime radio. We had access to huge libraries, restrictions on the television product made it another way to present a good story. When it was being presented as a 'story', it was done well. When it was 'nostalgia', it was a harder sell. By 1980 90% of the troops hadn't been there for network radio, making it quaint. They didn't understand where the joke even was with Fibber McGee joking about 'ration points'. But drama, mystery and some comedy could be very entertaining.
Here's a 1977 repackaging of a 1940s broadcast.
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Charlie Tuna 1980
The Breakfast Serial continues. Thanks Charlie for letting me make this available. It's time for another visit with the biggest Tuna of all. 1980, the music pretty darn good. Recording has a large piece of an AFN newscast at the end.
Monday, April 8, 2024
Wolfman Jack AFN 1975
Roger Caroll 1979
Roger Carroll with Johnny Magnus
Roger was with us over four decades. 1979 became RC.
Sunday, April 7, 2024
AFVN Jim Lull 1966
It wasn't quite AFVN in 1966, the Armed Forces Radio Service, Vietnam was rocking out with Jim Lull. This is part two of some great tape Dennis sent along. Many many thanks.
Monday, April 1, 2024
Roland Bynum 1983
Roland was rocking in the 60s and still makes it happen. In 1983 we were proud to have the Creators Workshop and Roland Bynum
Andy Mansfield 1964
Andy Mansfield continues his 1964 tribute to Major Glenn Miller. Here's part 11:
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