AFRTS Archive

Kim Hunter reads poetry.  She later became a huge star in Streetcar Named Desire.  In 1945 she had poetry for the troops. Words Wit...

We lost Casey Kasem last week.  American Top 40 was a very important part of AFRTS.  I've never been able to locate anyone who could g...

Vicente recorded a lot of these in Madrid in the 1970s and 80s but for the most part very similar to what we were doing everywhere.  There...

In the 50s and 60s the United Negro College Fund presented a series of choirs from member universities of the fund.  The series was run on ...

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Starting in 1968 Frank Bresee celebrated the Golden Days Of Radio.  The last network shows had just went off the air in 1962.  Frank ma...

Country Crossroads was one of my favorites in the Sunday morning slots.  It was a show of faith but incredibly low-keyed with interesti...

Bud Widdom started with the network during WWII and did a lot of shows.  By the 1960s he went off to run FEN at Camp Drake. In 1962...

Vicente lived in Madrid at the time and recorded a lot of the Torrejon AB station on nice quality cassettes, and saved them.  Dave'...

Air Force Weekly was the official news  show of the USAF Jan Garman and Dave Ellswick were the anchors but PAO shows from all over th...

Danny Kramer from KSL Salt Lake City was one of the jocks that did shows for a 1983 project when the Voice Of Home included cities all over ...

Frank Bresee started doing the Golden Days of Radio show in 1968.  "Network Radio" had stopped in 1962 with the last of the b...

Last year we lost AFNer Clem Stein.  Clem had shared memories and sent along a couple of nice airchecks.  This is a 1964 "Weekend Worl...

"The President's Own" The United States Marine Band had been on the radio back to the 1920s.  BY the 1960s they had weekly bro...

"Enchantment of Music" was a light classical show originated by KCBH-FM, Beverly Hills "in the matchless Fidelity of Frequenc...

Bud Widdom was a jack of all trades at AFRS, hosting variety shows during WWII, hundreds and hundreds of interviews.  He did it all.  In 19...

1. Supremes - You Can't Hurry Love 2   The Outsiders - Respectable 3  Darrell Banks - Open the Door to Your Heart 4  Tommy Ja...

We had patriotic shows... We had martial music...   The Freedoms Foundation  sponsored a lot of patriotic radio programs.  Freedom sing...

That'll keep us busy... Arrived.  It's a good day when the postman is cursing me.  Bunch of One Night Stands, Grand Old...

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Aerial view of Torrejon AFB  May of 1981 and Air Force SGT Keith Anderson has your favorites. AFRTS Torrejon - Keith Anderson

I'm Julius, living in Munich, Germany. I was born in Mannheim in 1950 and lived there till 1975. My absolute favorite Station was ...

Don McNeill had the longest running network show in history.  The Breakfast Club began in 1937 and continued until 1968.  It started on...

In 1969 Bob Moke was at AFN.  In 1983 heard worldwide. Bob Moke - 1983 More Bob Moke

Torrejon studios We've just received some wonderful tape of the Torrejon station.  Vicente lived in Madrid and saved his cassette...

Sunday April 6th was sad.  We lost Mickey Rooney.  Besides his many decades of stardom, Tech Sergeant Rooney was a WWII AFN vet. Mickey...

About two minutes into this is video of GI Jill announcing. More GI Jive

His band sure swung.  This is from a 1946 live remote rebroadcast from Riverside Rancho as a Melody Roundup. Melody Roundup - Spade...

  Years ago I had heard about a series of albums that were distributed to the troops overseas.  Top 40 radio broadcasts, off-line w...

So do you remember Sign-on?  Here's the AFN sign-on (No German national anthem?) and Eurospin with PFC Jennifer Lopez (not that one...