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Was this the show from Capitol? It was 1955 and Billy May hosts.
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Monday, March 2, 2015
Music for the Middle Mind - 1961
In the early 1960s no one was really sure what to do with FM. There were a variety of small stations in the Los Angeles market that supplied programming to AFRTS. "Music For The Middle Mind" appears to have been originated at WFOX. "Music for the Middle Mind" was a potpourri of classical, folk and whatever sounded interesting. The program ran in the first half of the 1960s.
A Hugh Douglas was also the announcer for Have Gun Will Travel. Same Guy?
Sunday, March 1, 2015
AFRS - Bob Wills
AFRS Sangley vet Jim Gough (Mr. Texas) has been doing the Bob Wills radio show for quite some time. Several AFRS Bob Wills broadcasts are available. Jim and Bob, you need to listen. This was on another page, that pointed to a dead link, works now.
Saturday, February 28, 2015
One Night Stand - 1945 - Cab Calloway
For "One Night Stand" AFRTS would repackage music remotes from the states. It started during WWII and continued for about 20 years. Cab Calloway was a great talent. I had him on the show once when I was a boy DJ in Minneapolis. In 1973 him and Anita O'Day were in a packaged oldies show. Great music then, great music now.
AFRTS anniversary - Command Performance 1947
2017 will be the 75th anniversary of AFRTS. The 70th was largely ignored. What should we do about it? LaRita Shelby was saying that we could have the beginnings of a committee on this. There's enough lead time. Who has ideas?In 1947 the network was five years old, and the stars came out..
Monday, February 23, 2015
Radio Novels - 1967
The Radio Novel is sort of a mystery. No one knows when they were recorded or for whom.
AFRTS was airing hour long ones on 1965, by 1967 it was a half hour. They repackaged a lot of shows, but if that was the case there would be an occasional known performer. In 1967 it was part of the Voice of Home.
Sunday, February 22, 2015
AFRS Alaska - 40th anniversary
There's a lot of great video stories. Larry Rogers shared with us the 40th anniversary of the Alaska network.
Monday, February 16, 2015
Matt Willoughby AFKN - 1976
I joined the Army in 1973 with a guaranteed enlistment for DINFOS. I tried to join before to go to Vietnam but my brother was a helicopter pilot over there then and they wouldn't let me go because of the sole surviving son rule. So when I could join they weren't sending anyone to Vietnam anymore. I grew up in the Panama Canal Zone watching SCN and decided to go into broadcasting since I had some radio experience in Arizona when my parents retired. I met my wife Kim at DINFOS and we got married. I was first assigned to SCN but when the Army learned we were married it assigned us to Korea. She was assigned to the Public Affairs Office and I to AFKN. I did radio and television news until 1976. But I convinced Bob Zix to let me do a half hour album rock show with him and others that was recorded and aired late nights. We each DJed our own show. Bob liked my show but the brass didn't like the format and it was canceled. After processing out of the Army in 1976 I went on to jobs in television and radio in Arizona, Washington, D.C..and North Carolina. I am now retired and recently got a job working part time at a Cabelas store in Garner North Carolina. Kim became a teacher and is now retired as well.
It would be interesting if anyone remembers this patch some of us made up.
Saturday, February 14, 2015
Friday, February 13, 2015
Random TP
The "Top Pops" series were the weeks hits, issues from 1962-75. It made a pretty incredible oldies library...
TP-43 RL7-4 1964
Shelby Flint-Little Dancing Doll
Jack Nitzshe-Lonely Surfer
Nancy Wilson-Tell Me The Truth
Billy Abbott-Groovy Baby
Kim Weston-Love Me All The Way
Gene McDaniels-It's A Lonely Town
Floyd Cramer-How High The Moon
Cliff Richard-Lucky Lips
Bill Purcell-Pride
Jackie DeShannon-Little Yellow Roses
Peter Paul and Mary-Blowin In The Wind
Bill Anderson 8 x 10
Burl Ives-This Is All I Ask
Claude King-Scarlet O'Hara
How many of THOSE are still being played on the radio?
TP-43 RL7-4 1964
Shelby Flint-Little Dancing Doll
Jack Nitzshe-Lonely Surfer
Nancy Wilson-Tell Me The Truth
Billy Abbott-Groovy Baby
Kim Weston-Love Me All The Way
Gene McDaniels-It's A Lonely Town
Floyd Cramer-How High The Moon
Cliff Richard-Lucky Lips
Bill Purcell-Pride
Jackie DeShannon-Little Yellow Roses
Peter Paul and Mary-Blowin In The Wind
Bill Anderson 8 x 10
Burl Ives-This Is All I Ask
Claude King-Scarlet O'Hara
How many of THOSE are still being played on the radio?
Pendleton Story - 1951
In 1951 there were a lot of radio actors and not a lot of work. AFRTS was creating historic, patriotic radio
"The Threat". The "XYZ" Affair threatens relations with France, the Alien and Sedition Acts threaten American freedoms. Lamont Johnson, Vic Perrin,
Lamont Johnson had a long, successful career from Let's Pretend to Tarzan, Dragnet, Escape and the Whistler. As a director he was a part of Peter Gunn, Twilight Zone and Name of The Game.
This recording is from a 1967 re-issue.
Thursday, February 12, 2015
Jerry Thomas - Sounds of the 60s - 1967
It's another show of your mostly MOR favorites. We did keep the Colonels happy. I can't find anything about this one. It almost sounds like one of the shows that Capitol sent out...
Shirley Bassey is Jerry Thomas' special guest.
Shirley Bassey is Jerry Thomas' special guest.
Monday, February 9, 2015
AFN Jim Collinson - 1970
Jim Collinson is back with the greatest hits on 1970 on the "Stateside Sound Survey"
Sunday, February 8, 2015
AFN Bremerhaven - Bill Boyd 1988
Thanks to Hans Knot, some neatness from Bremerhaven 1988. Bill Boyd has your favorites..
Friday, February 6, 2015
AFVN and the Tet Offensive 1968
The page about AFVN and Tet 1968 has been updated. It's an important part of our history.
Take a look. Click here
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
AFN Bob Cultis 1984
From AFN Germany, Bob Cultis has your country favorites on Country Style. DO you have more information?
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Good morning!
It looks like we have many new visitors. Welcome! If you enjoy what you see, tell your friends. A line in an email... a quick Facebook or Twitter post. Those help a lot. If there's something that you'd like to see more of please let me know. The biggest problem is finding it usually. There is a mailing list. Approximately weekly I send out an email listing all of the updates. Click here to be added Makes it easier to not miss something important to you. And now on with the show.
Monday, January 26, 2015
Adventure Theater - 1977
Gerald Mohr
Well into the 1970s and 80s AFRTS drew from their library of classic old-time radio broadcasts. One of these new anthology shows was "Adventure Theater". This time it's a 1977 rebroadcast of Phillip Marlowe and "The Persian Slippers". Originally aired in 1948, Marlowe tries to find a woman who has left her husband and disappeared.
Saturday, January 24, 2015
RIP MAJ James Reid Lapp
Just received this ....................
01/23/2015
I found your email and I thought you would be a good place to start. My father, Major James Reid Lapp, the former Network Chief in Korat in 1974 and later the Commander of FEN in Japan, passed this morning shortly after midnight in Gloucester, VA.
I suppose that there might be a "Remembrance" website of some sort, but I figured that you would have better insight to this than I.
Sincerely,
James "Randy" Lapp
01/23/2015
I found your email and I thought you would be a good place to start. My father, Major James Reid Lapp, the former Network Chief in Korat in 1974 and later the Commander of FEN in Japan, passed this morning shortly after midnight in Gloucester, VA.
I suppose that there might be a "Remembrance" website of some sort, but I figured that you would have better insight to this than I.
Sincerely,
James "Randy" Lapp
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Dick Van Dyke - Flair - 1961
Dick was an announcer/host during WWII, can't confirm an AFRS assignment. Did you hear anything about that? Entertainment was in his blood and after the war there was a lot of local broadcasting and theater. In 1955 he first went to CBS. In 1960 starred in the Broadway "Bye Bye Birdie" before getting the Dick Van Dyke show.
Between those, Dick was doing "Flair" at ABC radio, the show sounded a lot like "Monitor" but with a Flair... We had it on AFRTS take a listen.
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
The Shadow audience
A couple of years ago historian John Provan spoke with the Bavarian Times about AFN's impact on Germany. You should read this.
Sunday, January 11, 2015
30th Anniversary of The Army Air Force - AFRS Canal Zone 1945
Rex Lipton went on to Hollywood after the War, but in 1945 he was writing scripts for the PAO office in the Canal Zone. In early television he was involved behind the scenes in the Roy Rogers Show, Burns and Allen, Sgt Preston and many other credits in television and the movies.
Saturday, January 10, 2015
This Is The Story - Freedom Of The Press 1943
Probably the most important mission of AFRS was education. Programs like "This Is The Story" helped to answer the "Why are we here?" questions.
Raymond Edward Johnson, from Broadway and the "Inner Sanctum" radio show tells the story of Andrew Hamilton and why there should press freedom.
Friday, January 9, 2015
Larita Shelby
A few years ago LaRita did a wonderful presentation via Powerpoint, mostly about her time with AFRTS. This is great!
I really wish we had more of her shows, if you have any please share!
Spectrum USA - John Quincy Adams - 1971
Spectrum USA was a very nicely done Marine Corps recruiting show from 1971, with a spotlight on the presidents.
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
AFRS Keflevik 1998
Larus sent this along:
Okay 6 minutes [EDIT 9 mins. past midnight 2015] to the new year and I'm sitting here with my frightened dog, and the Icelanders, who are usually big spenders on firecrackers, are going berserk!
BTW That word: berserk comes into English from the Icelandic!
I'm going to upload for you on my Dropbox an old HIFI STEREO off-air VHS recording of the Navy Broadcasting Service, Keflavik, Iceland and it's THE MORNING SHOW, unfortunately the lady never mentions her name in the recording, but I think Thomas Jones may help with that.
And, oh, yeah this is recorded from the stations FM broadcast channel, in Reykjavik, Niceland.
Saturday, January 3, 2015
Midweek Devotions - 1961
Did this program actually run mid-week somewhere?
The Chaplain's Board presents...
Thursday, January 1, 2015
AFN SHAPE Barry Cantor 1977
From Hans Knot, Barry Cantor has the Road Show from AFN SHAPE. 1977 magic...
Enchanted Keyboard - Art Tatum 1951
By the 1950s radio was changing. The US networks were producing a lot less programming. AFRTS got creative. "Enchanted Keyboard" was a pianist and an announcer. The pianists came from all walks of music. The program was produced in Los Angeles.
Art Tatum was an amazing musician. Take a listen:
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