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There's always been symphonic favorites. "Intermezzo" was the music, back announced. A formula they were still using for "Just Music" in the 1960s. Major Meredith Willson leads the AFRS Orchestra.
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Monday, July 27, 2015
World In Music - 1945
Education and music, with the rhythms of Latin America. It's all part of the World In Music...
Saturday, July 25, 2015
Oscar Brand - 1961
In the late 50s there was a series of "Bawdy Songs and Backroom Ballads". These were varying degrees of bawdy but recorded by Oscar Brand. Oscar was one of the faces of folk music. By the early 60s Oscar was recording shows for the government (Social Security Administration, HEW and probably others). AFRTS ran these shows. Here's a 1961 visit.
GI Jive - 1946
Jill was one of the first to bring America to the troops. She had a long run and a LOT of the shows are available. I'm happy to be able to say that.
Protestant Hour - 1971
The Chaplains Board had a dual mission. To be true to their faith, yet inclusive to all. AFRTS had several hours of their programming every Sunday morning.
Thursday, July 23, 2015
Bob Hope - 1945
Bob Hope kept doing shows for the troops. In 1945 he brought his show to NAS Corpus Christie,
Boyd Bennett - My Boy Flattop 1955
This was always one of my favs. A squared away haircut cut is this kids best characteristic. Played this a lot in Panama and Korea. I picked up the 16" library disk of this a few years ago. Never thought I'd find it in a thousand years. Transfer is a little fast on this..
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Showtime - 1944
In 1944 AFRS brought the troops the best of Broadway with "Showtime". Initially Dinah Shore was the hostess, but later there were others. Today, Marilyn Maxwell..
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
AFVN - Go Show - Tom Watson -1970
(Sebastian Cabot) "Ladies and gentlemen, the beat goes on." From Hans Knot an upgraded memory of AFVN,
Tom Watson is a "Broadcaster". I thinks that's something we all wanted to be. He kept it up. Here's what our friends at http://www.macoi.net had to say:
"Taking a break from commercial broadcasting via the Selective Service system, Tom entered the military, where he spent two years on active duty. Following his Army training, which included a broadcasting course at Fort Benjamin Harrison's DINFOS, Tom was assigned to AFVN in Saigon. During his tour in 1969-70, Tom hosted the "Go" show playing Top 40 hits from 6 to 9 each night, and he also covered the daily MACV news briefings at JUSPAO. Upon his return to the US, he was sent to Fort Ord as NCOIC of the radio/TV facility. Prior to his discharge in April 1970, Tom began a weekend job at KMBY in Monterey, California.
Tom's KMBY stint evolved into a full time air slot doing nights until KQEO, Albuquerque, hired him for the noon-to-3 airshift. He then moved on to KERN, Bakersfield, and tried his hand "up north" at CKGM in Montreal and CHUM in Toronto before WQXI in Atlanta brought him aboard in 1974."
Sunday, July 12, 2015
AFVN Scott Manning - 1968
Scott was from Milwaukee, his family later moved to Chicago. After high school he was briefly hired for a deejay position at Chicago's WCFL, but he soon left the station to join the Army where he was trained at DINFOS in 1966. He was then assigned to Vietnam with duty at the 4th PSYOPS Group in Saigon, but his change of station request was granted and he began an on-air job at AFVN. As a deejay, he hosted a daily show plus a Sunday evening show called "The Sergeant Pepper Hour." After his promotion to SP5 and extending his tour Scott was appointed Program Director for the AFVN radio network.
Back in the USA, he worked as Operations Manager for KELP in El Paso before moving on to KAUM in Houston, WIFE Indianapolis, WKLH Milwaukee, KISW Seattle, KASS Casper, Wyoming, WAPE Jacksonville, and a drive-time show on WYBR in Rockford, Illinois. Then in 1990, with 20 years of broadcast experience, Scott joined the ABC Radio Network in Dallas. ABC operated a satellite radio service which provided programming in nine different genres to stations located in small and medium markets across the country. Scott handled a daily "Classic Rock" program, as well as an "Oldies" show, interspersing musical selections with trivia and newsbits about featured artists. ABC sold the system to Citadel Media in 2007.
Thanks to macoi.net for the information, Take a look...
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Jubilee - 1945
When I was a boy DJ, I had Count Basie on the show. Incredible person with a power from within. He did a lot for the troops during WWII, part of that was Jubilee
January 20, 1945. Program #99 recorded October 20, 1944 The first tune is, "Dinah." Buddy Rich, Thelma Carpenter, Illinois Jacquet, Ernest Whitman (m. c.), Count Basie and His Orchestra, Eddie Anderson (Eddie Anderson), Jimmy Rushing.
Monday, June 29, 2015
Spectrum USA - 1971
In 1971 the Marine Corps reserves were doing the recruiting show "Spectrum USA" , an overview of our presidents.
"Spectrum USA" presents glimpses of our Chief Executives - not necessarily as great figures in publice office - but as the real people they were: young men with ideas, students, husbands, working men, soldiers, dreamers.
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Monday, June 22, 2015
AFN Frankfurt - Eric Hendrix - 1996
More from AFN Frankfurt. It's a 1996 visit with Eric Hendrix. It's the last Z-FM Cafe...
Saturday, June 20, 2015
Friday, June 19, 2015
AFVN - Your Brother
Harry Simons, who was "Your Brother" on AFVN in 1967 and 1968 has some big news:
"Since we last spoke on the phone and online about my AFVN Danang “Your Brother” program, I have some new and exciting AFVN news. Attached is a work in progress mission statement of a Vietnam Veterans Tribute program now in production to air on 1330 AM WEBY Radio Pensacola, Florida. The broadcast will also stream live at http://www.1330weby.com on October 26-30 2015
Sunday, June 7, 2015
Crime Classics - 1954
Crime Classics was a classy CBS show from the early 50s. It was run several times on AFRTS well into the 1970s. Elliott Lewis and a great cast. "New Hampshire, the Tiger and Brad Ferguson" was initially broadcast in 1954. This is from a 1967 reissue.
History of Rock and Roll - 1971
The History of Rock & Roll first aired on the weekend of February 21–23, 1969 on 93 KHJ Los Angeles, hosted by Robert W. Morgan. It aired for 48 hours and was later syndicated. Later that year, with slight modifications to the script, another version was aired hosted by Humble Harve Miller. The program was then taken to national syndication in the fall of 1969 by parent company RKO General. KHJ repeated this in 12-hour blocks. This version was syndicated throughout the early 1970s, and was sent to stations on large 101⁄2" reels of 1/4" tape, in full-track mono. - wikipedia
In 1971 we apparently had the original KHJ version.
Monday, June 1, 2015
Country Crossroads - 1983
Camp Humphries, Korea
Jerry Clower is Bill Mack's guest. Ledbetter Olympics on the Country Crossroads
Sunday, May 31, 2015
Dick Sinclair - 1957
You can still find the occasional polka radio show, but in the 1950s and 1960s Dick Sinclair was the voice of polka, with syndicated radio and television shows everywhere. Dick was also one of the first AFRS jocks, during WWII at the Guadalcanal station.
Thursday, May 21, 2015
Hey Don!
There's a fellow with a name of dont1961 over at www.archive.org who has made a lot of early AFRS available. Take a look:
Don, I've got some questions about some of the great things you've posted. Thanks!
Coast Guard on Parade - 1967
This kind of puzzles me. I understand running Navy recruiting shows on a ship. I understand any of the services running recruiting shows for their primary command. This is a nice show. WTIC in Hartford produced it at the Coast Guard Academy. It went out on AFRTS labels to all stations.
Sunday, May 17, 2015
Panorama - 1961
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Panorama was produced at AFN for AFRTS by Sp Mickey Klein. It sounds suspiciously like Weekend World..
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Shilling for Luck - 1944
In 1944 the troops were curious about the British. AFRS assembled an all star cast to tell a storyin "Shilling for Luck", Gene Kelly is a sailor from Liverpool, Ohio. He meets a sailor from Liverpool, England. They compare the Liverpool's. Multiple stories are tied together with a one shilling coin. The coin is passed to Gene's grandson who gives it to Shirley Temple, who also learns about the British. The all-star cast focusses on the similarities of our cultures.
Monday, May 11, 2015
Jubilee - 1944
The program originates from New York City. The first tune is, "Jumping In A Gin Mill." Colonel Stoopnagel appears. The announcer mentions Una Mae Carlisle as being in the cast, but she is not heard. Claude Hopkins and His Orchestra, Dorothy Donagan Mel Allen (announcer), Pigmeat Markham, Ralph Cooper (m. c.), The Stuff Smith Trio.
Sunday, May 10, 2015
Did you save stuff?
We now have probably half of the W library 1964-80. Some great listening and several nice program disks 1971-72. If you do have some of these packed away please let me know. If you saved any airchecks, they're always welcome.
Thanks!!
Thom
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
AFN Berlin - Mark White 1980-83
We lost Mark White last year. Mark did well over three decades in Berlin keeping the highlight on the big bands. After he retired he stayed in Germany and was a legend.
Sunday, May 3, 2015
Jimmy Wakely - 1969
Jimmy Wakely was a huge star in the movies, on US radio, television even the Grand Old Opry and we were lucky to have him on AFRTS. Here's a 1969 visit.
Spectrum USA - 1971
In 1971 the Marine Reserves presented the stories of the presidents in Spectrum USA.
Dick Stark was a child actor in silent movies. He worked in radio from the 1930s-60s. He was on active duty in the Pacific during WWII and went back on active duty to Vietnam in 1966, later running the NY PAO shop for the Marines until retiring in 1973. Today we have the story of Grover Cleveland.
Sunday, April 26, 2015
AFRTS Canada
Sometimes overseas wasn't overseas.. In Canada, we built up mostly with radar stations making up the Pinetree Line of Ground Control Intercept (GCI) radar sites. The buildup began in the mid 50s and was largely over by 1962. AFRTS was there.
Tip of the hat to the stations that were at:
Armstrong, Ontario
Frobisher Bay Goose Bay Labrador
Harmon AFB Stephenville Newfoundland
Hopedale Newfoundland
Pagwa River, Ontario
Prince George BC
Ramore Ontario
Resolution Island
Seglek Bay, Newfoundland
St Anthony Newfoundland
Sioux Lookout, Ontario
Those were all on the air in 1961.
In 1971 we had stations on the air at:
Argentia
Byron Bay
Stephenville
Goose Bay
Melville
Tip of the hat to the stations that were at:
Armstrong, Ontario
Frobisher Bay Goose Bay Labrador
Harmon AFB Stephenville Newfoundland
Hopedale Newfoundland
Pagwa River, Ontario
Prince George BC
Ramore Ontario
Resolution Island
Seglek Bay, Newfoundland
St Anthony Newfoundland
Sioux Lookout, Ontario
Those were all on the air in 1961.
In 1971 we had stations on the air at:
Argentia
Byron Bay
Stephenville
Goose Bay
Melville
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