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Sunday, October 25, 2015
Monday, October 19, 2015
Chris Noel - 1969
Chris Noel in Pleiku 1968
Chris really stepped to the plate, did a wonderful show and went to the troops. Today she still supports the troops in need with her homeless shelter for veterans. Vetsville
Saturday, October 17, 2015
Inner Sanctum - 1949
This disk was played may times on our stations in Canada. A great mystery program never really ages. We still ran them in the 1970s and 80s. This program was originally broadcast in 1949 and rebroadcast on AFRTS may times.
"The Unburied Dead". A good story about a woman who first finds out that she's not who she thinks she is, then, that she's been dead for six years, and finally, that she's wanted for murder!
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
WBG - Fort Bliss
Part of our history that seems to be gone was the stations in the United States. A lot of posts had radio, Seemingly supported by AFRS. In El Paso, presumably Fort Bliss was WBG. Many of the big country acts performed there.
Peter Birch was a dancer, choreographer and musician who most famously directed Captain Kangaroo for 25 years. In January 1949 he performed at WBG.
Saturday, October 3, 2015
FEN - Tokyo Calling - Burr Hoyle - 1965
Tokyo Calling was a long running show on FEN. Today a 1965 visit with Airman Burr Hoyle.
Friday, October 2, 2015
AFN Derrick in the Morning
Derrick has checked in. Welcome!
I was very happy to find your site and the page where you featured my Zfm show. I was the morning show guy from 1994 - 1995 at AFN HQ.
On one occasion I helped SRA Angie Pianga re-launch Spagndahlem's radio station which had been dormant for decades. I was there with a fan dressed as a chicken to do the inaugural show. A few years earlier Angie and I were radio broadcasters at AFKN in Seoul, Korea.
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Kate Smith - 1944
In WWII AFRS did a series of shows called "Personal Album", these were 15 minutes of minutes with a popular star, usually with the star talking about their music and lives. Today a visit with Kate Smith and Ted Collins.
Saturday, September 26, 2015
Enchantment of Music 1964
There was a lot of orchestral music over the years, perfect to the dinner hour. "The Enchantment of Music". Bruce Wendell hosted from KCBH in Beverly Hills, showing high fidelity sound.
Friday, September 25, 2015
Fall cleaning?
If you have a bunch of AFRTS disks in storage somewhere, we'd really love the chance to be able to share them with others. Many times those memories just end up packed away. I could tell you stories... If you'd like to share them with folks just like us who'd appreciate it, contact me. afrts@live.com or let me know on the "Hit Line"612-356-2377. Thanks!
Sunday, September 20, 2015
Continental Varieties - 1962
On todays show, Dick Crawford has a tribute to the great Bruno Walter, who had died recently.
Sunday, September 13, 2015
Chickenman
I had posted this on the Facebook afrtsarchive page (click here) Someone, not me has posted Chickenman. The White Winged Warrior was even broadcast in Afghanistan during the early part of the war. He's an all time hero.
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Robert Q Lewis - 1958
Robert Q was perfect for his times. In 1958 radio was in a transitional period and he was on CBS. AFRTS ran it worldwide.
John Miller thought Bob Crewe was singing on this:
I am Bob's brother Dan and after listening to the recording I can say without any doubt that it is he. Although I am not familiar with this event, I know Bob was by 1957 very active in promoting his singing career. Although he did have some success as a performer he changed direction and focused on song writing and record production. I joined him in 1962 and together we had a great run with artists such as the Four Seasons, Mitch Ryder etc. Bob passed away September 11,2014 here in Maine where he was in a medical nursing home. Thank you for this forgotten event. By the way, I know Bob and Robert Q. enjoyed a long friendship.
Best regards,
Dan Crewe
Monday, September 7, 2015
Whistler - 1962
So how on earth do you date these? We were running the Whistler well into the 1980s. It wasn't so much "Old Time Radio" as an interesting story on the radio. This is a 1961 reissue of a 1950 broadcast. "The Chinese Elephant Puzzle" is the story of a wooden puzzle filled with diamonds, an elusive prize.
Sunday, August 23, 2015
Polka Party - 1967
By the 1950s, Polka was a link to home for European families in the United States. Even today sometimes a polka show will come on on the radio or usually cable access TV, but in the 50s and 60s Dick Sinclair was the voice of the polka. Dick was one of the first AFRS jocks in the pacific and after the war went to Los Angeles, created very successful polka radio and television shows that were syndicated from coast to coast. These shows were picked up by AFRTS.
Dick still does a weekend Polka Party show for CRN Click here
It's available on TuneIn Click Here
Saturday, August 22, 2015
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
To The Rear March
A couple of weeks ago we posted "To The Rear March". Michael came up with another one, in really great quality. Since they "go back to 1945", this is probably a 1946 broadcast
Saturday, August 15, 2015
Navy Swings - 1965
Thursday, August 13, 2015
AFKN Tony Booth 1969
Wouldn't this be the career that we've always wanted. Tony Booth was at Yongsan in 1969 with "Tempo"
He has a pretty decent career.
KAYC [Beaumont TX] 1966
AFKN Good Morning, Korea [Seoul, Korea] 1968
KDOK [Tyler TX] 1970
KLIF [Dallas TX] 1970
KBBC [Phoenix AZ] 1974
WFBG [Altoona PA] 1977 - Nat PD, Gilcom Corp
WLEE [Richmond VA] 1984 - GM
WHJB [Pittsburgh PA] 1990 - GM
WLEE [Richmond] 1992 - GM
WRCL [Richmond] 1999-2002
WCHV [Charlottesville VA] 2004
WBBT [Richmond] 2007-date
So from September 1969 (OJ Simpson is still in the AFL) AFKN presents "Tempo"
AFKN 1969 Tempo - Tony Booth
If you're in Richmond hear Tony Booth on WBBT.
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Army Hour - 1967
SGM Stan Bishop goes to Vietnam to talk with the demolition troops and about their mission of destroying dud rounds before they are retrieved by the Viet Cong. Will Thompson on Okinawa talks about sysops and the battle for minds.
Sunday, August 9, 2015
Just Music - 1967
Just music had several incarnations. Sometimes an hour of segues, sometimes back announced. In 1967 Bruce Wendell, originally from KCBH in Beverly Hills had the reigns. Several years earlier Bruce was the host of "Enchantment of Music", an early show to show off Hifi and FM. Today it's "Just Music"
Saturday, August 8, 2015
Arthur Godfrey - 1967
Arthur Godfrey was a bridge to a much more genteel era of radio. His show was on from the 1940s through the 1970s and was the last big deal show on the networks. He was the voice of mid-America. In 1967 he was talking about a trip to Vietnam. It's an interesting perspective.
Thursday, August 6, 2015
Spectrum USA - 1967
We've heard Spectrum USA before. In 1967 it went out on AFRTS. LTC Richard Stark USMCR is your host and narrator, with a look
Dick Stark was born on November 7, 1911 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA as Richard Salisbury Stark. He died on December 12, 1986 in Sotogrande, Andalusia, Spain of a heart attack.
Besides being a Marine officer he had quite a career, beginning in silent films, with TV announcing credits on What's my Line, Marge and Jeff, Perry Como's Music Hall, Danger and It Pays To Be Ignorant.
Monday, August 3, 2015
21st Precinct - 1967
We had stations in a lot of places without television. Some of the Old Time Radio still worked. AFRTS had a huge library of programs that were still available.
21st Precinct was an early 1950s CBS show with a realistic, gritty sound. This is from a 1967 issue.
AFN - Berlin at Night - Ray Tubberville - 1971
Robert Barker was troop in Berlin in 1971. At the time he had a nice reel to reel, recorded AFN and saved the tapes. It's a great thing. At night Ray Tubberville had the sound of Berlin...
Saturday, August 1, 2015
Our Musical Heritage - 1967
AFRTS introduced a lot of listeners to classical and orchestral music. In 1967 Donald Higood (sic?) hosted "Our Musical Heritage", with light classical music and stories.
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Intermezzo - 1942
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.
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...
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