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Chris Noel has your Date With Chris. It's 1969, a Thursday show and the weekend starts a lot nicer.
Friday, October 31, 2014
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Wolfman Jack - 1972
Wolfman brings the party. It's 1972 have you heard about your opportunities in the Air Force?
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Bolero Time - 1973
Victor was Vance Graham. Vance had entered Los Angeles radio in the 1930s and found his greatest success as a spanish DJ. Bolero Time was heard on multiple stations and recorded for AFRTS well into the 1970s.
Monday, October 27, 2014
Robert Q Lewis - 1958
By the late 1950s network radio was pretty much done. Robert Q. Lewis was still doing great radio from New York on CBS Take a listen.
Friday, October 24, 2014
Charlie Tuna - 1976
Thank you Hans Knot for a new Charlie Tuna!
KCBQs Charlie Tuna and the winners
Charlie was the wakeup voice to the world for a quarter century. Taught a lot of us how to do it better. On todays show a visit with Lily Tomlin...
Thursday, October 23, 2014
FORSCOM Update - Dan Rook - 1976
The services did their own shows, run Sunday mornings nationwide. The Army's Forces Command had "Update". Army Sergeant Dan Rook with memories of 1976.
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Chris Noel - 1967
Kinda hard to do a show when the only thing you really know is what day it is. The ETs could be aired at noon or midnight. Could be a hurricane or a drought. These guys did great. It's a Monday in 1967 and Chris Noel is the Voice of Home...
Herman Griffith - 1964
Time for some music fro the brave and the bold, it's the Records Caravan! Herman was at KGFJ between 1963-66. After that he was on our network for a few more years but little is actually known other than he did a great show..
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Michael Brown AFRS Adak Alaska 1971
Thanks again to Michael Brown for sharing his AFRS memories. Today it's almost three hours of the request show.
We went to different high schools together...
Chad Johnson on the board in Adak
Friday, October 17, 2014
Melody Roundup - 1944
Lum and Abner were a good fit for the Melody Roundup. Today they bring a piece of the Jot em Down Store to the troops with Texas Jim Lewis.
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Sugar Report - 1945
More from your Sugar Report. A few more have been found. Most of the time WWII shows in AFRS are fairly common. A few hundred were pressed, several were saved.
The Sugar Report was different. The show was apparently recorded to acetate for broadcast from the government's shortwave station in California. So each disk that is found is unique.
The show isn't documented. The last time I found some of these, Jinx Falkenburg was the host. I had assumed it was her show. Today Joan Edwards from Your Hit Parade plays excerpts from radio back in the states
This was a project at it's best. I was contacted and asked "If I pay for those, can you transfer them?" I explained I'm still trying to replace my 16" table. "I can wait." Done. I asked around and found someone to do the transfer. In the same time frame, we received a donation that covered the postage (click the PayPal box). It took a lot of people. John, Doug and Robert, thanks for making this happen.
Monday, October 13, 2014
SCN-FM Panama 11/83
This is a photo of the automation from AFVN in the 60s, 15 years
later it was exactly the same in Panama
Sunday, October 12, 2014
Roland Bynum - 1973
There was some great soul music in 1973. Roland made Soul in Motion so much better. This is another of the shows for Air Force recruiting. Hear Roland weekend on KJLH Los Angeles
Friday, October 10, 2014
Craig Miller - 1975
In 1975 Craig Miller talked with a lot of stars on AFN. Today Rob Bachman from Bachman Turner Overdrive on Nightside.
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Chris Noel - 1969
Thank you Chris Noel for sharing the memories. A few years ago Chris called and asked if I'd like to be able to share these shows. She had saved most of them. That was an easy question. She had finished doing the show before I enlisted but at the station at the 2d Infantry division had saved hundreds of these. I thought they were perfect radio. Then and now.
Let's remember 1969 with A Date With Chris.
Sunday, October 5, 2014
We Who Fight - 1943
Billboard Magazine - 1943
We Who Fight, a half hour in the We, the People style only for and with servicemen. This one uses men from all the services of all the nations and aims to keep the men in the Pacific posted on what their allies and comrades are doing on other fronts produced before an audience drawn from people with men in overseas service, uses an army band and a name emcee, who will soon be replaced by a man in uniform. At the moment there are plans to air We Who Fight for domestic consumption.
This was just recently located
Roger Carroll - 1976
1976, I was getting ready to go to basic. Roger Carroll was doing recruiting shows.
It's a great way of life AND time for the Happy Hour...
Saturday, October 4, 2014
AFVN Paul Bottoms 1969
It's the summer of 1969 and Paul A. Bottoms is rocking Saigon on the Orient Express.
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
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