Saturday, December 25, 2010

AFRS Spain

Here's a neat perspective, I just heard from Andoni, the blogger at http://www.escountry.com/ He's a Spaniard that misses the AFRTS stations in Spain and the country music in particular.

Here's what he had to say: AFRS Spain the blog is Spanish, so I ran it through google translate.

Friday, December 3, 2010

The Other Ameche Brother

Jim Ameche did his show for many years for the network. Brother Don was also quite the host.  In the early 50s AFRS did a program called Across the Board, misc musical broadcasts.  Randy thinks this is a heavily edited program from the "Here's to Romance" series.  Don and Jim sound a lot alike:




AFRTS and old time radio

Well into the 1980s, we ran a lot of oldtime radio.  We had access to huge libraries, restrictions on the television product made it another way to present a good story.  When it was being presented as a 'story', it was done well.  When it was 'nostalgia', it was a harder sell.  By 1980 90% of the troops hadn't been there for network radio, making it quaint.  They didn't understand where the joke even was with Fibber McGee joking about 'ration points'.  But drama, mystery and some comedy could be very entertaining.

Here's a 1977 repackaging of a 1940s broadcast.


I think that even today, it could be made to work.  What do you think?