The run
- Network
- AFRS
- Years active
- 1945–1945
- Surviving broadcasts
- 85
- Genre
- music
G.I. Jive was a short daily record programme produced by the Armed Forces Radio Service and presented by Martha Wilkerson as “GI Jill”, written to answer the propaganda broadcasts aimed at American troops. Each episode ran roughly fifteen minutes of requests, current hits and direct address to servicemen overseas. The transcription discs are US Government work and in the public domain, digitised at the Internet Archive as “AfrsG.i.Jive”.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
0 dated broadcasts across 1 years on the air, with 1 year where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from NaN, in original transmission order.
- 1. xx-xx-AFRS-GI-Jive-0271-Tommy-Dorsey · Date unknown
- 2. xx-xx-AFRS-GI-Jive-0450-Lester-Jay-Lucky-Millender-Jitters · Date unknown
- 3. xx-xx-AFRS-GI-Jive-0601-GI-Jill-Navy-Show-Benny-Goodman-Honeysuckle-Rose · Date unknown
xx-xx-AFRS-GI-Jive-0271-Tommy-Dorsey
Date unknown · 15 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “AfrsG.i.Jive”.
xx-xx-AFRS-GI-Jive-0450-Lester-Jay-Lucky-Millender-Jitters
Date unknown · 14 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “AfrsG.i.Jive”.
xx-xx-AFRS-GI-Jive-0601-GI-Jill-Navy-Show-Benny-Goodman-Honeysuckle-Rose
Date unknown · 15 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “AfrsG.i.Jive”.
xx-xx-AFRS-GI-Jive-0704-GI-Jill-Stan-Kenton-Eager-Beaver
Date unknown · 15 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “AfrsG.i.Jive”.
xx-xx-AFRS-GI-Jive-0829-GI-Jill-Benny-Goodman-Margie
Date unknown · 14 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “AfrsG.i.Jive”.
xx-xx-AFRS-GI-Jive-GI-Jill-Charlie-Spivak-Soldier-Jumped-At-Dawn
Date unknown · 13 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “AfrsG.i.Jive”.
xx-xx-AFRS-GI-Jive-0836-GI-Jill-Benny-Goodman-Jumpin-At-The-Woodside
Date unknown · 15 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “AfrsG.i.Jive”.
xx-xx-AFRS-GI-Jive-0843-GI-Jill-Bob-Crosby-Honky-Tonk-Train-Blues
Date unknown · 15 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “AfrsG.i.Jive”.
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