The run
- Network
- AFRS
- Years active
- 1943–1945
- Surviving broadcasts
- 70
- Genre
- music
Magic Carpet was an Armed Forces Radio Service transcription series of light and Latin American dance music, built around guest orchestras such as Carlos Molina's and distributed on numbered discs to military outlets worldwide. Government-produced and public domain; digitised by the Internet Archive.
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
1 dated broadcasts across 26 years on the air, with 25 years 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 1920, in original transmission order.
- 1. Magic Carpet 4xxxxx 0124 Elliot Lawrence AHO, 1st Song - Bell Bottom Trousers {AFRS#124} OTRRPG · 24 Jan 1920
- 2. #190 AFRS · Date unknown
- 3. Magic Carpet 45xxxx 0008 Guest - Louis Armstrong, 1st Song - Always (256-44) OTRRPG · Date unknown
Magic Carpet 4xxxxx 0124 Elliot Lawrence AHO, 1st Song - Bell Bottom Trousers {AFRS#124} OTRRPG
24 Jan 1920 · 15 min
American Armed Forces Radio No 34 Note: Included is a PDF file which covers the full history of the show. AFRS MAGIC CARPET The Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS) started to produce a series of edited big band commercial network sustaining broadcasts during 1945 that was named “Magic Carpet” in honour of the homecoming service personnel. Apparently similar to the ongoing AFRS series “One Night Stand”, the “Magic Carpet” programs were 15 minutes in length rather than 30 minutes and were thus almost completely edited versions of the normal 30-minute band remotes of that era. The “One Night Stand”
#190 AFRS
Date unknown · 15 min
American Armed Forces Radio No 34 Note: Included is a PDF file which covers the full history of the show. AFRS MAGIC CARPET The Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS) started to produce a series of edited big band commercial network sustaining broadcasts during 1945 that was named “Magic Carpet” in honour of the homecoming service personnel. Apparently similar to the ongoing AFRS series “One Night Stand”, the “Magic Carpet” programs were 15 minutes in length rather than 30 minutes and were thus almost completely edited versions of the normal 30-minute band remotes of that era. The “One Night Stand”
Magic Carpet 45xxxx 0008 Guest - Louis Armstrong, 1st Song - Always (256-44) OTRRPG
Date unknown · 15 min
American Armed Forces Radio No 34 Note: Included is a PDF file which covers the full history of the show. AFRS MAGIC CARPET The Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS) started to produce a series of edited big band commercial network sustaining broadcasts during 1945 that was named “Magic Carpet” in honour of the homecoming service personnel. Apparently similar to the ongoing AFRS series “One Night Stand”, the “Magic Carpet” programs were 15 minutes in length rather than 30 minutes and were thus almost completely edited versions of the normal 30-minute band remotes of that era. The “One Night Stand”
Magic Carpet 4xxxxx 0154 Buddy Johnson AHO, Savory Ballroom, 1st Song - Exactly Like You' {AFRS#154} OTRRPG
Date unknown · 15 min
American Armed Forces Radio No 34 Note: Included is a PDF file which covers the full history of the show. AFRS MAGIC CARPET The Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS) started to produce a series of edited big band commercial network sustaining broadcasts during 1945 that was named “Magic Carpet” in honour of the homecoming service personnel. Apparently similar to the ongoing AFRS series “One Night Stand”, the “Magic Carpet” programs were 15 minutes in length rather than 30 minutes and were thus almost completely edited versions of the normal 30-minute band remotes of that era. The “One Night Stand”
First Song - Ali Baba (Xavier Cugat)
Date unknown · 15 min
American Armed Forces Radio No 34 Note: Included is a PDF file which covers the full history of the show. AFRS MAGIC CARPET The Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS) started to produce a series of edited big band commercial network sustaining broadcasts during 1945 that was named “Magic Carpet” in honour of the homecoming service personnel. Apparently similar to the ongoing AFRS series “One Night Stand”, the “Magic Carpet” programs were 15 minutes in length rather than 30 minutes and were thus almost completely edited versions of the normal 30-minute band remotes of that era. The “One Night Stand”
First Song - Shine (Jack Teagarden)
Date unknown · 15 min
American Armed Forces Radio No 34 Note: Included is a PDF file which covers the full history of the show. AFRS MAGIC CARPET The Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS) started to produce a series of edited big band commercial network sustaining broadcasts during 1945 that was named “Magic Carpet” in honour of the homecoming service personnel. Apparently similar to the ongoing AFRS series “One Night Stand”, the “Magic Carpet” programs were 15 minutes in length rather than 30 minutes and were thus almost completely edited versions of the normal 30-minute band remotes of that era. The “One Night Stand”
First Song - Sweet Georgia Brown (Tiny Bradshaw)
Date unknown · 15 min
American Armed Forces Radio No 34 Note: Included is a PDF file which covers the full history of the show. AFRS MAGIC CARPET The Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS) started to produce a series of edited big band commercial network sustaining broadcasts during 1945 that was named “Magic Carpet” in honour of the homecoming service personnel. Apparently similar to the ongoing AFRS series “One Night Stand”, the “Magic Carpet” programs were 15 minutes in length rather than 30 minutes and were thus almost completely edited versions of the normal 30-minute band remotes of that era. The “One Night Stand”
First Song - Perdido (Bob Crosby)
Date unknown · 15 min
American Armed Forces Radio No 34 Note: Included is a PDF file which covers the full history of the show. AFRS MAGIC CARPET The Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS) started to produce a series of edited big band commercial network sustaining broadcasts during 1945 that was named “Magic Carpet” in honour of the homecoming service personnel. Apparently similar to the ongoing AFRS series “One Night Stand”, the “Magic Carpet” programs were 15 minutes in length rather than 30 minutes and were thus almost completely edited versions of the normal 30-minute band remotes of that era. The “One Night Stand”
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