The run
- Network
- AFRS
- Years active
- 1943–1961
- Surviving broadcasts
- 86
- Genre
- music
One Night Stand was the Armed Forces Radio Service's dance-band series, assembled from live remote broadcasts by the touring orchestras of the 1940s — Harry James, Charlie Spivak, Duke Ellington, Woody Herman and others — recorded at ballrooms such as the Hollywood Palladium and pressed onto transcription discs for shortwave relay to troops. As US Government work the discs are in the public domain. Audio streams from the Internet Archive item “AfrsOneNightStand”.
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
12 dated broadcasts across 19 years on the air, with 13 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 1943, in original transmission order.
- 1. AFRS-One-Night-Stand-0030-Charlie-Spivak-Hollywood-Palladium-FS-Sunday · 1 Oct 1943
- 2. AFRS-One-Night-Stand-0236-Russ-Morgan--Claremont-Hotel-FS-Do-You-Ever-Think-Of-Me · 28 Apr 1944
- 3. AFRS-One-Night-Stand-0280-Lenny-Conn-Hollywood-Palladium-FS-Just-You-Just-Me · 5 Jun 1944
- 01
AFRS-One-Night-Stand-0030-Charlie-Spivak-Hollywood-Palladium-FS-Sunday
1 Oct 1943 · 29 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “AfrsOneNightStand”.
- 02
AFRS-One-Night-Stand-0236-Russ-Morgan--Claremont-Hotel-FS-Do-You-Ever-Think-Of-Me
28 Apr 1944 · 27 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “AfrsOneNightStand”.
- 03
AFRS-One-Night-Stand-0280-Lenny-Conn-Hollywood-Palladium-FS-Just-You-Just-Me
5 Jun 1944 · 28 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “AfrsOneNightStand”.
- 04
AFRS-One-Night-Stand-0449-Freddy-Martin-Coconut-Grove-FS-Everyday-of-My-Life
12 Aug 1944 · 29 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “AfrsOneNightStand”.
- 05
AFRS-One-Night-Stand-0627-Woody-Herman-Rice-Hotel-Im-Gonna-See-My-Baby
16 Nov 1944 · 31 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “AfrsOneNightStand”.
- 06
AFRS-One-Night-Stand-0761-Joe-Reichman-Hotel-Biltmore-FS-I-Walked-In
6 Feb 1945 · 28 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “AfrsOneNightStand”.
- 07
AFRS-One-Night-Stand-0735-Woody-Herman-Ritz-Ballroom-FS-Katusha
30 Jul 1945 · 32 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “AfrsOneNightStand”.
- 08
AFRS-One-Night-Stand-0960-Stan-Kenton-Cafe-Rouge-FS-I-Know-That-You-Know
27 Sep 1945 · 30 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “AfrsOneNightStand”.
Also on AFRS
AFRS in 1943–1961
Other series the network carried while One Night Stand was on the air.
Same seasons
music on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The band remote
A line run to a ballroom, an announcer setting the room, and a live band carried to everyone who could not be there. One Night Stand and Spotlight Bands made location music broadcasting.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of One Night Stand
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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