Broadcast on CBC between 2004 and 2004; the exact air date is not recorded in the Archive item.
The run
- Network
- AFRS
- Years active
- 2001–2010
- Surviving broadcasts
- 25
- Genre
- variety
A mixed run of surviving Armed Forces Radio Service transcription discs held at the Internet Archive as “AFRS_OTR”. AFRS pressed programmes onto sixteen-inch discs and shipped them to outlets from Alaska to the South Pacific, stripping commercial sponsorship out of network shows in the process. As US Government work the recordings are in the public domain.
2010 · 12008 · 12005 · 12004 · 1
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: AFRS_OTR
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
4 dated broadcasts across 10 years on the air, with 6 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
JFMAMJJASOND
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from NaN, in original transmission order.
- 1. GI-Jive Glenn-Miller-Here-We-Go-Again · Date unknown
- 2. GI-Jive-Benny-Goodman-Bugle-Call-RagGI-Jive · Date unknown
- 3. AFRS-101-Bob Hope Replaced-By-Fanny-Brice 02-18-45 · Date unknown
GI-Jive Glenn-Miller-Here-We-Go-Again
Date unknown · 15 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “AFRS_OTR”.
GI-Jive-Benny-Goodman-Bugle-Call-RagGI-Jive
Date unknown · 15 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “AFRS_OTR”.
AFRS-101-Bob Hope Replaced-By-Fanny-Brice 02-18-45
Date unknown · 30 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “AFRS_OTR”.
AFRS-117-Hit Parade-01-20-45Hit Parade
Date unknown · 30 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “AFRS_OTR”.
AFRS-163-SHOWTIME-Shirley Ross-xx-xx-45
Date unknown · 30 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “AFRS_OTR”.
AFRS-473-ONE NIGHT STAND-01-03-45Ted Lewis
Date unknown · 30 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “AFRS_OTR”.
AFRS-566-Personal Album-Ginny Simms-xx-xx-45
Date unknown · 15 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “AFRS_OTR”.
AFRS-91-Bob Hope Guest Marilyn Maxwell Naval Base Quonset Point 1-23-45
Date unknown · 30 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “AFRS_OTR”.
Same night on the air
1 Jan 2004
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 1 Jan 2004.
Broadcast on CBC between 2004 and 2004; the exact air date is not recorded in the Archive item.
Broadcast on CBC between 2004 and 2004; the exact air date is not recorded in the Archive item.
Broadcast on CBC between 2004 and 2004; the exact air date is not recorded in the Archive item.
What it became
Friends in front of a microphone
Jack Benny and Fibber McGee sold intimacy: recurring characters, in-jokes, a house style. The modern hang-out show is the same trick without the script.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of AFRS Transcription Discs
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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