This week on Big Band Bash I'll be playing a show that I bought on vinyl records many years ago. The Armed Forces Radio Network was a different network than the AM and FM radio bands. It mostly operated on short wave. Many radio shows were edited and then broadcast for our fighting men during World War II. On News Year's Eve 1945-1946 special hookups were arranged in the cities where 16 different name bands were performing. Thus the AFRS broadcast the bands starting at 11:00 EST. They would broadcast one song from each band and then go to a different city featuring a different band. Luckily for us this was preserved. If you want to hear this show you can find it at that great web site archives.org.
Back when I was first listening to old radio shows and jazz artists, the only way for me to find new shows was from the records put out by companies like Radiola, Mark 6, etc. Or I would tape them off the air. With the advent of cassette tapes I was able to buy radio shows from a company called the Radio Vault. Now that everyone , well lots of people, are posting items to the internet there is an abundance of shows. In fact I have collected so many in MP3 format that I'll never be able to listen to them all.
Tune in to KYXK 91.5 in the Texarkana area for this weeks program. You can also subscribe to our podcast in through ITunes. Search for Big Band Bash.
This is a very special broadcast. It's the first peacetime New Year since Hitler invaded Poland on 9/1/39, which is considered the start of WWII. We finally had something to celebrate and you can hear it in the various nightspots that are visited via remote pickup.
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