Reproduction is prohibited. Featuring wonderful standards done by the greats, this show matches the enjoyable beats of GI Jive. Spending some time listening to the great big band, Swing and Jazz music that was recorded live at the hottest clubs across America could not help but bring to mind images of a night out with your best girl back home.
Whether such happy memories were any more productive than going out to find a potential war-bride is up for debate, but morale was raised with a lot less risk to the servicemen. The idea behind the title was that the show would be announced from a different city each week. In reality, the early programs were a radio minstrel show which originated from New York City. During the War years and beyond, the decommercialized content was provided to the Armed Forces Radio Service free of charge.
The program continued to delight servicemen through the Vietnam era, although most of the surviving recordings are from WWII and the Korean War period. For more musical enjoyments, send your ear over to the Music Rarities Collection. Frederick Verified Purchase.
You have reached the maximum number of votes for a unregistered user. Please login or create a new account to continue You have reached the maximum number to down votes in this page. MP3 CDs are delivered by mail. How are recordings dated? Filenames of old time radio shows which are dated as yy-mm-dd. For example:. This episode from the series "Fort Laramie" was broadcast on February 5, with the episode title "Squaw Man". This is one of my favs, I have several disks of this I'm at my desk sometimes for hours a day and always have something OTR playing.
Love this music show!! For example: This episode from the series "Fort Laramie" was broadcast on February 5, with the episode title "Squaw Man". Or buy individual audio CDs below:. Please select your country:.
