[78-L] YMCA War Prisoners Aid American Radio Series for U.S. POWs in Germany

[Michael Biel]

You are mixing several things together.  V-Discs and Armed Forces Radio
Network are two entirely different and totally separate projects. 
V-discs were made for the soldiers themselves, shipped directly to their
facilities, and played and handled by the soldiers.  They were not meant
for broadcast, even by AFRS.  The AFRS recordings and broadcasts were
aired on radio stations and similar facilities, and were not in the
hands of the individual soldiers.  AFRS also had a music library service
that contained music meant for putting together broadcasts at the
individual facilities, but they were not V-Discs. I forget if the German
language Glenn Miller broadcasts were for AFN, AFRS, BBC European
Service or Voice of America, but they were not V-Discs.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

-------- Original Message --------

From: Dan Van Landingham <danvanlandingham at yahoo.com>


This is interesting.When were these recordings made?Were they part of
the V Disc 
proramme?This is the
first I've heard of it.I first knew of V Disc by way of George T. Simon
in his 
book on the big bands.I take
it these were broadcast by the Armed Forces Radio Network.I have a BMG
two CD 
set of Glenn Mil-
ler's AAF band with him speaking phonetised German.These recordings were
made 
just prior to Miller's
disapperance over the English Channel on 15 Dec 1944.




________________________________
From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Sat, October 16, 2010 12:36:05 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] YMCA War Prisoners Aid American Radio Series for
U.S. POWs 
in Germany

Similar to the recordings Marlene Dietrich made of popular songs in
German 
translations for the OWI? Has anyone ever seen those? (Not the early 50s

remakes with Mitch Miller, which can be misinterpreted as an issue of
the 
originals.)

dl

On 10/16/2010 2:47 PM, Steve Shapiro wrote:
> Does anybody know anything about these 12" record sets?
>
> It would appear that lots of these programs were produced.
>
> I've checked with the usual authorities in Kentucky and Germany, but so far 
>have come up empty.
>
> Thanks./steve


 
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