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

[Milan Milovanovic]

BTW, what masters (stampers) of such recordings were destroyed - V-Discs? 
Only?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
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Subject: Re: [78-L] YMCA War Prisoners Aid American Radio Series for U.S. 
POWs in Germany


> 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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