Armed Forces Radio Service

…were programs produced by the Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS), a wartime unit that broadcast on shortwave and sent recorded transcriptions of the shows to low-powered radio stations at outposts around the world. The AFRS also sent specially edited versions of popular network shows that had already been broadcast. Its…

…performed original comic songs on Armed Forces Radio. Following his discharge from the military in 1961, he took journalism classes at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia, while working as a deejay at the local radio station and continuing to compose and perform his own songs. When Nashville song publisher Jimmy…