IF YOU EVER SERVED IN THE MILITARY, ESPECIALLY ON AN OVERSEAS BASE OR ON A NAVY SHIP, YOU CERTAINLY REMEMBER THE ARMED FORCES RADIO SERVICE (LATER THE ARMED FORCES RADIO AND TELEVISIION SERVICE, AND STILL LATER IN ITS EVOLUTION THE AMERICAN FORCES RADIO AND TELEVISION SERVICE)
THIS ENTITY PROVIDED THE UPLIFTING ENTERTAINMENT OVER MANY DECADES SINCE WORLD WAR ii FOR MILLIONS OF MILITARY PERSONNEL AND THEIR FAMILIES STATIONED MANYTHOUSANDS OF MILES FROM HOME, HELPING TO BRING SOME PLEASURE IN THEIR LIVES OF DANGER WHILE AWAY FROM LOVED ONES AND HELPING KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
IT IS HARD TO IMAGINE TODAY IN THE AGE OF THE INTERNET AND STREAMING, AND IPADS OR SMART PHONES WITH THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF SONGS DOWNLOADED AND SAVED IN THE CLOUD, JUST HOW IMPORTANT THESE SHOWS WERE BACK IN THE DAY, AND NOT THAT MANY YEARS AGO.
THE ARMED FORCES LPS AND SHOWS ARE AN INVALUABLE LINK TO OUR PAST, ARE SUPER RARE AND CAN NOW BE YOURS.
WELCOME RADIO SHOW ENTHUSIASTS TO KEITH'S KOLLECTABLES, ONE OF THE LARGEST BUYERS AND SELLERS OF QUALITY RADIO SHOWS IN PRISTINE CONDITION AND OF EVERY GENRE.
PLEASE REMEMBER, IF YOU BUY ANY FIVE OR MORE SHOWS AT ONE TIME EBAY WILL DEDUCT 20% FROM YOUR TOTAL. IT IS THE LEAST I CAN DO FOR FELLOW COLLECTORS WHO VALUE A GREAT DEAL AS MUCH AS I DO
AND IF YOU WANT TO SAVE EVEN MORE.....MUCH MORE, GO TO KEITH'S KOLLECTABLES HOME PAGE AND CLICK ON THE 'WEEKLY HALF AND REDUCED PRICE' TAB FOR GREAT BARGAINS, ALL IN GREAT CONDITION, AND PRICED TO HELP COLLECTORS GROW THEIR COLLECTION AT AN AFFORDABLE PRICE. ALL THE SHOWS IN THIS CATEGORY ARE THE SAME SHOWS THAT SELL REGULARLY FOR FULL PRICE BUT WE OFFER THEM TO YOU TO HELP YOU SAVE MONEY IN THESE DIFFICULT TIMES.
AND, I HAVE ONLY ONE SHIPPING CHARGE FOR THE FIRST (OR HEAVIEST FOR INTERNATIONAL BUYERS) AND ALL OTHERS SHIP FOR NO EXTRA SHIPPING CHARGE.
THE SERIES WAS TITLED 'THE GREATEST SPORTS THRILL WITH HARRY WISMER'
EACH 15 MINUTE SHOW, ONE ON EACH SIDE, FEATURE HARRY WISMER INTERVIEWING A FAMOUS SPORTS HERO OF THE DAY IN DEPTH DESCRIBING THEIR GREATEST SPORTS THRILL IN THEIR CAREERS
THESE SHOWS WERE #93 & 94 AND FEATURED BOB FRIEND AND FRANK THOMAS.
SO HERE ARE SOME BIG QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS LP:
EXCTLY WHAT WERE THESE LPs
WHY COLLECT THEM?
WHERE DO THEY COME FROM?
Well, those are good questions, especially if you have never known of them.
The United States Air Force Recruiting Service Greatest Sports Thrill with Harry Wismer are rare lps pressed by the military for its recruiting program.
They were pressed in limited quantities, probably in the range of 200 or so and provided to affiliate radio stations across the country for airing.
They were pressed on 16 inch lp discs for ultimate fidelity. They cannot be played on most consumer turntables but there was no problem with radio stations because professional turntables could easily accommodate these transcription lps.
You can easily have a cd pressed at any professional business in your city and preserve the rareness of this one of a kind lp which will only increase in value
The show's host, Harry Wismer, was himself legendary and hearing him host the show is an extra treat. In the mid 1930's, Harry
was hired as the public-address announcer for the Detroit Lions. The Lions were in their first season in Detroitt and were owned by George A. "Dick" Richards, who also owned Detroit radio station WJR Wismer soon began doing a ten-minute daily radio show covering the Lions in addition to his PA duties, while continuing as a student at Michigan State.
After the 1936 season, Wismer was encouraged by Richards to abandon his studies and come to work for WJR on a full-time basis as the station's sports director. Among Wismer's WJR duties was serving as play by play announcer for the station's Lions broadcasts.] In 1941, he was hired by the NBC Blue Network, the predecessor to ABC. During the 1940s Wismer was named Sportscaster of the Year three years running
Wismer achieved the height of his fame as the voice of the Washington Redskins. His first game for the Redskins was a most inauspicious one in December 1940, their 73–0 loss to the Chicago Bears Wismer was also involved for a time in the broadcasting of Notre Dame football.
In 1953, Wismer was involved in an early attempt to expand football into prime time television when ABC broadcast an edited replay on Sunday nights of the previous day's Notre Dame games, which were cut down to 75 minutes in length by removing the time between plays, halftime, and even some of the more uneventful plays. (While this format was not successful in prime time, a similar presentation of Notre Dame football later became a staple of Sunday mornings for many years Also that season was the first attempt at prime time coverage of pro football, with Wismer at the microphone on the old DuMont Network. Unlike ABC's Notre Dame coverage, DuMont's NFL game was presented live on Saturday nights, but interest was not adequate to save the DuMont Network, which had by this point already entered what would be a terminal decline
Wismer was a charter owner in the AFL, which was announced in 1959 and his New York franchise was the "Titans"
I have prided myself since the start to provide the best and fairest cost with a no holds barred guarantee that you will be happy or I refund your money. I sell them for near what I bought them for. I give volume discounts and discount postage always. As the postal service increases their rates, my shipping rates over the years has decreased.
And, I have one of the biggest libraries in the world consisting of over fifteen thousand shows, so many that I don't even know all that I have and am sometimes amazed when I go to look for one show and find another that I did not realize I had.
Finally, it is Americana at its best.
Whether the show be from the 60's or 2000's, rock, countdown, oldies, country, classical, religious, jazz or big band, it is unique and home grown.
And you just can't find them anywhere. Even record stores that still exist will rarely have any and many do not even know what they are .
And every one you buy is an original, not a copy, not a remake - all limited editions, perhaps one hundred or two hundred in total.
SO WHY SHOULD YOU WANT ONE?
FIRST OF ALL THEY ARE RARE AND WILL INCREASE IN VALUE.
SECONDLY, IT IS A WAY TO HAVE A UNIQUE PRESENTATION BY YOUR FAVORITE ARTIST IN A LP FORM THAT IS NOW UNAVAILABLE AND HAS BEEN SINCE AROUND 1990.
AND ALSO, IF YOU ARE FORTUNATE ENOUGH, YOU CAN FIND WHOLE SHOWS THAT WERE RECORDED IN THE UNITED STATES SPECIFICALLY FOR PLAY OVERSEAS ON MILITARY FACILITIES. THESE SHOWS WERE HOSTED BY THE BEST PERSONALITIES IN RADIO.
THE CONTENTS OF THE LP CAN BE SEEN ON THE LISTING PICTURE.
OWNING THIS RARE PRESENTATION IN THIS FORMAT WILL BE A VALUED ADDITION TO YOUR COLLECTION
These shows are true Americana
I am pleased to offer these great and rare lps to you.
It is not only the music but a piece of Americana that most people do not even know about. It is a piece of radio history you are getting with these shows. You just aren't going to find these lps anymore. Think of what they will be worth in a few years! (IF you wanted to sell.) I am selling to share with other music lovers what I was able to get at a reasonable price.
Remember that these lps are disappearing from the market because they are no longer available.
The lp shows have not been made since around 1990, much earlier for some shows, and they have the truest fidelity as you know if you are an audiophile. The CD shows are now also unavailable as shows are now only in digital downloads. So, the days of unique shows not copied from the soundboard of a station and sold as such are gone. This is all there is and will be.
It is said that collecting and selling radio shows is a vanishing hobby as the shows quickly disappear. Well, I still sell Betamax machines and they sell quickly whenever I list them so that is not true, but it is true that they will become rarer and harder to find so grab them now while the prices are still reasonable.
As always, I charge only shipping on the first show you buy for
Good Luck and God Bless You.