Magic Carpet
AFRS
AFRS · 1943–1945
Broadcasts
70
Cadence
Seasonal
Rated
PG
Since
1943
The run
- Network
- AFRS
- Years active
- 1943–1945
- Surviving broadcasts
- 70
- Genre
- music
Magic Carpet was an Armed Forces Radio Service transcription series of light and Latin American dance music, built around guest orchestras such as Carlos Molina's and distributed on numbered discs to military outlets worldwide. Government-produced and public domain; digitised by the Internet Archive.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
1 dated broadcasts across 26 years on the air, with 25 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1920, in original transmission order.
- 1. Magic Carpet 4xxxxx 0124 Elliot Lawrence AHO, 1st Song - Bell Bottom Trousers {AFRS#124} · 24 Jan 1920
- 2. #190 AFRS · Date unknown
- 3. Magic Carpet 45xxxx 0008 Guest - Louis Armstrong, 1st Song - Always · Date unknown
- 01
Magic Carpet 4xxxxx 0124 Elliot Lawrence AHO, 1st Song - Bell Bottom Trousers {AFRS#124}
24 Jan 1920 · 15 min
- 02
#190 AFRS
Date unknown · 15 min
- 03
Magic Carpet 45xxxx 0008 Guest - Louis Armstrong, 1st Song - Always
Date unknown · 15 min
- 04
Magic Carpet 4xxxxx 0154 Buddy Johnson AHO, Savory Ballroom, 1st Song - Exactly Like You' {AFRS#154}
Date unknown · 15 min
- 05
First Song - Ali Baba (Xavier Cugat)
Date unknown · 15 min
- 06
First Song - Shine (Jack Teagarden)
Date unknown · 15 min
- 07
First Song - Sweet Georgia Brown (Tiny Bradshaw)
Date unknown · 15 min
- 08
First Song - Perdido (Bob Crosby)
Date unknown · 15 min
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