AFRS
AFRS · 1942–1950
Broadcasts
291
Cadence
Weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1942
The run
Command Performance was produced by the Armed Forces Radio Service from 1942 and broadcast by shortwave to American forces overseas. Servicemen and women wrote in with requests and the biggest names in Hollywood and swing performed them, unsponsored and uncensored by commercial interests. Recordings survive from the AFRS transcription discs and are in the public domain.
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
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
12 dated broadcasts across 9 years on the air, with 3 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Restored broadcasts from 1942, in original transmission order.
1 Mar 1942 · 30 min
28 Jul 1942 · 29 min
6 Jan 1943 · 29 min
12 Jun 1943 · 29 min
13 Nov 1943 · 30 min
8 Apr 1944 · 29 min
13 Sep 1944 · 28 min
15 Feb 1945 · 57 min
Same night on the air
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 6 Jan 1943.
6 January
1943
NBC
Wednesday
56 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 6 January 1943.
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6 January
1943
CBS / NBC
Wednesday
29 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 6 January 1943.
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