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"With AFN on your way – you´ll be happy all the day!"
Welche Bedeutung AFN mit seinen Sendungen für die Entwicklung der Country Music bei uns und vor allem für jeden einzelnen persönlich hatte, das schildere ich in dem Beitrag "Wie es war - wie es ist Country im Radio" auf dieser Seite. In der Serie "Eine AFN-Chronologie" werden nun in lockerer Folge alle mir zugänglichen Beiträge aus den verschiedensten Publikationen im deutschsprachigen Raum wiedergegeben - Beiträge aus Country Zeitschriften, Country Newsletter etc. und auch aus eigenen Aufzeichnungen. AFN hatte seine Studios in den ursprünglich amerikanischen Besatzungszonen und in West Berlin. Die Nähe der Schweiz zum süddeutschen Raum brachte es mit sich, dass der in der Schweiz ansässige von Charles "Chuck" Steiner betriebene "Ole Hillbilly Drifters"-Club hauptsächlich die Aktivitäten der AFN-Stationen in München, Stuttgart und Frankfurt beleuchtete. Der erste Bericht dieser Serie stammt aus dem Jahr 1957. Anzumerken ist noch, dass die Clubzeitschriften der "Ole Hillbilly Drifters" anfangs in englischer Sprache erschienen, später wurden Beiträge auch in deutscher Sprache abgedruckt. Die Sendezeiten der Country-Sendungen (damals verwendete man noch die Terminologien "Hillbilly Music" und etwas fortgeschritten schon "Country & Western") sind in allen Beiträgen hervorgehoben. Ergänzungen zu dieser Chronologie sind jederzeit willkommen.
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Please note that Dan calls himself FULKERSON and not Polkerson. If you are a steady listener of AFN's "Hillbilly Gasthaus" you will be as surprised as we were when we learned his correct name. Check him announcing his show from Monday to Friday at 6.05 in the morning and you will be again surprised to hear Dan's name which indeed sounds like Polkerson. By the way, did you drop in lately a request? If not, hurry up, Dan will be pleased to fulfil your wish. Once again we would remind you of the exact address:
Sergeant DAN FULKERSON
"Hillbilly Gasthaus"
AFN Bremerhaven
APO 69, U.S. Army
Bremerhaven (Germany)Watch out for Dan´s letter in this issue on page 12.
If you happen to have some spare time in the early afternoon then tune in on AFN, because from Monday to Friday at 15.05 you can listen to the well-known "Stickbuddy Jamboree". Deejay Sergeant Larry Philips will entertain you 25 minutes with the best in country music. It is a request program, so why don't you put in a request too?Since the middle of May the American Forces Network in Europe (AFN) broadcasts every Saturday night from 20.30 to 20.55 a new program called "Saturday Night Country Style". Within the frame of this program you can hear by turns some of America's most famous Country Music Shows such as:
BIG D JAMBOREE from Dallas, Texas
featuring Hank Locklin and Carl Perkins
LOUISIANA HAYRIDE from Shreveport, Louisiana
presenting Johnny Cash and Jimmy Newman
OLD DOMINION BARN DANCE from Richmond, Virginia
starring Janis Martin and Don Reno/Red Smiley
OLD KENTUCKY BARN DANCE from Louisville, Kentucky
with Randy Atcher
and many many other fine artists. No real country music fan should miss these fine performances.Aus: “Country Singin´ and Pickin´ News” der Ole Hillbilly Drifters, Vol. II, Nummer 6, Juli 1957
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A LETTER FROM DAN FULKERSON
Bremerhaven, Germany 8 May 1957
Dear Chuck,
I have just finished reading your April edition of “Country Singin' and Pickin´ News” and enjoyed it very much. I have intended for some time to write and thank you for the issues you have sent to me. I am delighted to see your Ole Hillbilly Drifters fan club so active in promoting country and western music. Your organization must be a good one indeed, for from the requests I receive it's easy to see that it stretches over a good portion of the world.I am particulary thrilled with the interest you and all the members of the club have shown in the “Hillbilly Gasthaus”, and am happy that my job permits me being able to do the show. It is encouraging to receive all the interesting cards which the members of the Ole Hillbilly Drifters have sent my way, and the series of pictures which you sent me of Basel have already been forwarded to my mother in the States so she can enjoy them.
I wish you the best of luck in all your club activities and would appreciate your passing on my best to all of those members who you have the pleasure of associating with. It is wonderful to think that an organization like yours exists in Europe. I have enjoyed receiving all of your requests and am only sorry that at times I don't have available the records you sometimes want to hear. Again all my best to you and all the members of the Ole Hillbilly Drifters fan club. I hope that in the near future I have time to write you a longer letter, and again my thanks for all the nice cards and letters from you and the other club members.
Sincerely yours
DAN FULKERSONAus: “Country Singin´ and Pickin´ News” der Ole Hillbilly Drifters, Vol. II, Nummer 6, Juli 1957
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Dan Fulkerson schrieb die Aufnahme "A Tombstone Every Mile", mit der wiederum Dick Curless im März 1965 seinen ersten Erfolg hatte (Tower Records 124), BILLBOARD # 5.
*****THE EUROPEAN HILLBILLY HITPARADE
7 TOP TUNESAt the 27th of July 1957 the "Seven Top Tunes" in the Country and Western field of music tabulate like this:
1 Faron Young - I MISS YOU ALREADY
2 Hank Locklin - I´M SO TIRED OF GOING HOME ALL BY MYSELF
3 Jim Reeves - ACCORDING TO MY HEART
4 Ray Price - CRAZY ARMS
5 Ferlin Husky - WAITIN´
6 Jim Reeves I KNOW AND YOU KNOW
7 Johnny Horton - HONKY TONK MANThese selections on the Hillbilly Hit Parade have been tabulated by the greatest number of requests right here in Europe, taken off the "HILLBILLY GASTHAUS" and the "STICKBUDDY JAMBOREE" of the American Forces Network (AFN).
Aus: “Country Singin´ and Pickin´ News” der Ole Hillbilly Drifters, Vol. II, Nummer 6, Juli 1957