Danny Lane's Music Museum

Episode 152: Vietnam War: The Music - Stateside Top 40 Week of Apr 30, 1975 (Our Salute to AFVN)

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Vietnam War: The Music presents a salute to the American Forces Vietnam Network. AFVN was created as a morale-boosting military radio station for servicemen and women in Vietnam. AFVN broadcast 24 hours a day, seven days a week for over 10 years; it began broadcasting on August 15, 1962, and ended in March of 1973. At the height of American involvement in the war, Armed Forces Vietnam Network served more than 500,000 fighting men and women at one time. AFVN was a forum for news, comedy, and entertainment for the soldiers during the Vietnam War. Perhaps the best-known radio program became the morning "Dawn Buster" program, thanks to the popularity of the sign-on slogan "Gooooood Morning, Vietnam" (which was initiated by Adrian Cronauer and later became the basis for the film Good Morning, Vietnam starring Robin Williams). Among the notable people who were AFVN disc jockeys were Paul Bottoms, Don L. "Scotty" Brink, Pat Sajak, and Denny Woytek. Besides AFVN radio from AFRTS, there were GI-operated underground (p