In 1994, my soon to be bride and I went to a podunk country bar in Des Moines, Iowa. This was back in the days when I could hold my own on a dance floor, and on most days could ride the mechanical bull for most of 8 seconds. Anyway, some new kid we had never heard of was singing that night, and had but one single that had been released. Now, he’s worth $200 million dollars…and I’m not!
AFRTS starts 1966 playing to the 180,000 or so US troops stationed in country and end the year with 385,000 captive listeners. They add TV in Saigon showing week old sporting events and 1950's westerns along with some news and weather. There is some evidence that the VC and NVA also listened to our weather to plan their attacks because it was better than what they could get from the Chinese and Russians.
Of course the big hit was Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler's Ballad of the Green Beret which stayed on high rotation for far longer than it did in the States.
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