WWII, Classic Radios, Old Time Radio, Norman Rockwell.
Music
Glenn Miller, Jack Teagarden, Bix Beiderbecke, Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Perry Como, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, The Dorsey Brothers, Benny Goodman, George Gershwin, The Andrews Sisters, Tex Beneke, Ella Mae Morse, The Pied Pipers, Kay Kyser, Dick Haymes, Louis Armstrong, Johnny Mercer, Harry James, Peggy Lee, Stan Kenton and His Orchestra, Al Jolson, Nelson Eddy, Billy Eckstine, Jimmy Durante, Vic Damone, and more.
Movies
Band of Brothers, Radio Days, The Aviator, Tucker: A Man and His Dream, Saving Private Ryan, Flags of Our Fathers, Enemy at the Gates.
Television
RADIO: The Jack Benny Program, The Bob Hope Show, Lux Radio Theater, Mercury Theater on the Air, The Campbell's Soup Playhouse, Burns and Allen, Lum and Abner, The Adventures of Philip Marlow, Gunsmoke, and more.
In 2003, a 50 Thousand Watt Station located in Worcester, Massachusetts lit up the airwaves with sounds from America's favorite standards artists. Swing 830 was the name of the station. Playing artists from Judy Garland to Frank Sinatra, Swing 830 gained critical acclaim for setting the knob back to a simpler time where great music ruled.
But in early 2004, Swing 830 became the "True Oldies Channel" and the Massachusetts authority in Big Band and standards was silenced. Consequently, the station's ratings suffered in the Oldies Format.
Producer Vince Wylde from Swing 830 had fallen in love with the music from the original format, and had always wanted to expand on it turning Swing 830 into a portal to the Golden Era complete with ads for Carter's Little Liver Pills and Old Time Radio, an idea that station management had avoided.
When the station switched formats, Vince lept into action. He opened up a station on Live365, and called it orginally, Swing 830. However, a few months beyond that he came up with the idea to call it Freedom Jazz Radio. The station was named such because much of the music played on FJR was made famous during WWII, when America defended it's freedom from Germany and Japan.
Now, nearly 4 years later, FJR remains strong, playing 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. A complete transport to "somewhere between 1925 and 1965".
