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TODAY'S WELCOME TO THE SHOWROOM:

BAD

AMERICAN FORCES RADIO AND

TELEVISION SERVICE LP EDITION

P-24531 RL 38-7

 

 

As promised...here it is an authentic masterpiece, a newcomer in the Showroom collection. This is an unique edition of the album "BAD", released ONLY for the AFRTS - Armed Forces Radio and Television Service. In a few words, it's a record made for airplay in the U.S.Army radio stations.

These releases are very, very rare to found nowadays. And I'm quite sure an handful of copies of each title excist.

In the past years, I could see only once a "Dangerous" copy, and sometimes certain Motown releases ("The original soul of M.J." for example, and "One day in your life"). Almost all the releases on AFRTS have a different artist on each side - sometimes with a selection of songs taken by an album, or a plain copy of one side of the metioned album. Michael Jackson was one of the few artists (like Elvis Presley, to name one) to have some releases ("Bad" and "Dangerous") with both sides of the vinyl dedicated.

This "BAD" copy, as you can see, contains 8 tracks (!), "Dirty Diana" and "I just can't stop loving you" are missing.

And the Shoiwroom is proud today to own a MINT copy of this jewel.

 

 

If you want some references about these records, here they are some infos.

"AFRTS is the American Forces Radio and Television Service. It is part of the Department of Defense, and is headquartered at Fort George Meade Maryland. The AFRTS mission is to communicate Department of Defense policies, priorities, programs, goals and initiatives. AFRTS provides stateside radio and television programming, "a touch of home," to U.S. service men and women, DoD civilians, and their families serving outside the continental United States. AFRTS includes the Radio and Television Production Office (RTPO), The Pentagon Channel and the AFN Broadcast Center." (Source:Discogs)

Also:

"A US military radio and television service network that was established in 1954 when the Armed Forces Television Services and the Armed Forces Radio Service were combined. It was renamed in 1969 to the American Forces Radio And Television Service, but reverted back to the original "Armed Forces Radio And Television Service" name in 1982." (Source:Discogs)

Some interesting infos can be found also on Wikipedia, by clicking on this link:

Wikipedia - AFRST