Charlie Tuna

14/09/2025

Charlie Tuna complete 1976 interview with Bernie Taupin now available to paid members on our Patreon.

Public excerpts coming soon.

Thank you to all our supporters!

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12/09/2025

Thank you to our newest Patreon Supporters!
Rick March
Vicki
and Phillip!

And thank you again, Lisa A. Hernandez, for your continued support!

We hope you join us in supporting our Charlie Tuna Archives digitization efforts!

https://www.patreon.com/TheCharlieTunaShow
Our Patreon Paid Members (Archive Supporters) have exclusive access to full unedited tapes including Charlie's interview with a young Michael Jackson, Karen Carpenter interview from 1976 and (upcoming) Bernie Taupin interview, exclusive photos/videos/documents we share, plus advance viewing/listening of archive content before we publish elsewhere.

There is so much yet to share; we are just getting started.
We welcome you on this journey!

P.S.: I was sick for the past 2 weeks. Sorry for the content delay!

—Daniel
(Art's eldest son)

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11/09/2025

RARE INTERVIEW AUDIO from family archives:
Here is another excerpt from the complete Charlie Tuna Show interview with Karen Carpenter (posted on Patreon) where Karen talks about fans, ma*****na, and the milk & cookies image ascribed to their lives and character and the effects on their lives from an August 2, 1976 People Magazine feature. Visit us on patreon.com/TheCharlieTunaShow for more!

11/09/2025

RARE INTERVIEW AUDIO from family archives:
Here is an excerpt from the complete Charlie Tuna Show interview with Karen Carpenter (posted on Patreon) where Karen talks about how and why she got her start on the drums and playing music. Visit us on patreon.com/TheCharlieTunaShow for more!

30/08/2025

An edit + excerpt from Side 2 of this KTNQ Aircheck during which Charlie talks about Spontaneous Human Combustion.

This clip was transferred from a cassette found in the official family archives. Full aircheck can be found on Charlie Tuna's YouTube Channel:
youtube.com/.

I hope you enjoy this slice of history!

Please consider becoming a member and supporting us on Patreon to help us digitize the legacy of Charlie Tuna!

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—Daniel (Art's eldest son)

29/08/2025

Paid members now have access to the complete Charlie Tuna/Karen Carpenter interview on Patreon (with a little behind the scenes pre-roll). I believe we have other interviews with her as well, according to the tapes database and I'll tag them so they can be found as a group as the archive grows.

Excerpts for everyone else will be posted to the usual social channels and YouTube.

Become a paid member and help support our cause, to grow and share Charlie Tuna's 50+ years of content.

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25/08/2025

I heard him mention this flick over the years and finally searched for it. Charlie Tuna (Dad) played a tennis "T.V. Announcer" in the movie "Racquet," starring Bert Convy, Lynda Day George, Tanya Roberts, Bjorn Borg, Bobby Riggs, and more. It can be found on YouTube. It's got 1970s vibes for sure.
—Daniel (Art's eldest son)

20/08/2025

Complete/unedited interview posted on Patreon.

Charlie Tuna sat down with young Michael Jackson in the summer of 1973 at Charlie's syndication studios in Los Angeles. Michael was 14 at the time and came alone, no entourage or publicists. This is the entire 17-minute interview we have from previous digitization efforts by Charlie. (July 22, 1973)

We will redigitize the interview if/when we find the source tape(s) and include any other audio surrounding it for a complete historical record.

TheCharlieTunaShow Patreon Paid Members have access to this and other exclusive content from the archives.

Thank you for becoming a Paid Member and supporting the digitization efforts of the Charlie Tuna official archives!

To license use of any interview audio with Charlie Tuna for broadcast, film, or other media, please contact us at [email protected] for rate negotiations.

—Daniel and Bryan (Art's sons)

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18/08/2025

Just added to the Patreon page: an exclusive, Charlie Tuna interview with young Michael Jackson from 1973.
A longer clip is now available to Free Members. Paid Members supporting our archive efforts now have access to the full interview.

The full interview audio is available for broadcast/media licensing.

Support our Charlie Tuna archives efforts and become our Patreon Paid Member—includes exclusive content like complete tape cuts, behind the scenes, shoutouts of gratitude on Patreon and Facebook.

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17/08/2025

POLL TIME: Trying something new!
Please vote for the open reel tape number you wish us to share next via Patreon (snippets shared here on Facebook)!

Review each image here, numbered 1–10, and read the contents catalog in Charlie's handwriting.

Post a comment with the tape number you'd like to hear us share next. We'll tally the comments in a few days or a week depending on response rate and let you know which one it will be.

Thanks for participating!

15/08/2025

Here's a public Patreon post for our Armed Forces service members. We hope you never felt far from home with Charlie Tuna's AFRTS shows.

I was reminded of how important you are every time he tore out the door after recording to make another tape delivery deadline. I did not realize the impact he would make on you or how truly far and wide his voice would carry.

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15/08/2025

Charlie Tuna scoped aircheck, TenQ 11-15-1978.
The full cassette (Side 1) transfer is now up on YouTube, ready for your nostalgia pleasure. This cassette did not hold the entire on-air shift (appears to have been a 5am-10am shift).

We hope you enjoy and remember with us!

Charlie Tuna, TenQ Los Angeles, November 15, 1978From the official family archives, this scoped aircheck comes from a cassette transfer from Charlie's collec...