The “I Speak for Democracy” contest was open to high school students. A student would write and read an essay on democracy which would be judged on the local, state and national level. A special 16-inch transcription disc was prepared to both inform students of the contest and encourage them to participate. The disc featured…
Monthly Archives: July 2015
25th Anniversary of the Air Force Song
As covered in our book, in September of 1964, to mark the 25th anniversary of the Air Force Song by Robert Crawford, a special 25-minute radio show was prepared and distributed to radio stations. The 12-inch, 33 1/3 RPM disc was housed in a special sleeve. An insert showed the running order for the program:…
Jimmy Stewart on NBC Monitor #1
Mr. Stewart appeared on the NBC weekend program, Monitor, many times. Several of these have been preserved and detailed in our book. The first surviving segment is from the broadcast of May 22, 1965. Like most Monitor segments, it received very little notice in the newspaper: Stewart was interviewed by Hobart Lewis in Yuma, Arizona,…
The Rare Breed Interview
In 1966, when The Rare Breed was released, a 10-inch, 33 1/3 RPM record featuring interviews with the film’s stars, Jimmy Stewart and Maureen O’Hara, was also issued to help promote the film. Universal Pictures 555 This record was included in our book, but the label scan and the audio are new here. The same…
Jimmy Stewart Meets Fred Waring
Stewart and Warning are both Pennsylvanians…in fact, they grew up less than 70 miles from each other…Waring in Tyrone and Stewart in Indiana. Stewart made three appearances on the Fred Waring radio program, the first coming on January 24, 1947. This show was well documented in our book, but with the extra materials added here,…
Jimmy Stewart on Behalf of Baby Harp Seals
Back in the 1970’s, Jimmy Stewart was involved in a campaign sponsored by the International Fund for Animal Welfare. It was called “Every Letter Counts.” The idea was to have people write letters to the Canadian government asking them to stop the clubbing to death of baby harp seals. We highlighted these public service announcements…
National Cooperative Forest Fire Prevention Program
This 1969 public service record was included in our book, but photos and audio will be added here to make that information more complete. U.S. Forest Service Platter 26 Mr. Stewart appears on tracks 3-4-5 on side two of the 7-inch, 33 1/3 RPM record. He says the same thing on each track – “All…
New Interview with Louella Parsons
In October of 2013, a routine Jimmy Stewart search of Ebay turned up the following record: The listing carried no information other than what could be seen on the label. We bid and won the recording and when it arrived, we listened and found it to be Louella Parsons interviewing Stewart on her radio program…
Project Hope
Let’s take a closer look at Jimmy’s Project Hope public service announcements which we described in the book, but included no photos or audio. The disc itself was issued in 1968 as a 7-inch, 33 1/3 RPM record (RS 1968): It was a one-sided disc prepared by Ron Stone & Company, Advertising, and had five…
A Gala Tribute to Josh Logan
The tribute was staged at the Imperial Theatre on May 2, 1975, by the Friends of the Theatre and Music Collection of the Museum of the City of New York. Many people sang songs from Logan’s shows or told anecdotes about him, including his Princeton University mate Jimmy Stewart, as well as Larry Blyden, Sheila…
