This 3-hour Westwood One radio special was detailed in Jimmy Stewart on the Air. Photos and several audio clips will be added here to enhance that entry. The show was hosted by Jim Lang and featured many interview clips with Stewart who talked at length about his experiences with the Glenn Miller Band and the…
Yearly Archives: 2015
Shenandoah Radio Spots
When Shenandoah was released in June of 1965, Universal Pictures also issued a special 7-inch, 45 RPM disc featuring seven radio spots of varying lengths to help advertise the film. The disc was pressed on red vinyl. Included were four 60-second spots, the third of which featured some dialogue from the film, including Stewart’s voice…
For Services Rendered – Newly Discovered Radio Broadcast
In 1945, the United States was about to begin its Victory Loan Bound Drive. To start the event, a radio broadcast was scheduled for 7:30-8 p.m. on Sunday, October 28th. The first hint of the program came on October 24th, when many newspapers carried an article like the one below from the Tucson Daily Citizen:…
O’Halloran’s Luck is Your Luck Too
Jimmy Stewart’s appearance in the Theatre Guild on the Air’s presentation of Stephen Vincent Benet’s O’Halloran’s Luck on Sunday, March 1, 1953, showed a bit of unusual casting, to say the least. The 6-foot-3-inch Stewart played the role of a leprechaun! Starring with him were John Lund, Gloria DeHaven and Una O’Connor. A detailed account…
Music from Seventh Heaven
No soundtrack has ever been issued for this 1937 film starring Stewart and Simone Simon. The title track, Seventh Heaven (Sidney D. Mitchell/Lew Pollack), was recorded by at least two different artists. Melotone 7-05-26 – Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees Decca 1226 – Abe Lyman, vocal chorus by Donald King Neither version charted. Sheet…
Bud’s Bandwagon #423
Bud’s Bandwagon was a five-day a week program of the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS) which, according to this article for the June 4, 1955 issue of Billboard magazine, was on the air for four years. Jimmy Stewart is known to have appeared on at least three of the Bud Widom hosted shows…
Music from Magic Town
The 1947 film, Magic Town, starred Stewart and Jane Wyman. The music for the film was composed by Roy Webb, but the title track was written by Mel Torme and Robert Wells.The February 19, 1947, edition of Variety announced that Torme would be recording the title song: Torme’s label, Musicraft, placed this ad in Billboard…
Leo is on the Air – The Shopworn Angel
In the 1930’s and 40’s, the large movie studios would often produce radio shows to help them promote new films. At Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, these shows were titled Leo Is on the Air. In Jimmy Stewart on the Air, we highlighted three such programs for Stewart films. One of those was The Shopworn Angel from 1938, which…
Night Passage – Soundtrack music
No official soundtrack for this Stewart film has ever been issued. However, The Film Music of Dimitri Tiomkin, a vinyl album of questionable origin, was issued in 1973. According to the album’s jacket, “This album was produced expressly for members of THE FILM MUSIC COLLECTOR’S SOCIETY and is not intended for commercial purposes.” Also according…
M-G-M Air View – The Stratton Story
We covered the story of this 12-inch, 78 RPM disc (M-G-M 27597/27598) in our book, but no photos or audio could be included. We add those here. The date, March 29, 1949, is stamped into the run-off area of the record. This is presumed to be either the date of the interview or the date…
