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,…
Yearly Archives: 2015
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…
Lunch with Val
A few months ago the picture below came up for sale on Ebay: The back of the photo is dated March, 1955, and carries the caption: “Valerie Long who is shown here interviewing movie actor Jimmy Stewart on her “Lunch with Val” radio show over station WEAW, will begin a new radio show “Dinner with…
Christmas Greetings from Jimmy Stewart and McDonald’s
If you’re looking for very distinctive Stewart radio related items, this one is definitely for you. It is a CD (XDIW-CD) given away for the grand opening of a new McDonald’s in Moraine, Ohio, in 2001. Here are scans of (1) the front of the insert sheet, (2) the back of the insert sheet, and…
The Shenandoah Soundtrack
One of the more popular soundtrack albums for a Stewart film was 1965’s Shenandoah. Decca DL-9125 (mono)/DL7-9125 (stereo) The soundtrack was also issued as a reel-to-reel tape: Decca ST74-9125 (stereo) Except where noted, all of the music was composed by Frank Skinner and conducted by Joseph Gershenson. Charles “Bud” Dant produced the album. The tracks…
The Man from Laramie
Many of Stewart’s films had soundtrack albums released. His voice did not appear on most of these (although his photo usually did), but they are still quite collectable and sought after by his fans. Even when there was no soundtrack album, there were releases – 78’s, 45’s and LP’s. Such is the case with The…
