In 2013, the Split Infinitives released an album titled Minor Endeavors, Endless Progress. The second track on the album was Jimmy Stewart/Telephone. Split Infinitives is actually just one man, Holden Martinson, who played all the instruments and also handled the vocals. He did have help from Brian Adkins in writing this song…
Yearly Archives: 2016
Chesterfield Supper Club
Perry Como’s 15-minute NBC evening program was a staple of NBC Radio all year long. For thirteen weeks in the summer of each year, substitute hosts appeared in Como’s place. For 1947, two men – Tex Beneke and Frankie Carle – rotated in that position. On September 4th, it was Carle’s turn to be host…
Screen Guild Theater (December 29, 1949)
For the second time, the first being December 29, 1947, Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed recreated their film roles from It’s a Wonderful Life on the Screen Guild Theater. The show was highly publicized in the newspapers. Here are three listings from the day of the broadcast. The first is from the Democrat and Chronicle,…
I’m An Ant
In 2008, the artist known as I’m An Ant released an album titled What Have I Done? The fifth song on that album was called Jimmy Stewart. Keith Hopkin played drums on the track. The song mentions Audrey Hepburn, Kathy (Katharine Hepburn) and Cary Grant, as well as Jimmy Stewart…
Old Time Radio’s Greatest Westerns
This 20-cassette set was issued by Radio Spirits (4410) in 1999. Many old time radio westerns are on the set, including: The Cisco Kid, Fort Laramie, Cavalcade of America, Frontier Gentleman, Gunsmoke, Have Gun – Will Travel, Hopalong Cassidy, The Lone Ranger, Luke Slaughter of Tombstone, Red Ryder, Roy Rogers, Screen Directors’ Playhouse, Straight Arrow,…
On Our Merry Way – Soundtrack Music
On Our Merry Way, starring Stewart, Paulette Goddard, Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, Fred MacMurray, Victor Moore and Burgess Meredith, was released in June of 1948. No soundtrack album was issued, but there were several recordings of songs from the film issued. The first single, Queen of the Hollywood Islands (Frank Loesser) by Dorothy Lamour, was…
Christmas on the Radio Volume 2
This is an 8-CD set issued by The Nostalgia Merchant in 2005. Only one Jimmy Stewart program is included in the set, that coming as the second show on disc 7 – Britt Ponset’s Christmas Carol, originally broadcast on The Six Shooter series on December 20, 1953. Part 1: Part 2:…
Holiday Radio Theater Collection Volume 1
This 5-CD set was issued in 2016 by YourRadioShows.com. One of the shows included in the set was the Lux Radio Theatre version of It’s a Wonderful Life which had first aired on March 10, 1947. Co-starring with Stewart was Donna Reed. Also included on the set was the December 22, 1947, Lux production of…
Good News of 1938 (Cassette)
This single cassette was issued by Radio Spirits (#2218) in 1998. The broadcast of December 23, 1937, is the only show on the tape…
The Big Sound – Shopping Days Until Christmas (Again)
If this one looks or sounds a little familiar to you, its because we originally posted it last December 22nd. But, it fits so well on this date that we decided to post it again. If you didn’t see the original post, enjoy it this time around. If you haven’t read any of the other…
