For its 1957 Cancer Crusade, the American Cancer Society issued a 16-inch disc (101845A/191845B) featuring messages from many celebrities, including two from Mr. Stewart. On the A-side, Stewart’s message ran about 57-seconds. It is introduced by an unnamed announcer, who also closes the message. The B-side messages are much shorter and feature four celebrities each…
Monthly Archives: June 2016
The Six Shooter – Silver Threads
Broadcast on June 3, 1954, the title of this show is also sometimes given as Silver Threads Among the Gold or Song and Supper. As you know if you’ve been listening to the previous episodes, The Six Shooter was also being broadcast by the Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS) to our troops overseas. So, for…
Jimmy Stewart for 4-H Clubs
When we began documenting and collecting Jimmy Stewart radio shows, we knew that there was going to be information missed and shows that were not going to be available. We learned to live with that and occasionally found some of these missing gems to add to the collection. What is harder to take are those…
Voice of the Army – The Flying Dutchman
The Flying Dutchman was part of the Voice of the Army series and was broadcast in 1949. Only one newspaper reference to the show has been uncovered. It appeared in the Times-Herald, Olean, NY, on June 1, 1949. The 15-minute program, #448 in the series, was issued to radio stations on a 16-inch transcription disc…
Tony Weitzel Interview
Jimmy Stewart was interviewed by Tony Weitzel on radio station WBBM-AM, Racine, WI, on June 1, 1960. The interview is not available and the broadcast is known from a single listing in the Racine Journal-Times on the day of the broadcast…
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