I just returned home yesterday from a very, very, very unexpected three-day stay in the hospital. This morning, I posted the blogs for: Monday, the 7th – Arch Oboler Remembers WWII; Tuesday, the 8th – An Evening with Bing Crosby and His Guests; and, Wednesday, the 9th – Old-Time Radio The Jack Benny show. Finally,…
Monthly Archives: November 2016
Dan Roberts – I Miss John Wayne (and Jimmy Stewart, too)
In 1998, Dan Roberts released an album titled There’s a Little Cowboy in All of Us (Old Boots Music). One of the songs on this album was I Miss John Wayne. Although the song is mainly about Wayne, near the end Roberts mentions quite a few of his cowboy heroes, including Jimmy Stewart, Gene Autry,…
Old-Time Radio The Jack Benny Program
This special set of Jack Benny Programs was issued in 2004 by Radio Spirits as a 10-cassette set (4333) and a 10-CD set (4334). Jimmy Stewart was the guest of the April 27, 1952, broadcast which is included in the set. Part 1: Part 2:…
An Evening with Bing Crosby and His Guests: 50 Rare Original Recordings
This digital set was issue for downloading and streaming in 2013 by Mach60 Music. Stewart is represented on the set by one 50 second clip of the song Mississippi Mud. Jimmy, Bing and Fran Warren had originally sung the song in the March 19, 1952, edition of The Bing Crosby Show. The clip is edited…
Arch Oboler Remembers WWII
This is a 6-cassette set issued in 1997 by Adventures in Cassettes (a division of Metacom). The Stewart show included in the set is A Letter at Midnight which was broadcast on the Plays for Americans program of March 15, 1942. If you haven’t heard the program before, you can listen to it here:…
Voices of Hollywood
This single cassette release represents volume 8 in a series issued by Radio Yesterdays in 1990. Included on the cassette is the Lux Radio Theatre version of It’s a Wonderful Life. The show was originally broadcast on Monday, March 10, 1947. Included on the cassette is the Lux Radio Theatre version of It’s a Wonderful…
Screen Guild Theater – Going My Way
On November 5, 1939, Stewart appeared on the Gulf Screen Guild Theater in the play Going My Way, which had no relationship at all to the 1944 Bing Crosby film of the same title. Stewart played the role of Lewis Conway. His wife, Nancy, was portrayed by Loretta Young. Edward Arnold played J.P. Hampton, Fuzzy…
The Larry King Show
Gerard Molyneaux, in his excellent book James Stewart A Bio-Bibliography, lists Stewart as having appeared on the November 5, 1990, edition of Larry King’s Mutual Radio talk show, The Larry King Show. According to the listing, Stewart was there to talk about his upcoming Thanksgiving weekend Westwood One radio special, It’s a Thankful Life. Such…
Jimmy Stewart Radio Collection
This digital only set was released for download and streaming in 2011. Thirteen different radio programs were included: 1) Cavalcade of America – The Guy Who Had to Have a Horse, November 12, 1945 2) Lux Radio Theatre – Destry Rides Again, November 5, 1945 3) Lux Radio Theatre – Madame X, June 14, 1937…
Jimmy Stewart – The Ultimate Radio Collection Vol. 1
This digital only set was released for download and streaming by Master Classics Records in 2011. Eighteen different radio shows are included, one divided into two parts, on the set: 1) Screen Directors’ Assignment – It’s a Wonderful Life (Part 1), May 8, 1949 2) Screen Directors’ Assignment – It’s a Wonderful Life (Part 2),…
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