This is a 12-CD set released by Radiorevisited.com (21CD12). The Screen Directors’ Playhouse version of It’s a Wonderful Life, starring Jimmy Stewart, is included. Frank Capra, the film’s director, also makes an appearance on the program. The show was originally broadcast on May 8, 1949. …
Monthly Archives: December 2016
Old Time Radio Westerns, The Smithsonian Collection
This set from Radio Spirits was issued both in cassette and CD formats. The one Stewart show on the set is found on cassette/CD 3: The back of the cassette insert card has a short preview of each show: Anna Nordquist had originally been broadcast on May 6, 1954. If you haven’t listened to it…
Christmas is Interesting
This song first appeared on the 2012 CD, One Christmas at a Time, privately issued by the artists, Jonathan Coulter and John Roderick. The song’s lyrics mention Jimmy Stewart, It’s a Wonderful Life and several facts from the film…
Peter White – I Can’t Wait for Christmas
The album Peter White Christmas with Rick Braun and Mindi Abair (ARTizen Music Group ARZ 710019) was released in 2007. One of the songs on the album, I Can’t Wait for Christmas, mentions Jimmy Stewart in the lyrics. The members of the band included Peter White (acoustic and electric guitars, harmonica, lead vocals), Rick Braun…
Umphrey’s McGee
At each of their concerts, Umphrey’s McGee plays an improvisation song or two which they have named Jimmy Stewart. They took the name from a meeting room at the Renaissance Pittsburgh Hotel which was named after the Indiana, PA actor. Many different versions of this improvisation are available. None really has anything, other than its…
Good News of 1938 (December 16, 1937)
Stewart made his third appearance as the emcee of Good News of 1938, on December 16, 1937. According to his contract, Jimmy was to be paid a bonus of $1500 by M-G-M for his contribution to the show. In its December 15th edition, Film Daily mentioned the upcoming show: This preview is from the Amarillo…
Pat Gorman – Jimmy Stewart’s Gone
Here’s another song about Jimmy Stewart. Gorman’s Jimmy Stewart’s Gone is from the album Contempt which was issued in 2002 by Hugeness Records. In the lyrics, Gorman compares the death of Jimmy Stewart to his girlfriend’s leaving him…
Cheyenne Autumn – Radio Spots
When the John Ford directed film, Cheyenne Autumn, was released in 1964, a 12-inch, one-sided, 33 1/3/ RPM disc of radio spots was also issued by Warner Brothers (WB-678). A total of ten spots of varying lengths were included on the disc. Mr. Stewart’s voice is not heard on any of the spots, but he…
Stars in the Air
When Screen Guild Theater left the air at the end of May, 1951, there was no other program to take up its cause of supporting the Motion Picture Relief Fund. This was soon remedied. On December 13, 1951, Stars in the Air premiered on CBS and the relief fund had a new champion. The premiere…
Sloh knows Jimmy Stewart is a Swell Guy – Do You?
Sloh’s music is best categorized as electronic. Over an instrument base, Sloh has layered some of Stewart’s dialogue from the films, It’s a Wonderful Life, The Shop Around the Corner and The Philadelphia Story into the song, Jimmy Stewart is a Swell Guy. …
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