The following article appeared in Hedda Hopper’s newspaper column for December 20, 1941: No broadcast date was listed and no recording of the show has been located. But, if the impersonation was good enough to fool his own parents, how would we identify this show even if it was found?…
Yearly Archives: 2016
1957 Heart Fund Drive
This public service disc was covered in Jimmy Stewart on the Air, but is updated here with a photo and audio. The 16-inch transcription disc was prepared for the American Heart Association and was to be used during the month of February. It was prepared by the Gotham Recording Corporation (GRC-4289). Mr. Stewart delivered the…
An Interview with Jimmy Stewart and Harvey
To help promote the film Harvey, Universal-International issued a 12-inch, 33 1/3 RPM interview disc to radio stations. This was an open-end interview, featuring only Stewart’s answers on the record. The local disc jockey would ask the questions which were also supplied by U-I in the form of a script. Although the record is part…
Shirley Thomas Hollywood
Shirley Thomas was a Hollywood reporter for NBC Radio and also hosted her own weekly half-hour program. As listed in Jimmy Stewart on the Air, Jimmy appeared on the July 26, 1953, broadcast. Here is a listing from the Independent Press-Telegram, Long Beach, CA, on the day of the broadcast. This show is not available…
V.I.P. Radio/The Big Sound – Station Break “Frames”
The same Stewart recording was used for the 1950’s V.I.P. Radio and the 1960’s The Big Sound self-promotion discs provided to radio stations on a subscription basis. The idea of this particular set of recordings was to supply a celebrity framework around which the local disc jockey could identify himself and the stations. As you…
Jimmy Stewart Subs for Bill Stern
On Friday, July 23, 1948, Bill Stern was aboard the S.S. Mauritania on his way to England to broadcast from the London Olympic Games. His radio show, Bill Stern’s Sports Newsreel, needed a substitute host and on this day it was Jimmy Stewart. As mentioned in Jimmy Stewart on the Air, it turns out that…
Boy Scout Jamboree – July 23, 1953
This was the fifth, and we believe final, Boy Scout Jamboree radio broadcast in which Mr. Stewart participated. Below are two newspaper previews of the event. The first is from the Long Beach Independent, Long Beach, CA: The second appeared in the San Antonio Express, San Antonio, TX: The show is not available, but these…
WJJD-AM, Chicago
According to the following listing from the July 22, 1948, edition of the Chicago Tribune, Jimmy Stewart appeared on this station from 10:30-10:45 a.m. on that day. The show is not available, so it is impossible to determine the nature of his visit. However, as mentioned in Jimmy Stewart on the Air, the film Call…
Destry Rides Again – Exploitation Record
According to the record’s label, the disc was “Prepared & serviced by Universal Pictures for and to motion picture theatres solely for use in the exploitation of the film Destry Rides Again.” The recording was meant to be played in theater lobbies before and/or after films so that patrons could hear it as they were…
Victory Theatre – The Philadelphia Story
In 1942, The Office of War Information’s Office of Facts and Figures went to the broadcast networks to pitch the idea of their supplying blocks of airtime for getting war messages out the their listeners. The CBS answer to this plea was Victory Theatre. It aired just eight episodes, each one an extra performance of…
