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…
Yearly Archives: 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…
Lux Radio Theatre Presents Western Drama
This 8-CD set was issued by Radiorevisited.com (74CD8). Destry Rides Again, starring Stewart and Marlene Dietrich, was included in the set. The show had originally been broadcast on November 5, 1945…
This is New York
Stewart had been a guest on the WCBS radio show in March of 1957, and now he was back for a second visit with host Bill Leonard. The date was May 30, 1958. Here is the New York Times listing for the program. Stewart seems to have been wedged in between a sculptor and an…
Radio’s Greatest Westerns
Radio’s Greatest Westerns was a 5-CD set issued in1992 by Prime Time Nostalgia (PTN-728). It featured shows from five radio programs – Gunsmoke starring William Conrad, Fort Laramie starring Raymond Burr, Hopalong Cassidy starring William Boyd, The Cisco Kid Starring Jack Mather and The Six Shooter starring Jimmy Stewart. All five of the leading men…
Jimmy Stewart for Sealtest
Stewart appeared with Dorothy Lamour and Eddie Bracken on the May 26, 1949, edition of the Sealtest Variety Theater. Here are a few additions to what we had to say about this show in Jimmy Stewart on the Air. First, here’s a display ad that appeared in the Syracuse Herald-Journal on the day of the…
The Six Shooter – Blood Relations (May 27, 1954)
The title is given at the break between acts one and two as Blood Relations. However, it is also sometimes known as Bad Blood. In The Independent Record, Helena, MT, the show was advertised as a part of an ad for two radio stations – KXLJ and KCAP. The co-stars of this show were Barbara…
