On their 2002 album, Rings Around the World (XL Recordings BXL 026CD), the Super Furry Animals had a song titled Shoot Doris Day. The song has this line, presumably inspired by the film The Man Who Knew Too Much, “Sentimentality pause as Jimmy Stewart ignores her question. The song title, by the way, refers to…
Monthly Archives: January 2017
The Roosevelt Years: 1939
The is part of a series of shows on President Roosevelt which were produced and narrated by John Salisbury and broadcast on KXL, Portland, OR, in 1973. This particular show features soundbites from many celebrities, including: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jimmy Stewart, Judy Garland, the Andrews Sisters, Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas, Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh,…
Bill of Rights Program
A special set of six 12-inch, 78 RPM records of the December 15, 1941, broadcast of We Hold These Truths was prepared for each of the participants in the program. The sets were made by Studio & Artists Recorders of Hollywood, CA. The records were housed in a six sleeve album stamped with the name…
Christmas Seal Campaign 1959
We can now add another Christmas Seal Campaign to the list of those on which Mr. Stewart’s message can be heard – 1959. As with the ones for 1958, 1961-1964, this was issued on a 12-inch, 33 1/3 RPM disc pressed by RCA Custom Records (KM8R-0585): Those celebrities appearing on the other side of the…
Chesterfield Supper Club
Perry Como was normally the host of the Supper Club, but for 13 weeks in the summer of 1947, that position alternated between Tex Beneke and Frankie Carle. The final summer host on September 5th was Tex Beneke. It was the last show for the summer and Como was set to return the following week…
Betty Crocker (A New Find)
As discussed in Jimmy Stewart on the Air, the Betty Crocker radio show was on the air for 29 years. Several women, including Zella Layne, Betty Bucholz and Adelaide Hawley, played the role of Betty Crocker on the program through the years. At the time our book was published, we had only been able to…
Vertigo – Soundtrack
When the film Vertigo, released in 1958, a soundtrack album featuring the music of Bernard Herrmann was also issued (Mercury MG-20384). The album cover carried a photo of the film’s stars, James Stewart and Kim Novak. You can see that Stewart, Novak and Alfred Hitchcock are also mentioned on the record label, as well as…
Marty McNeely Show
We recently found this interesting listing. It appeared in the April 18, 1957, edition of the Detroit Free Press, Detroit, MI: It’s vague, but it could be Mr. Stewart. It is Marty McNeely’s show, so this Stewart would have been a guest. At this time, Stewart was near the end of a promotional tour for…
Bend of the River – Premiere
Jimmy Stewart’s latest film, Bend of the River, was set to have its world premiere in Portland, Oregon, on July 23, 1952. The Motion Picture Daily first announced that Stewart and other stars of the film would be on hand for the premiere in its January 11th edition: On the day of the premiere several…
Bloodhound Gang – Magna Cum Nada
Magna Cum Nada was released on the Bloodhound Gang’s 2000 album, Hooray for Boobies (Geffen Records 490 455-2). The song’s lyrics mention Stewart in the line, “Feel like Jimmy Stewart, no one sees my Harvey.” The lyrics also mention Holden Cauldfield (Catcher in the Rye character), Jack Lemmon and Larry Flynt. The members of the…
