Jimmy Stewart appeared on the Treasury Department’s public service program, Guest Star, in August of 1947. His job was simple…sell U.S. Savings Bonds. A 6-CD set which includes this program was recently issued. To read further information and listen to this program, click on the link below to the original post – “Buy Bonds from…
Yearly Archives: 2017
How the West Was Won – New Soundtrack Single
We recently came into possession of this 7-inch EP which was issued in Spain in 1963 (Barclay SBGE 83088). As you can see, the picture sleeve utilizes a photo of James Stewart from the film. The music is performed by Marc Taynor and His Orchestra. A rough translation of the song titles is included on…
Lux Radio Theatre (DWG 0723)
Featured on this cassette release is a rehearsal version of Destry Rides Again. The recording was made on November 4, 1945. The actual broadcast was the following day on Lux Radio Theatre. It starred Jimmy Stewart and Joan Blondell. The “Lux Radio Theatre – Destry Rides Again” link below will take you to the original…
Cavalcade of America (DWG 0641)
Three shows from this long-running series were issued on this cassette. One of those, A Guy Who had to Have a Horse, starred Jimmy Stewart. It was originally broadcast on November 12, 1945. Several of the links below will take you to the original blog to read more about this show and listen to it…
Edgar Bergen-Charlie McCarthy Show
For whatever reasons, we cannot update our original post – “Edgar Bergen-Charlie McCarthy Show – May 10, 1953” – so we are entering it as a separate post. See the original for more details. First, several new newspaper clippings from the day of the broadcast have been located. The first, from The Des Moines Register,…
Six Shooter Pack
This cassette set was issued in 1999 by the British firm, Hodder & Sloughton on their Hodder Headline label (HH301). We have found this audio cassette on several sites, but it is listed as “out of stock” on all of them. So, exactly which shows are featured here remains unknown. We will continue to search…
Starring Carole Lombard
A 5-CD set of shows starring Carole Lombard is available. One of the shows included is the Lux Radio Theatre program, The Moon’s Our Home, which was broadcast on February 10, 1941. See the original blog (February 10, 2016) to listen to the show. Click on the link below to find more information on this…
Starring Cary Grant
Released as part of a 10-CD set, this one features the July 20, 1942, premiere of Victory Theatre, the summer replacement for the Lux Radio Theatre. Presented was The Philadelphia Story, starring Grant, Stewart, Katharine Hepburn and Ruth Hussey. Click below to go to the original post to listen to the show and read more…
Golden Days of Radio 169 (RU 41-1)
An Armed Forces Radio and Television Service disc of this program is housed in the Library of Congress. It is dated 1971, and is a 12-inch disc playing at 33 1/3 RPM. The Golden Age of Radio was hosted by Frank Bresee and was 25-minutes in length. According to the Library of Congress summary, it…
The Naked Spur – Possible Radio Performance
The WOR Collection in the Library of Congress has two 16-inch recordings which are marked as being “radio rehearsals.” The title on the discs is The Naked Spur and the stars are listed as James Stewart and Janet Leigh, the stars of the 1953 film of the same title. The recording date is listed as…
