In 1988, this album was issued in Canada by the International Association of Jazz Record Collectors (Arcadia 5001). The main purpose of the album was to spotlight a new radio recording from 1930 made by Bing Crosby and the Rhythm Boys. In fact, the full title of the LP is Bing Crosby and the Rhythm…
Category Archives: Album
Film Stars on Parade
Audio Archives 0026 The release date of this 10-inch album is not known, but it most likely dates from the late 1940s or early 1950s. The disc is subtitled Treasured Memories, and claims to have the voices of 80 American and British stars in scenes from their pictures. Stewart appears near the beginning of side…
AFRTS Basic Musical Library
The Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS), and its predecessor, the Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS), issued thousands of discs featuring music tracks as a part of its basic music library series. Our research has thus far turned up just one such disc on which Jimmy Stewart appears. It is part of the AFRTS…
Chase and Sanborn 100th Anniversary Radio Show
The Chase and Sanborn 100th Anniversary show had been broadcast by NBC on November 15, 1964. The one hour special was hosted by Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. The show was later released as an album (RR-4H-5305). The record included the Jimmy “Zeke” Stewart sketch with Mortimer Snerd, which had originally been broadcast on the…
The Death Valley 49ers
On December 3, 1949, a Death Valley Centennial celebration was held in Desolation Canyon, Death Valley, CA. As part of the celebration, a pageant titled “The Death Valley ‘49ers” was presented. The program was narrated by Jimmy Stewart and featured many actors as voices of the pioneers – Gail Russell, Anne Revere, Guy Madison, Parley…
Bing Crosby and Friends
HRB Music Co. Inc. 8CP 1001 This 4-record boxed set is of dubious legality. It appears to be a pirate copy of the Murray Hill set, The Murray Hill Radio Theatre Presents Bing Crosby and Friends. The plain white box has the title on the front. The back is blank. There are no liner notes…
Bing Sings Again
This set was pressed by RCA for The Reader’s Digest Association. It was issued both as a three tape 8-track cassette (RD5-138) set and an eight LP boxed set (RD4-138). The set also includes a 16-page booklet with many photos and stories about each song included. Many duets by Crosby and his radio guests are…
The Murray Hill Radio Theatre Presents Bing Crosby and Friends
Murray Hill Records 894637 The Murray Hill boxed set has four albums featuring 53 songs, many sung with others, from Bing’s various radio programs. It features the same Jimmy Stewart/Fran Warren/Bing Crosby song, Mississippi Mud (James Cavanaugh/Harry Barris), which can also be found on the Reader’s Digest set, Bing Sings Again and another 4-LP set,…
