This 16-inch, 33 1/3 RPM disc was issued to radio stations in 1956 by the Crusade for Freedom (F60146), in support of Radio Free Europe. Besides Stewart, Walter Brennan, Bing Crosby, Alan Ladd, Art Linkletter, Pat O’Brien, Dick Powell, Robert Stack, Dinah Shore, Jack Webb and Barbara Stanwyck also provide messages on the disc. We…
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The Hedda Hopper Show: Hats Off
Jimmy Stewart was the guest on this show’s premiere episode, broadcast on October 2, 1944. The CBS show was broadcast Mondays from 7:15-7:30 pm. The show was sponsored by Armour and Company. The program’s music was supplied by Dick Aurandt at the organ and Lew Maury playing the piano and celesta. The show had the…
Accrington Stanley – James Stewart
In 1994, the British group Accrington Stanley released an album titled Lovebound (The Beepsounds Recording Company BEEP2C). One of the songs on the album was James Stewart. The chorus, heard several times throughout the song, features the words, “if only James Stewart were with me now he’d know what to do, he always did somehow.”…
The Six Shooter (.mp3 set)
If you still don’t own a complete collection of Stewart’s The Six Shooter radio series, here’s a source of all the shows on a single disc. The set was issued in 2017 by Creative Commons. All shows are in the .mp3 format, but since just about every player these days will play these discs, that…
It’s a Wonderful Life – Original Radio Materials
A few months ago two 16-inch discs issued to radio stations at the time of the release of It’s a Wonderful Life (January, 1947) were placed in a auction on Ebay. The starting bid for the two records was $1950. We would have loved to add the discs to our collections, but decided that the…
John Steinbeck and Jimmy Stewart…A Collaboration that Might Have Been
The following article appearrd the in May 27, 1942, edition of Variety: According to the article, Steinbeck planned on gathering material about Army Air Corps bomber crews and using that material to write a book and produce film, radio and television materials. Working with him on the planning were Jimmy Stewart, Burgess Meredith and CBS…
Radio Theatre Collection
The United States does not have a monopoly on the love of old time radio. This 7-CD set was issued by The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph in England. A different CD was issued in a newspaper each day. A special tri-fold cardboard jacket was also provided to house the entire collection. The CD’s…
Here’s Lookin’ at You
On their 2001 album, Last Night in Town (Ferret Music F27), The Buffalo, New York, group, Everytime I Die, featured the song Here’s Lookin’ at You. The song is about the film industry and not only mentions Jimmy Stewart, but also James Dean and Sinatra in its lyrics. Band members included Jordan Buckley (guitar), Keith…
This is Jimmy Stewart…Please Leave a Message After the Tone
No, Jimmy Stewart did not make a phone answering machine outgoing message! But, Rich Little did and he could sound as much like Stewart as anyone. Little’s cassette tape with ten different messages was issued by Radio Shack (43-419). Actually, Stewart’s impersonation was heard twice on the tape. The first time was at the beginning…
The Six Shooter Rides Again
The Six Shooter Rides Again is a set of two cassettes released in England (Hodder Headline Audio HH541). This was the second set of The Six Shooter which the company had released. All four sides of the cassettes were identical, except for being numbered one through four. As you can see, no titles were listed…
