This special limited edition disc was marked “Compliments of Robert Riskin” and was sent to radio stations to help promote the 1947 film. The 12-inch, one-sided, 78 RPM disc ran just under five minutes. Riskin, who had produced Magic Town, saved some of the flubs and mistakes made by the actors and presented them on…
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The Big Sound – Who Am I?
If you haven’t read any of the other The Big Sound blogs, let me begin by telling you that this was a series of 12-inch, 33 1/3/ RPM records issued to participating radio stations in the early 1960’s. Each disc featured short spots delivered by film, TV, music and sports celebrities, which the station could…
Theatre Guild on the Air – That’s Gratitude
Jimmy Stewart made his third of six appearances on U.S. Steel’s Theatre Guild on the Air on September 26, 1948, in the play That’s Gratitude. According to the contract, Stewart was to be paid $2500 for his appearance: Many of the newspaper previews for the program featured Stewart’s photo. The first one is from the…
Salute to Champions
As mentioned in Jimmy Stewart on the Air, this show is not available. The only proof of its existence and the people who appeared on it come from various newspaper previews of the time. Because of space limitations, these were not used in the book, but are presented here. The two newspaper articles from which…
Hollywood Byline
To mark the one year anniversary of Hollywood Byline, a special show consisting of clips from the first year’s shows was pieced today and broadcast on September 21, 1950. This date also marked the half-hour show’s switch to a new day and time – Thursday at 10 p.m. on the east coast. The show was…
Amos ‘n’ Andy Music Hall
As mentioned in Jimmy Stewart on the Air, when the very popular Amos ‘n’ Andy show finally left the airwaves, Amos (Freeman Gosden) and Andy (Charles Correll) continued their characters on this new program. This new show was very different from what listeners were used to as described in this article from The Daily Reporter,…
Jimmy Stewart and His Poems
In 1989, this volume of poems by Jimmy Stewart was published by Crown Publishing Group. The book had made many best seller charts, including the prestigious New York Times list. Here is a list, including a photo of Stewart, which appeared in the October 8, 1989, Herald and Review, Decatur, IL. The success of the…
Theater Guild on the Air – One Sunday Afternoon
Jimmy Stewart’s first appearance on the Theater Guild on the Air program was also the first show of the new 1947-1948 radio season. On September 7, 1947, he starred as Biff Grimes in their production of One Sunday Afternoon. He had previously starred as Grimes in the August 28, 1946, broadcast of Academy Award (Theater)…
Ice Follies of 1953
Ice Follies of 1953 received a very brief mention in Jimmy Stewart on the Air, because little was known about it at that time. The program remains unavailable, but we have located several newspaper clips which add to the information known. A display ad and preview from the Long Beach, CA, Press-Telegram was mentioned in…
WEAM-AM
On September 2, 1947, this radio listing appeared in the Washington Post, Washington, DC: This is one of those listings which is very intriguing, but at the same time very annoying. Intriguing because it would be great to know exactly what it is and annoying because it looks like that will not happen. The block…
