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…
The Six Shooter Vol. 3
Crabapple Sound of Amsterdam, NY, issued a three-volume set of Jimmy Stewart’s The Six Shooter radio series. Recently, we acquired a copy of volume 3 of the set, but we’re still looking for the first two volumes. Each set apparently contains six cassettes and each cassette has two shows. From the set, we’re including Blood…
Sealtest Variety Theater
Forty-one episodes of this popular old-time radio show have been issued on an .mp3 CD from OTR World. The program of May 26, 1949, had Jimmy Stewart as a guest. See the original post, “Jimmy Stewart for Sealtest,” which was the blog of the day on May 28, 2016…
Guest Star
Jimmy Stewart was featured on Guest Star #23, a public service program presented by the U.S. Treasury Department. A new .mp3 CD has his show, as well as 104 others in the series. For just $4.95 all these shows are yours. To see more information on this show and listen to it, see the blog…
Starring Myrna Loy
A set of 14 CD’s featuring radio shows which starred Myrna Loy is often for sale on the internet. One of these CD’s has Miss Loy appearing with Jimmy Stewart. Miss Loy guested on the December 30, 1937, broadcast of Good News of 1937. Stewart was the host that evening and also acted in a…
The Forgotten Old Time Radio
This 12-CD (.mp3) set was issued by Onesmedia. Although there are over 1140 shows on these discs, only one of them features Jimmy Stewart. Stewart is interviewed on the Barbara Welles show from July 21, 1947. If you haven’t heard this interview before, it is a very interesting, and sometimes confusing, one. Do yourself a…
Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters’ Gold Medal of Honor
According to this article from the May 4, 1987, edition of Broadcasting magazine, Stewart was that year’s winner of this award. He was given the award for his contributions to the entertainment arts. This would include films, radio, TV and recording. Notice that Stewart mentions listening to KDKA, Pittsburgh, as a youth…
Radio Theatre
The following article appeared in the December 28, 1987, edition of Broadcasting magazine. From the way the article is written, it seems that Starmagic was lifting the actual film soundtrack from the movie and turning it into a radio show. This procedure is still being used today by an organization known as “Movies for the…
