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…
Boys’ Club Public Service Announcements
This series of celebrity public service announcements for the Boys’ Clubs of America was issued on a 16-inch transcription disc playing at 33 1/3 RPM (Columbia YTNY 10644). Those heard on the disc included Jimmy Stewart, J. Edgar Hoover, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. The disc is not in general circulation, but is available at…
Dick Allen Interviews the Stars of “How the West Was Won”
Hollywood reporter Dick Allen interviews a few of the stars of How the West Was Won, including Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne, Carolyn Jones, Debbie Reynolds and George Peppard. The interviews were recorded at the C.P. MacGregor Studio in Los Angeles. The tape boxes have two dates listed – February 11th and 16th, 1963. Just who…
Luncheon with Maggi McNellis and Herb Sheldon at the Latin Quarter
This program was heard Monday through Saturday on WJZ (ABC) in New York City. It aired from 2-2:30 pm Monday-Friday and 1-1:30 pm on Saturday. Jimmy Stewart was interviewed by Maggi McNellis (Maggi Newhouse) in June of 1948. At least a part of that interview was most likely about the Alfred Hitchcock film, Rope, which…
La Habitacion Roja – James Stewart
La Habitacion Roja (The Red Room) released their self-titled album in Spain in 1998 (Grabasciones En El Mar GELMAR123). One of the songs on the album was James Stewart. The song is basically an instrumental, but at the end someone says, “It’s a wonderful life, it’s a wonderful life…sometimes,” in a computer generated voice. The…
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…
