On April 6, 1949, the 100th Bing Crosby show was broadcast and Jimmy Stewart was his guest, along with Kay Starr. This display ad for the program appeared in the Winona Republican Herald, Winona, MN. Stewart’s contract for the show was a simple one: plot of the Crosby-Stewart sketch is simple. Jimmy is babysitting, but…
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Bing Crosby Show – Jimmy Sings
Jimmy made his fifth appearance on the Crosy show on March 19, 1952. The show had been transcribed on March 6th, at the Plaza Theater in Palm Springs, CA. After Crosby’s opening routine and songs, Bing introduces Jimmy. Bing mentions the fact that Stewart is currently starring in Bend of the River. To go along…
The Bing Crosby Show – Jimmy Buys a Washing Machine
Stewart made his tenth and final appearance on the Crosby show on March 12, 1953. A publicity photo for the show was taken showing Crosby and Stewart with their scripts: At least one newspaper, the Portsmouth Times, Portsmouth, OH, used this photo in an ad for the program. Other newspapers ran previews of the show…
Jimmy and Bing – Show #1
Jimmy Stewart appeared on the Bing Crosby radio show many time between 1948 and 1953. and each time was a special treat as the pair worked together very well. Stewart’s ten appearances are well documented in Jimmy Stewart on the Air, but some materials not in the book are included here. His first appearance came…
American Red Cross – 1954 Fund Campaign
This public service announcement from Stewart was covered in Jimmy Stewart on the Air, but a photo and the actual audio are being presented here. Jimmy was one of fourteen persons on the special 16-inch transcription disc issued by the American Red Cross (F-21390X). Most of the other names on the label will be familiar…
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,…
Bing Crosby Show – January 24, 1951
This was Jimmy’s second appearance on Bing’s new Chesterfield Show for CBS Radio. Bing’s musical guest for the evening was Toni Arden. Stewart signed contracts for each individual show he did with Bing. Here are the three pages of the contract for this show. You can see for yourself just how involved the contracts were…
Day After Day – Still Need a Copy?
One of the first blogs we published was about the 10-inch, 78 RPM recording of Day After Day sung by Jimmy Stewart and recorded during his days at Princeton University. This record is extremely rare and difficult to find. However, if you want to add the song to your music library, there are other sources…
Sports Award Banquet of the Los Angeles Times
The 4th annual Sports Award Show of the Los Angeles Times was held on Monday, December 27, 1948, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. The show was broadcast by the Mutual Broadcasting System from 10:30 to 11 p.m. The show is not available and all that is known about it has been gathered from…
Bob Hope and His Friends
The album, Bob Hope and His Friends (King of Comedy Associates KOC-1226), was released in 1979. This was a special 3-record boxed set with a 47-page booklet of photos and information. Many of the celebrities who had appeared with Hope through the years were heard on the album. Stewart, of course, appeared, as well as…
