This 6-CD set has just recently been released by YourRadioShows.com. Each disc in the set features one 30-minute radio show with a Christmas theme. One of those included is Britt Ponset’s Christmas. This program was originally broadcast on December 20, 1953, on Stewart’s The Six Shooter series. Also included are shows from Roy Rogers and…
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Dan Roberts – I Miss John Wayne (and Jimmy Stewart, too)
In 1998, Dan Roberts released an album titled There’s a Little Cowboy in All of Us (Old Boots Music). One of the songs on this album was I Miss John Wayne. Although the song is mainly about Wayne, near the end Roberts mentions quite a few of his cowboy heroes, including Jimmy Stewart, Gene Autry,…
Great Western Radio Shows (CD)
The History of Radio – Great Western Radio Shows was released in 2004 by Topics Entertainment (CA-217). The 3-CD boxed set had two shows of each of the following programs – Gunsmoke, Hopalong Cassidy and The Six Shooter. There were no photos of the stars of the first two shows, but a Jimmy Stewart photo…
Radio’s Greatest Westerns
Radio’s Greatest Westerns was a 5-CD set issued in1992 by Prime Time Nostalgia (PTN-728). It featured shows from five radio programs – Gunsmoke starring William Conrad, Fort Laramie starring Raymond Burr, Hopalong Cassidy starring William Boyd, The Cisco Kid Starring Jack Mather and The Six Shooter starring Jimmy Stewart. All five of the leading men…
Boy Scout Jamboree – February 11, 1950
Jimmy Stewart was one of several guests appearing on the Boy Scout Jamboree broadcast of 1950. On the East coast, the program was aired from 1:30-2 p.m. The program is not available and all we know about it has been gleaned from newspaper clippings. The first of these is from The Brooklyn Eagle, Brooklyn, NY:…
Uncle Jay Jay’s Playtime
Uncle Jay Jay’s Playtime was a local show broadcast over KCRG-AM in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, between 1950 and 1952. The program was aired Saturdays from 9 to 9:30 a.m. The following newspaper listing is from the Cedar Rapids Gazette of February 1, 1952: The date for this broadcast would have been the following day, February…
Tex and Jinx – December 28, 1950
This 60-minute show was broadcast from the WNBC studios in Manhasset, New York, between 8:30-9:30 a.m. The program is not generally available. A copy of the program is held at the Miller Nichols Library, University of Missouri – Kansas City. As of this date, we have not been able to listen to the show, but…
