You Are the Flag

This special audio-visual presentation was prepared by Milton Caniff and Jimmy Stewart. Caniff did the artwork and wrote the text of You Are the Flag and Stewart tape recorded the text. His reading is backed by Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians. The mural and reading were made a permanent part of the Scout Center of the Allegheny…

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Tales of Mystery and Suspense Vol. 2

This is a 4-cassette set released by Greatapes in 1991. It featured eight programs originally broadcast on Suspense. The set was issued in a special slipcase box: Stewart’s show was on the a-side of the second cassette: Suspense had first aired Consequence on May 19, 1945. Part 1: Part 2: Other shows included in the…

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The Six Shooter: Gray Steel

Radio Spirits had issued 20 episodes of The Six Shooter in 2004 on the 10-CD set, Six Shooter – Special Edition. Finally, in 2015, they issued the remaining episodes of the show on this set (46032). The shows included were: 1) Audition Show, July 15, 1953 2) Jenny, September 20, 1953 3) The Coward, September…

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The Shooting of Wyatt King/Silver Threads

This is another single cassette featuring two shows which was an early release from Radio Spirits (#700). The Shooting of Wyatt King was originally aired on May 20, 1954. Song and Supper, more commonly known as Silver Threads, was broadcast June 3, 1954.   Here’s Wyatt King. Part 1: Part 2:    …

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AFRTS Basic Musical Library

The Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS), and its predecessor, the Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS), issued thousands of discs featuring music tracks as a part of its basic music library series. Our research has thus far turned up just one such disc on which Jimmy Stewart appears. It is part of the AFRTS…

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Bob Rumbaugh ‘N’ Basketcase

In 1984, Rumbaugh released a song he called Movie Stars on 33 1/3 (Beatles Medley) (Rumba Records). It is a 7-inch, small hole record which plays at 33 1/3 RPM. The song was arranged by Jimi Henry and Rumbaugh was his own producer. As the title suggests, this is a medley of Beatles’ songs as…

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