The August 1954, issue of TV Radio Mirror carried a story about a young Detroit disc jockey named Marty McNeeley. McNeeley was the host of two different daily shows on WJR. The first was a morning show titled Music Hall, while the second, Music Hall Matinee, was broadcast in the late afternoon-early evening time slot…
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Legends of Radio – The Best of Suspense
Radio Spirits issued this set in 2003 in both cassette (40684) and CD (40682) formats. The one Stewart show included is Mission Completed which was first broadcast on December 1, 1949. On all, a total of forty shows are included in the set, including such stars as Lucille Ball, Agnes Moorehead, Fibber McGee and Molly,…
WQQW Preview
The January 15, 1947, edition of Variety carried this review of the program which had been broadcast January 12th. Paul Martin, station manager, was the show’s producer and also its narrator. While Gregory Peck and Margo made new recordings for the show, Stewart’s contribution had been recorded in 1941. Some of Stewart’s passages from We…
United Nations Radio
The following story appeared in the November 26, 1947, edition of Variety: According to the article, a series of seven 15-minute radio shows about the United Nations and its agencies were to be recorded at the Mutual-Don Lee Studios in Los Angeles, between this date and December 31st. The programs were then to be broadcast…
The Spirit of St. Louis – Radio Spots
The Spirit of St. Louis, starring Jimmy Stewart, was released to theaters in late May of 1957. At about that same time, Warner Brothers issued a 12-inch, single-sided disc featuring two radio spots for the film (Audio-Video Recording Co. AV 1888). Neither spot featured Stewart’s voice. First, listen to the 1-minute spot: And now, the…
Legends of Radio: The Bob Hope Show
The 20-CD set, featuring 40 episodes of The Bob Hope Show, was issued by Radio Spirits (40042) in 2002. Jimmy Stewart was the guest on several shows, but only the one of January 28, 1953, is included on the set. Other guests appearing on the set are: Penny Singleton (Blondie), Arthur Lake (Dagwood), Judy Garland,…
Hawkins on Murder – Soundtrack
Hawkins was a short lived television series starring Jimmy Stewart as an investigative southern lawyer named Billy Jim Hawkins and co-starred Strother Martin as R.J. Hawkins, Billy Jim’s cousin. The program was part of The New CBS Tuesday Night Movie series and was only seen every third week. The show was cancelled after just one…
KHJIM – Stewart’s Own Private Radio Station
When we came across this short news blurb in the September 18, 1940, edition Motion Picture Daily, we couldn’t resist including it in a blog. Prior to World War II, all call letters for plane radios were five letters long and began with “KH.” What other three letters would Mr. Stewart choose but “JIM?” Although…
The Six Shooter Volume 2
The Nostalgia Merchant issued this 10-CD set in 2003, the same year it released Volume 1. Each disc in the set had two shows, for a total of 20, which along with Volume 1, was the entire series. The shows included here are: Trail to Sunset (January 31, 1954) The Apron-Faced Sorrel (February 7, 1954)…
Chris Haase Sings “Jimmy Stewart”
In 2014, Haase released a digital album called Demonstrations on White Bear Ave. One of the songs included was Jimmy Stewart. In the song is the line, “saw Jimmy Stewart on Johnny reading some of his poetry; I cracked a smile and thought of you and me ‘cos we are the same.” Also, as the…
