On September 25, 1948, the Air Force Association’s “Operation Wing-Ding” was held at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Jimmy Stewart, Bob Hope and Ed Sullivan took turns acting as the master of ceremonies. The September 29th edition of Variety had a full run down on the activities: In their radio listings for September…
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That’s Entertainment Part 1 – Radio Spots (Record #2)
Like the first record in this set which was posted yesterday, this one is a 7-inch, small hole, 33 1/3 RPM record (United Artists UAC 192). The a-side of the single has three more 60-second spots. Stewart is mentioned in all three spots. Four 30-second spots can be found on the B-side of the record…
That’s Entertainment Part 1 – Radio Spots
The film, That’s Entertainment, was released in 1974. Jimmy Stewart, along with Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Peter Lawford, Liza Minnelli, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Mickey Rooney, Frank Sinatra and Elizabeth Taylor, acted as one of the film’s many co-hosts. Stewart was also shown in a scene from the 1936 film, Born to Dance…
Salute to Champions
As mentioned in Jimmy Stewart on the Air, this show is not available. The only proof of its existence and the people who appeared on it come from various newspaper previews of the time. Because of space limitations, these were not used in the book, but are presented here. The two newspaper articles from which…
Hollywood Byline
To mark the one year anniversary of Hollywood Byline, a special show consisting of clips from the first year’s shows was pieced today and broadcast on September 21, 1950. This date also marked the half-hour show’s switch to a new day and time – Thursday at 10 p.m. on the east coast. The show was…
Amos ‘n’ Andy Music Hall
As mentioned in Jimmy Stewart on the Air, when the very popular Amos ‘n’ Andy show finally left the airwaves, Amos (Freeman Gosden) and Andy (Charles Correll) continued their characters on this new program. This new show was very different from what listeners were used to as described in this article from The Daily Reporter,…
The Jimmy Stewart Show – NBC Spot Announcement
The Jimmy Stewart Show, his first TV series, was set to premiere on NBC on September 19, 1971. In the days leading up to the first show, the newspapers were full of photos and announcements about the series. Here is just a small sampling. This one appeared in the Daily Independent Journal, San Rafael, Ca…
Old Time Radio Westerns
This 4-cassette boxed set was issued in 2002 by the HighBridge Company (HBP 89049). One of the cassettes has two The Six Shooter programs, but the titles aren’t mentioned on the insert card. There are titles in the cassette itself. Gabriel Starbuck, originally broadcast on November 22, 1953, is on the A-side. On the B-side…
Old Time Radio Dramas
This 4-cassette boxed set was issued by The Mind’s Eye in 1984. The box holding the cassettes has likenesses of Stewart and Donna Reed, as well as actors from some of the other shows. The cassette insert has the title and information about the program. It’s a Wonderful Life was broadcast March 10, 1947, on…
1941 – As It Was: World War II on American Radio
This is an 8-CD set released by Radiorevisited.com. Disc 7 in the set features We Hold These Truths, which was originally broadcast December 14, 1941, to mark the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights. Jimmy Stewart starred in the production along with Lionel Barrymore, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan, Bob Burns, Walter…
