The 1947 film, Magic Town, starred Stewart and Jane Wyman. The music for the film was composed by Roy Webb, but the title track was written by Mel Torme and Robert Wells.The February 19, 1947, edition of Variety announced that Torme would be recording the title song: Torme’s label, Musicraft, placed this ad in Billboard…
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Leo is on the Air – The Shopworn Angel
In the 1930’s and 40’s, the large movie studios would often produce radio shows to help them promote new films. At Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, these shows were titled Leo Is on the Air. In Jimmy Stewart on the Air, we highlighted three such programs for Stewart films. One of those was The Shopworn Angel from 1938, which…
Night Passage – Soundtrack music
No official soundtrack for this Stewart film has ever been issued. However, The Film Music of Dimitri Tiomkin, a vinyl album of questionable origin, was issued in 1973. According to the album’s jacket, “This album was produced expressly for members of THE FILM MUSIC COLLECTOR’S SOCIETY and is not intended for commercial purposes.” Also according…
M-G-M Air View – The Stratton Story
We covered the story of this 12-inch, 78 RPM disc (M-G-M 27597/27598) in our book, but no photos or audio could be included. We add those here. The date, March 29, 1949, is stamped into the run-off area of the record. This is presumed to be either the date of the interview or the date…
Fool’s Parade – The Radio Spots
When Fool’s Parade, starring Stewart, George Kennedy and Anne Baxter, was released in August of 1971, Columbia Pictures provided a special disc with four spot announcements for the film. As we mentioned in Jimmy Stewart on the Air, none of the spots featured Mr. Stewart’s voice. However, they are still of interest to Stewart fans…
Jimmy Stewart for Radio Free Europe
Here is a recent find that was not listed in our book. Broadcasters for Radio Free Europe XB-212/XB-213 This is a 7-inch, 33 1/3 RPM record featuring 18 public service messages from 12 different celebrities and was issued to radio stations in 1968. Stewart’s 60-second message appears on side two of the disc along with…
“Rear Window” Soundtrack music
No complete soundtrack has been issued for this Stewart movie. However, at the time the film was released, at least three singles of The “Rear Window” Theme (aka Lisa) were issued. When reviewed in Billboard magazine, all three versions were treated as b-sides. The first to be reviewed was by LeRoy Holmes and his Orchestra…
Boy Scouts of America – Strengthen the Arm of Liberty
As outlined in our book, Stewart appeared on at least five different Boy Scout Jamboree programs, only two of which are available. Our aim here is to update the first of these broadcast by adding clippings, photos and audio. The program was broadcast by NBC as a public service on Saturday, February 12, 1949. This…
The Barbara Welles Show
Here is some additional information about Stewart’s appearance on The Barbara Welles Show which was documented in our book. As mentioned in the book, there was not really a “Barbara Welles,” instead the host of the show was Florence Pritchett. What we didn’t know at the time was that she had only been on the…
Saturday Evening Post – Jimmy Stewart Sales Promotion
When I saw this record come up for sale on Ebay, I was very excited. We knew that a five part story on Stewart had appeared in the Saturday Evening Post beginning on February 11, 1961 (Vol. 234, No. 6) through March 11 (Vol. 234, No. 10). Stewart’s name appeared prominently on the record label…
