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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Lux Radio Theatre

This Radio Revisited 10-CD set features more than 540 programs in .mp3 format. Among the Stewart shows included are: Madame X (June 14, 1937) Made for Each Other (February 19, 1940) The Moon’s Our Home (February 10, 1941) The Philadelphia Story (July 20, 1942) Destry Rides Again (November 5, 1945) It’s a Wonderful Life (March…

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Year 1937 on the Radio

This 8-CD set was issued by Radio Revisited (75CD8). Mr. Stewart is misidentified as one of the stars of the February 1st episode of Lux Radio Theatre. It is Gary Cooper who in fact stars with Jean Arthur in this production. Stewart does appear in the November 30th Good News of 1938 as advertised…

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Aimee Mann – Mr. Harris

Mr. Harris is a track from Mann’s 1993 album, Whatever (Imago 72787-21017-2). According to the song’s lyrics, Mr. Harris looked like “Jimmy Stewart in his younger days.” Appearing with Mann on the song are Randy Brion (euphonium), Mike Breaux (oboe), Jon Brion (piano) and The Sid Sharp Strings. The song was arranged and conducted by…

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It’s a Wonderful Life

This digital version of the perennial Lux Radio Theatre favorite was issued in 2010 by Gargoyle Productions. The show has been edited, with all commercials and part of the final interview removed. Keep this in mind if you decide to download it…there are complete versions available for downloading and streaming.  …

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Split Infinitives

In 2013, the Split Infinitives released an album titled Minor Endeavors, Endless Progress. The second track on the album was Jimmy Stewart/Telephone. Split Infinitives is actually just one man, Holden Martinson, who played all the instruments and also handled the vocals. He did have help from Brian Adkins in writing this song…

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