Perry Como’s 15-minute NBC evening program was a staple of NBC Radio all year long. For thirteen weeks in the summer of each year, substitute hosts appeared in Como’s place. For 1947, two men – Tex Beneke and Frankie Carle – rotated in that position. On September 4th, it was Carle’s turn to be host…
Tag Archives: Jimmy Stewart
Screen Guild Theater (December 29, 1949)
For the second time, the first being December 29, 1947, Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed recreated their film roles from It’s a Wonderful Life on the Screen Guild Theater. The show was highly publicized in the newspapers. Here are three listings from the day of the broadcast. The first is from the Democrat and Chronicle,…
I’m An Ant
In 2008, the artist known as I’m An Ant released an album titled What Have I Done? The fifth song on that album was called Jimmy Stewart. Keith Hopkin played drums on the track. The song mentions Audrey Hepburn, Kathy (Katharine Hepburn) and Cary Grant, as well as Jimmy Stewart…
Old Time Radio’s Greatest Westerns
This 20-cassette set was issued by Radio Spirits (4410) in 1999. Many old time radio westerns are on the set, including: The Cisco Kid, Fort Laramie, Cavalcade of America, Frontier Gentleman, Gunsmoke, Have Gun – Will Travel, Hopalong Cassidy, The Lone Ranger, Luke Slaughter of Tombstone, Red Ryder, Roy Rogers, Screen Directors’ Playhouse, Straight Arrow,…
On Our Merry Way – Soundtrack Music
On Our Merry Way, starring Stewart, Paulette Goddard, Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, Fred MacMurray, Victor Moore and Burgess Meredith, was released in June of 1948. No soundtrack album was issued, but there were several recordings of songs from the film issued. The first single, Queen of the Hollywood Islands (Frank Loesser) by Dorothy Lamour, was…
Christmas on the Radio Volume 2
This is an 8-CD set issued by The Nostalgia Merchant in 2005. Only one Jimmy Stewart program is included in the set, that coming as the second show on disc 7 – Britt Ponset’s Christmas Carol, originally broadcast on The Six Shooter series on December 20, 1953. Part 1: Part 2:…
Holiday Radio Theater Collection Volume 1
This 5-CD set was issued in 2016 by YourRadioShows.com. One of the shows included in the set was the Lux Radio Theatre version of It’s a Wonderful Life which had first aired on March 10, 1947. Co-starring with Stewart was Donna Reed. Also included on the set was the December 22, 1947, Lux production of…
Good News of 1938 (Cassette)
This single cassette was issued by Radio Spirits (#2218) in 1998. The broadcast of December 23, 1937, is the only show on the tape…
Old Time Radio Christmas
This is a 12-CD set released by Radiorevisited.com (21CD12). The Screen Directors’ Playhouse version of It’s a Wonderful Life, starring Jimmy Stewart, is included. Frank Capra, the film’s director, also makes an appearance on the program. The show was originally broadcast on May 8, 1949. …
Old Time Radio Westerns, The Smithsonian Collection
This set from Radio Spirits was issued both in cassette and CD formats. The one Stewart show on the set is found on cassette/CD 3: The back of the cassette insert card has a short preview of each show: Anna Nordquist had originally been broadcast on May 6, 1954. If you haven’t listened to it…
