This is a 10-CD set issued by Radio Spirits (44622) in 2010. The first CD in the set features the Bill of Rights special, We Hold These Truths, starring Jimmy Stewart and many other Hollywood greats, including: Orson Welles, Rudy Vallee, Dane Clark, Edward G. Robinson, Bob Burns, Walter Brennan, Edward Arnold, Lionel Barrymore, Marjorie…
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AMC Movies to Go – It’s a Wonderful Life
In 1999, AMC Movies to Go issued the 2-cassette set It’s a Wonderful Life/The Miracle of the Bells (AMC 60144). It’s a Wonderful Life was the Lux Radio Theatre production starring Stewart and Donna Reed and first broadcast on March 10, 1947. In addition to the radio show, AMC’s Jeffrey Lyons adds historical information about…
Lux Radio Theatre – It’s a Wonderful Life (Cassette)
Radio Spirits released the Lux Radio Theatre version of It’s a Wonderful Life as a single cassette (4159) in 1997. Although marketed these days as a Christmas story, it wasn’t considered so when the film was first released. In fact, this Lux production was broadcast on March 10, 1947…
The World’s Greatest Old-Time Radio Shows – The Six Shooter
Released by MediaBay Inc. in 2004, this single cassette featured two shows. The insert card has several different numbers – 28384, 80934, #151 – to help identify it. The shows included are Red Lawson’s Revenge, broadcast on October 25, 1953, and Gabriel Starbuck, broadcast November 22, 1953…
Screen Directors’ Playhouse (10-CD)
This set was issued in 2011 by Radio Spirits (44812). Just one Stewart show, Call Northside 777, is included on the set. It was broadcast on December 9, 1949. Other stars included on the set are: Fred Allen, Lucille Ball, Bette Davis, Kirk Douglas, Betty Grable, Cary Grant, Olivia de Havilland, Bob Hope and Barbara…
Monitor (October 16, 1955)
Mr. Stewart’s appearance on this date is established by this listing from the New York Times: This show did not appear in our listings for Monitor in Jimmy Stewart on the Air and is a recent find. Unfortunately, it is not available…
Mystery Superstars Vol. 2
This six cassettes set, issued in a replica of an old time radio, was released in 1997 by Metacom (BB 429). Call Northside 777 was originally broadcast by Screen Directors’ Playhouse on December 9, 1949. It is the only Stewart show included on the set. …
Strategic Air Command – Soundtrack
When Strategic Air Command, starring Jimmy Stewart and June Allyson, was released in 1955, there was no accompanying Victor Young soundtrack issued. There were, however, several versions of The World is Mine (Love Theme from Strategic Air Command) released, including one by the Victor Young. Although snippets of this song are heard throughout the film,…
Chase and Sanborn 100th Anniversary Radio Show
The Chase and Sanborn 100th Anniversary show had been broadcast by NBC on November 15, 1964. The one hour special was hosted by Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. The show was later released as an album (RR-4H-5305). The record included the Jimmy “Zeke” Stewart sketch with Mortimer Snerd, which had originally been broadcast on the…
Ben Morris & The Great American Boxcar Chorus
In November of 2015, Ben Morris & GABC released the digital album A Great American Boxcar Christmas. One of the songs on the album was titled Jimmy Stewart. The recurring line in the song is “Just like Jimmy Stewart in It’s a Wonderful Life you’re trying hard to shoulder the weight of the world.” The…
