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…
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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…
Mystery Voice – A Theatre Lobby Record
When the Doris Day, Rex Harrison film, Midnight Lace, was released in 1960, Universal International also issued this 7-inch, side-sided disc to movie theaters. As you can see on the label, the record was meant to be played in theater lobbies as patrons were entering and buying their snacks. In some theaters it may have…
Jimmy Stewart on the Air Podcast #4
We are very happy to announce that an interview we did recently with Tim Vanderburg has become Podcast Episode #4 on the Jimmy Stewart Museum site. You can listen here: Charles & Erna Reinhart, authors of ‘Jimmy Stewart On The Air’ There are also three other interviews available: Carol Burnett (Harvey Award Winner) Carol Burnett…
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation – Soundtrack
In 1962 when the film was released, there was no soundtrack album. That would have to wait until 2003 when Intrada Special Collection Volume 11 was issued as a CD. Henry Mancini composed and conducted all the music for the soundtrack, which included: Main Title A Month Off Creampuff (Instrumental) Up His Nose Early to…
The Mountain Road – Soundtrack
This 1960 Jimmy Stewart film had no soundtrack album and none of the music from the film appears to have been recorded at that time. However some of the original music, written by Jerome Moross, was later recorded and has been issued. Depending on the source, the track is referred to as either Overture (Main…
