O’Halloran’s Luck is Your Luck Too

Jimmy Stewart’s appearance in the Theatre Guild on the Air’s presentation of Stephen Vincent Benet’s  O’Halloran’s Luck on Sunday, March 1, 1953, showed a bit of  unusual casting, to say the least. The 6-foot-3-inch Stewart played the role of a leprechaun! Starring with him were John Lund, Gloria DeHaven and Una O’Connor. A detailed account…

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Music from Seventh Heaven

No soundtrack has ever been issued for this 1937 film starring Stewart and Simone Simon. The title track, Seventh Heaven (Sidney D. Mitchell/Lew Pollack), was recorded by at least two different artists. Melotone 7-05-26 – Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees Decca 1226 – Abe Lyman, vocal chorus by Donald King Neither version charted. Sheet…

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Bud’s Bandwagon #423

Bud’s Bandwagon was a five-day a week program of the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS) which, according to this article for the June 4, 1955 issue of Billboard magazine, was on the air for four years. Jimmy Stewart is known to have appeared on at least three of the Bud Widom hosted shows…

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Music from Magic Town

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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