The Lux Radio Theatre version of No Highway in the Sky was issued on cassette by Radio Showcase (D-524). The show starred Stewart and Marlene Dietrich and had been broadcast April 28, 1952. To read more about the original broadcast and also listen to it, click here…
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Starring Marlene Dietrich
Included in this 6-CD set of Marlene Dietrich radio shows is one in which she starred with Jimmy Stewart. Their Lux Radio Theatre production of No Highway in the Sky was originally broadcast on April 8, 1952. See link below for the original blog to listen to this program…
Marlene Dietrich The Vintage Radio Shows
This streaming and downloadable set features four of Miss Dietrich’s most famous radio appearances. It became available on April 1, 2009 from Cleopatra Records. One of the shows included is the Lux Radio Theatre version of No Highway in the Sky which also starred Jimmy Stewart. It was originally broadcast on April 28, 1952. For…
Bing Crosby and His Hollywood Friends (Guys and Dolls)
This 2-CD set was issued in the U.K. in 1997 (AVC 626). The CDs feature a wide variety of Hollywood stars who appeared on the Bing Crosby radio show and sang with Bing. Stewart’s song, Mississippi Mud sung with Bing and Fran Warren, is from the broadcast of March 19, 1952. About two minutes of…
Destry Rides Again – Exploitation Record
According to the record’s label, the disc was “Prepared & serviced by Universal Pictures for and to motion picture theatres solely for use in the exploitation of the film Destry Rides Again.” The recording was meant to be played in theater lobbies before and/or after films so that patrons could hear it as they were…
Lux Radio Theatre Presents Western Drama
This 8-CD set was issued by Radiorevisited.com (74CD8). Destry Rides Again, starring Stewart and Marlene Dietrich, was included in the set. The show had originally been broadcast on November 5, 1945…
Lux Radio Theatre – No Highway in the Sky
If you listened to yesterday’s blog of the Jack Benny Show, you might remember that at the end of the program, Jack says, “Ladies and Gentlemen, I want to thank Jimmy Stewart for being on my program tonight and be sure to hear him again tomorrow night on the Lux Radio Theatre when he will…
Presenting Alfred Hitchcock
NBC Radio presented this 25-minute documentary on January 25, 1956. The program is not available. The New York Times ran this preview on the day of the broadcast. A story in the Altoona Tribune, Altoona, PA, on January 24, 1956, had much more information about the program (this scan is from the best available source,…
Day After Day – Still Need a Copy?
One of the first blogs we published was about the 10-inch, 78 RPM recording of Day After Day sung by Jimmy Stewart and recorded during his days at Princeton University. This record is extremely rare and difficult to find. However, if you want to add the song to your music library, there are other sources…