In 2002, EMI Gold released the CD EMI Comedy – Hollywood Stars (724353951221). Eight different radio shows featuring Hollywood stars, including Vincent Price, Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Shelley Winters and Jimmy Stewart. The Stewart track is from his January 9, 1949, appearance on The…
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Tales of Mystery and Suspense – Suspense 3
In a previous blog, April 17, 2016, we looked at a similar release which was called Volume 3 rather than Suspense 3. That release was a single cassette; this one is a 4-cassette set. You’ll see some obvious differences in the packaging – the way the titles are laid out and the fact that the…
Baseball Collection 1940-1955
This single .mp3 CD, has forty different old-time radio shows, all dealing with baseball in one way or another. The very first program on the CD is The Stratton Story, staring Jimmy Stewart, June Allyson and John McIntire. It was first broadcast on Lux Radio Theatre on February 13, 1950. There are also lots of…
The Jack Benny Show – New Sources
Two new sources for The Jack Benny Show have recently become available. Both are in the .mp3 format. The first, The Best of Jack Benny, contains 763 shows and was issued by Historical Media. The second, The Jack Benny Show Anthology, issued by ADV Plans, includes an incredible 869 programs. Jimmy Stewart was a guest…
British and American Comedy Legends
This downloadable set was released on August 1, 2009, by Master Classic Records. Among the more than 80 tracks on the set is a segment of the Jack Benny Show originally broadcast on January 9, 1949. Only the ten-minute segment titled Lunch at the Brown Derby is included, not the entire program. Here is the…
U.S. Treasury Bond Independence Drive Show
This is a public service program to kick off the annual campaign to sell U.S. Treasury Savings Bonds. The show was carried by most major networks from 10:30-11 p.m. Eastern time. It was produced by William Wilkes and written by Charles Isaacs. Ken Carpenter was the announcer and Robert Armbruster and His Orchestra provided the…
Proudly They Came…to Honor America
This 1970 recording was released in at least four different formats by Landmark Records: DQBO 93503 (2-LP) PRR 101 (Reel-to-reel tape) PRA 101 (8-track tape) X 5101 (Cassette) The special 2-record set has highlights of “Honor America Day,” held July 4, 1970, in Washington, DC .Despite the fact that Stewart is listed as the narrator,…
This is Jimmy Stewart…Please Leave a Message After the Tone
No, Jimmy Stewart did not make a phone answering machine outgoing message! But, Rich Little did and he could sound as much like Stewart as anyone. Little’s cassette tape with ten different messages was issued by Radio Shack (43-419). Actually, Stewart’s impersonation was heard twice on the tape. The first time was at the beginning…
The Roosevelt Years: 1939
The is part of a series of shows on President Roosevelt which were produced and narrated by John Salisbury and broadcast on KXL, Portland, OR, in 1973. This particular show features soundbites from many celebrities, including: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jimmy Stewart, Judy Garland, the Andrews Sisters, Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas, Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh,…
Christmas Seal Campaign 1959
We can now add another Christmas Seal Campaign to the list of those on which Mr. Stewart’s message can be heard – 1959. As with the ones for 1958, 1961-1964, this was issued on a 12-inch, 33 1/3 RPM disc pressed by RCA Custom Records (KM8R-0585): Those celebrities appearing on the other side of the…
