1953 Heart Fund Drive

The 1953 Heart Fund Drive for the American Heart Association took place during the month of February. A special disc to help publicize the event was prepared by the Gotham Recording Corporation (GRC-2324) and distributed to radio stations. Stewart delivered the following message: This same message would be used again on the 1957 Heart Fund…

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The Six Shooter – The Coward

In the second show of the series, Britt finds himself in Temple City helping an escaped convict who has cleaned up his life. At this time, the show was being sponsored by Coleman and that company was advertising the program as shown by this partial Coleman ad from The Pantagraph, Bloomington, IL, on the day…

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The Six Shooter – Jenny

On Sunday, September 20, 1953, The Six Shooter, Starring Jimmy Stewart as Britt Ponset, premiered on the NBC Radio Network. The actual titles of these shows were not usually given anywhere in the program which has lead to many different titles being used for some shows. This one is normally known as Jenny (sometimes as…

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Confidential Message from NBC

With The Six Shooter about to go on the air, it was announced that Coleman Heaters would be sponsoring the program for the first four weeks of broadcasts. Actually, they would be sponsoring three new NBC programs during this time period – Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator, The Eddie Cantor Show and the Stewart show. To…

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The Glenn Miller Story – Radio Spots

In early 1960, six years after its initial release, Universal-International reissued the Jimmy Stewart-June Allyson film, The Glenn Miller Story.The re-issue premieres took place on both the east and west coasts on March 22nd and 23rd, 1960 according to this article from the Motion Picture Daily of March 7, 1960: This full-page ad from the…

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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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