Jimmy Stewart Collection

This is a 2-disc set issued by www.goldengooseradio.com. There are more than 80 programs featuring Stewart on the discs, making it well worth the $4.99 asking price. If you’re looking to fill out your private Stewart collection, this one should help. On the first disc you’ll get: Cavalcade of America (11-12-45) A Guy Who had…

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Bing Crosby Radio Appearances

This CD, released by the Nostalgia Company (CD-3293), could just have easily been called “Jimmy Stewart Radio Appearances.” As you can see from the track listing, James Stewart also was featured in both programs. Blogs for both programs have already been published. For Freedom Under God, only the Stewart bits were included, so we’re giving…

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

NOTE: This program was originally posted on November 21, 2015, but in researching a new post, it couldn’t be found. Somehow it has disappeared from the site. So, if it looks familiar to some of you, it’s because you’ve seen it before. For others, it will be brand new. Stewart appeared on just one program…

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Bing Crosby Show (Home Made)

The ability for the home radio enthusiast to record material off the radio has changed tremendously over the years. Wire recordings gave way to reel-to-reel tape. Then cassettes and 8-tracks. Eventually, most people converted all of these to CD’s. Then came the digital age with .wav, .mp3, and others forms of recordings. You now needed…

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Bing Crosby Show – March 10, 1948

We just added the 16-inch discs for this program to our collection and thought that some of you might be interested in how the show was transcribed by Bill Morrow and Murdo McKenzie for play on radio stations. First, Philco Radio Time was spread out over three sides of two discs, with approximately 10-minutes per…

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Bing Crosby Shows

This .mp3 disc was issued by OTR World and contains 263 episodes of the popular radio show. Two Stewart shows are included – March 10, 1948, and March 10, 1954. You can find more information, and the audio for these shows, in the blogs posted on March 10, 2016, and March 19, 2016. For some…

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Untitled NBC Program

The following article appeared in the November 13, 1954, edition of Billboard magazine: No direct mention of either the Glenn Miller or the Bing Crosby shows has yet been found in radio listings. The only two-hour block of time on NBC on Sunday afternoon is for a show called Weekend. The following block listing for…

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Crusade for Freedom PSA

This 16-inch, 33 1/3 RPM disc was issued to radio stations in 1956 by the Crusade for Freedom (F60146), in support of Radio Free Europe. Besides Stewart, Walter Brennan, Bing Crosby, Alan Ladd, Art Linkletter, Pat O’Brien, Dick Powell, Robert Stack, Dinah Shore, Jack Webb and Barbara Stanwyck also provide messages on the disc. We…

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Boys’ Club Public Service Announcements

This series of celebrity public service announcements for the Boys’ Clubs of America was issued on a 16-inch transcription disc playing at 33 1/3 RPM (Columbia YTNY 10644). Those heard on the disc included Jimmy Stewart, J. Edgar Hoover, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. The disc is not in general circulation, but is available at…

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