EMI Comedy: Hollywood Stars

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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The Western Radio Collection Vol. 1

This 6-CD set was issued in 2016 by YourRadioShows.com. It features six western programs presented on the Lux Radio Theatre. The Stewart show included is Destry Rides Again, which first aired on November 5, 1945. Others on the set are: My Darling Clementine (April 28, 1947), starring Henry Fonda; Rawhide (March 22, 1955), starring Donna…

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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…

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Hollywood Guys & Dolls Volume One

The 22-track CD was issued in 1994 (Parrot Records (PARCD005). Track #10, Mississippi Mud, is from Jimmy’s appearance on the Bing Crosby radio show of March 19, 1952. He performs the song with Bing and Fran Warren. There is also about two minutes of dialogue from the show included before the song. There also was…

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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…

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The Prudential Family Hour of Stars

Originally called the Prudential Family Hour, the program began as a musical show. However, by 1948, its listener base was eroding and Prudential decided to change the format. This was announced in the August 23, 1948, edition of Broadcasting magazine. Interesting, although the show’s title carried the word “hour,” the new program would only be…

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Did You Know These Stars Also Sang?

This 2-CD set was issued in the U.K. in 2007 (Jasmine JASCD 147). Jimmy Stewart appears three times on this release. On the first CD, he’s heard singing When Johnny Toots His Horn, from the film Pot O’ Gold. Immediately before his track, Paulette Goddard is heard singing Pete the Piper, from the same film…

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1948 American Red Cross Fund Campaign

In support of their 1948 fund campaign, a 16-inch transcription disc (HD8-MM-4062) containing 12 spot announcements, including one by Jimmy Stewart, was issued to radio stations by the American Red Cross. Also on the disc were Lauren Bacall, Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Dorothy Lamour, Amos ‘N’ Andy (Charles Correll and Freeman Gosden), Eddie Cantor,…

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