The broadcast of Good News of 1939, which was originally broadcast on March 2, 1939, is included on this cassette tape. The guests on the program were Jimmy Stewart, Joan Crawford, Lew Ayres, Frank Morgan, Fanny Brice, Hanley Stafford, Gertrude Niesen and Miliza Korjus. The “Good News of 1939” link below will take you to…
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The Golden Treasury
We recently found the following article on the WOW News Tower (Vol. 18, No. 3), published by Radio and Television Stations WOW, Omaha, NE. Stewart is listed as one of the guests on the NBC program. The guests read famous poems and passages from literature. The show was hosted by David Ross. Normally, newspapers simply…
Hollywood Sings
This CD was issued by K-tel Entertainment in the U.K. in 2003 (ECD 3843). Jimmy Stewart is featured on Easy to Love, a duet with Eleanor Powell (actually with Marjorie Lane, who dubbed Miss Powell’s vocals) from the film Born to Dance. Another song on the CD has ties to Stewart. Joan Crawford’s It’s All…
Lux Classics Presents the Best of Lux Radio Theatre
This 10-CD set was issued by Radio Spirits (40162) in 2006. Madame X, starring Jimmy Stewart and Ann Harding and originally broadcast on June 14, 1937, is one of the ten Lux presentations on the set. Others include Joan Crawford in Chained, Saturday’s Children starring Olivia de Havilland, Madame Butterfly with Cary Grant, Bette Davis…
Radio Legends Screen Directors’ Playhouse
This 10-CD set was issued by Radio Archives (RA128). The set features ten shows, all originally broadcast in the first half of 1951. The Stewart show is Next Time We Love which was broadcast March 29th of that year. Also in the set are Spellbound (Joseph Cotton), Dark Victory (Tallulah Bankhead), A Foreign Affair (Lucille…
Ice Follies of 1939 – Soundtrack Music
Stewart starred in this 1939 film along with Joan Crawford and Lew Ayres. The trio of stars is seen below in a publicity photo for the film. Although no soundtrack album was issued at the time of the film’s release, the song It’s All So New to Me (Bernice Petkere/Marty Symes) was recorded by several…
Good News of 1939
Good News was broadcast from Studio 30 at M-G-M each Thursday evening (9-10 p.m.) by NBC. It was sponsored by Maxwell House Coffee. Mr. Stewart is known to have appeared on the program at least nine times. This time was on March 2, 1939. The host of the show this evening was Robert Young. The…
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…
Toys for Tots – #2
Like all the other discs in this series, this one was issued by Warner Brothers Records (PRO 269). It was a small-hole, 7-inch, 45 RPM disc. This particular record features messages from movie and TV stars, including Danny Thomas, Phyllis Diller, Jim Backus, Dale Robertson, John Wayne, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Jack Webb, Joan Crawford, Jimmy…
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…
