Harvest of Stars

Although usually emanating from New York, Harvest of Stars also toured for sell-out shows in major cities from San Francisco to Memphis.

Guests included Bob Burns (doing a bazooka solo), Alfred Drake.

Jan Peerce, Jane Powell, the Revelers (their first reunion since 1938), Lanny Ross, Rise Stevens and Alec Templeton.

[1] Local International Harvester dealers ran tie-in ads with the radio series.

For example, on April 20, 1949, the Orscheln Bros. dealership in Moberly, Missouri, advertised the company's Farmall tractor in the Moberly Monitor-Index and Democrat with a box at the bottom of the ad: The final run of the program began April 3, 1949, on Sundays at 5:30pm, and the series concluded September 5, 1950.

James Melton in a 1940s studio portrait.