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Summary: Cheap, cheap, cheap!
Review: A collection of mostly public-domain snippets from Como's TV shows. Lots of kinescopes, so the quality leaves much to be desired.While the quality of the clips can be excused, there is no excuse for what you get inside the DVD case: Just a disk and nothing more. No notes, no ads, no nothing. Como deserves much better treatment than what Passport Video delivers in this collection. At 50 minutes in length with zero bonus material, it's a ripoff.
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Summary: Not the songs I remember of Perry Como.
Review: I hope that next time they use Perry's hits.
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Summary: Good Ol' Times
Review: In some shots Perry looks SO young! But in a few songs from his show, he looks exactly the way I remembered him when I first saw him on Italian TV: very handsome and yet very casual and the "big brother" type! And what a voice! The quality of the sound is good... The picture is better than I expected. But I think it should have included more popular hits... Perhaps next time? When is another DVD coming out?
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Summary: Good Ol' Times
Review: In some shots Perry looks SO young! But in a few songs from his show, he looks exactly the way I remembered him when I first saw him on Italian TV: very handsome and yet very casual and the "big brother" type! And what a voice! The quality of the sound is good... The picture is better than I expected. But I think it should have included more popular hits... Perhaps next time? When is another DVD coming out?
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Summary: Good Ol' Times
Review: In some shots Perry looks SO young! But in a few songs from his show, he looks exactly the way I remembered him when I first saw him on Italian TV: very handsome and yet very casual and the "big brother" type! And what a voice! The quality of the sound is good... The picture is better than I expected. But I think it should have included more popular hits... Perhaps next time? When is another DVD coming out?
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Summary: A Singing Sensation
Review: Perry Como was one of the greatest singers ever and a true gentleman but I thought this dvd was a little pricey for a collection of old black and white kinescope performances. Some of my absolute favorites like WANTED and DON'T LET THE SUN GET IN YOUR EYES were missing also.
Somebody should put together a dvd of the best of Christmas specials.
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Summary: Rare selections from early television
Review: The video transfer from old kinescopes dating from what appears to be 1951-1955 is not bad considering what condition some of the source material must be in. Thirteen of the songs are from those old Como shows, and there are a couple of gems -- a very strong rendition of "Till The End Of Time", several numbers with the Fontane Sisters, and a comedy rendition of "Small Frye" with Bob Hope where Perry sort of imitates Bing. More disappointing are the four numbers taken directly from Perry's first film -- "Doll Face". Oh, it's nice seeing and hearing those numbers, but I have seen far better transfers on video tape. However, we have to take what we can get from these early years of television, so for collectors this is a good item!
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Summary: Rare selections from early television
Review: The video transfer from old kinescopes dating from what appears to be 1951-1955 is not bad considering what condition some of the source material must be in. Thirteen of the songs are from those old Como shows, and there are a couple of gems -- a very strong rendition of "Till The End Of Time", several numbers with the Fontane Sisters, and a comedy rendition of "Small Frye" with Bob Hope where Perry sort of imitates Bing. More disappointing are the four numbers taken directly from Perry's first film -- "Doll Face". Oh, it's nice seeing and hearing those numbers, but I have seen far better transfers on video tape. However, we have to take what we can get from these early years of television, so for collectors this is a good item!
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Summary: Tip of the Iceberg!
Review: While I will concede that these are old kinescopes taken from fifties shows as well as some 40's movies I was still impressed! Many of these songs were never recorded on any albums and this is the only way you can ever see them or more importantly hear them. It is worth the price just to her Perry sing "Someone to watch over me" and "Sway". When I think of all the songs he sang each week that never made it to an album I can only say .....Keep Looking!!!!! Make more!
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