| Identifier | 7498293 |
| Created At | Tue May 23 2023 23:54:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) |
| Media Type | DVD |
| Media Count | 1 |
| Note | Pro-shot |
| Source Info | Pro-shot |
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Performance
| Fred Astaire 1958-10-17 An Evening With Fred Astaire - TV Special, Burbank, CA | |
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| Set 1 | Morning Ride/Svengali — Fred Astaire and the Hermes Pan Dancers
Change Partners — Fred Astaire and Barrie Chase Prop Dance — Fred Astaire Mack the Knife — The Jonah Jones Quartet Man with the Blues — Fred Astaire, Barrie Chase and the Hermes Pan Dancers Old MacDonald on a Trip/Holiday for Strings — The Hermes Pan Dancers, featuring Jimmy Huntley, Roy Fitzell, and Bert May St. James Infirmary — Fred Astaire, Barrie Chase, Jonah Jones, and the Hermes Pan Dancers Oh, Lady Be Good!/Cheek to Cheek/A Fine Romance/They Can't Take That Away From Me/Nice Work If You Can Get It/A Foggy Day/I Won't Dance/Something's Gotta Give/Night and Day/Top Hat, White Tie and Tails (the latter also the theme music for the show) — Fred Astaire Isn't This A Lovely Day — Fred Astaire |
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| Comment | Fred Astaire at his very best - even at the ripe old age of 59! He proves he can still outdance the best of them, and this show proves that Astaire was as suave as ever - even when others had written him off.
This musical extravaganza was the first show aired in 1958, and proved popular - resulting in others in later years. Visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Evening_With_Fred_Astaire for more information. An Evening With Fred Astaire was a one-hour television special starring Fred Astaire, broadcast on NBC on October 17, 1958. It was highly successful, winning nine Emmy awards and spawning three further specials, and technically innovative, as it was the first major television show to be prerecorded on color videotape. It was produced at NBC's Color City studios in Burbank, California. Considered something of a comeback for the then 59-year-old Astaire, the special was his first starring role on television. It was directed and co-produced by Bud Yorkin and introduced Astaire's new partner Barrie Chase, whom he would later describe in Interview magazine in 1973 as perhaps his favorite dance partner.[1] The Jonah Jones Quartet and David Rose and his Orchestra provided the music, and the Hermes Pan Dancers appeared in the ensemble dance numbers. The announcer was Art Gilmore, who at the time was the voice of the Chrysler Corporation, the show's sponsor. Typical for advertising of the era, Chrysler's 1959 model year Forward Look cars featured prominently in the show; Astaire's final words were "I only hope the show is as good as the cars." Another good place to start to learn more about this event is the Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327699/ |