New DVD box: "Here's Edie: The Edie Adams Television Shows"
Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2013 5:40 pm
*** Available Nov 19, 2013! ***
HERE'S EDIE: THE EDIE ADAMS TELEVISION COLLECTION
Unseen since these amazing shows were aired 1962-64, this 4-disc DVD box contains all 21 episodes of the 2 seasons of Edie Adams' landmark variety specials. Extras include 19 songs by Edie that you didn't get to see on the Kovacs box, including Ernie's intros.
I've been working on this set as curator/programmer for about a year, and wrote some of the liners. You can pre-order here.
Ben
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More Than 50 Years in the Making, Here’s Edie: The Edie Adams Television Collection DVD Features Entertainers’ Complete Series and Bonus Material
Featuring Ernie Kovacs
Newly Transferred Four DVD Box Set Features 12 Hours of Never-Seen-Since-Broadcast Early Sixties “Here’s Edie” and “The Edie Adams Show” Variety Show Packed in a Lush 16-Page Booklet with ‘Lost’ Bonus Clips Confirmed for November 19
Iconic Performers Include Guest Stars Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Stan Getz, Andre Previn, Sammy Davis, Jr., Bobby Darin, Johnny Mathis, Nancy Wilson, Buddy Hackett, Bob Hope, Dick Shawn, Rowan & Martin, Peter Falk, Sir Michael Redgrave, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Many More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
LOS ANGELES, CA (MONDAY AUGUST 5, 2013) - More than 50 years after it premiered on the ABC network, the variety shows Here’s Edie and The Edie Adams Show (http://www.edieadams.com" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank) are set for release on DVD and digital formats. This is the first time either television show has been seen in any format since its original broadcast more than a half a century ago.
Produced and Distributed via MVD Entertainment Group (http://www.mvdb2b.com" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank) in association with Ediad Productions, Here’s Edie: The Edie Adams Television Collection is set for release in stores across North America and Internationally on November 19, 2013. This DVD set is now available to preorder at Amazon.com, Seeofsound.com, Edieadams.com and other online retailers.
The ‘wow’ factor of this box set resides in the eclectic guest stars Edie Adams was personally able to secure for the show. Jazz fans will be able to see, rare performance footage of giants, such as Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Stan Getz, Lionel Hampton, Woody Herman and Al Hirt, among others. Popular vocalists include Sammy Davis Jr., Bobby Darin and Johnny Mathis and more. Comedians include Bob Hope, Rowan & Martin, Soupy Sales along with Buddy Hackett, Dick Shawn and Terry-Thomas who co-starred with Adams in the classic motion-picture It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963). Classical music fans can look forward to performances of Andrew Previn, Lauritz Melchoir and Laurindo Almeida. Additional guests include Allan Sherman, Spike Jones, Peter Falk, Sir Michael Redgrave, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Buddy Hackett and more.
Unlike any variety show before or since, Here’s Edie The Edie Adams Television Collection is a tour-de-force for a female entertainer in the early-1960’s. After the sudden passing of her husband Ernie Kovacs (http://www.erniekovacs.com" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank) in January 1962, Adams forged ahead with her own headlining show, showcasing her many talents. Adams hosts, sings, dances, acts, does comedy, takes an uncredited role of costumer Enke and also produces her own show. While much has been said of Adams’ preservation efforts of the Ernie Kovacs archive, she also left behind a stunning body of her own work that survives due only to her indefatigable preservation efforts.
This 12-hour, four DVD set features a new digital transfer from original 2-inch videotapes of the entire 1962-64 run of 21 episodes (with her famed Muriel Cigar commercials intact) plus extensive bonus footage. This material includes rarely seen Adams musical numbers from numerous Ernie Kovacs shows of the 1950’s with introductions from Kovacs himself. Other bonus features include a set of commercial promos by Adams and another Mad World co-star Sid Caesar (whose The Sid Caesar Show alternated weeks with Edie’s shows), a Muriel Cigars promotional film and more. Also included is a lush 16-page booklet packed with rare photos from the family archive, an essay from Edie’s son Joshua Mills and a show-by-show rundown from Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams curator and DVD co-Producer Ben Model.
Directors for Adams shows included Barry Shear and Joe Behar (who also directed many episodes of Ernie Kovacs’s shows) as well as Steve Binder (The T.A.M.I Show, Elvis Presley’s ’68 Comeback Special), which helped forge each episode as a unique program unto itself. Conceptualized by Adams, her shows were not only themed but also taped in-studio as well as on location. This includes entire episodes shot in a Las Vegas hotel/casino nightclub, another on the streets of London, one shot entirely in the sparse Nevada desert and another in New York City to accommodate her busy schedule.
Priced to own at $49.95 SRP, Here’s Edie: The Television Collection from MVD and Ediad Productions offers fans what they have been waiting for, but never knew existed for more than 50 years.
HERE'S EDIE: THE EDIE ADAMS TELEVISION COLLECTION
Unseen since these amazing shows were aired 1962-64, this 4-disc DVD box contains all 21 episodes of the 2 seasons of Edie Adams' landmark variety specials. Extras include 19 songs by Edie that you didn't get to see on the Kovacs box, including Ernie's intros.
I've been working on this set as curator/programmer for about a year, and wrote some of the liners. You can pre-order here.
Ben
===========================
More Than 50 Years in the Making, Here’s Edie: The Edie Adams Television Collection DVD Features Entertainers’ Complete Series and Bonus Material
Featuring Ernie Kovacs
Newly Transferred Four DVD Box Set Features 12 Hours of Never-Seen-Since-Broadcast Early Sixties “Here’s Edie” and “The Edie Adams Show” Variety Show Packed in a Lush 16-Page Booklet with ‘Lost’ Bonus Clips Confirmed for November 19
Iconic Performers Include Guest Stars Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Stan Getz, Andre Previn, Sammy Davis, Jr., Bobby Darin, Johnny Mathis, Nancy Wilson, Buddy Hackett, Bob Hope, Dick Shawn, Rowan & Martin, Peter Falk, Sir Michael Redgrave, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Many More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
LOS ANGELES, CA (MONDAY AUGUST 5, 2013) - More than 50 years after it premiered on the ABC network, the variety shows Here’s Edie and The Edie Adams Show (http://www.edieadams.com" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank) are set for release on DVD and digital formats. This is the first time either television show has been seen in any format since its original broadcast more than a half a century ago.
Produced and Distributed via MVD Entertainment Group (http://www.mvdb2b.com" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank) in association with Ediad Productions, Here’s Edie: The Edie Adams Television Collection is set for release in stores across North America and Internationally on November 19, 2013. This DVD set is now available to preorder at Amazon.com, Seeofsound.com, Edieadams.com and other online retailers.
The ‘wow’ factor of this box set resides in the eclectic guest stars Edie Adams was personally able to secure for the show. Jazz fans will be able to see, rare performance footage of giants, such as Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Stan Getz, Lionel Hampton, Woody Herman and Al Hirt, among others. Popular vocalists include Sammy Davis Jr., Bobby Darin and Johnny Mathis and more. Comedians include Bob Hope, Rowan & Martin, Soupy Sales along with Buddy Hackett, Dick Shawn and Terry-Thomas who co-starred with Adams in the classic motion-picture It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963). Classical music fans can look forward to performances of Andrew Previn, Lauritz Melchoir and Laurindo Almeida. Additional guests include Allan Sherman, Spike Jones, Peter Falk, Sir Michael Redgrave, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Buddy Hackett and more.
Unlike any variety show before or since, Here’s Edie The Edie Adams Television Collection is a tour-de-force for a female entertainer in the early-1960’s. After the sudden passing of her husband Ernie Kovacs (http://www.erniekovacs.com" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank) in January 1962, Adams forged ahead with her own headlining show, showcasing her many talents. Adams hosts, sings, dances, acts, does comedy, takes an uncredited role of costumer Enke and also produces her own show. While much has been said of Adams’ preservation efforts of the Ernie Kovacs archive, she also left behind a stunning body of her own work that survives due only to her indefatigable preservation efforts.
This 12-hour, four DVD set features a new digital transfer from original 2-inch videotapes of the entire 1962-64 run of 21 episodes (with her famed Muriel Cigar commercials intact) plus extensive bonus footage. This material includes rarely seen Adams musical numbers from numerous Ernie Kovacs shows of the 1950’s with introductions from Kovacs himself. Other bonus features include a set of commercial promos by Adams and another Mad World co-star Sid Caesar (whose The Sid Caesar Show alternated weeks with Edie’s shows), a Muriel Cigars promotional film and more. Also included is a lush 16-page booklet packed with rare photos from the family archive, an essay from Edie’s son Joshua Mills and a show-by-show rundown from Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams curator and DVD co-Producer Ben Model.
Directors for Adams shows included Barry Shear and Joe Behar (who also directed many episodes of Ernie Kovacs’s shows) as well as Steve Binder (The T.A.M.I Show, Elvis Presley’s ’68 Comeback Special), which helped forge each episode as a unique program unto itself. Conceptualized by Adams, her shows were not only themed but also taped in-studio as well as on location. This includes entire episodes shot in a Las Vegas hotel/casino nightclub, another on the streets of London, one shot entirely in the sparse Nevada desert and another in New York City to accommodate her busy schedule.
Priced to own at $49.95 SRP, Here’s Edie: The Television Collection from MVD and Ediad Productions offers fans what they have been waiting for, but never knew existed for more than 50 years.
