Great Entertainers: The Show Stoppers

 

Picture: C-     Sound: D     Extras: D     Songs: C+

 

 

The Koch/Passport series of budget music titles have been pretty interesting, even when they have had passable sound and picture.  Great Entertainers: The Show Stoppers would seem like a great opportunity to promote the line with samplings of most of the performers they offer and a few others they do not.  Instead, the sound quality is unacceptable and the picture is not much better.  That’s tragic, as it offers this lineup:

 

1)     Bing Crosby – Pennies From Heaven

2)     Eddie Fisher – Anytime

3)     Liberace – Chinatown

4)     Frank Sinatra – Angel Eyes

5)     Nat King Cole – Unforgettable

6)     Perry Como – Dear Hearts & Gentle People

7)     Dean Martin – That’s Amore

8)     Sammy Davis, Jr. – Hey There

9)     Judy Garland – Somewhere Over The Rainbow

10)  Rosemary Clooney – Just You, Just Me

11)  Lena Horne – From This Moment On

12)  Dinah Shore – I’ve Got A Crush On You

13)  Connie Francis – I’m Sitting On Top Of The World

14)  Patti Page – What Now My Love

15)  Barbra Streisand – Cry Me A River

16)  Connie Stevens – Now That You’ve Gone Away

 

 

You can check elsewhere on this site to see which of these artists have complete DVDs form their release line, with some of them likely to be released down the line, but the full frame black and white picture is unusually lousy and the Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono is horrid.  Why?  It makes no sense.  This feels more like the damaged collection and I have seen and heard some of these clips elsewhere look and sound much better, even on other DVDs in their own series.  So, it’s a dud and there are no extras.

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo