The camera loved Perry Como. He had natural warnth and charm. He was the real deal. Way ahead of anything in England. By comparison, we had Billy Cotton and Val Doonican.
Perry Como is a great singer and Fats Domino is a great stylist . However , for me , the highlight of the show was when Jo Stafford sang the medley of folk songs so beautifully with Mr C playing the guitar . Jo Stafford is a beautiful woman and looks very capable of doing slapstick comedy like Judy Holliday . Does anyone know if Jo Stafford ever did any comedy , you know , like Connie Francis falling on her rear end in her movie ' Looking For Love '
I thought we were going to see a list of those '50 shows. BTW, The Perry Como show was showing in color in 1957. I remember the guest star was Hedy Lamarr and she was great..I see a lot of H L videos on RU-vid but not that one.
This episode was in color. This kine may have been a color recording using lenticular film. One way to tell it was in color is that there was a very noticeable drop in sharpness when NTSC color was introduced. B&W television was very sharp and bright when seen in the early days LIVE with a good signal. So glad we now have digital HD.
@@barryobrien7935Yeah. Early color broadcasts didn’t film well with black and white kinescope recording equipment. The Library of Congress has some very early kinescopes from 1939-1946 and the quality isn’t all that good and they look worse than a silent movie from 1900 in terms of resolution. At the time, the early picture tubes and the camera technology was primitive, so the resolution was bad when trying to record a television program via film.
