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Perry Como Singing at His Best

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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.

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!

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.

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!

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?

Poor quality image and sound in this black and white presentation. Not the songs that Perry was famous for

I hope that next time they use Perry's hits.

I think this DVD is good for what it is. I thought the quality of the performance clips (each of which is the whole song, not a snippet) was as good as one could expect from material that is 50+ years old. And it included several songs which I have never heard before and I have been listening to Perry's music since the 1950's.

My complaint is calling these his best. While there were some of his well known songs included like Till the End of Time and Papa Loves Mambo there were many, many others that belonged in a best collection that were not there, like Prisoner of Love, You Alone, No Other Love, Wanted, Catch a Falling Star and more. And I think including the songs from Doll Face was inappropriate because I doubt if even many diehard Como fans have ever heard them.

If it was not possible to get the rights to include the rest of his best songs I think they should have retitled the DVD. That said though I found it a pleasant walk back down memory lane.

Como was GREAT but this DVD looks like it was taken from the worst quality clips in the qworld..almost like someone wants to soil Como's great image intentionally..if you are a fan wait for a truly authorized product to come out!

Terrible.. this is not worth the money. It is grainy and ugly. What a waste!!