Los Angeles, CA (Top40 Charts/ MVD Entertainment) More than 50 years after it premiered on the ABC network, the variety shows Here's Edie and The Edie Adams Show (www.edieadams.com) are setfor 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 (www.mvdb2b.com) 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-pictureIt'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 (www.erniekovacs.com) 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
DISC ONE
*Here's Edie Pilot Airdates: April 9, 1962, May 26, 1963 (as Special #7)
Guests: Dick Shawn, André Previn
*Special #1-"
New York"
Airdate: October 23, 1962
Guests: Duke Ellington and His Orchestra,
Peter Falk, the Claremont String Quartet
*Special #2-"
London"
Airdate: December 13, 1962
Guests: Sir Michael Redgrave, the Piccadilly Buskers, the Grenadier Guards, the Third Air Force Band, and the children of London.
*Special #3-"Bossa Nova"
Airdate: January 20, 1963
Guests: Stan Getz, Laurindo Almeida, the
Roger Wagner Chorale, Jerry Fielding and His Orchestra (plus cameos by Don Rickles and Cesar Romero)
*Special #4-"
Las Vegas"
Airdate: February 26, 1963
Guests: Charlie Barnet, The Eligibles, the Earl Barton Dancers, Jerry Fielding and His Orchestra, Eddie Fisher
*Special #5 -"Western"
Airdate: March 16, 1963
Guests: Hoagy Carmichael, Rowan & Martin, Hank Henry, the Homer Garrett Dancers, The Eligibles, Jerry Fielding and His Orchestra.
DISC TWO
Here's Edie(contd.)
*Special #6-"Love"
Airdate: April 19, 1963
Guests:
Buddy Hackett, The United Nations Children's Choir, Jerry Fielding and His Orchestra
*Special #8 -"Bob Hope"
Airdate: June 18, 1963
Guests: Bob Hope, Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra, The United Nations Children's Choir, Jerry Fielding and His Orchestra
The Edie Adams Show (After the show returned from a summer break, it was given a new title.)
*Special #1
Airdate:
September 26, 1963
Guests: Zsa Zsa Gabor, Eddie Sauter, Stan Getz
*Special #2
Airdate: October 10, 1963
Guests: Louis Nye, Maury Wills
*Special #3
Airdate: October 24, 1963
Guests: Al Hirt, Nancy Wilson
EXTRA -
Sid Caesar and Edie Adams promos
Song performances from Ernie
Kovacs shows:
"Would I Love You (Love You, Love You)"- Ernie in Kovacsland, July 6, 1951
"My Funny Valentine" - Ernie in Kovacsland, August 23, 1951
" 'S Wonderful" -
Kovacs on the Corner, January 1952
"I Feel a Song Coming On" -
Kovacs Unlimited, May 28, 1952
"Mississippi Mud" - The Ernie
Kovacs Show, January 4, 1956
Marilyn sings "Ballad of Davy Crockett" - The Ernie
Kovacs Show, January 4, 1956
"
Paradise" - The Ernie
Kovacs Show, January 23, 1956
"Get Happy" - The Ernie
Kovacs Show, January 26, 1956
"A Sunday Kind of Love" - The Ernie
Kovacs Show, January 30, 1956
DISC THREE
The Edie Adams Show (contd.)
*Special #4
Airdate: November 7, 1963
Guests: Allan Sherman, The United Nations Children's Choir; plus regulars
George Furth, Don Chastain,
Peter Hanley
*Special #5
Airdate: November 21, 1963
Guests: Don Chastain, John Hendricks, Lauritz Melchior, Count Basie and His Band; plus
George Furth
*Special #6
Airdate: December 5, 1963
Guests: Sammy Davis Jr., Mitzi McCall & Charlie Brill; plus Don Chastain,
Peter Hanley
*Special #7
Airdate: December 19, 1963
Guests: Rowan & Martin, André Previn; plus Don Chastain,
Peter Hanley
*Special #8
Airdate: January 2, 1964
Guests: Pete Fountain, Cliff Norton; plus Don Chastain,
Peter Hanley
EXTRAS - Song performances from Ernie
Kovacs shows:
"Everything I Have Is Yours" - The Ernie
Kovacs Show, April 12, 1956
"Dancing on the Ceiling" - The Ernie
Kovacs Show, April 17, 1956
"
Chicago" - The Ernie
Kovacs Show, April 20, 1956
"
I Could Have Danced All Night" - The Ernie
Kovacs Show, April 26, 1956
"Moritat" - The Ernie
Kovacs Show, May 8, 1956
"Honey Bun" - The Ernie
Kovacs Show, May 17, 1956
"
Summertime" - The Ernie
Kovacs Show, June 12, 1956
DISC FOUR
The Edie Adams Show (contd.)
*Special #9
Airdate: January 16, 1964
Guests: Terry-Thomas, Spike Jones,
*Special #10
Airdate: February 6, 1964
Guest:
Bobby Darin
*Special #11
Airdate: February 20, 1964
Guests: Woody Herman and His Band, Jack Sheldon, Mitzi McCall & Charlie Brill
*Special #12
Airdate: March 5, 1964
Guests: John Raitt, Louis Nye, Charlie Byrd, Mitzi McCall & Charlie Brill
*Special #13
Airdate: March 18, 1964
Guests: Johnny Mathis, Soupy Sales, Alan Sues
EXTRAS - Song performances from Ernie
Kovacs shows:
"To Keep My Love Alive" - The Ernie
Kovacs Show, June 27, 1956
"Take Me in Your Arms" - The Ernie
Kovacs Show, July 24, 1956
Medley: "Lullaby of Broadway" & "42nd Street" - The Ernie
Kovacs Show, August 27, 1956
Muriel promotional film (1965)
