Delightful walk back in time
Andy Williams has been one of my favorite singers since I was a kid. Now decades away from seeing these specials as they aired, and since they were on when I was a kid, I certainly didn't remember many details about them. Thus I was quite interested when I saw this DVD available. I was not disappointed.
The images on the DVD are not that sharp, which is not surprising since they were shot on tape for TV decades ago, and that is a low res format which is being shown on an almost 60" wide-screen in our house. But the picture sharpness is irrelevant to this presentation. The sound is superb, and that is what you're looking for out of this DVD.
The DVD starts out with a couple of complete numbers by Andy. Then for a few minutes I was worried, as they started into a biography of Andy's early career with his brothers, interspersed with song clips, and voicing over even some of those clips. Having been temporarily suckered into many such "music shows" on cable channels...
Andy Williams Christmas DVD
Great DVD of the OLD Andy Williams Christmas TV Shows.
FUN to re-live their Holiday Spirit...FUN to see the
many guests! A HOLIDAY MUST for those that remember!!
More than a trip down memory lane....
Some of my earliest childhood memories of Christmas include watching the annual Andy Williams Christmas specials, and I was delighted to find this program (which I think originally aired on PBS in the early 2000s) featuring performances from Andy Williams, The Williams Brothers, the Osmond Brothers, and the entire Williams family. Remembering my anticipation for each holiday special during my early childhood, my initial viewing was a fun nostalgia trip, but on repeated viewings I also renewed my appreciation for the quality of the performances. A previous reviewer commented on the "barbershop" harmonies of the Williams and Osmond Brothers, but these arrangements performed by both sets of brothers were more complex and modern than the term "barbershop" suggests. "Kay Thompson's Jingle Bells" is now a holiday standard recorded by many artists, but The Williams Brothers here sing in tribute to their former mentor, Kay Thompson, and the richness of their brotherly blend on this song...
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