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This is a new and improved deluxe DVD/CD set which contains: An Evening With Matt Monro which has been digitally re-mastered and enhanced from the original source and Matt on TV - A look back at Matt Monro's finest TV performances, introduced by Matt Monro Jr. An Evening With Matt Monro has been digitally re-mastered. This is your invitation for the once in a lifetime opportunity to spend 'An Evening with Matt Monro'. Matt Monro was praised by Frank Sinatra for being one of the world's three greatest singers. Despite Matt's sad loss in 1985 his remarkable voice lives on, attracting a new generation of admirers and giving pleasure to his fans all over the world. For nearly forty years a film reel of Matt Monro performing live lay unknown in the family garage. Its discovery by his daughter Michele was momentous: the only known film of Britain's greatest singer had at last been found. An Evening with Matt Monro Australia 1967 1. As long as I'm singing 2. How do you do. 3. What to do. 4. My kind of girl. 5. Yesterday. 6. You're nobody until somebody loves you. 7. Portrait of my love. 8. Walk away. 9. In the arms of love. 10. From Russia with love. 11. Georgy girl. 12. Born Free 13. Softly as I leave you. Matt On TV includes the legendary performances: I Love the Little Things, Born Free, Hava Nagilia, Just A Heartache Ago, If I never Sing Another Love Song, Around The World, Happy Song, Toda Pasara, Isnâ TMt It A Pity, Thanks To The Lord Medley With Roger Whittaker /Sandie Shaw/Fantasticâ TMs Etc, Chicago With Tony Bennett, On A Clear Day, All Of A Sudden and Best Of British Medley With Liberace The 14 Track Audio Disc, features the legendary concert from Manila. All presented in a blue-foiled box set, which includes a souvenir booklet. Special Features: Restoration Featurette, Original Introduction to An Evening With, Trailers and booklet notes by Michele Monro.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
This brand new DVD & CD package is a real winner.
Super DVD concert of Matt in Australia in the 1960s plus UK television appearances.
A nostalgic and defining collection a fitting tribute to one of the UK's best and most popular vocalists of the 20th Century.
A must for collectors.
Matt On TV has the following:
Mr & Mrs Music, Tony Hatch & Jackie Trent Yorkshire TV 1 October 1968
I Love the Little Things
Don't Sleep in the Subway
You're the Only One
Stars on Sunday
Born Free
(with Jess Yates on organ and musicians)
Frost on Sunday LWT 8 February 1970
Just a Heartbreak Ago
Hava Nagila
What's On Granada March 1979
If I Never Sing Another Song Again
Wheeltappers & Shunters Granada 1974
Around the World
Let Me Sing and I`m Happy
Born Free
Roger Whittakers World of Music LWT April 1971
Isn't it a Pity
Thanks to the Lord
Liberace (B & W)
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
Best of British medley
All of a Sudden
Those Were the Days with Mary Hopkin, Eve Arden & Liberace
Tony Bennett at The Talk of the Town Thames 18 October 1972
Chicage duet with Tony Bennett)
Tarby & Friends LWT 1984 (Final TV appearance)
Toda Pasara
The Dave King Show (B&W)
My Love and Devotion
Singin' in the Rain (with Dave King)
Saturday Variety ATV 1 July 1972
You'd Better Love Me
Walk Away
Born Free
We're Gonna Change the World
Plus a CD of the Manila concert that really is a bonus to this excellent collection.
Super DVD concert of Matt in Australia in the 1960s plus UK television appearances.
A nostalgic and defining collection a fitting tribute to one of the UK's best and most popular vocalists of the 20th Century.
A must for collectors.
Matt On TV has the following:
Mr & Mrs Music, Tony Hatch & Jackie Trent Yorkshire TV 1 October 1968
I Love the Little Things
Don't Sleep in the Subway
You're the Only One
Stars on Sunday
Born Free
(with Jess Yates on organ and musicians)
Frost on Sunday LWT 8 February 1970
Just a Heartbreak Ago
Hava Nagila
What's On Granada March 1979
If I Never Sing Another Song Again
Wheeltappers & Shunters Granada 1974
Around the World
Let Me Sing and I`m Happy
Born Free
Roger Whittakers World of Music LWT April 1971
Isn't it a Pity
Thanks to the Lord
Liberace (B & W)
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
Best of British medley
All of a Sudden
Those Were the Days with Mary Hopkin, Eve Arden & Liberace
Tony Bennett at The Talk of the Town Thames 18 October 1972
Chicage duet with Tony Bennett)
Tarby & Friends LWT 1984 (Final TV appearance)
Toda Pasara
The Dave King Show (B&W)
My Love and Devotion
Singin' in the Rain (with Dave King)
Saturday Variety ATV 1 July 1972
You'd Better Love Me
Walk Away
Born Free
We're Gonna Change the World
Plus a CD of the Manila concert that really is a bonus to this excellent collection.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
What a wonderful set, beautifully produced throughout and with a nice foil blocked card slip case to contain the main case.
He was ill as a child, a bit on the short side, and liked a drink and a smoke by all accounts. He had early humble jobs, bouts of lack of confidence, and disappointments with early record deals. Sustained by his ever-supportive wife and a growing income from some fortuitous advertising jingles, he eventually won through to become one of the greatest singers in the world, right up there with Sinatra, Damone, Williams, Bennett etc. In many people's view he was the very greatest of them all.
When Nat King Cole died Matt was lured to America and could have been one of its finest resident stars. But he got homesick and returned home. He had a lovely house near Ealing but in no sense was it a gated palace and he spent the remainder of his life combining an almost everyday existence in Britain with a globe-trotting career, even finding time to becoming one of the Latin world's most loved singers.
There are legions of people who will attest to his friendliness and naturalness. One radio presenter recalled when, as a young man, he rode in a lift with Matt; he remembered him as "the nicest man in the world".
Having been a fan of Matt's for years I am most interested in the more obscure items here, and what a feast we have! The price is worth it just to have these TV appearances. Others here have given very good accounts of what there is, so I would just cite two: the version of George Harrison's "Isn't It a Pity" is spellbinding and to be compared with Billy Preston's in George's memorial concert; the Liberace segments are such fun, a reminder of Matt's naturalness.
I was in tears seeing again Matt's final TV appearance on Tarbuck doing "Todo Pasara". Obviously ill, gaunt and pale, he sang like a lion. By all accounts, he was the same in the final Talk of the Town concerts. Now that would be a wonderful DVD but I don't think it was filmed.
I'll leave others to comment more on this set. Amazon-your 5-star rating is NOT sufficient when we are reviewing GIANTS!
God bless you Matt, in grateful remembrance.
He was ill as a child, a bit on the short side, and liked a drink and a smoke by all accounts. He had early humble jobs, bouts of lack of confidence, and disappointments with early record deals. Sustained by his ever-supportive wife and a growing income from some fortuitous advertising jingles, he eventually won through to become one of the greatest singers in the world, right up there with Sinatra, Damone, Williams, Bennett etc. In many people's view he was the very greatest of them all.
When Nat King Cole died Matt was lured to America and could have been one of its finest resident stars. But he got homesick and returned home. He had a lovely house near Ealing but in no sense was it a gated palace and he spent the remainder of his life combining an almost everyday existence in Britain with a globe-trotting career, even finding time to becoming one of the Latin world's most loved singers.
There are legions of people who will attest to his friendliness and naturalness. One radio presenter recalled when, as a young man, he rode in a lift with Matt; he remembered him as "the nicest man in the world".
Having been a fan of Matt's for years I am most interested in the more obscure items here, and what a feast we have! The price is worth it just to have these TV appearances. Others here have given very good accounts of what there is, so I would just cite two: the version of George Harrison's "Isn't It a Pity" is spellbinding and to be compared with Billy Preston's in George's memorial concert; the Liberace segments are such fun, a reminder of Matt's naturalness.
I was in tears seeing again Matt's final TV appearance on Tarbuck doing "Todo Pasara". Obviously ill, gaunt and pale, he sang like a lion. By all accounts, he was the same in the final Talk of the Town concerts. Now that would be a wonderful DVD but I don't think it was filmed.
I'll leave others to comment more on this set. Amazon-your 5-star rating is NOT sufficient when we are reviewing GIANTS!
God bless you Matt, in grateful remembrance.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
This DVD is a must for all Matt Monro fans and a fabulous treat for those with a passing interest too.
This set consists of three separate components
1. Matt on TV: A fabulous cross section of material from the Granada, LWT, Yorkshire and ATV vaults introduced by Matt's son Matt Monro Jnr and scripted by his daughter Michele. It includes appearances from the `Dave King Show' in 1961 (the second earliest surviving footage of Matt) right through to his very last TV appearance on `Tarby and Friends', many of which have not been seen since their first transmission.
Highlights include:
Fabulous duets with Tony Bennett, Dave King and Liberace
Songs from 'Frost on Sunday' including the incredible `Hava Nagila'
A four song set from `Saturday Variety'
Songs from `Mr & Mrs Music' (with Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent)
and a sublime rendition of George Harrison's `Isn't it a Pity' from `Whitakers World of Music' and lots more.
2. An Evening with Matt Monro: This comes from a televised concert in Australia and is the only surviving full concert footage of the great man. Whilst this has been issued before, this time the film has been digitally remastered by the BBC using high definition technology and Vidfire to bring the quality closer to the quality of its original broadcast. It's not a revelation but it is a definite improvement, the sound has been improved slightly too.
3. Also included is a CD of Matt Live at the Araneta Coliseum in Manila in the Philippines in 1966. This too has been issued elsewhere (and with extra material on `Yesterday' - Night Owl Music) but is a fabulous bonus on a set that is already jam packed with material.
The set isn't perfect, for some reason Matt on TV is presented in widescreen when all of the original shows were 4:3 ratio. This means the pictures have the top and bottom cropped and zoomed in which isn't very kind to the picture quality in places, for some reason the Tony Bennett footage comes from what looks like a VHS dub rather than the master tapes and do we really need four versions of Born Free?
But these are minor gripes the performances are wonderful, Matt's singing is never less than superb and makes even the hardest songs look and sound effortless.
This set consists of three separate components
1. Matt on TV: A fabulous cross section of material from the Granada, LWT, Yorkshire and ATV vaults introduced by Matt's son Matt Monro Jnr and scripted by his daughter Michele. It includes appearances from the `Dave King Show' in 1961 (the second earliest surviving footage of Matt) right through to his very last TV appearance on `Tarby and Friends', many of which have not been seen since their first transmission.
Highlights include:
Fabulous duets with Tony Bennett, Dave King and Liberace
Songs from 'Frost on Sunday' including the incredible `Hava Nagila'
A four song set from `Saturday Variety'
Songs from `Mr & Mrs Music' (with Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent)
and a sublime rendition of George Harrison's `Isn't it a Pity' from `Whitakers World of Music' and lots more.
2. An Evening with Matt Monro: This comes from a televised concert in Australia and is the only surviving full concert footage of the great man. Whilst this has been issued before, this time the film has been digitally remastered by the BBC using high definition technology and Vidfire to bring the quality closer to the quality of its original broadcast. It's not a revelation but it is a definite improvement, the sound has been improved slightly too.
3. Also included is a CD of Matt Live at the Araneta Coliseum in Manila in the Philippines in 1966. This too has been issued elsewhere (and with extra material on `Yesterday' - Night Owl Music) but is a fabulous bonus on a set that is already jam packed with material.
The set isn't perfect, for some reason Matt on TV is presented in widescreen when all of the original shows were 4:3 ratio. This means the pictures have the top and bottom cropped and zoomed in which isn't very kind to the picture quality in places, for some reason the Tony Bennett footage comes from what looks like a VHS dub rather than the master tapes and do we really need four versions of Born Free?
But these are minor gripes the performances are wonderful, Matt's singing is never less than superb and makes even the hardest songs look and sound effortless.
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WOW is all I have to say!! I never knew who Matt Monro was when he was alive and performing and I am sorry I missed out on seeing him perform. Read more
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Published 24 months ago by Mrs. Ba Craig
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This DVD is a trip down memory lane, and the CD, although not of the best quality, although reading of its background and subsequent cleaning it is quite acceptable. A good buy.
Published on 28 Jun 2009 by Mr. John M. Miller
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Another glorious addition to the matt Monro catalogue. It is superb value, of course, but it is the content that is truly extraordinary. Read more
Published on 26 Mar 2009 by V. Adair
Just superb
What can I add to the reviews already on these pages other than the fact that if I could award ten stars I would!! Read more
Published on 26 Mar 2009 by P. Smith
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NOT ONLY IS THIS CD AND DVD SUPERB VALUE FOR MONEY IT SHOWS THE MARVELLOUS MATT MONRO IN MANY DIFFERENT LIGHTS. Read more
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