Danny Kaye - Best of the Danny Kaye Show

Just found this description on-line!!!!!!!!Danny Kaye was at the height of his popularity when The Danny Kaye Show debuted on CBS in the fall of 1963. A pair of Broadway hits Lady In the Dark and Lets Face It and a succession of classic films including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Inspector General, Knock on Wood, Up In Arms, The Court Jester, Hans Christian Andersen, and White Christmas made Danny Kaye one of the biggest stars in show business. His international humanitarian work for UNICEF, and sold out concerts at places like the London Palladium and the Palace Theater in New York helped make Danny Kaye a worldwide sensation. He won the Emmy Award for best variety performer in 1964, and the show was honored with three more Emmys, including outstanding variety series. The Danny Kaye Show was the perfect showcase for its stars unequaled range of talents. In this collection of six uncut episodes available now for the first time - Danny sings with Ella Fitzgerald, Nana Mouskouri and Harry Belafonte. He sings and dances with Liza Minnelli and Gene Kelly, and deftly clowns his way through comedy sketches with Art Carney, Rod Serling, Jackie Cooper, and a certain perennially 39-year old legend of comedy, who makes an unannounced cameo appearance. Also featured in this collection are Michelle Lee, Buddy Greco, John Gary, Joe & Eddie, Lovelady Powell and Alan Young. Series regulars include Harvey Korman, Jamie Farr, Joyce Van Patten and orchestra leader Paul Weston. Among the numerous gems found in The Best of the Danny Kaye Show: Danny conducting the Television City Philharmonic, a spoof of The Twilight Zone with Rod Serling, and performances of Danny Kaye classics Pavlova written by Dannys wife Sylvia Fine and originally seen in the film The Kid From Brooklyn, and Ballin the Jack from On the Riviera. Dannys other numbers include, You Make Me Feel So Young, Pennies From Heaven, and a rollicking duet with Harry Belafonte on Hava Nagila. Whether experiencing the joy that is Danny Kaye for the first time, or revisiting his extraordinary gifts, viewers of all ages will find the irresistible and legendary entertainer at the top of his game on The Best of the Danny Kaye Show.

THE DANNY KAYE SHOW, which aired on CBS-TV from 1963 to 1967, was one of my favorite variety shows when I was growing up. In 2013, I purchased the  Christmas With Danny Kaye  collection; this new collection is a perfect companion to that one.The two DVDs feature six uncut episodes. Disc 1, in black and white, features guest stars Jackie Cooper, Jack Benny (in a brief cameo), a very young Michele Lee, Gene Kelly, Art Carney, The Clinger Sisters, Lovelady Powell, Joe & Eddie, and others. Disc 2, in color, features Harry Belafonte, a young Liza Minnelli, Nana Mouskouri, Ella Fitzgerald, Buddy Greco, Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66, Alan Young ( Mister Ed ), and more. The last episode, with Ella, Greco, and Brasil '66, is the best one of the six.Series regulars included Joyce Van Patten (Dick's younger sister), Jamie Farr (of M*A*S*H fame), Harvey Korman, who moved to THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW without missing a beat when the Kaye show was cancelled in 1967, The Tony Charmoli Dancers, and Paul Weston And His Orchestra.Whether Dana Kaye will make more volumes available depends on the sales of this one.Considering their age - almost 50 years old - these programs are in excellent shape. Four stars.

Danny Kaye was an amazingly talented man, but hard to classify. He could dance, sing just about any sort of music, do various characters in various ethnic accents, sing tongue twisting songs, mimic other famous people, clown around and do manic comedy; I can't even list all the things he could do. His movies were good, some even great, but he shone in front of a live audience. Unfortunately, those live shows were not recorded for the most part. But he found a new media where he could connect with an audience, and that was live TV.This 2 cd set has 6 full length "The Danny Kaye Show" segments as seen on TV in the 1960s. (Half are in b/w; half colour.) I grew up watching him on Wednesday nights at 9:00. It was a variety show with music, dancing, famous guest stars and my favourite, the skits and sketches. These dvd's took me back and I appreciate the shows even more than I did then. I hope at some time they will bring out the whole set of shows from those several years in the mid 60s. Not everything holds up well after that much time, but a lot of it does. This was a wonderful trip through memory lane for me.

I'm very biased in Danny's favor, so I enjoyed these shows. Disk 1, in B&W, features Gene Kelly, then Jackie Cooper, both from 1963; and Art Carney from 1964. Disk 2, in color, features Harry Belafonte (1965), Ella Fitzgerald and Buddy Greco (1966) and Liza Minnelli (1966). Two stand out to me: the episode with Art Carney, where two veteran hams try to outdo each other in some funny sketches; and the one with Harry Belafonte. Kaye and Belafonte obviously had fun together. Also check out the recipe Danny gives Gene Kelly to dance to.I don't think these are absolutely "the best" of the Danny Kaye show, as the title advertises. ... Liza Minnelli? Really? She was a kid at the time. What about guest stars Lucille Ball, Satchmo and so on? But those two, and others, are on another volume of episodes from the Danny Kaye Show.PS: Not a swear word anywhere! Good clean fun Enjoy!

Excellent remedy against a rainy summer.An enormous pleasure to re-connect with Danny Kaye, his twinkling sense of humor, dancing, singing and doing sketches with Russian, Irish, Jamaican etc. accents. He had a very special talent for producing a light atmosphere without overdoing it. Guest stars such as Gene Kelly, Harry Belafonte, Nana Moskouri (first appearance on US tv), and "the one and only" Ella Fitzgerald! Recorded around 1964. No wrinkles.

The Danny Kaye Show episode with Harry Belafonte and Nana Mouskouri was quite possibly the most memorable television program of my childhood. Nice to have it back. The entire package is in surprisingly good condition technically.

I am saying excellent because anything Kaye did was wonderful but just to say the quality of the recording was not great.

This dvd was a real find. Danny Kaye is was such a true talent, and is probably unknown to alot of the younger generation, which is a shame.

Good quality DVD, arrived in good time, only problem, is that i thought the content was going to be different than what it is, but that's my fault.l