Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9863 in DVD
• Released on: 2009-02-16
• Rating: Exempt
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1

Synopsis
Tracks include: 'I Love The Things', 'Born Free', 'Nava Nagilia', 'Just A Heartache Ago', 'If I Never Sing Another Love Song', 'Around The World', 'Happy Song', 'Toda Pasara', 'Isn't It A Pity', 'Thanks to The Lord Medley', 'Chicago' and 'On A Clear Day'.

Customer Reviews

This is the Ultimate Matt Monro
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.

Highly Recomended
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.

Memories
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.