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An Evening with Fred Astaire is a one-hour live television special starring Fred Astaire, broadcast on NBC on October 17, 1958. It was highly successful, winning nine Emmy awards and spawning three further specials, and technically innovative, as it was the first major television show to be recorded on videotape in color.
This one hour NBC variety show aired October 17, 1958 and won 9 Emmy awards and was one of Fred Astaire's proudest achievements. This is one of the first major television shows to be recorded on color videotape.
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An Evening with Fred Astaire: Directed by Bud Yorkin. With Fred Astaire, Jonah Jones, David Rose, Barrie Chase.
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An Evening with Fred Astaire is a one-hour live television special starring Fred Astaire, broadcast on NBC on October 17, 1958. It was highly successful, winning nine Emmy awards and spawning three further specials, and technically innovative, as it was the first major television show to be recorded on color videotape.
An Evening With Fred Astaire, October 17, 1958, NBC TV (1958, mono, vinyl rip) This record was given away to presumably either Chrysler employees or NBC-TV people. It contains about 2/3 of...
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An Evening with Fred Astaire was the first of four hugely successful TV specials Astaire did in the late 50s and 60s. For this first special, he won a record-breaking…
Of their work in The Passing Show of 1918, Heywood Broun wrote: "In an evening in which there was an abundance of good dancing, Fred Astaire stood out ... He and his partner, Adele Astaire, made the show pause early in the evening with a beautiful loose-limbed dance."
