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17 music tracks with bonus DVD of excerpts from "The Liberace Show"!

In his way, Wladziu Valentino "Lee" Liberace was a very modern performer. Sure, the one-time supper club fixture was rivaled only by Lawrence Welk by the "blue hair" set at a time when middle age ladies actually had blue hair. His NBC program "The Liberace Show", which ran from 1952 through 1955 and from which the excerpts on this CD & DVD are taken, often beat CBS juggernaut "I Love Lucy" in the ratings by presenting a combination of light classics, like Franz Schubert's "Serenade" and Edvard Grieg's Concerto (each running over with piano glissandos), and popular melodies like "La Cucaracha" and "Someone's in the Kitchen". Ladies were additionally enchanted by his ingenuous, self-deprecating asides, and anecdotes regarding himself and the composers he was interpreting (he called his shows "classical music with the boring parts left out"). — Rob Kemp