We won't see another like her.

Yes, it's a nice surprise. Thirty years ago I used to listen to a radio station at work (I owned the business) and the station had a couple of hours in the afternoon when they played "older" music and interviewed musicians, conductors, composers. I recall a big band leader saying that Teresa Brewer was an excellent big band singer and that Doris Day could handle a jazz tune as well as a top jazz singer. People have surprises. In college in the sixties there was an alto player who was pretty good and then I heard him one day playing a string bass like he invented it. "Where'd you learn to play like that?" I said and he answered, "From my father. Bass in my first instrument." He's been making a living playing alto sax and bass and giving lessons for the past 60 years.

Dinah Shore was a big band singer, adept in most any style. By 1959, her voice was still pretty good, but not like it was in the 40's. KZfaq has some good shorts of her from that era.

I don't think the networks were routinely shooting in color in 1959. I did not see a color TV until about 1960, and it was one of the very first, in the home of someone who worked at RCA. That set was not even working right -- the screen would be all green or something. In those years it was notoriously difficult to adjust the color convergence, even for a skilled technician.

@@RalphDratman thank you for replying!

@@hipsterdoofus1026 Of course I can't be certain!

@@RalphDratman NBC's "In Living Color" programs were recorded on 2" videotape starting in late '58 and consistently in 1959. It's very likely the color tape of this show is residing at Research Video which controls all of Dinah Shore's shows. She bought the tapes from NBC in the mid '80s when they were going to trash them. They probably never looked as good when they were broadcast as they do now. Would love to see them all released. JLTV showed about 20 of them in rotation a few years ago. They're beautiful.

@@jeffmacauley5984 Thanks for that information. When did NBC begin broadcasting in color? When did all new productions start to be done in color?

Yea, definitely cases of tone deaf, OR impaired hearing.

Totally agree. Theirs face shapes are similar and they look like they are in same family.

Dinah was a REAL SWEET WOMAN. Lady Gaga is a freak. NO COMPARISON.

And no resemblence. i knew her personally.

I wish I were so talented, as you are, that I could criticise a musical genius.

Actually Andre didn't give a rat's ass what you thought of his interpretation. Too successful, and too rich.

You're obviously on the wrong page....

That is as disrespectful, as it can get. Can't figure out whether your comments stem from warped conviction or , abominable prejudice.

Excuse me good sir but… nobody asked