Just won this still on eBay, and thought I'd post it here. What intrigued me about this image is that it's a rehearsal shot, showing Ernie in director mode with Steve Blauner, getting ready for a dry run of the "Dinner Symphony". This was for the Kovacs ABC spec #2. The music was something of a mystery for a while. Irwin Chusid had wanted to include it on the Ernie Kovacs Record Collection CD, but no one was able to identify it. Some months after the CD's release, the piece was ID'ed as having been written by a lesser-known Hungarian composer named Kara Karajev.Below is the info from the ABC photo dept attached to the still. It's still been real...
Ben Model - http://www.erniekovacs.info/
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On Tuesday, November 19, 2013, MVD Entertainment Group will release "Here's Edie: The Edie Adams Television Collection"! This is a 4 DVD, 12 hr set of the
entire run of Edie Adams variety show which aired on ABC from 1962-64. It is the first-ever release of her classic variety show after more than 50 years.
Bonus material includes Edie''s musical numbers from the Ernie Kovacs show, a 16-page booklet with rare photos, program notes and her iconic Muriel Cigar
commercials. Here's a 
which will be officially released on Tuesday, October 23, 2012..jpg)
2 comments:
Ben,
Thanks for a great post. I love it!
Folks, we haven't been around for a while as I've been in the midst of a move so my warm kudos to Monsieur Undercrank Model for "keeping it real."
Dear ALL,
Kara Karayev is not Hungarian composer. He is famous Azerbaijan composer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gara_Garayev
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