Best of the Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters Show
by Bob Henry
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Actor: Barbara Mandrell, Irlene Mandrell, Ken Grant, Louise Mandrell, Tony UrbanoDirector: Bob Henry
Brand: WEA DVD
Writer: Al Gordon
Writer: Cort Casady
Writer: Ernest Chambers
Writer: George Tricker
Writer: Lisa Medway
Writer: Neil Rosen
Writer: Norman Martin
Writer: Peter Gallay
Writer: Sam Breenbaum
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 60 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-05-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Time Life Records
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Movie Review: The Best of Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters
Summary: 1 Stars
What a disappointment! They should have simply called it Guest Star clips from the show. We used to watch the show every Saturday night as a family and really enjoyed it. Unfortunately, the opening numbers and dances sequences were all edited out. Maybe someday they'll put out a complete collection from the show so that everyone who does remember it, can enjoy it.
Summary of Best of the Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters Show
Beginning in 1980, over 40 million viewers tuned in each week as Barbara, Louise, and Irlene sang, danced and joked their way to TV stardom on this Top 10-rated series. It's packed with over 40 guest musical perfomances including Country superstars Johnny Cash, Alabama, Marty Robbins, Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, The Statler Brothers, Ray Charles, John Schneider, Glen Campbell, and many more as well as comedy legends Bob Hope, Phyllis Diller and Andy Kaufman.Best of Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters Show is a two-disc set emphasizing performance highlights from six episodes of the NBC "country music-variety" show that hit the air in 1980. That's the same year Barbara Mandrell won the Country Music Association's Entertainer of the Year Award, and it's a pleasure to look back on how well she took to being such a charismatic, warm, and fun host as well as a dynamic vocalist. Appearing with her are sisters Louise and Irlene, the former a good singer in her own right while Irlene is essentially a personality. Each of the truncated shows here begins with the trio bantering at the top of an episode, generally targeting poor Barbara for being the shortest, the oldest, or not much good at dancing. The first show here, from November of 1980, finds Dolly Parton singing "9 to 5" while also participating in a gospel medley with John Schneider and the Mandrells. (Each show in the series seems to have ended with a gospel medley as a signature piece, involving all the musical talent available on any given night.) This episode is also the only place that one really gets a sense of what the comedy was like on this series, in a passable bit in which one sees how only child Barbara's happiness was destroyed by the announcement that her mother was pregnant with Louise. Another show from that same time period ushers in Kenny Rogers as a special guest, though his fine solo contributions and collaborations with the sisters isn't nearly as interesting as Barbara and Louise's Patsy Cline medley and tribute.
Things really pick up with a 1982 episode starring Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash, who share a lot of enjoyable, old memories with Barbara and embark on a short tour of their musical legacy. Johnny sings a spare "I Walk the Line," and he joins his wife and the Mandrells on a final medley that includes "Will the Circle Be Unbroken." A 1981 appearance by Bob Hope is a treat, especially a duet with Barbara on "Buttons and Bows." (There's also a reminiscence by Barbara about appearing in a skimpy outfit for one of Hope's TV specials years before.) Another '81 installment featuring Alabama and Glen Campbell proves okay, but the final show here stars Ray Charles in excellent form on "You Don't Know Me" and a bluesy, understated "Old Time Religion." --Tom Keogh
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