Sid Caesar - The First Piano Recital / Edvard Grieg “Piano Concerto in A-Minor No. 1“

[From “Kovacs Corner“ on ] - In another display of his great pantomine skills, Sid Caesar plays a budding concert pianist performing his first solo recital of Edvard Grieg’s “Piano Concerto in A-Minor No. 1“. This clip was culled from the NBC Special “Some of Manie’s Friends“. In 1959, NBC broadcast a 90-minute prime-time posthumous tribute to a man few outside of entertainment circles had ever heard of, Manie Sacks. Originally a Columbia Records executive who later work for RCA and NBC-TV, he