Judy Collins: Colors of the Day: The Best of Judy Collins Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		3.5
Video		0.0
Audio		4.5
Extras		0.0
Overall		3.5

Judy Collins: Colors of the Day: The Best of Judy Collins Blu-ray Movie Review

Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman September 3, 2025

Note: For the ninth grouped assortment of Quadio Blu-ray releases, Rhino is doing something a bit unusual, offering Greatest Hits (or something similar) albums from the New Seekers, Bread, Carly Simon and Judy Collins.

It may be impossible to know who was more surprised when Judy Collins hit the Top 20 with Send in the Clowns, Judy herself or composer- lyricist Stephen Sondheim, who had never had a smash of this magnitude where he wrote both the music and the words. This particular assemblage was released some years before Collins "covered" the best known song from Sondheim's A Little Night Music, but this album does include her other two "big" (ish?) hits, her inviting and surprisingly drum heavy version of Joni Mitchell's Both Sides Now and her more reverential reading of Amazing Grace.

The album's track list can be seen in the screenshots of the disc menu I've uploaded to accompany this review.

Judy Collins: Colors of the Day: The Best of Judy Collins Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

As alluded to above, this disc features a static menu. In the "continuing adventures" (?) of Rhino's variant authoring of these discs, this is one where the audio button does nothing and you have to navigate through the track list to change the audio codec. The song starts over if the codec is changed. Screenshots 6 and 7 show how the color of the track changes if you scroll through the list before choosing something.

Judy Collins: Colors of the Day: The Best of Judy Collins Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

Colors of the Day features DTS-HD Master Audio 4.0 and DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 options. The quadraphonic mix tends to come alive in some of the more produced material, as in Since You Asked and Both Sides Now, where the combined instrumental and/or orchestral forces are really nicely splayed between the front and rear channels, with Judy's evocative, wispy voice nicely prioritized throughout. I personally found her vocals to be a bit overly reverberant (i.e., too "wet") in the quad mix, and the quad mix can also occasionally show some of the inherent issues with the tape source, as in the opening nanosecond or so of Since You Asked, where both hiss and a kind of low frequency thrum can briefly be heard.

Judy Collins: Colors of the Day: The Best of Judy Collins Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

As with most Quadio releases, there are no on disc supplements. The insert booklet recreates the original album's lyric sheet, while offering the Quadio standbys of a picture of the box holding the master tape, as well as Rhino's typical verbiage on setup.

Judy Collins: Colors of the Day: The Best of Judy Collins Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

Judy seems to be an acquired taste for some, but this is an appealing album that shows off her emotional voice quite well. The quad mix is nicely spacious but at times reveals a few limitations of the source tape. Recommended.