From the RHINO HANDMADE web site:
Rhino and Turner Classic Movies Music are pleased to present two soundtracks
featuring Judy Garland that have been unavailable for far too long. The recordings
on this Summer Stock/In The Good Old Summertime original motion picture
soundtrack double feature release cover the last two of the twenty-eight features
and five short subjects in which Garland appeared during her 15-year tenure with
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
In The Good Old Summertime is a musical version of M-G-M's
1940 classic The Shop Around The Corner. Originally
designed for June Allyson and Frank Sinatra, the story of two
clerks in a turn-of-the-century music store was recast with
Judy and Van Johnson in the roles (silent comedian Buster Keaton
can also be glimpsed in a supporting part). The movie was released
in 1949 and was both a critical and box office success. Along
with six Garland performances, this CD includes selections
by The King's Men barbershop quartet, a pair of violinist Marcia
Van Dyke's numbers, and the sole surviving recording of In
The Good Old Summertime's original, but unused, finale.
Beset by health problems and an ill-fated stint in Annie
Get Your Gun, Judy began work in late 1949 on what would become her final
Metro musical, Summer Stock. Paired with dancing great Gene Kelly, Garland
plays a New England farmer who lets a troupe of performers use her barn and winds
up falling in love with their director (Kelly). At Judy's request, musical supervisor
Saul Chaplin acquired the standard "Get Happy" for the film, and it
became one of Garland's greatest triumphs. Released in 1950, the film was even
more popular than In The Good Old Summertime; nevertheless, Judy was released
from her M-G-M contract weeks later. Along with all the songs from the film itself,
this collection includes never-before-heard dance music and underscoring, and
the outtake "Fall In Love" sung by Gloria De Haven and Phil Silvers.
This Turner Classic Movies Music edition of Summer Stock/In The Good Old Summertime original
motion picture soundtrack double feature has been meticulously crafted to restore
and expand the original 1949 and 1950 MGM albums with previously unavailable
tracks. This disc marks the first release of every number in its entirety, as
well as surviving background scoring, from Judy Garland's final, triumphant Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
achievements. All of the recordings included in this package --except two --
are in the original mono. This reissue also features liner notes from John Fricke,
who co produced and co wrote the 1997 Emmy Award-winning A&E Biography
Judy:
Beyond The Rainbow.
CREDITS
Produced For Release By: George Feltenstein
Project Supervisor: Roland Worthington
Hand - Curator,
The Rhino Handmade Institute of Petromusicology
Assistant To The Curator: Rectangle Van
Elk
Deputy Chief Archivist: DK Baker
Mastering By: Doug Schwartz
Art Direction By: Bryan Lasley with Patrick
Pending
Designing By: Bryan Lasley
Institute Artists And Repertoire: Michael
Johnson
Liner Notes By: John Fricke
Photographs Courtesy of Turner Entertainment
Co.
Archival Materials From the Collection of John
Fricke
Special Thanks To: Bruce Baggot, Rebecca
Boomer, Michael Feinstein, Sherry Legar, Roger Mayerk, Scott
Roerts,
Chuck Shults, & Rick Skye
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