ABOUT
THE DISC & RECORDINGS:
This is an amazing boxed set of Garland performances.
The only set to encompass her entire life via songs from
the very first known recordings of her voice through January
1969, just months before her death.
As an added bonus there is a wonderful 32-minute video of
performances from her T.V. series, and a beautiful 102-page
booklet with 130 photographs. The booklet features the following
essays:
"A Jazz-Eye View of Judy," by
Will Friedwald
"Aretha on Judy," David Ritz interviews Aretha
Franklin
"Judy Garland as a Force of Nature," by Camille
Paglia
"A Conversation with Mort Lindsey," Joel
Dorn interviews Mort Lindsey
"Garlands for Judy," by Scott Schechter
The History of My Life Is in My Songs (detailed background
info in the track listings), by Scott Schechter
Although it's not being produced anymore, this set
can be found on eBay and other website. It's worth
the time and effort to find it and to purchase it.
All images on this page from the collection of Scott
Brogan.
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TO REVIEWS OF THIS SET.
CD Sampler released in the summer of 1998:
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TRACK
LISTING
 
Song
Title |
Source |
Time |
Disc
1
|
| The
History Of My Life Is In My Songs |
Excerpt
from 08-28-1960 "Judy At The Palace" recording
for the Capitol Records album "Judy In London" |
0:42 |
| Blue
Butterfly |
1929
First National/Vitaphone short A Holiday In Storyland |
0:49 |
| Hang
Onto A Rainbow |
1929
First National/Vitaphone short The Wedding Of
Jack and Jill |
1:04 |
| When
The Butterflies Kiss The Buttercups Goodbye (The
Gumm Sisters harmony) |
1929
First National/Vitaphone short A Holiday In Storyland |
1:14 |
| The
Land Of Let's Pretend (The Gumm Sisters harmony) |
1930
First National/Vitaphone short Bubbles |
2:51 |
| Introduction
by Wallace Berry |
|
0:48 |
| Zing!
Went The Strings Of My Heart |
11-16-1935
appearance on the "Shell Chateau Hour" radio
show |
3:31 |
| Stompin'
At The Savoy |
06-12-1936
Decca Records recording |
2:22 |
| Everybody
Sing |
08-30-1937
Decca Records recording |
2:51 |
| (Dear
Mr. Gable) You Made Me Love You |
09-24-1937
Decca Records recording |
3:09 |
| I'm
Feelin' Like A Million |
Circa
Summer 1937 rehearsal recording |
2:50 |
| Over
The Rainbow (with Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg) |
06-29-1939
"Maxwell House Coffee Time" radio show |
2:51 |
| Over
The Rainbow |
10-07-1938
MGM soundtrack recording for The Wizard Of Oz (1939) |
2:14 |
| All
The Things You Are |
02-13-1940
"Pepsodent Show Starring Bob Hope" radio
show |
3:00 |
| I'm
Nobody's Baby |
04-10-1940
Decca Records recording |
2:53 |
| For
Me And My Gal (with Gene Kelly) |
07-26-1942
Decca Records recording |
2:29 |
| The
Trolley Song |
04-21-1944
Decca Records recording |
2:49 |
| Liza |
11-12-1946
"Philco Radio Time's Bing Crosby Show" radio
show |
3:34 |
| I've
Got You Under My Skin |
02-19-1947
"Philco Radio Time's Bing Crosby Show" radio
show |
3:10 |
| Over
The Rainbow (with Al Jolson and Oscar Levant) |
09-30-1948
"The Kraft Music Hall Starring Al Jolson" radio
show |
0:48 |
Disc
2
|
| Get
Happy |
03-15-1950
MGM soundtrack recording for
Summer
Stock (1950) |
2:46 |
| The
Man That Got Away |
09-04-1953
Warner Bros. soundtrack recording for
A
Star Is Born (1954) |
4:20 |
| Swanee |
June
1954 Warner Bros. soundtrack recording for
A
Star Is Born (1954) |
1:35 |
| Danny
Boy |
08-30-1955
recording for the Capitol Records album "Miss
Show Business" |
2:24 |
| Come
Rain Or Come Shine |
03-31-1956
recording for the Capitol Records album "Judy" |
3:40 |
| How
About me |
02-05-1957
recording for the Capitol Records album "Alone" |
3:37 |
| Me
And My Shadow |
02-05-1957
recording for the Capitol Records album "Alone" |
3:37 |
| Zing!
Went The Strings Of My Heart |
05-19-1958
recording for the Capitol Records album "Judy
In Love" |
3:45 |
| Who
Cares (As Long As You Care For Me) |
06-09-1960
recording for the Capitol Records album "Judy!
That's Entertainment" |
1:27 |
| You'll
Never Walk Alone |
08-28-1960
recording for the Capitol Records album "Judy
In London" |
4:01 |
| Happiness
Is A Thing Called Joe |
08-28-1960
recording for the Capitol Records album "Judy
In London" |
4:43 |
| I
Can't Give You Anything But Love (Baby) |
April
23, 1961 live performance at Carnegie
Hall |
6:33 |
| Rock-A-Bye
Your Baby (With A Dixie Melody) |
April
23, 1961 live performance at Carnegie
Hall |
3:01 |
| Smile |
03-10-1963
"Sunday NIght At The London Palladium" TV
special |
4:18 |
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Song
Title |
Source |
Time |
Disc
3
(all tracks from Judy's 1963/64 T. V. Series - show
numbers and dates listed below) |
| Just
In Time |
Show
22, taped 2/14/64, aired 2/23 and show 26, 3/29/64 |
3:17 |
| What'll
I Do |
Show
19, taped 1/17/64, aired 2/2/64 |
1:42 |
| The
Lonesome Road (with Bobby Darin) |
Show
14, taped 11/30/63, aired 12/29/63 |
2:14 |
| Here's
That Rainy Day |
Show
11, taped 10/18/63, aired 1/5/64 |
4:33 |
| I
Feel A Song Comin' On |
Show
1, taped 10/11/63, aired 12/8/63 |
2:06 |
| Liza |
Show
3, taped 7/16/63, aired 11/10/63 |
0:47 |
| Together
(Wherever We Go) (With Liza Minnelli) |
Show
3, taped 7/16/63, aired 11/10/63 |
1:09 |
| Shenandoah |
Show
16, taped 12/3/63, aired 1/2/64 |
3:44 |
| On
The Atchison, Topeka And The Santa Fe |
Show
23, taped 2/21/64, aired 3/8/64 |
2:50 |
| A
Cottage For Sale |
Show
2, taped 7/7/63, aired 11/10/63 |
3:10 |
| I
Left My Heart In San Francisco (with Tony Bennett) |
Show
5, taped 7/30/63, aired 12/15/63 |
1:09 |
| San
Francisco |
Show
22, taped 2/14/64, aired 2/23/63 |
3:38 |
| Once
In A Lifetime |
Show
23, taped 2/21/64, aired 3/8/64 |
2:03 |
| I'm
Always Chasing Rainbows |
Show
23, taped 2/21/64, aired 3/8/64 |
3:02 |
| Get
Happy/Happy Days Are Here Again (with Barbra Streisand) |
Show
9, taped 10/4/63, aired 10/6/63 |
2:28 |
Disc
4
(all tracks except the last are from Judy's 1963/64
T. V. Series - show numbers and dates listed below) |
| The
Last Dance |
Show
26, taped 3/13/64, aired 3/29/64 |
4:18 |
| Swanee |
Show
22, taped 2/14/64, aired 2/23/64 |
2:02 |
| That
Old Feeling |
Show
26, taped 3/13/64, aired 3/29/64 |
2:37 |
| Battle
Hymn Of The Republic |
Show
16, taped 12/13/63, aired 1/12/64 |
4:13 |
| I've
Got My Love To Keep Me Warm (With Count Basie And
His Orchestra) |
Show
2, taped 7/5/63-7/7/63, aired 11/10/64 |
1:33 |
| Judy
At The Place Medley |
Show
22, taped 2/14/64, aired 2/23/64 |
6:59 |
| All
Alone |
Show
18, taped 1/14/64, aired 1/26/64 |
1:45 |
| By
Myself |
Show
17, taped 12/20/63, aired 1/9/64 |
4:25 |
| Old
Man River |
Show
1, taped 6/24/63, aired 12/8/63 |
3:11 |
| A
Foggy Day (In London Town) |
Show
22, taped 2/14/64, aired 2/23/64 and Show 26, aired
3/29/64 |
2:36 |
| Medley
(With Peggy Lee) (Big Bad Bill [Is Sweet William
Now]/Bill Bailey, Won't You Please come Home |
Show
13, taped 11/8/63, aired 12/1/63 |
1:08 |
| Too
late Now |
Show
1, taped 6/24/63, aired 12/8/63 |
2:48 |
| Through
The Years |
Show
11, taped 10/18/63, aired 1/5/64 |
3:25 |
| If
I Only Had A Brain (With Ray Bolger) |
Show
10, taped 10/11/63, aired 3/1/64 |
1:29 |
| We're
Off To See The Wizard (With Ray Bolger) |
Show
10, taped 10/11/63, aired 3/1/64 |
0:45 |
| Over
The Rainbow |
January
1969 live performance at The Talk Of The Town nightclub
in London, England |
5:11 |
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Videotape
All performances from The Judy
Garland Show |
| Intro |
.. |
.. |
| Swanee |
Show
22, taped 2/14/64, aired 2/23/64 |
1:50 |
| Commercial
(Lucky Strike Cigarettes: "Lucky's Separate
The Men From The Boys" |
|
|
| Medley:
It's Almost Like Being In Love / This Can’t
Be Love |
Show
22, taped 02/14/63, aired 02/23/64 |
3:12 |
| What'll
I Do? |
Show
19, taped 1/17/64, aired 2/2/64 |
2:35 |
| Intro |
|
|
| Battle
Hymn of the Republic |
Show
16, taped 12/13/63, aired 1/12/64 |
2:13 |
| Come
Rain Or Come Shine |
Show
3, taped 7/16/63, aired 11/10/63 |
3:30 |
| Together
(with Liza Minnelli) |
Show
3, taped 7/16/63, aired 11/10/63 |
1:08 |
| Commercial
(Contact Cold Medicine: "Oz" characters) |
|
|
| When
Your Lover Has Gone |
2nd
version, Show #24 |
3:18 |
| Intro |
|
|
| Lost
In The Stars |
Show
24, taped 02/23/64, aired 03/15/64 |
3:47 |
| As
Long As He Needs Me |
Show
3, taped 7/16/63, aired 11/17/63 |
4:20 |
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REVIEWS
Vital Reissues
Publication: Billboard
Date: Saturday, December 12 1998
JUDY GARLAND
Judy
PRODUCERS: Joel Dorn, Adam Dorn. Co-Producer : Scott Schechter.
32 Records 29002
Although there have been Judy Garland retrospectives
on various labels in the past several years, none has gone
as deep as this one has in representing the breadth of the
late diva's multifaceted career. The box consists of four
CDs with songs arranged in chronological order, a half-hour
video of Garland's TV appearances, and a 102-page booklet
loaded with anecdotes, photos, and testimonials from critics,
musicians, and admirers‹including Aretha
Franklin. Atlantic Records alumnus Joel Dorn and his son,
who operate the New York-based 32 Records, acquired audio
and video rights to "The Judy Garland Show" material,
which constitutes discs three and four, plus parts of the
video. Elsewhere, the multimedia set includes Garland's first
known recording ("Blue Butterfly"), her MGM film
classics (including, of course, "Over The Rainbow" from "The
Wizard Of Oz"), two tracks from the landmark "Judy
At Carnegie Hall" live album, and a host of other treasures.
The book features photos from the Milton Greene archives;
essays by Will Friedwald, Camille Paglia, and Scott Schechter;
and an interview with longtime Garland associate Mort Lindsay
by Joel Dorn. A wonderful tribute to an American legend.
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From AMG Reviews
Producer Joel Dorn acquired rights to the audio and video
recordings of the 1963-4 television series The Judy Garland Show,
but then became more ambitious in creating this four-CD (plus
half-hour VHS tape) box set. Apparently with the assistance of
Garland fan Scott Schecter, Dorn acquired other Garland recordings,
notably airchecks, and licensed around 20 tracks from other labels.
The result isn't exactly the definitive Garland retrospective,
but it certainly has more range than either The Complete Decca
Masters (Plus) or The One Only. Garland was primarily a star
of movie musicals and a concert singer, also performing extensively
on radio and television, yet was only incidentally a recording
artist. So the Dorn approach actually makes more sense than previous
ones, and the set is full of intriguing rarities, all of which
turn up on the first two CDs. The third and fourth discs are
devoted to material from The Judy Garland Show, including guest
stars Bobby Darin, Liza Minnelli, Tony Bennett, Barbra Streisand,
Count Basie, Peggy Lee, and Ray Bolger. If you didn't know better,
you'd think her whole career led up to that unsuccessful program,
which ran only one season. Dorn gives a multiplicity of views
of the singer, not only in his song selections, but also in the
odd collection of five essays contained in the heavily illustrated,
100-page booklet. As with the CDs and video performances, various
sides of Garland are revealed, more or less accurately, but the
whole of her remains elusive. The overall result is a kind of
audio-visual scrapbook with many illuminating elements that remains
an overgrown compilation of material from The Judy Garland Show.
The collection easily could have been fit on three CDs rather
than four, and the list price is rather high for the contents.
All of this suggests that Judy is more an artifact than a retrospective,
but for an artist who inspired such desperate fan worship, that
may be appropriate.
- William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
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MUSIC: A Bundle of Emotion From 'Miss Show Business'
NY TIMES review of "JUDY"
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Published: October 18, 1998
''JUDY.'' Pure feeling. Judy Garland didn't just deliver
it when she sang, she embodied it, no matter how ragged her voice
or how histrionic her delivery. The sound of that much emotion
so densely concentrated wasn't always easy to take. Like no other
American singer, Garland erased the line between laughter and
tears, suggesting a barely suppressed hysteria with each gasp
and choked-up cry.
Edith Piaf, who was seven years Garland's senior, also delivered
pure feeling, but it was harsher, even sadder, and more animalistic.
Even so, Garland, who conveyed the same mixture of wracked
fragility and resilience, was America's answer to the Parisian
legend. Both women were tiny, explosive and self-destructive,
dying at 47 yet paradoxically coming to symbolize survival
over terrible odds.
Until the release of ''Judy'' (32 Records), a four-CD career
retrospective that comes with an excellent video showing highlights
from her 1963-64 television variety show, Garland's recorded
legacy was scattered among several different labels. This set,
produced by Joel Dorn and his son, Adam, with the Garland archivist
Scott Schechter, encompasses the breadth of Garland's recording
career, from an early 1929 recording of the 7-year-old vaudevillian
through a stunning, stripped-to-the-bone 1969 concert performance
of ''Over the Rainbow,'' recorded in London five months before
her death.
''Judy'' goes out of its way to intersperse familiar songs
with fascinating esoterica and previously unheard concert performances.
Her version of ''Over the Rainbow'' in ''The Wizard of Oz,''
for instance, is prefaced with a dramatic re-creation made
for radio of the composer Harold Arlen ''teaching'' Garland
the song, which he sings in a sweet cantorial tenor.
By 1946, Garland's wistful lost-little-girl sound had ripened
into a brassier post-vaudevillian trumpet. The set includes
many crucial movie songs, the most wrenching being ''The Man
That Got Away'' from ''A Star Is Born.'' The selections from
Garland's years at Capitol include two swinging Nelson Riddle-arranged
performances and two dark-night-of-the-soul selections from
her Gordon Jenkins album, ''Alone'' as well as are high points
from her landmark 1961 concert album, ''Judy At Carnegie Hall.''
Disks three and four concentrate almost entirely on excerpts
(in mono) from Garland's television show and include her first
television duet with Liza Minnelli as well as duets with Tony
Bennett (Garland's favorite male singer), Bobby Darin and Barbra
Streisand (their famous medley of ''Get Happy!'' and ''Happy
Days Are Here Again''). Also here are her rousing post-Kennedy
assassination version of ''The Battle Hymn of the Republic''
and a heart-stopping rendition of her favorite song, ''Through
the Years.''
Even at its most disturbing, it's powerful stuff. A performer
who always gave her all, Garland more than lived up to her
nickname (and title of her first Capitol album) ''Miss Show
Business.''
STEPHEN HOLDEN
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DISC
CREDITS
Produced by Joel Dorn and Adam Dorn
for The 3 Ears
Co-Producer: Scott Schechter
Design/Illustration: Page Simon
Mastered by Gene Paul at DB Plus Digital
Services, NYC
Sonic Solutions by Scott Paul and Mark
Fellows at DB Plus Digital Services, NYC
Cover Illustration: Nancy Dwyer, Page
Simon, Oliver Wasow
Judy Garland Images on pages 2, 6, 8, 18,
27, 37, 56, 81, 95, and 96 © 1998 The Archives of
Milton H. Greene, LLC. All rights reserved.
Cover Illustration based on photographs by Milton
H. Greene
Production Coordinators: Michael Weiner
and Becky Wisdom
Editorial Assistance: Suzanne Cleary,
John Kruth, Page Simon
A few of us would like to thank the many people
who helped us.
for making this box set possible Eli Okun, Alan Rubens, Adam
Varon, Bruce Resnikoff, Sheryl Gold, Jay Boberg, Keith Zajic,
Julie D'Angelo, Mark Pinkus and John Ingrassia.
Michael Weiner and Becky Wisdom.
Special thanks to Page Simon for above and beyond.
Adam for doing the hard work.
Faye Rosen for her eye and her ear.
John Kruth for his time when it was needed.
Gene Paul, Scott paul and Mark Fellows for their usual great
work.
Joshua Green for giving us access to his father's archives.
Scott Schechter for sharing his knowledge and time.
-- Joel Dorn
Michael Weiner thanks Andy Dowding of A To
Z. Page Simon thanks Tonianne Schlamp; the folks at Ralmond
Graphics; and Harvey Delorme for the proverb. |
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