ABOUT THE DISC & RECORDINGS:

This is one of the rarest of the early MGM soundtrack albums. Thank you to Bruce for providing the cover scan and record details.

This is also the first time the still young M-G-M Records ever released a compilation album featuring Judy. They would, of course, produce many, many compilation albums throughout the 50's, 60's, 70's and into the 80's. What's interesting about this compilation is that includes songs that M-G-M Records would not include in subesequent compilations (i.e. the Van Johnson & Jimmy Durante tracks).

This is also the first time that we know of that M-G-M Records reached back to the pre-soundtrack record era (pre-1946) and included an older pre-recording, in this case the Kathryn Grayson track from the pre-recordings to 1945's Anchors Aweigh which was never officially released as a soundtrack. M-G-M Records would eventually use several pre-soundtrack era recordings, but these were usually directly from the soundtracks of the films themselves, such as most of the pre-1946 Judy Garland tracks and the original soundtrack of The Wizard Of Oz, notable exceptions being the outtakes of Garland's "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" and "Danny Boy" which were taken from the pre-recording masters. These can be found the 1996 Rhino Records CD "Judy Garland - Collector's Gems from the M-G-M Films" as well as a plethora of out-of-print LPs such as 1962's "The Judy Garland Story Vol. 2" and 1969 set "The Golden Years at MGM".

All images on this page from the collections of Bruce.