Judy Garland: Miss Show Business CD Track Listing
Judy Garland
Miss Show Business (1955)
Originally Released September 26, 1955\nCD Edition Released June 9, 1989\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: On Saturday September 24, 1955, Judy Garland starred in her first television special on the CBS network, inaugurating The Ford Star Jubilee. The live 90-minute program featured several other acts, qualifying it as a variety show, but it was really a Garland showcase. The 33-year-old entertainer had been major film star and carved out a second career as a concert performer. The Ford Star Jubilee gave a national audience a chance to find out what all the fuss at the London Palladium and the Palace had been about; Garland re-created much of her stage show. Two days after the broadcast, Capitol Records released Miss Show Business, which, while not billed as a soundtrack to the TV program, featured studio recordings of much the same group of songs. Roger Edens, who had been working with Garland since the start of her movie career, penned considerable special material, including the opening choral number, "This Is the Time of the Evening," and lengthy musical introductions to the two major set pieces, a movie medley and "Judy at the Palace," a medley of vaudeville songs; his adaptation of the traditional song "A Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow," which Garland had sung in the 1940 film Little Nellie Kelly, was also included. The medleys are a good indication of the sources of the music: either Garland was singing songs from the movies, most of them from her movies, or she was reviving vaudeville songs, many of them associated with Al Jolson. This was the repertoire she had been performing in concert to great acclaim for several years. It all concluded with an overwrought rendition of her signature song, "Over the Rainbow," on which she was sobbing by the end. This made for an affecting performance that deservedly became a big seller. -- William Ruhlmann
This jazz cd contains 10 tracks and runs 39min 17sec.
Freedb: 7809330a
Category
: Music
Tags
: music songs tracks jazz Vocal
- Judy Garland - This Is The Time Of The Evening + While We're Young (04:49)
- Judy Garland - Medley: You Made Me Love You + For Me And My Gal + The Boy Next Door + The Trolley Song (06:17)
- Judy Garland - A Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow (03:03)
- Judy Garland - Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody (02:38)
- Judy Garland - Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe (04:24)
- Judy Garland - Judy At The Palace Medley: Shine On Harvest Moon + Some Of These Days + My Man + I Don't Care (06:07)
- Judy Garland - Carolina In The Morning (03:04)
- Judy Garland - Danny Boy (03:05)
- Judy Garland - After You've Gone (02:14)
- Judy Garland - Over The Rainbow (03:30)
