Judy Garland – Over the Rainbow

Judy re-recorded many songs throughout her singing career, “Embraceable You” being one of them. 🎶 The first audio is from Oct 1939. The second audio is from Nov 1943. The clips used here are from those respective years. The footage from 1939 is a short reel documenting a studio luncheon held in honor of Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. The footage from 1943 is taken from the Bob Hope hosted “Command Performance” It’s fascinating to hear the growth in Judy’s singing ability and the maturing of he

This is the earliest known footage of seven-year-old Frances Gumm, who would later become Judy Garland. She is joined by the Gumm Sisters performing “That’s the Good Old Sunny South” in the 1929 short subject The Big Revue. The audio used in this clip is a recording made by a then 12-year-old Frances Garland (as she was professionally known) accompanied by her mother Ethel on the piano. “On The Good Ship Lollipop” was part of a medley that was recorded that day in her very first studio session a

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