Judy Garland in Person Live at Carnegie Hall. 1961 Double LP Vinyl WBO-1569

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Judy Garland in Person Live at Carnegie Hall. 1961 Double LP Vinyl WBO-1569

Sunday April 23rd Orchestra under the direction of Mort Lindsey. See photos for record condition. Gently played, Side 3 played the most, the rest barely played

Garland's live performances were a big success at the time and her record company wanted to capture that energy onto a recording. The double album became a smash, both critically and commercially.

The album won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, making Garland the first woman to win the award, and spent thirteen weeks at #1 on the Billboard album chart.

Garland's career had moved from movies in the 1940s to vaudeville and elaborate stage shows in the 1950s. She also suffered from drug and alcohol abuse, and, by 1959, had become overweight and ill and needed extensive medical treatment. After a long convalescence, weight loss, and vocal rest, she returned in 1960 to the concert stage with a simple program of "just Judy", omitting the vaudeville and comic acts that usually preceded her. Garland's 1960–1961 tour of Europe and North America was a success, and her stage presence was highly regarded. At the time Garland was billed as "The World's Greatest Entertainer". Audiences were documented as leaving their seats and crowding around the stage to be closer to Garland, and often called her back for encore after encore, even asking her to repeat a song after her book of arrangements was completed.

This was Harold Arlens Personal Copy. I was in the  NYC store when his estate dropped off the rest of his Records, CDs, Cassettes, VHS and more. The collection was last at sister in laws who passed in 2023.

Much of Arlen's music was written for plays or movies. The 1939 film classic THE WIZARD OF OZ was among his most famous projects, featuring the Academy Award-winning “Over the Rainbow.” In all, Arlen wrote the music for 25 films, 10 Broadway shows, and more than 500 songs.

Side one

No.TitleWriter(s)Length

1."Overture":

a) "The Trolley Song"

b) "Over the Rainbow"

c) "The Man That Got Away"

a) Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin

b) Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg

c) Harold Arlen, Ira Gershwin5:48

2."When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You)"Mark Fisher, Joe Goodwin, Larry Shay3:29

3."Medley":

a) "Almost Like Being in Love"

b) "This Can't Be Love"

a) Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe

b) Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart6:27

4."Do It Again"George Gershwin, Buddy DeSylva6:16

5."You Go to My Head"J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie2:43

6."Alone Together"Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz5:38

Side two

No.TitleWriter(s)Length

1."Who Cares (As Long as You Care for Me)"George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin1:46

2."Puttin' On the Ritz"Irving Berlin2:45

3."How Long Has This Been Going On?"George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin4:12

4."Just You, Just Me"Jesse Greer, Raymond Klages2:16

5."The Man That Got Away"Harold Arlen, Ira Gershwin5:03

6."San Francisco"Walter Jurmann, Gus Kahn, Bronisław Kaper4:45

7."I Can't Give You Anything But Love"Dorothy Fields, Jimmy

8."That's Entertainment!"Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz6:38

Side three

No.TitleWriter(s)Length

1."Come Rain or Come Shine"Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer7:23

2."You're Nearer"Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart2:33

3."A Foggy Day"George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin3:04

4."If Love Were All"Noël Coward2:53

5."Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart"James F. Hanley4:04

6."Stormy Weather"Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler6:11

Side four

No.TitleWriter(s)Length

1."Medley":

a) "You Made Me Love You"

b) "For Me and My Gal"

c) "The Trolley Song"

a) Joseph McCarthy, James V. Monaco, Roger Edens

b) George W. Meyer, Edgar Leslie, E. Ray Goetz

c) Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane3:56

2."Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody"Sam M. Lewis, Jean Schwartz, Joe Young5:22

3."Over the Rainbow"Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg5:47

4."Swanee"Irving Caesar, George Gershwin7:31

5."After You've Gone"Henry Creamer, Turner Layton4:20

6."Chicago"Fred Fisher