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| | Very Best of Judy Garland: The Capitol Recordings 1955-1965 | | | Music Artist : | | Judy Garland | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | EMI Gold Imports | | Release Date : | | 2007-02-20 | | Store Price : | | $17.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $17.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Medley: This Is the Time of the Evening/While We're Young [Medley]
2. Medley: You Made Me Love You/For Me and My Gal/The Boy Next Door/The Tr
3. Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow
4. Carolina in the Morning
5. Rock-A-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody
6. Danny Boy
7. Over the Rainbow - E.Y. "Yip" Harburg
8. Come Rain or Come Shine
9. Just Imagine
10. I Feel a Song Coming On
11. Last Night When We Were Young
12. Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries
13. April Showers
14. Maybe I'll Come Back
15. Dirty Hands, Dirty Face
16. Lucky Day
17. Memories of You
18. Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home
19. By Myself
20. Little Girl Blue
21. Me and My Shadow
22. Among My Souvenirs
23. I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
Disc 21. I Get the Blues When It Rains
2. Mean to Me
3. Then You've Never Been Blue [*]
4. How About Me
5. Just a Memory
6. Blue Prelude
7. Happy New Year
8. It's So Lovely to Be Back in London
9. Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart
10. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
11. This Is It
12. More Than You Know
13. I Am Loved
14. I Hadn't Anyone Till You
15. I Concentrate on You
16. I'm Confessin'
17. Do I Love You?
18. Do It Again
19. Day in, Day Out
20. After You've Gone
21. That's All There Is, There Isn't Any More
22. That's Entertainment
23. Who Cares?
24. I've Confessed to the Breeze
25. If I Love Again
Disc 31. Yes
2. Puttin' on the Ritz
3. Old Devil Moon
4. Down with Love
5. Just You, Just Me
6. Alone, Together
7. Stormy Weather [Alternate Take][#]
8. You Go to My Head
9. Judy at the Palace Medley: Shine on Harvest Moon/Some of These Days/My
10. Over the Rainbow [Alternate Take][#] - E.Y. "Yip" Harburg
11. Man That Got Away
12. If Love Were All
13. Comes Once in a Lifetime
14. Sweet Danger
15. Just in Time [Live]
16. It Never Was You
17. I Could Go on Singing (Till the Cows Come Home)
18. It's a Good Day [Live]
19. That's All [Live]
20. Some People [Live]
21. When the Saints Go Marching In - Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli
22. He's Got the Whole World in His Hands - Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli
23. Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart
24. I Am Loved
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 The best Judy in the studio, hands down
Submitted on: 2009-08-17 |
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| The price for what you get in this collection is phenomenal. Three discs are full of the best of Judy during her Capitol years. The best (in my opinion) albums are heavily represented here - "Judy" "Alone" "Judy In Love" and "That's Entertainment!" In this collection you get a chronologically-organized collection that features all of her best recordings from her post-MGM years. The remastering was really well done and the music definitely pops! |
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A Very Important Judy Garland Compilation Set
Submitted on: 2008-05-26 |
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| The previous reviewers have set most everything that I would about this set. This set along with The One and Only Judy Garland, the Capitol Years, give anyone a superb overview of the artist in her later prime, when she was no longer the very young belter, but the voice was still dependable. The One and Only tries to give an overview of all phases of Garland's recording career, Studio on Disc l, Live on Disc 2 and the definitive London sessions of her signiture songs. This set concentrates on the studio material, and much of this was new to her repetoire at the time, or at least the arrangements were. The transfers from the original tapes are simply superb, and the artistic decisions are all first rate, such as releasing the Mono version of Judy in Love. I have a CD transfer of the stereo mix, and the decision makers were right, the stereo mixing is very flawed so the mono packs much more punch. The last reviewer said that only one completel album is featured, that is incorrect, three albums are included in their eitirety, Alone, Judy in Love and Thats Entertainment. Most of her other studio albums are represented by 4 to 6 cuts from each, so that you can get a feel for what the entire album is like. Alone, is an absolute classic, setting and maintaining a bluish mood, as only a great singing actress could. Every other CD transfer of this album has left out one or two of the cuts, and that damages the entire product. The album is one of those great Capitol theme albums of the 50's that is all of a piece, such as Sinatra's Only the Lonely or In the We Small Hours of the Mornng. There is a very strong emotional arc to the whole. Absolutely essential to anyone trying to explore Garland. I can not believe it was released at such a small price, what a great bargain. |
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stacks of tracks--from the incomparable Judy Garland
Submitted on: 2008-03-23 |
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The Very Best of Judy Garland: The Capitol Recordings 1955-1965 gives us a remarkable 72 tracks on three CDs all proving beyond a doubt that Judy Garland remains the world's greatest entertainer. The sound quality is very good (at least on the copy I purchased) and the artwork reflects good taste, too. The liner notes are very informative.
The first CD starts with a stunning medley from Judy's LP entitled Miss Show Business. "This Is The Time Of The Evening/While We're Young" introduces Judy with a chorus that sings sweetly; and when Judy comes in her voice never sounded better! This is followed by an even better medley of "You Made Me Love You/For Me And My Gal/The Boy Next Door/The Trolley Song." Judy performs this second medley with great panache; she enhances the beauty of each tune with her singularly beautiful voice. The strings add to the arrangement very nicely, too. "Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody" has great brass and strings to accompany Judy's sublime vocals; Judy sings this with all her heart and soul. This number lacks nothing--it's THAT good.
"Over The Rainbow," is, quite naturally, given the royal treatment by Judy Garland as this was her principle signature song. It's perfect! "I Feel A Song Coming On" gets a snazzy arrangement and Judy doesn't sing a single superfluous note! Listen also for "Maybe I'll Come Back;" this old vaudeville song was reportedly one of Judy's father's favorites--but in any event Judy delivers this brilliantly! "Lucky Day" sparkles like gold when Judy sings this with heart and soul. "Me And My Shadow" begins with a musical flourish from the strings; and when Judy comes in this number truly takes flight!
The second CD is equally beautiful. "I Get The Blues When It Rains" is a striking torch song that Judy aces easily; and the strings on this tune are fantastic. "Just A Memory" is another torch song that Judy enhances with her singularly beautiful rendition of this ballad. "Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart" was always one of my very favorite Judy Garland songs; I could never tire of this one! The percussion, brass and strings greatly enhance the natural beauty of this song. "Do It Again" has Judy singing a rarely heard opening verse; and as Judy sings the main lyrics to "Do It Again" this blossoms into a lush love song. There's also the zesty "That's Entertainment" from the LP of the same name; Judy attacks this number with all her might and she truly gives blood to make this perfect! I love it!
The third CD gives us even more. "Just You, Just Me" has a fine piano arrangement and Judy makes this sound fresh and new even if you've heard this a million times before! The "Judy At The Palace" medley gives us "Shine On Harvest Moon/Some Of These Days/My Man/I Don't Care." "I Don't Care," from the movie In The Good Old Summertime, thrills me every time I hear Judy sing this with all her might--it's a brilliant performance from Judy--as usual! The strings and more enhance the melody to make this extremely pretty and sweet. After being treated to an alternate take of "Over The Rainbow," we hear Judy performing another signature song, "The Man That Got Away." The horns make this so beautiful along with Judy's voice; this live track really is electric! "I Could Go On Singing" is from the movie of the same name; Judy delivers this so smoothly it stuns me every time I hear it. Listen also for two duets Judy sings with her daughter Liza Minnelli; we get "When The Saints Go Marching In" and "He's Got The Whole World In His Hands."
If you're a fan of Judy Garland this is a must have CD set for your collection. It's also a wonderful CD set for people who appreciate classic pop vocals and even some of the "oldies" songs as well. Get this today and enjoy!
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 Almost great - but hold onto CLASSIC JUDY GARLAND!
Submitted on: 2008-03-09 |
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This release is almost great, but hold onto your copy of CLASSIC JUDY GARLAND - THE CAPITOL YEARS: 1955-1965 2-CD set! I compared the tracks that are available on both releases and found that THE VERY BEST OF JUDY GARLAND has some inferior sources for some songs!
Disc 2 - Track 7 (It's So Lovely to be Back in London) suffers from horrible echo on the VERY BEST CD, and the liner notes say it was impossible to lessen the echo because it was recorded into the masters. Well, check out CLASSIC JUDY GARLAND (Disc 1 - Track 10) and hear this song WITHOUT the echo and sounding far crisper and "present". The liner notes also claim this is a problem with the London Sessions recordings, but they do sound arguably better on THE LONDON SESSIONS CD (though any added reverb seems to be the same).
The 1961 singles on VERY BEST (Disc 3 - Tracks 13-14) sound like they are a generation down from what was used on CLASSIC JUDY GARLAND (Disc 2 - Tracks 8-9). The other tracks the two releases have in common sound either remarkably similar or slightly better on this release, with the exception of those I have noted.
Also, the remixed version of "I Could Go On Singing" on this release blows away the excessively hissy previous releases on MANY a compilation album! It's amazing how CLASSIC JUDY GARLAND, the THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT/I COULD GO ON SINGING CD, J.G. IN HOLLYWOOD and many other releases all put out such a substandard recording when VERY BEST has managed to remix the song from the 4-track master and improve its sonic clarity by a wide margin. Why wasn't this done before? |
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And My Eyes Were Opened
Submitted on: 2008-01-28 |
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For anyone whose image of Judy Garland is that of an exploited and fragile woman, a sad and tragic figure, or just some sort of camp icon, this collection could just open your eyes to why she was - and continues to be - such a big deal. Free of the narrow limitations MGM placed on her musical style, her interpretations of the songs in this collection are thrilling.
Sure, there really is something of the fragile woman, the tragic figure and the camp icon in the lady. But her performances are exciting despite those facets of her persona that could relegate her permanently to the list of hollow icons. Listening to her, you're not always sure where a song is going to end up. At times she's subtle and beautifully measured. But at others it looks like that vibrato - so big it's almost out of control - is going to make her slip and miss a note all together, sliding her into something almost grotesque or, worse yet, into a caricature of herself. But she never goes there. And it's her ability to walk so close to the edge of artistic mishap without ever taking a false step that pushes some button deep inside the listener. Fragile? Yes, but fearless in the risks she takes. Tragic? Maybe, but she has that ability to laugh at herself which only comes with real strength and years of real living. Camp? Not really: because, despite the desire to imitate her, no one really could. She was smart enough and had enough self-awareness to be in complete control of her image.
And this is a great collection through which to explore what she's all about. The first disc gets off to a slow start, as if her first recordings for Capitol were meant only to build safely on the songs she'd already made famous. But it doesn't take long for the arrangements and Garland's vocal style to explore new dimensions.
Judy Garland never seemed to get away with being just a great talent. There was always something of the curiosity - or the freak - in the way people related to her: that odd little girl with the voice and heart of a grown-up, or the middle-aged performer people hoped to see crash and burn with every performance. This collection is a chance to hear her as just a truly great musician.
I don't mean to dismiss Garland's movie work. It was really wonderful and stands on its own merit. But it's a very different thing all together. If that's what you're looking for, Rhino has put together a great sampler: Judy Garland In Hollywood: Her Greatest Movie Hits - Original Soundtrack Performances 1936-1963. |
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