Judy Garland "Bill" First Acetate Recording Jerome Kern "Show Boat" Remastered
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2024
- This is the first acetate Judy Garland recorded as a child from the great box set "Lost Treasures", remastered and cleaned by me for this post. Highly recommended issue, which mostly is live radio and stage recordings never issued before, many in better sound if they were issued before. Like Julie Andrews Judy had an adult voice as a child that was almost freakish. She is doing a partial impersonation of the song's creator Helen Morgan, but amazing how much of her own voice is there. No rights implied, posted to hopefully boost this issue as well as show what improvements cleaning can do with such period recordings.
Excellent! The legendary, adorable, very pretty and extremely talented Judy Garald performs this song perfectly! The best version of this beautiful and classic song ever!
I've been reading now for close on fifty years that Judy sang this song back when she was Frances Gumm and then Frances Garland, but it was always something that I never dreamt had ever been 'captured' in any medium. Its recent emergence on CD surprised and thrilled me... now, to think that you've made it so ACCESSIBLE to everybody who owns a computer... well, it makes me glad that I'm still around. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
never again in our lifetime - God sent - She was and simply is the best we ever had - I loved her so -
@wdlarue
Judy was 12 going on 13 when she recorded this. She was Born in June 1922 and this song was recorded early 1935.
The most singular voice. Stunning, honest, with perfect tone.
John - this is so nice! THANK-YOU for cleaning this up. Her voice is as clear as a bell. I had never heard this before. Happy 100th to Judy today!
I am stunned Judy interpretes this as if she were Helen Morgan
Terrific! I find it so excited that so many of these old recordings CAN be so beautifully restored...it makes the past alive, in color and 3-D, instead of scratchy, tinny and sepia toned! Thanks-
Brings me to tears every time.
This is beautiful. This tiny girl/woman who was so talented .
Thanks for this rare treasure from the rarest of talents.
I tried to work with this company when I found out they were doing this; it was short notice. As it is on the box set, amazing. The uploading actually added some minor haze, you can hear particularly at the start; process still a mystery to me in some ways. Interesting the much remarked on way Lonette McKee handled the last section (the Times noted it in their review of the Prince "Show Boat" is exactly what Judy does here.
@ALJarman1 Yes, she'd sit on a piano just like Helen Morgan did, with a shawl over her head and body with just her face in the spotlight. When she was done, the audience was shocked to see a little 11 or 12 year old girl slip off the shawl and climb off the piano. It must have been particularly effective, as Judy was tiny to begin with especially if she hadn't reached her full height by that age, (which was only 4' 11" as an adult).
Then that made Mickey Rooney 4' 10" and he was not. Wikipedia exaggerates.
A quote by Judy Garland: "I'm not actually thinner. I still weigh 108 pounds, but I've grown two inches. I'm now five feet three inches." (she is now taller than Rooney)
-- Hartford Courant, 1939
Thank you for posting this much-cleaned and so rare version! I bought the box set and it really IS amazing!!!
Astonishing find
Well, I recommend buying the box set with the 'raw' version. Those noises are not what you would have heard in the studio, they are from the 'medium' (the acetate in this case) and the damage to it. The new box set of the singles for Decca the same company issued, they cleaned them as I did this. I didn't remove the ambient noise, which results in a 'vacuum' background sound, only the noises from the disk. If you nostalgic for the noise, don't listen to this.
I like Judy Garland's voice in most of her recordings, but her voice was so much more beautiful, raw, unspoiled in this early recording that almost everything she recorded later. I like her voice better in this recording than what I've heard recorded earlier. It is beautiful, and the defects due to the age of the recording do not bother me. This is before MGM trained Judy Garland.
She was a child!
Yes. You can tell that her voice is untrained Her mother probably taught her how to sing it and played piano for her. Still such a beautiful voice even untrained
Excellent work as always.
Wonderful. If I am not mistaken, Ethel Gumm is on the piano.
Aloha! This is wonderful!
Thanks for sharing. I have discovered some lost 78 Audiodisc acetates with handwritten labels. The labels read:
"Over the Rainbow with Judy Garland, Over the Rainbow #1, Were off to see and If i had a heart. Some are on acetates that are For Reference Recordings only. They were found in the attic of an old building in Southern Cali, over 45 years ago. I am trying to determine if they are collectible or not?
Judy was the first choice as Julie in the 1951 Show Boat movie. But as many times happened with her she didnt make the movie and was replaced by Ava Gardner.Her voice was mature for a 13 years old girl like also was Deanna Durbin s.
I don't believe she's older than 12 here. So good.
She was 12
I loved Judy.
It'd be nice to hear this without all the noise reduction for comparison's sake. I'm so used to hearing old recordings that I can ignore the surface noise - i usually prefer unprocessed raw versions with a more pure tone.
like Shirley Temple a freakish Talent thank you
It's impossible to tell how old she is here. I wonder what year it was recorded. Incredible control and technique in this recording
The sibilant S.....and 13 yr old signing that song is out ravenous. But the voice is unmistakable. Too bad how it eroded. The Dinah record done at this time, shows she was listening to Louis Armstrong, she copies his performance almost to a T.
whats the name of the box set they released
She was 12 when this was recorded
Well, as Judy herself would have said, screwing Louis B. Mayer didn't hurt (much), but yes.
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I'm sorry, but that is TOTALLY over processed! You have used so much noise-reduction that Judy now sounds like a robot. I hate it. The version on the CD is a million times better. This version sounds tinny, and Judy's voice is metallic. I'm sure you mean well, but sometimes its best to hear something with the original hiss, because this has taken away the charm of the original. [e.g, it's so over-processed I can hear what sounds like a bird whistling in the sound booth at 01:55 - 01:57 in the background]
Thanks for this rare treasure from the rarest of talents.