I Happen To Like This Song

quiet please

doesn't that deserve a little praise?

Happy Fourth - America

Smile - Garland

For Nick

Garland and Stonewall

Via an Orange Satan Diarist, Chico David RN

Actor J E Freeman, remembers Stonewall '69.

So even after 40 years, every time I hear Garland's voice sing that haunting song, I think of bluebirds and lemon drops, a fire hose and freedom.

Read the whole thing at the Chronicle.

It'll bring a tear to your eye,

Judy Garland - I Can't Give You Anything But Love

Sublime:


Watching TCM do an all day marathon for her 86th birthday. Waiting for the "Get Happy" number in Summer Stck where she drops twenty pounds during a costume change. Watch for "goose" she receives. Ah Judy, and her boys.



So gay.

We Do Have Something Special For You My Friends...

Is it an actress singing or a singer acting...

Circa 1966:

Dressed as an ostrich
As, alas, we all used to...
But underneath the feathers a fantastic songstress...

How can I live through another day..

Now I am numb
I've become unreal
...
Only my last
Goodbye...

Here come the stars

Tumbling around me...
And on a Como Show!

And JG triumphant reinterpreting Fred Astaire:
circa 1965

I'll go my way by myself
This is the end of romance...

And then there is the Shirley Bassey:

In a very ta ta decolatage.

And yes, Jaeggers with Snarkangel always bring this out of me....

She Began It Here

One for Nk:
It started here:

And it really did continue "over there":

Went back here:

But by this time here it's really not for the children except at Christmas and yet she makes it work:

And then NK, what is F#$* is this:

I Started This Damn Blog

So I can play what I want to:

The ever trampled, ever divine, Ms. G:


circa 1955, and I might say, never better.

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas-Garland 1963

A later full throated version:


Something about "Make the Yuletide gay..." sends the flags to half staff at Fire Island.

The Christmas Song -Mel Torme, Judy Garland

Two great voices, singing Torme's song:

One accidental mistake, one deliberate one "To see if rainbows really fly"?

The Great One - Have Yourselves a Merry Little Christmas-1944

Those eyes, those lips, that tremulo. Such a tortuous song to sing to cheer up a 5 year old girl. A version for times when so many were sepaprated by a world at war.