Judy Garland Miss Show Business (LP, 180g Vinyl)

(Capitol) 10 tracks - Re-issue of the original 1955 'Capitol' LP album - 60th Anniversary Edition

Judy Garland ... A small tramp figure all alone in thc huge spotlight at New York's Palace Thcatrc, sitting on the edge of the stage and dangling her feet in the orchestra pit, sending out her songs to hushed crowds and creating intimacy in that cavernous theatre. Or across an ocean, at the Palladium in London, where thousands of hands were warm from applauding and wet from wiping, away tears. Much earlier, singing 'Over the Rainbow'  in a movie, thereby fixing an image of herself forever in the hearts of those who watched and listened to her.

 A long time later, thrilling audiences with an incomparable range of talent in 'A Star Is Born'. More recently, giving great performances of some of the outstanding songs of her career in her TV debut on the 'Ford Star Jubilee.' Through whatever medium she reaches them, audiences cry when she cries, and laugh and cheer with unabashed abandon. For Judy has the miraculous capacity of evoking in an audience complete identification with herself. She shows that capacity in this album, a rich collection of some of the finest songs associated with her. Here is today's Judy Garland, a woman in complete command of her craft — now outrageously comic, now wistfully bittersweet —s brilliant and experienced trouper in whom something of the waif will always remain: Miss Show Business.