Judy left me a song, I sing it all the time, to feel happy, full of joy. Shout Hallelujah, get ready ... It's not one she was famous for. But, it spoke to me.
I like her honesty and how she is keeping her mother's legacy alive. She also wrote that memoir Me and my shadows ,which became a TV movie, which show's the tough deturbed mother was ill with her prescription medication addiction. WE Radharaman'd see how ill, probably the horrific and really disturbing is usually not spoken of, Lorna doesn't have the talent of her famous mother and ssiter,i'veseen her sing on TV, and Thea InternetNow like her mother, not liker her sister. t sister. Her mother had a voice powerfully sweet anss he rule the concert stage for awhile. Lorna was let behind some shows, a few Mies, but nothing took of. Lorna had a modicum of talents and voice, She Still preforms in manly small cabaret setting, where I saw her 2003
Addiction is not a disease. 🙄 People have proclivities to all sorts of various things. Some have greater proclivities, some have less. It’s a human tendency. An inclination toward any number of behaviors. Act upon destructive proclivities and you’ll likely get into a whole lot of trouble. Act upon productive proclivities and you’ll likely soar. It’s part of the human condition. Pursue this, resist that, try the other, decide against one course of action, take-up another. Personal accountability is being chucked out the window in favor of some all-encompassing “Victimhood Utopia” and look at the results in our society. Garland’s story IS partially tragic because she was fed dangerous, addictive drugs as a minor, as a child, by people she trusted. A show business “mama” and a studio. This was a disaster as she clearly had a proclivity toward these things or else she was fed so many of them that her metabolism became dependent no matter what her genetic inclinations. But who, outside of sleazy show business in those days, popped their kids full of pills for ANY reason? Farmers didn’t feed their kids pills to do their chores. Regular working people didn’t resort to those things. Alcohol was an always present danger to all, everywhere, but pills? Please. Garland-a once-in-a-lifetime genius level talent-was fed uppers and downers by her mother at age ten so that she could sing for the family’s supper. It probably amazing that she lasted to age 47 and accomplished so much as she did. Her short life was literally packed with successes. But she sure as hell didn’t feed her own kids pills: on the contrary, she tried to dissuade them from nervy show business lives. The daughters played around with dope as adults in the Studio 54 days. The oldest performed superbly in one big movie (Cabaret) not long after her legendary mother’s death, and was subsequently over-applauded by a twisted industry that was still feeling an existential guilt about destroying her mother. Liza never, EVER starred as a leading lady in another HIT film after that. She had a fine supporting turn in Dudley Moore’s ‘Arthur’ and a number of forgettable Broadway musicals that have never been revived, and which weren’t blockbusters to begin with. She rode the wave of her Cabaret moment for a decade getting wild at Studio 54. The little sister did, as well. Minnelli had enough charisma to take-up stage work as an entertainer, but let’s face facts: most people were going to see a glimpse of the Judy Garland Factor, not to hear ‘Cabaret.’ Minnelli never had even one Top 40 popular song on the charts-her mother had TWENTY Top 40 hits and blockbuster albums, including ‘Judy at Carnegie Hall,” which stayed at Billboard No.1 for 13 weeks in 1961-1962 (96 weeks on the Top 100 total) and made her the first woman to win Grammy Album of the Year. Minnelli never had even one Top 10 album. Garland was a hard core pill-popper, but she worked constantly from age 4 onward so that trashy family members, husbands, and agents could steal her millions. She was a thrilling genius as a talent, but lame as a manager of her own personal life and finances. These sisters have/had careers only because of HER. Minnelli, admittedly, possessed a quality to be a brassy nightclub star and superb comedienne (Arrested Development, anyone?) but her film career tanked and she spent the rest of her life imitating her mother on concert stages. Luckily, she knew how to invest and hold on to her $$$. The younger daughter is actually the better singer of the two but lacks the “Gee-Whizz!” pizzazz and sparkle that kept the older sister able to sell tickets. Judy Garland was THE mighty talent that loomed like a shadow over both of their different careers, and still does.
Lorna is Lorna, no competition between themselves and each other,each unique and. Champion each other. They are each other’s biggest fans . Her rendition of this song is beautiful , she can’t help use that powerful voice but she uses it judicially.
I think in show Business there is nothing tougher than blasting out these kind of performances in front of thousands. Not many can or would want to do this nowadays but thankfully Judy passed on her Ruby slippers which fit perfectly.
What a great interview. Thank you so much, How does their younger brother fit into this family? Nothing said about him. I loved Judy when I was a kid and my vaudeville dancer mom took me to the Curran to a matinee of Judy. I was completely blown away, I've never had an experience liike seeing her in person. It turned me into a lifelong singer and I am so grateful to my mom for realizing that this was important. Oakland Ca 2023
Interesting. I think they both encapsulate their mother. Liza has Judy’s personality whereas Lorna, I think, reveals Francis Gumm, who was hidden by the Judy persona, we as audience members were never allowed to meet.❤
