JUDY GARLAND: 'BUT NOT FOR ME' FROM 'GIRL CRAZY'. 

Hi Lucy

So beautifully put!😂

Martin Olson She sang a song that only she understood.

I can't help hearing this song through the lens of her tragic personal life.

one of the greats from the Great American Song book

Lovely song, not a sad one, though.

I dont get it

we can hope.

trust me, there are some of us. I’m a teen and I love Judy and all the other classic stars! I’m so grateful I discovered them. I agree nothing today can compare to the classics

Hi Slyvia

Ur nuts

Saxon C How true your words are.

Agree

Yep.

Yes it is

Hello Gloria

Ginger Rogers

Is it a rendition? I'm a fan from the Chet Baker version and wanted to find the original. Turns out I read this song was originally written for this musical so I happily assumed that meant Garland was the first to record it.

I agree either way, what a magnificent woman.

She was so unique, so talented, so broken - sadly it was on this film that it became apparent the "energy pills" aka speed the studio was shoving onto her had finally started to take its toll. There is an excellent documentary called Sid & Judy that chronicles this sad part of her career. No one could sing like her.

@@MJ-dq8ik Talking smack there, what kind of pills are you shoving in - Judy looks terrific in this film, healthy and giving a controlled, flawless performance.

@@rx1201 It is not "talking smack" why are you in denial? She was supremely talented but it is well documented how pills & booze took its toll on her & it started to get bad around Girl Crazy. Read any of the numerous biographies on her or the documentary I cited.

Absolutely!

Hi Cynthia

Yes it really

So true.

Same.

I relate too. Love seems not to be something I'll experience.

joshstoph I seem to recall that too

no one else

Hi there

Hi there

Hi Sophia

Thanks for posting it.

Hi there

The Stonewall riots were 6 days after her death. It's only theorised that the patrons were celebrating Garland at the time; there's no significant evidence to back that up

A lyric from a song that's all - how much acid did you take?

@Jorg Hannakh … eh, whether or not there was any connection resulting in some sort of direct instigation or retaliatory activity is almost irrelevant. Those riots did indeed occur six days after Garland’s actual death in London, but they commenced the very day *after* her public New York City funeral, which was indeed an enormous media and cultural “event” in the city, with some 25,000+ people lined behind police barricades to mourn publicly and view the body. That’s to say nothing of the millions in the city (and elsewhere) affected in different ways-sorrowful, regretful, angry, indifferent-by the major news of the troubled Garland’s demise. One would have to admit that a significant membership of the city’s gay community, for whom Garland was, for whatever psychological reason, a towering icon, were probably quite deeply affected by the sheer proximity of her “circus maximus” funeral in their own town, the immense coverage, crowd experiences, the passing of a key icon, the tragic ending of a unique entertainment era represented specifically by Garland, etc. People were probably feeling rather “moody about Judy” in the bars and hideaways. Again, it was the day after the immense impact of the funeral on the entire city. It’s obviously way too much to assert that members of the gay community took-up pitchforks, bricks, and torches and explicitly rioted with the words, “This is for Judy!” on their lips. No way. But it’s equally naive to think that the events surrounding her death and high-profile funeral the day before the riots began played no role whatsoever in the mood and volatility of a victimized, struggling group of people who identified closely with a perception of Garland as a victimized, struggling iconic individual. Her death and funeral most likely played a strong socio-cultural, personal role in reactionary emotions that helped fuel the riots, among other persecutory factors-the timing and impact of her death/funeral are simply too big to ignore and Garland’s importance to the gay community in particular was too prominent to dismiss. It certainly would not be the first time in human history that the public funeral of a major figure (beloved or not) stirred up emotions that led to reactionary and even violent encounters and repercussions. It’s probably best to admit that her demise/funeral played a part in prevailing emotional moods and tides that spurred such combustible reactions … but the role of her death/funeral in this matter is not quantifiable in any way. Almost certainly correlative, but not quantifiable. It also bears mentioning that Garland certainly never “belonged” to the minority gay community alone. Gay citizens were often torchbearers for her legacy at a low point in her last years, but her final fate affected many, many more millions of people worldwide in mainstream society for whom she was equally beloved or fondly remembered. In these times of RU-vid and cinematic streaming, one is nowadays just as likely (or even more likely) to see Garland being rediscovered and appreciated in comments sections by little girls, young women, and people of all evident backgrounds rather than by one or several minority subsets of society. Which makes sense, because for the majority of her career, Garland was a huge star appreciated and celebrated by the masses. She was certainly no fringe or “cult” figure, even though certain subgroups of fans approached her work in cultic ways that would ebb and flow over the years. But that happens with any major entertainment or media figure, and, for some reason, especially with melodramatic, larger-than-life female entertainers. There you have it.

Allen Gumm try spotify. there is a really clear crisp version on there.

Same.

A not so hot take and nobody is laughing except at your farce.

@@rx1201 I don't know why it isn't a hot take, just because you don't like my opinion of this song. I don't see a lot of other people with my opinion. That could make it a misguided take, but it's clearly a hot take. I know quite a bit about the output of the Tin Pan Alley songwriters--a lot of their material is genius, including things from Gershwin. The fact that this is a bad song that awkwardly tries to do too much doesn't take away from their genius.

I love Ella, but she takes a back seat to Garland here. In addition to singing like an earthbound angel, Garland had an uncanny ability to get to the meaning of a song, in a way Ella never quite did.