Judy is tremendous plowing through this great song with a fiery soulfulness that is electrifying...love how she nails it at the end and "Joey, Joey, Joey" is her classic...Bravo Judy, love you and RIP great lady...
@defundthewar WOW you really dont sound like a Judy fan ever comment I read you are either calling her a liar or something else.. Every comment I read you find ways of bashing this woman's talent and her character..
You are so wrong, etienne818. You honestly have no idea. Ethel allowed the studio to give Judy drugs; she was not on Judy's side supporting her best interest AT ALL, and Ethel most certainly DID offer sexual favors to those with clout at MGM. Whether she needed to is not the issue - because she DID. She was inexplicably cruel to Judy, and she sided Mayer at every turn. This planted the seeds of Judy's hatred of her mother - Ethel objectified Judy & gave her neither maternal love nor support.
I think that Judy was a Good Mom. Liza said that her has a happy child. And Lorna and Joey in video or photo are happy with their mother. I think that Lorna living in the shadow of her mother.this is the problem for her. Judy was not perfect but I don't think the beat son! (sorry for my english)
Judy is a legend and I love her voice, but I don't believe this song should be sung at this tempo. The message in its lyrics I feel is lost at this pace. I'd have loved to have heard her sing it at the original show's "soliloquy" tempo.
I totally agree. It's a haunting, lonely song from a man whose drive to keep moving keeps him from being with anyone for too long. Judy's upbeat version trashes that mood.
Mort Lindsey did the arrangement. He said it was challenging for him because 1) He'd never heard the song until Judy herself brought it to his attention; 2) nobody had ever recorded the song other than part of the show's context, and 3) Lindsey didn't particularly like it and wasn't sure WHAT to do with it. I actually really like this arrangement because it's got a percussive 60s rock & roll sort of tempo, something that Judy NEVER did in any other song before or after. I never heard the original "theater" version until just a few years ago, and maybe it's just because I really like the newer, hipper sound of it, but I think she blows all the other versions right out of the water. Yeah it's certainly different, but it's also interesting. And Judy absolutely made it work as a song in itself..... even though fans of the show it came from might find it disconcerting if not downright weird (I can picture older theater-goers thinking "What did they DO to this song??!"). In any case, never having heard the "original" until long after I knew this version.... I like this. It's cool.
@@DivineSimply It's sometimes sung upbeat with a jazzy arrangement not always as a ballad. It has a natural bounce that lends itself to this kind of tempo and style.
@defundthewar if my mom was ill I would not have celebrated for the whole life as I do Lorna and Joey! for me they have exaggerated the reality in the book.
Saxon C Your right Joey does seem to get a lot of the attention in the videos. But I think that’s due to him being born early and the doctors saying he might not live.
***** I agree with Mike Anderson . I work in musical theatre. I consider Judy Garland one of the all time greats. Her presence was magical but I prefer other versions of this song.
I don't wanna put a damper on things, but I watched a documentry called 'What Killed Judy Garland' ,and I think that it is that documentry, but someone said that Judy chased little Joey out to the streets in the middle of the night with a butcher's knife. Is any of that true????
