Track Listing

1. Overture/The Trolley Song
2. Over The Rainbow
3. Man That Got Away
4. When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You)
5. Almost Like Being In Love/This Can't Be Love
6. Do It Again
7. You Go To My Head
8. Alone Together
9. Who Cares (So Long As You Care For Me)
10. Puttin' On The Ritz
11. How Long Has This Been Going On
12. Just You Just Me
13. Man That Got Away
14. San Francisco
15. That's Entertainment
16. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
17. Come Rain Or Come Shine
18. You're Nearer
19. Foggy Day
20. If Love Were All
21. Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart
22. Stormy Weather
23. You Made Me Love You/For Me And My Gal/Trolley Song
24. Rock A Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody
25. Over The Rainbow
26. Swanee
27. After You've Gone
28. Chicago

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3018 in Music
• Released on: 2001-03-05
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Original recording remastered, Live
• Dimensions: .26 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
The late 1950s were tough on Judy Garland, but this live recording, cut on April 23, 1961, at Carnegie Hall, would (rightfully) bring the legendary icon back into the spotlight. Live would go on to win five Grammys, be Garland's bestselling record, and confirm that, yes, on certain levels, she still had it. Her vocals are as strong as ever on these tunes, and Garland has fun with an audience obviously enraptured by her charms. She's self-deprecating where necessary--on "You Go to My Head" she forgets the lyrics but keeps improvising. But mostly she just shines, especially on tunes she made famous, such as "Come Rain or Come Shine", "Stormy Weather", and "Over the Rainbow". This is easily one of pop music's greatest live recordings and a fine testament to Garland's recorded legacy. --Jason Verlinde

CD Description
The sleeve note begins: 'On the evening of April 23, 1961, 3,165 privileged people packed the world famous Carnegie Hall beyond its capacity, and witnessed what was to be probablythe greatest evening in show business history.'
This souvenir of that remarkable occasion includes the complete concert, during which Judy Garland sang 26 songs and mesmerisedthe audience with her sensational all-round performance. The album won Grammys for album of the year, best female vocalperformance, best engineering and best cover. It was in theUS chart for 73 weeks, 13 of them at number 1.

Customer Reviews

......two hours of pow!!
There are not many live recordings of this age that can boast such a long re-issue history, but this one defies all belief. First brought out as a double album in 1961 and remaining weeks in the No.1. spot, reissued countless times thereafter on vinyl and finally making a single CD appearance in an abridged form at the end of the 1980's. This "abridged form" resulted in a deluge of complaint letters to Capitol from angry fans who(quite rightly) were outraged that the definitive Garland Live recording (For that is what it is) should be butchered in such a way. Subsequently, Capitol re-issued the CD as an extended cd set, restoring much of the evenings banter and storytelling by the talented Miss Garland. DCC Classics finally got their hands on the Master tapes and beautifully restored more of the concert.(The running order corrected and previously inserted "studio" tracks removed and original tracks replaced). This sold as a 24k Gold edition for "Audiophiles" and at a price.. And here we are again, 40 years on, fully restored and sounding as fresh and alive as she did on that magical evening of April 23 1961. Miss Garland shimmers and soars. The voice a little tight and dry at first, but boy! does she shake that off and take you on a musical journey that you will find hard to file away or forget. A one in a million........buy it!

An anti-depressant experience of huge proportions.
Bear with me as I get flowery and overdramatic about this album. When I bought it on vinyl back in the eighteenth century it seemed a terrifying amount of money to spend on a bit of plastic but it was worth every penny and still is now it's on CD at last. It's probably the most uplifting recording I have, hideously tasteless in parts and seeping copius amounts of over-the-top emotion guaranteed to make most reserved Brits cringe but at the same time quite wondrous and life affirming. It's an album of monumental mood swings, "Chicago" knocks you over energy and va-voom, "How Long Has This Been Going On" has you sobbing melodramatically into your coffee and then suddenly "If Love Were All", breaking your heart; the most exquisite ballad sung with uncharacteristic Garland understatement that gives it huge emotional impact. Her voice is by turns wobbly and strident but manages to heave and twang your heartstrings so disconcertingly that you have to do a little displacement coughing to hide it...

It still makes me laugh out with happiness and the ironing goes by in a flash whilst in the company of such effervescence. Those afternoons I would put it on when my parents were out and sing along Very Loudly are amongst my fondest memories of adolescence - Judy and me against the world and determined to sing it into submission. Fabulous stuff.

A bit of history
Unlike some of the reviewers I am not a Garland fanatic.

That being said this is an excellent album that clearly catches a moment in history. These live versions are superior to many of the studio equivalents. The torch song element has not been diminished by anodyne production values. You can also sense the rapport between audience and performer.

Such is Garland's demonstrable enjoyment in this recording that you can sense that this is a moment of rebirth, without knowing too much of the biography.

This is an excellent album for all, whether fanatic or novice