I shuffled the papers on my desk and find it!! The latest publication from Gary Horrocks, and suddenly I am transported back to those early years on the MGM set with Judy.
I thought how pleased Judy would be, if she were to look down at us from over the rainbow, to see how well the club is doing. She always loved to see the publications they issued and enjoyed meeting members. I think she would be proud of the club now.
John Fricke captures her early life and first work with the studio up to the movie, For Me and My Gal.
John Walther brings alive Judy's work on the radio, not only singing but acting in several Theatre shows including Lux Radio and The Chase & Sanborn programs (sometimes we are lucky enough to find these performances included as an extra with a Judy movie on DVD). She worked with practically everyone in the entertainment industry even those outside of MGM! We must not forget the many composers, musicians and musical directors of the era. She performed 140 live radio programs in seven years, in addition to her movie work; mostly in her teen years.
But the most interesting article to me was the one by Jonathan Summers. He documents his efforts to get Judy's 1960 recordings at EMI released starting in April 2000. At that time the studio decided the material 'would not do the artist justice'. What absolute rubbish!! There was no doubt that Judy was in her finest voice then. Thank goodness Jonathan persisted and later worked with First Hand Records and managed to get a package together. He mentions his difficulties in getting photographs from these sessions and I thought ironically that if Lorna Smith and I had taken a camera in to the EMI studios on August 3, 1960 when we were with Judy when she recorded four songs, we could have given him our photos!!! But we had decided not to take a camera in as this might be distracting to Judy as she was working. Oh Well!
Thank you Jonathan for your efforts and thank you Gary and Justin for producing another beautiful edition.
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