Judy Garland - Over The Rainbow (Judy & Liza at the Palladium, 1964)

[rlmack5]

Wonderful ... This event and its recording have been notoriously mangled by history, but here one does get a real sense of what an occasion it truly must have been. Yes, her hoarse voice was to some degree the result of her medication (Ritalin), but she was NOT drunk. ... Had been rehearsing and singing for days. You try singing like your 16 year old self after 48 hours of straining your vocal chords ...

[DebsTasha45]

Goosebumps when she says 'I've sung this song for so many years'

[HeatherGlen33]

When I was young, I had so many people tell me that I looked so much like Judy. I never thought so. Until after I was married I had snapshots, taken after the honeymoon, and I saw the resemblence. Spears and all other singers I cant even hear. They dress half naked, and have a miriad of singers chiming in. Nothing equals the singers of yesteryear.

[cinderelmo]

I cry at this video so much I hope that one day very soon Liza does an entire show devoted to her mother ,to her mothers songs she should end it with this number. ps all sadness aside has anybody noticed how Liza looks like a young version of Britney Spears here or is it just me I always though Britney looked like Judy and Liza the big brown doe sad eyes or is it just me.

[LoociJ]

This really brought a tear to my eye! Amazing!

[Herestome2]

I am always moved whenever I watch Judy...thank you so much. we truly lost a legend.

[CENTAURSARATOGA]

CLASS..REAL CLASS.!.....such a shame it no longer exists in America

I love this whole family ..what an incredible contribution to Film , Music , & Stage

Thank You soooooo MUCH !!!

[nightwind928]

Although Judy's star shine was in decline at this performance, her validity as an unforgettable talent can never be questioned and is perpetually reaffirmed every time the wide eyed girl from Kansas holds her little dog Toto and skips down the Yellow Brick road to warm the hearts of those generation who will see her for the first and be as enchanted as we all were with her brilliant performance. That's her everlasting gift to humanity and I love her for it.

[quaytman]

mommyz drunk



[Nightbird]

The ONE song that fills me both with hope and sadness...and always touches my heart.

Many have sung this song..but nothing compares to Judy's original version.

We love you Judy..forever and ever.. =)

[TheKloogTwins]

I like that she got the audience to sing along with her. Over the Rainbow is a song that should be shared among everybody in the world just as it has been for the past almost 73 years.. Everyone has an "over the rainbow" and the fact that Judy shared it with the audience just embodies everything the song is. :)

[TheyDontSee]

They played a recording of this at Marilyn Monroe's funeral. Judy and Marilyn were pals. Sweet song. sweet sweet sweet

[cinderelmo]

@TheyDontSee They were huh,Judy ounce said that Marilyn followed her all over a party and said he was scared and she said that out of all the people she followed her ,Judy loved Marilyn and Marilyn loved Judy both were seen as tragic vulnerable etc. I think Marilyn was the tragedy but Judy no because Judy had children who loved her either way I hope wherever they are they found that rainbow they both tried to get over cause Marilyn loved this song she said it gave her confidence.

[cinderelmo]

@TheyDontSee When I die(cinderelmo) I want over the rainbow played at my funeral.

[rockel1986]

Wow, the audience did a really good job singing!

[fromthesidelines]

Incidentally, Judy and Liza are wearing the same outfits (designed by the late Ray Aghayan} they wore for a musical number on "THE JUDY GARLAND SHOW" a year earlier.

[44comment]

la plus grande chanteuse et la plus belle chanson du monde...

[fabulousbroadwaygirl]

A true legend :)

[JohnnyGNV]

I actually think it was a tad silly for Judy to ask the audience to sing OVER THE RAINBOW - I realize that she probably wasn't in very good voice that evening and was having trouble with her high notes - but she pulled it off at the end and I think she could have managed the entire song on her own....you get the overall feeling that she didn't feel confident about her voice for that performance.

[ScottAlanCorreia]

“How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.” - Judy Garland