Judy Garland-Joey, Joey, Joey

[justtheoneanne]

I never imagined a woman singing this song, but if anybody could do it, it would be Judy Garland. Amazing. And there's a kind of fierce desperation about the end.

[bradly2007]

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...

[sarakat76]

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)

[Jimbo8137]

I love everything about this song and her interpretation. She was the best.

[Luckynumber78]

The song choice on this show was so canny and diverse. Imagine the incredible library it could have created of Judy's masterful renditions if it had run for "two or three or four or more" seasons!

[defundthewar]

@weightfeather1 What you read were 2nd/3rd hand statements. The lobotomy story is in every major bio of her along with the old cupboard story. The Gerald Clarke one said Judy's mother drugged her BEFORE MGM. The bedpost story can be found on youtube now, in the Barbara Walters interview. Judy's sister and shrink both scolded her for lying, but this is how she was.  Nothing you read was corroborated. If two people whom Judy told the story to say the same thing, that is not corroboration.

[defundthewar]

@weightfeather1 Nope, you've never read that, although you may have heard it from someone whose neighbor's boyfriend's music teacher's landlady said it. There is 1 and only 1 source that Judy's mother locked her in a cupboard, packed a suitcase and pretended to leave her stranded, threatened to tie her to a bedpost, called her a whore, and schemed to have her lobotomized. That 1 source is Judy, and has never been corroborated. Suzy's middle-aged suicide occured due to her unfaithful husband.

[defundthewar]

@weightfeather1 Well, you help prove what I said about folklore. There is no evidence to support Judy suffered any abuse. True, Mrs. Gumm (who became Mrs. Gilmore) still expected Judy to wash dishes and obey a curfew like her sisters, and Mrs. G wasn't exactly a barrel of laughs, or sophisticated like Judy's new friends, but no, "She wasn't wicked," as Lorna said in an interview. The only source of abuse stories was Judy; the more under the influence she was, the worse the abuse tales.

[NFitalianGuy]

@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..

[defundthewar]

I'll be the 1st to say our greatest 20th century male/female performers were Judy and Frank Sinatra. I've never questioned her talent. But when I read the usual folklore passing for truth, I say something. The silliest- that frumpy old Mrs. Gumm whored herself to advance Judy's career, when not busy scoring amphetamines to feed Judy, or Judy sounded the same in 1969 as she did at Carnegie Hall, and looked wonderful... either you respect and value the truth or you don't, it's that simple.

[MusikJunkie010]

@defundthewar how dare you

[defundthewar]

@weightfeather1 At least 2 committed suicide as I recall, and even Bing's will reflected his dismal tough-love, making sure they got nothing until they were, if I recall, 60 years old, not that they'd ever live that long. Judy was quite Crawfordesque as a mother, not just over the top occasionally. Judy would badmouth her own mother, and as Judy's condition got worse, the stories about her mother would get more off-the-wall, but not surprisingly the folklore has stuck after all these years.

[defundthewar]

@weightfeather1 I recommend "Going My Own Way" by Gary Crosby, which was sort of a Daddy Dearest. Bing had this terrific- he thought- idea: make his kids' lives as miserable and unloved as possible, and they would turn out well, despite the phony and pampered Hollywood/Beverly Hills surroundings. It was an unmitigated disaster. You could say Joan subscribed to the same notion. Ironically, if you read Lorna's book, there's a lot of Joanisms in Judy's behavior.

[defundthewar]

@weightfeather1 Judy wasn't especially discreet sometimes, but yes, she did keep some things under the veil. Her total addiction- falling down with seizures on a regular basis, for example. Her bisexuality, for another. (It's in Lorna's TV movie, but not the book.) The thing about Christina is that she's not pretty and also doesn't come across as a nice person. Joan was gorgeous and did a good acting job as a caring mother. So the choice was easy for many. Me, I believe Christina 100%.

[TheFunnybone]

This reminds me of Joey.

[chrissen1]

At the PEAK of here career - truly! The notes of JOEYYYY...JOEYYYY...JOEYYYY is THE Garland voice at it's zenith!

[Melensko]

holy crap. look at what her outfit is doing to the camera haha

[Drewdavids824]

Medications will make you do awful things. It wasn't like Judy was Jack the ripper! LOL

[TheBoomboom120]

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????

[defundthewar]

@TheBoomboom120 Daughter Lorna spilled the beans about the butcher knife incident in her book "Me & My Shadows," not to be confused with the sanitized TV version. Judy flung the knife at Joey's head & nearly connected; he ran out into the cold night partially dressed. A lot of Lorna's book makes Mommy Dearest seem tame. Oddly, nobody got on Lorna's case, as the public did with Christina Crawford.

[TheBoomboom120]

@defundthewar Thanks for replying. I was kinda waiting for somebody to reply to that comment lol. It's just so sad what she went through then.

[sarakat76]

@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.

[NFitalianGuy]

Joey WAS her favorite as you can tell whenever she talks or is shown with him. Makes you feel good to see a woman show such love for her child.!

[mmdillons]

I don't think it's really fair to say Joey was her favorite; she adored all three of her children. Joey was her baby, and her only boy, so naturally he was the most coddled of the three. Plus, he was a bit frail. When she almost lost him right after he was born, she feared that her drug use may have contributed to his frailty. But there's no denying, she loved her kids, and she probably would have died even younger than she did if she'd never had them in her life.

[dave00004483]

The drums are VERY early-60s rock & roll---  in fact, this may be the closest to "rock" that Judy ever got.

[BeatleBabe]

Which episode is this from?

[damone77]

@BeatleBabe show #25

[luftloft]

I agree about the lighting. It makes sense b/c she was the most electric performer.

[punisher21200]

Is this song for her song like Happiness is just a thing called Joe? Garland really loved her children.

[citrusboi]

This is from The Most Happy Fella by Frank Loesser

[sweetcamera]

Yes, she's singing it to her son. He's down in the front row (that was his seat at all the tapings of her show), Garland keeps eye contact with him throughout the song. She leans down to blow him a kiss at the end. It's really quite cute.

[trueloveisnotreal]

BEAUTIFUL!. Judy is so magnificent

[chunkylumps]

You know what...I love the effect caused by old black & white television recordings on Judy's gowns...It looks like her dress is wired with fairy lights and she is plugged into the mains...it's wonderful!...oh...and I've always loved this song too...