Judy Garland - Somewhere Over The Rainbow

Judy Garland performs Somewhere Over The Rainbow for the troops during World War II on Bob Hope's Command Performance USA radio show. Note: This footage can be licensed from Global ImageWorks, but there are additional talent and music clearances required.

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[Reilly954]

they don't make em like that anymore!! sing, dance, act, and comedianne!!! quadruple threat!!!!

[AdamMichaelMercer]

1943

[invisibleman275]

@The2020Watcher Actually they'd be amazed for a bit then they'd be rolling in their graves seeing what type of lyrics and such is being thrown out there so freely. They'd probably think we are the most corrupt immoral society to-date.

[invisibleman275]

@The2020Watcher You are right I don't have to like it but I still wish more stars today would not use enhancing technology for their singing. So much less raw talent now adays doesn't get as noticed long enough thanks to the media on tv telling us what is popular and what isn't, instead of letting us individually like them.

[The2020Watcher]

@invisibleman275 And what might Will Rogers, Mark Twain, Ben Franklin, Dorothy Harper, et al, think of you and your social criticism, tapped into a disposable plastic computer ---with the benefit of cut/paste editing--- and stored as electro-magnetics data, rather than scribed with ink, quill, and parchment (or at least an antique Smith-Corona)?

Is it just me, or do you see the similitude?

[The2020Watcher]

@invisibleman275 The performers ---or athletes, or authors, or farmers, or fishermen, or ANYTHING--- are not at fault for the technologies they inherit. I have access to more audio wizardry in my home studio than the Beatles or Stevie Wonder had at their peaks, who had more than Les Paul, Sinatra or Caruso, who had more than Bach. Let me drop a hint; TIMES CHANGE. The stars of today are NOT the stars of yore but, rather, a logical and inevitable continuation of a tradition. Like it or not...

[The2020Watcher]

@pazure Whatever your personal beliefs about Michael Jackson are (and what you imagine they have to do with the measures of talent Reilly954 was talking about), that's your business, and I have no interest in discussing them with you. Furthermore, your smug calling me "charlie" ---and your "try again" remark, as if you were some judge whose criteria my examples had to meet--- suggest that you're just a petulant jerk, one who knows little about history, technology, OR talent. Enjoy your vacuum.

[psychedelicdaisies28]

I wish i lived in that time :)

[pazure]

@The2020Watcher Jackson also had a strange predilection for boys and fantasy. The others you list...really? Justin Timberlake = Judy Garland??? I believe what @Reilly954 is referring to is in how Garland has withstood the harshness of history (and her own failings) to still be considered a classic. She had a honey smooth voice that is her own without the use of software voice tuners. There may be a comparison to other popular entertainers, but the ones you list....sorry charlie. Try again.