Disc 1:
1. The History of My Life Is in My Songs  (Intro)
2. Blue Butterfly  (1929; Judy solo, age 7)
3. Hang onto a Rainbow  (1929; Judy solo, age 7)
4. When the Butterflies Kiss the Buttercups Goodbye  (1929; Gumm Sisters)
5. The Land of Let's Pretend  (1929; Gumm Sisters; Judy has solo line)
6. Introduction by Wallace Beery  (1935)
7. Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart  (1935; Judy age 13; Radio broadcast)
8. Stompin’ at the Savoy  (1936; Judy’s first record; age 14; Decca Records / MCA)
9. Everybody Sing  (1937; Decca Records / MCA)
10. Dear Mr. Gable, You Made Me Love You  (1937; Decca Records)
11. I'm Feelin' Like a Million  (1937; Rehearsal recording with Roger Edens)
12. Over the Rainbow  (1939; with Harold Arlen; Radio Broadcast)
13. Over the Rainbow  (1938; from "The Wizard Of Oz" film; Turner)
14. All the Things You Are  (1940; Radio Broadcast)
15. I'm Nobody's Baby  (1940; Decca Records / MCA)
16. For Me and My Gal  (1942; Decca Records / MCA)
17. The Trolley Song  (1944; Decca Records / MCA)
18. Liza  (1946; Radio broadcast)
19. I've Got You Under My Skin  (1947; Radio broadcast)
20. Over the Rainbow  (1948; with Al Jolson and Oscar Levant; Radio broadcast)

Disc 2:
1. Get Happy  (from Summer Stock, 1950)
2. The Man That Got Away  (from A Star Is Born, 1954)
3. Swanee  (1954; session Outtake)
4. Danny Boy  (1955; Capitol Records)
5. Come Rain or Come Shine  (1956; Capitol Records)
6. How About Me?  (1957; Capitol Records)
7. Me and My Shadow  (1957; Capitol Records)
8. Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart  (1958; Capitol Records)
9. Who Cares? (As Long as You Care for Me)  (1960; Capitol Records)
10. You'll Never Walk Alone  (1960; Capitol Records)
11. Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe  (1960; Capitol Records)
12. I Can't Give You Anything but Love  (1961; Carnegie Hall; Capitol Records)
13. Rock-A-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody  (1961; Carnegie Hall; Capitol Records)
14. Smile  (1963; British TV broadcast from the London Palladium)

Disc 3:
(all songs from "The Judy Garland Show" TV Series, 1963-1964)
1. Just in Time  (2nd version, Show #22)
2. What'll I Do?
3. Lonesome Road  (with Bobby Darin)
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. I Feel a Song Coming On  (1st version, Show #1)
6. Liza  (1st version, Show #3)
7. Together  (with Liza Minnelli)
8. Shenandoah
9. On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe
10. A Cottage for Sale
11. I Left My Heart in San Francisco  (with Tony Bennett)
12. San Francisco  (2nd version, Show #19)
13. Once in a Lifetime  (2nd version, Show #23)
14. I'm Always Chasing Rainbows
15. Get Happy / Happy Days Are Here Again  (with Barbra Streisand)
16. Lost in the Stars

Disc 4:
(all songs, except final track, from "The Judy Garland Show" TV Series, 1963-1964)
1. The Last Dance
2. Swanee  (2nd version, Show #22)
3. That Old Feeling
4. Battle Hymn of the Republic  (1st version, Show #16)
5. I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm  (with Count Basie)
6. Judy at the Palace Medley
7. All Alone
8. By Myself  (1st version, Show #17)
9. Old Man River  (1st version, Show #1)
10. A Foggy Day in London Town  (2nd version, Show#22)
11. Men Medley  (with Peggy Lee)
12. Too Late Now
13. Through The Years
14. If I Only Had a Brain  (with Ray Bolger)
15. We're Off to See the Wizard  (with Ray Bolger)
16. Over the Rainbow  (from Talk Of The Town cabaret, London, 1969) /
      Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart   (reprise, 1935)

Videotape:
1. Intro
2. Swanee  (2nd version, Show#22)
3. Commercial (Lucky Strike Cigarettes: "Luckys Seperate the Men From the Boys")
4. Medley: It's Almost Like Being In Love / This Can’t Be Love  (2nd version, Show#22)
5. What'll I Do?
6. Intro
7. Battle Hymn of the Republic  (1st version, Show #16)
8. Come Rain Or Come Shine  (1st version, Show #3)
9. Together  (with Liza Minnelli)
10. Commercial (Contact Cold Medicine: "Oz" characters)
11. When Your Lover Has Gone  (2nd version, Show #24)
12. Intro
13. Lost in the Stars
14. As Long as He Needs Me

Book:
102-page book with 130 photographs, including 10 from the estate of Milton Greene.
Includes the following essays:

"A Jazz-Eye View of Judy," by Will Friedwald
"Aretha on Judy," David Ritz interviews Aretha Franklin
"Judy Garland as a Force of Nature," by Camille Paglia
"A Conversation with Mort Lindsey," Joel Dorn interviews Mort Lindsey
"Garlands for Judy," by Scott Schechter

The History of My Life Is in My Songs (Track Listings / Background Info), by Scott Schechter

Review from "GARLANDS for JUDY"

My love affair with Judy Garland began as it did for many people : via her most famous movie role, "Dorothy," in "The Wizard Of Oz." I guess I was about 5 or 6 when I saw it on TV for the first time, and I was alternately enchanted and terrified. (It wasn't "The Wicked Witch" that scared me the most actually, but rather the MGM Lion at the start of the film's opening credits.) My real tears were shed at the end of the movie however, when I was told I would have to wait a full year to see the movie again!

The depression I was in at having to wait to see "OZ" again, was finally lifted one winter day when I was dragged along by my sister to her friend's house : as I was shaking the snow off my boots off in the foyer, I heard it! That voice!! It was Dorothy! It was Dorothy singing "Over The Rainbow!" My mouth just hung open : I was paralyzed. Still, I had to find out where Dorothy's voice was coming from. As if in a trance, I followed the sound to the room of the brother of my sister's friend. He was playing the soundtrack album to the movie. At that moment, my sister called me, and we had to leave. My "OZ" funk continued.

Glinda the good witch must have been looking out for me ; a short time later, I ran into my sister with her friend, and her friend's brother was with her! After barely saying hello, I asked him if the "OZ" record was his. He said it was, and I asked him where he had gotten it. He said "Korvettes." I immediately ran the few blocks back home, found my mom in the kitchen, and I told her what I wanted for my birthday.

The morning of my 7th birthday in 1968, I was a little anxious. I always had to wait to get my gift from my folks until the afternoon at the party. Well, that morning my mom broke the tradition, and gave me one gift ahead of time .... And it's a miracle I made my party at all (I'm surprised I'm not still up in my room playing the soundtrack album to "The Wizard Of Oz.") I can still see every detail on the cover and could probably recite the liner notes inside .... to say nothing of the music and dialogue found on the vinyl (I even remember making a hit when I brought the record with me to "show and tell" at school!) Now it became somewhat easier to get through the year's wait for "Wizard" on TV.

Judy was still only "Dorothy" to me at this age, so when I first saw her as an adult, it didn't really register. About 6 months after the "OZ" album came into my life, I was watching "Superman" (I now of course know that the day was August 16th, 1968), when my brother yelled from his room, "Hey, Scott, Dorothy's on 'Mike Douglas'!" I immediately switched to that popular syndicated talk show (which was videotaped in Philly), and found a woman talking with Mike Douglas whom I had never laid eyes on. Though I now have the videotape of Judy's appearance on the show, I do regret that my 7-year-old mind decided "That's not Dorothy!," and I switched the TV back to "Superman."

It was another "kiddie" show that brought my next encounter with the adult Dorothy. On the morning of Sunday, June 22, 1969, I was lying on the living room floor watching my favorite TV show , "Gene London," when suddenly "Special Announcement" appeared on the screen, accompanied by an announcer saying, "We interrupt this program to bring you this special news bulletin : Judy Garland is dead." My father was reading the paper there, and I asked him, " Dad, isn't Judy Garland 'Dorothy'?" When he answered "yes," I immediately ran to my room with tears in my eyes, and the rest of the day is a blur. I couldn't believe that my Dorothy was gone. (I remember saving a photo from the next day's Philadelphia Inquirer , of Judy wiping the Cowardly Lion's eye in a scene from "OZ." I still have it to this day.)

At least "Dorothy" would always be around.

Around the time of my 13th birthday, there were three major Judy events which were bound to -- and, I 'm certain, were meant to -- bring her into my life as someone much more than "Dorothy." The MGM Musicals compilation "That's Entertainment," was released in May, 1974. Not only was it a huge success in the industry, but it stayed for weeks and weeks at the Fern Rock movie theater near my home... and so did I (Actually, I think at that time, the Fern Rock movie theater was my home! ) At this same time, a local TV station bought a large package of MGM musicals -- including most of Judy's -- to be shown mainly during Bernie Herman's weekday afternoon movie showcase. The only problem was that his show ran from 1 to 3 PM, while I was in school. My mom came to the rescue again : If I promised to keep up with my classes, I could skip school on afternoons when Judy's films were shown. That's a pretty amazing and understanding mom, right? I wonder if she knew that I would ultimately learn more from Judy Garland than I ever would by sitting in a classroom. It was also around this time that I got my first "real" Judy album (other than "OZ"). One sunny morning, I woke up, reached for the socks I kept on my chair, and there on the chair sat the album "Judy at Carnegie Hall." I almost didn't make it to school that day. I had never heard a voice like this in my life. This was far beyond "Dorothy's" singing, or that of the still young Judy in the MGM films.

My mom would also latter "support" my Judy Garland "addiction" by getting me all the Judy LPs we could find, but the "Carnegie Hall" set was the first, as well as the finest, and my favorite. I was definitely starting at the top! The third and final thing that happened during 1974 to "cinch" my "conversion" to "JUDY-ism," was a broadcast of an episode of "The Judy Garland Show" on our local ABC station on a Sunday night at 9 PM (Judy's old time slot, no less.) This telecast of Judy's first solo concert show from her 1963-64 CBS series was watched by more people than any other TV show in Philadelphia that night (even my sister watched), and I would play the audio cassette I made while watching the show, over and over. It was one thing to hear Judy at her adult prime on a record, but to hear and see her at the absolute top of her game .... I was in love, and I knew it was for life.

Soon I was doing more than just audio taping with a microphone propped up near the TV speaker. Shortly I would graduate to a recorder that had a TV channel radio tuner built in, so I could audio tape directly from the source, and not have to worry about any outside noise spoiling my tapes -- like my sister deliberately yelling to ruin my recordings. On one tape I made of the somber "Judgment At Nuremberg," Judy's Oscar-nominated dramatic breakdown scene is overshadowed by the"live" dramatic breakdown scene at my house. You can hear my sister's screams, followed by my shouting "You godammed Bitch!" -- all mixed in with Judy's dialogue, preserved forever on audio tape. I also began taking pictures off the TV screen. After I had saved enough, I even bought a sound "Super 8mm" movie camera and projector so I could see and hear Judy whenever I wanted to (Of course, when didn't I want to?!), and the day I got my first VCR -- August 6th, 1980 -- remains one of the happiest days of my life. (Yes, the first thing I watched was a tape of that same solo concert TV show that had cinched my "addiction" me 6 years earlier.)

One's high school years are never easy, especially when you love someone as unique as Judy Garland. When the subject of music came up during my teens, my peers always seemed to ask me who my favorite group was. What was I supposed to say : "The Gumm Sisters?!!" I also felt somewhat of a misfit in my family (except for ever-supportive mom.) My dad,especially, could not understand why I would prefer to sit in my room and listen to a "dead woman" sing, rather than play basketball or something. Ironically, it was Judy who would in time help bring us closer together. You see, Dad's favorite song had been "Moon River." He'd always sing it around the house. Well, you can't imagine the thrill I felt when I first heard JUDY sing "Moon River!" When I shared it with my Dad,his choking up at her thrilling rendition was the start towards a much better and more open relationship between us. And all because my favorite singer sang his favorite song. (I found Judy's "Moon River" in his CD player at the time of his death.)

By this time (the middle to late 1970's), I had joined Judy's British fan club, and started going to Liza Minnelli concerts (I had "discovered" both her and Lorna Luft in 1975, and began researching their lives and careers also.) This love for Judy's daughter's would lead to actually getting to meet and know them. My love of the lady -- and her family -- has even led to my vocation as a writer, consultant, and Judy historian.

Which leads me, finally, to say what Judy Garland has done for me, given to me, and taught me, why I love Judy Garland so much, why I always have, and always will. Aside from the obvious -- a voice from the heavens (as Whoppie Goldberg said, "When Judy Garland sang, you knew there was a God, and he was a happy God!") -- Judy, for me, is really more about where that voice came from. It did not come from her throat, as with most singers : It came from her soul! Her soul knew no boundaries. There was never any wall around Judy Garland. She shared all, told all, gave all. She never held back .... When she sings, it's as if every molecule in my body is effected. I can truly feel my cells changing! .... When Judy Garland is singing, she bypasses my ears; I don't ever hear her with my ears : I feel her with my soul! And in spite of many people favoring the image of Judy Garland as the " Queen of Tragedy," for me, it's all much more about "Judy's Joy!" Judy Garland stands to me as a symbol of putting forth unlimited warmth, wit, wisdom, humanity, humor, caring, compassion, inner strength, sense of self, laughter, and -- most importantly -- love, into a world that truly needs it.

The NY Post concluded it's review October 13th, 1998 of the "Judy" box by
saying "music historian Scott Schechter's essay is an excellent read and will
earn him a nomination for the prestigious Grammy Award for best liner notes."

Reprinted by permission of the author