Customer Reviews

Get Happy

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I bought this 2-CD set in celebration that Judy Garland would have been 80 on June 10th,2002. She was born 1922. What a sad life but what a wonderful legacy. This CD is the same as the JUDY DUETS CD, but is MUCH cheaper! The cover art is not that special at all.
The CD's are great. I'm not a big duet fan from THE JUDY GARLAND SHOW, but some are Timeless such as the Barbra Streisand one and a few more. LIVE FROM THE PALACE is my favorite. Hear Judy perform all of her hits from 1932 to 1950! This was before "The Man That Got Away" and "That's Entertainment!".
This CD should be in your collection!

I bought my copy of Duets in London, pressed by Eagle Records/EDGDC122. Duets is nicely remastered and packaged, has a glossy booklet full of comments and pics of the TV performances that help them come to live -not that they need much help! Has become one of my fav Garland CDs. I would fully recommend it -I don't know if the other pressings have glossy enclosures

This 2-CD set was a nice addition to my Judy Garland collection, since I had a lot of her studio work, but had little of her concert or duet recordings. In my opinion the first disc of this, where Judy duets with others on her 1963 TV series "The Judy Garland Show," is easily the highlight of this set. Even the chat and banter between Judy and the other singers is endearing and often funny. The second disc, a 1952 concert at the Palace Theatre in England, is well worth having, but on some songs Judy was in somewhat uneven voice, especially her breath control. However, most numbers come off very well, such as the "A Couple of Swells" number, where Judy was clearly having a lot of fun in a duet with a male singer. A better concert disc in terms of both performance and sound quality is her famous Judy At Carnegie Hall: Fortieth Anniversary Edition recording from the early 1960s, unless you have that already. As far as the sound quality of GET HAPPY is concerned, both discs are in decent mono, although the duets disc is much more professionally recorded, with better microphone placement and lower distortion. Actually, I would give the duets disc 5 stars, and the concert disc 3, so I gave the overall set 4 stars as a result.