shady pines ma
08-02-2015, 06:47 AM
1. Over The Rainbow (2:40)
2. The Trolley Song (2:36)
3. Dear Mr. Gable (You Made Me Love You) (3:52)
4. Singin' In The Rain (2:59)
5. Look For The Silver Lining (3:16)
6. Put Your Arms Around Me (2:48)
7. I Cried For You (3:23)
8. You Can't Get A Man With A Gun (3:46)
9. The Boy Next Door (3:28)
10. I'm Nobody's Baby (3:27)
11. Over The Rainbow (Mono Version) (2:40)
12. The Trolley Song (Mono Version) (2:36)
13. Dear Mr. Gable (You Made Me Love You) (Mono Version) (3:52)
14. Singin' In The Rain (Mono Version) (2:59)
15. Look For The Silver Lining (Mono Version) (3:16)
16. Put Your Arms Around Me (Mono Version) (2:48)
17. I Cried For You (Mono Version) (3:23)
18. You Can't Get A Man With A Gun (Mono Version) (3:46)
19. The Boy Next Door (Mono Version) (3:28)
20. I'm Nobody's Baby (Mono Version) (3:27)
FLAC:
https://mega.nz/#!kNMyFb5Z!Kk27q0gUevX2GhJck7c0htkitGTUgwqq2RgX3B4sLn0
password: yourfaveswillnever
VBR MP3:
https://mega.nz/#!1F1TWCzQ!hNrSyUlRcmgF-rJkiI3d56UD0tKyPo6GcgUB09l5Yy0
password: yourfaveswillnever
NOTE: Relistening to the rip just now, I noticed a thump in "Over The Rainbow" that I missed during the cleanup process. I was able to cleanly cut it out. I have uploaded both the stereo and mono versions - simply replace the original files with these new ones. If any other tracks show problems I missed, I'll fix those and reupload them as well. Hopefully this is the only one.
FLAC:
https://mega.nz/#!QIlzlBzK!P3jXtEh7-ZRW0XIWHwcLk98WtPF90hR70URcWgf6pUw
password: yourfaveswillnever
VBR MP3:
https://mega.nz/#!hRslXCaC!79koBtwUny38GXOl9GgeQ1SbibUFWOvtnhS4FoCcHRY
password: yourfaveswillnever
In 1969, Judy Garland's untimely and tragic passing had people hungry for records, and the labels she'd recorded for over the years were more than happy to give the public what they wanted. MGM Records, the studio where Judy had made all but a handful of her films, released this lovely "limited edition" record featuring ten performances, most of them taken directly from the films' audio tracks and include sound effects and other such things. Many of her best film songs, for a long time, were only available in re-recorded versions for Decca Records. With few exceptions - King Kong and Walt Disney's Snow White and Pinocchio being among them - music from film soundtracks were not considered viable for release and MGM wouldn't begin issuing soundtracks from her films - or any films for that matter - until 1946, when they issued a soundtrack for Till The Clouds Roll By. In later years, MGM would issue compilations of musical numbers from their films, even ones without official soundtrack releases. Judy would prove to be a popular choice, and several of her performances ended up on multiple compilations - both "various artists" types and collections of her performances.
This is a pretty good collection, and I love the cover art. It even includes a track from Annie Get Your Gun. Judy recorded all of the musical numbers, but only managed to film a scant few before being released from the picture due to continued problems with substance abuse. For years, only bootlegs of Judy's recordings existed, with the exception of "You Can't Get A Man With A Gun," which MGM included on countless compilations. Eventually, most of Judy's numbers would be issued on Rhino Records' Judy compilation Collectors' Gems From The M-G-M Films, and later the rest would be issued on Rhino's soundtrack for the film. Other chestnuts are here - "The Trolley Song," "The Boy Next Door," "Dear Mr. Gable," and "Over The Rainbow" being the typicaly necessary inclusions. There are better collections out there, many of which are sourced from the pre-recordings and therefore don't contain sound effects, dialogue, etc., and they often sound better too. But there's a nostalgia to this collection sounding the way it does, so I've chosen to rip it for that factor.
The sound quality of this rip is pretty good considering several factors:
1. This record was in VERY rough shape. Tons of surface noise, pops, clicks galore.
2. This is one of those "electronically re-recorded to similate stereo" releases.
3. These are all 75+-year-old recordings, most of which were taken directly from the audio track of the films.
If you keep those in mind, you'll be ok with the sound quality. When I tell you this was rough, don't assume it's hyperbole - this was rough. ClickRepair took a huge portion of the surface noise, pops, and clicks out, but many remained, along with some thumps. I've done my best to seamlessly remove as many distracting pops, clicks, and thumps left behind as possible. Some were just impossible to do without creating a digital pop, and cutting that out created another, and by the time the digital pop was gone, there'd be so much cut out there'd be an auidible jump, so I left them in. "The Trolley Song" has a skip during the line "he was quite the handsomest of men," but the untouched audio doesn't have the telltale loud pop/thump that comes with a skip, so I have reason to believe that may just have been in the master for this record. There were worse skips on "Dear Mr. Gable," "Singin' In The Rain," "You Can't Get A Man With A Gun," and "I'm Nobody's Baby," but additional cleanings with a wet Magic Eraser fixed all but "Dear Mr. Gable," although there were still loud pops where they had skipped before that I manually cut out before ClickRepair, and on second play, "I'm Nobody's Baby" actually did the type of skip that repeats but only a few times before it regrooved itself and I was able to fix that digitally with no sign it ever happened. Fortunately, the skip during "Dear Mr. Gable" happened during the spoken word bridge, and it happened in a way that I was able to make a decent edit so it wasn't clumsy. Basically, the line changes from "And then one time I saw you in person - you were making a personal appearance..." to "And then one time you were making a personal appearance..." Various tricks were used to get rid of leftover pops and clicks, including using Goldwave's pop and click removal filter for some parts, saving a portion of a track, running it through ClickRepair on a stronger setting, and then splicing it back into the track in Goldwave, manually cutting them out, etc. Still, don't expect a perfect rip. There's a charm in the imperfections of this rip, but I did try to clean it up as much as I possibly could.
One last note - this is from the time when record companies tended to take mono recordings and re-work them to simulate stereo. There were many methods of doing this, and most are panned by audiophiles, especially since some can't provide a decent mono mixdown. I don't particularly find this fake stereo mix very distracting, nor do I find that there's much stereo simulation. Seems as if they were conservative with how they did it and this one sounds decent when mixed down to mono, so I've included both the original fake stereo mix and a mono mixdown. I've also included a few MP3's of what ClickRepair can do. As much tweaking as I had to do to the tracks after, this wouldn't be possible at all without it. Each clip plays a portion of audio before ClickRepair, after ClickRepair, then the noise that was removed.