IT NEVER WAS YOU
JUDY GARLAND
SONGWRITERS: KURT WEILL & MAXWELL ANDERSON
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: JUSY GARLAND: THE CAPITOL YEARS 1955-1965
LABEL: CAPITOL
GENRE: POP
YEAR: 2002
Judy Garland(born Frances Ethel Gumm; June
10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an American actress, singer, dancer, vaudevillian and
television and radio presenter. She is widely known for playing the role of Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of
Oz(1939). With a career spanning 45 years, she attained
international stardom as an actress in both musical and dramatic roles, as a
recording artist, and on the concert stage. Renowned for her versatility, she
received na Academy
Juvenile Award, a Golden Globe Award,
and a Special Tony Award.
Garland was the first woman to win the Grammy Award
for Album of the Year, which she won for her 1961 live
recording titled Judy at
Carnegie Hall.
Garland began performing in vaudeville as a
child with her two older sisters, in a vaudeville group "The Gumm Sisters"
and was later signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a teenager. She appeared in more than two dozen films for MGM. Garland
was a frequent on-screen partner of both Mickey Rooney and Gene Kelly and
regularly collaborated with director and second husband Vincente Minnelli. Other
starring roles during this period included Meet Me in
St. Louis(1944), The Harvey Girls(1946),
Easter Parade(1948),
and Summer Stock(1950). In 1950, after 15 years with MGM,
the studio released her amid a series of personal struggles that prevented her
from fulfilling the terms of her contract.
Although her film career became intermittent
thereafter, two of Garland's most critically acclaimed roles came later in her
career: she received a nomination for the Academy Award
for Best Actress for her performance in A Star Is
Born(1954) and a nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Judgment at
Nuremberg (1961). She also made
record-breaking concert appearances, released eight studio
albums, and hosted her own Emmy-nominated
television series, The Judy
Garland Show (1963–1964). At age 39, Garland
became the youngest and first female recipient of the Cecil B.
DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in the film
industry. In 1997, Garland was posthumously awarded the Grammy
Lifetime Achievement Award. Several of her
recordings have been inducted into the Grammy Hall
of Fame, and in 1999, the American Film
Institute ranked her as the eighth-greatest
female screen legend of classic
Hollywood cinema.
Garland
struggled in her personal life from an early age. The
pressures of early stardom affected her physical and mental health from the
time she was a teenager; her self-image was influenced by constant criticism
from film executives who believed that she was physically unattractive and who
manipulated her onscreen physical appearance. Throughout her adulthood she was
plagued by alcohol and substance use disorders, as well as financial
instability, often owing hundreds of thousands of dollars in back taxes. Her
lifelong substance use
disorder ultimately led to her death in
London from an accidental barbiturate
overdose at age 47 in 1969.
I've been searching
through rains
And the wind that follows after
For one certain face
And an unforgotten laughter
I've been following signs
I've been searching through the lands
For a certain pair of arms
And a certain pair of hands
Yes, I tried a kiss here
And I tried a kiss there
For when you're out in company
The boys and girls will pair
But it never was you
It never was anywhere you
An occasional sunset reminded me
Or a flower hanging high on a julep tree
Or one red star hung low in the west
Or a heart-break call from a Meadow Lark's nest
Made me think for a moment
Maybe its true
I found him in the star
In the call
In the blue
But it never was you
It never was anywhere you
Anywhere, anywhere you.
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