{"id":10766,"date":"2024-03-17T08:59:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T08:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/?p=10766"},"modified":"2024-03-17T08:59:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T08:59:11","slug":"10766","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2024\/03\/17\/10766\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"
\ud83d\udcda Finished reading Judy Garland\u2019s Judy at Carnegie Hall<\/a><\/em> by Manuel Betancourt. Years ago, my brother bought me Rufus Wainwright\u2019s cover version of the entire album which got me hooked. I still love that record, but Garland\u2019s original is even better. Both artists have a voice that takes a bit of time to get used to, but once you\u2019re on their wavelength the music is so rewarding.<\/p>\n

\n ‘”There’s something about my voice that makes them see all the sadness and humor they’ve experienced,” she said a few years later about those crowds that clamored for such musical self-flagellation. “It makes them know they aren’t too different; they aren’t apart. That’s the only reason I can give for people’s liking to hear me sing because I’m not that fine a singer.”\u2019 (Manuel Betancourt, Judy Garland’s Judy at Carnegie Hall)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I disagree with Garland\u2019s self assessment. Her singing has an authenticity about it and she nails all of the songs \u2014 from upbeat show tunes to beautiful ballads.<\/p>\n

These 33 1\/3 books, each one about a specific album, are consistently excellent. I\u2019m looking forward to reading more of them.<\/p>\n

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\ud83d\udcda Finished reading Judy Garland\u2019s Judy at Carnegie Hall by Manuel Betancourt. Years ago, my brother bought me Rufus Wainwright\u2019s cover version of the entire album which got me hooked. I still love that record, but Garland\u2019s original is even better. Both artists have a voice that takes a bit of time to get used […]<\/div>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federate","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-status","6":"category-snippets","7":"post_format-post-format-status","8":"h-entry","10":"hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13668,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2026\/04\/23\/13668\/","url_meta":{"origin":10766,"position":0},"title":"\ud83c\udfb6 After listening again to\u2026","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"23 April 2026","format":"status","excerpt":"\ud83c\udfb6 After listening again to Rufus Wainwright\u2019s cover of the whole album at the weekend, this week, as I left the office, I put on Judy Garland\u2019s concert at Carnegie Hall. 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