On This Day: October 4, 1963

Seeing Judy in concert must have been akin to watching Picasso paint.

Pure artistry on display. Raw emotion flung at the audience unapologetically.

I wonder how many just wept from the beauty of it.

[quote] Seeing Judy in concert must have been akin to watching Picasso paint.

Judy was one of the most talented singers ever. She also had a lot of pain and struggle throughout her life. Despite that, she had a good heart, which is hard to encounter in Hollywood. At a time when gay people were oppressed beyond belief, they identified with her struggles and she theirs.

Streisand was so young and green on that show. A year and a half later she'd gained the confidence and presence for her own special, but not here.

Judy was 41 in that video.

I imagine feys would rush the stage in apoplectic abandon.

YOU AND YOUR NAME are part of the problem , r2, or whatever the fuck that brittle cunt hissed back at Judy Pills Garland on here years ago.

[quote] YOU AND YOUR NAME are part of the problem , R2, or whatever the fuck that brittle cunt hissed back at Judy Pills Garland on here years ago.

If you really believed that, JP, you would change your insulting screen name, which only contributes to the image of Garland as a pill-popping no-talent better off forgotten, not an artist on the level of Sinatra or Picasso or Callas.

YOU and YOUR NAME are part of the problem, JP.

Picasso was one of the greatest painters ever; he changed the way we look at art, and to some degree reality. His mark on the world will last as long as western culture lasts.

Garland as a drug-addled performer who sang wonderfully, acted terrifically when she wasn't, well, drug-addled, and the world would have been exactly the same if she hadn't lived.

Fuck you and the rainbow you rode in under, R8.

Judy and Barbra together is magic. You can tell they are each in awe of the other.

The Judy Garland/Pablo Picasso DL cage match comes as a bit of a surprise.

I’d be sad if I never heard Garland sing again.

I don’t care if I never see another Picasso painting.

Ha ha ha. I'll say.

Garland looks like a pathetic drug-addled wreck in OP's image.

The sky was so blue .

R14 = Joey

I thought the medley was Mel torme's idea.

I wish all Garland/Streisand ancient queens who infest this board would be shot in their wrinkled fucking faces.

Ask Liza about what a bastard Mel Torme was in writing that book.

She was fucking PISSED

Did she throw a drink in his face?

In some documentary I believe it was one of the technicians or maybe it was the cameraman who said what you see on the TV screen is nothing compared to the rehearsal. The rehearsal was simply magnificent and the TV performance is practically a shadow in comparison.

I like their first duet.

Many years ago Guernica was in MOMA. There was a bench in front of it and it was a painting like any other. What I mean is that there were no crowds in front of it. It was a great painting like so many others there. I often would sit on that bench alone and stare at it in wonder. It was for that period of time mine personally. I had it all to myself. It was amazing.

I have found on youtube On the Atcheson Topeka and the Santa Fe from The Harvey Girls in beautiful Technicolor. I've watched it many times and find Judy endlessly a wonder in her voice, delivery and movement.

And there are many many millions of people in the world who couldn't give a fuck about either.

^All aboard!

There's more MARY! on this thread than in all the prayers of the rosary.

R21 duet.

Barbra was a mere 21. JFK would be alive for another 47 days.

R19, since Judy was drinking Blue Nun all day, it sounds probable.

My favorite - at some party, Judy poured her vodka down Pat Kennedy’s back yelling, “I heard you’ve gone Republican!”

[quote]since Judy was drinking Blue Nun all day

I guess Joey got his affinity for blue in utero.

The DVD commentator says Barbra came to the studio in thrift clothes and needing a pedicure.

And just a few tragic weeks later.....

A book on the show quoted dancers shocked that such a slob (Barbra) would be booked for the Garland program.

Bless her HEART: Judy looked like a monkey!!!

Why didn't the world simply end that night just from the sheer gayness of it all?

R31 is that Mel torme's book?

Call me a boob but the R25 duet makes me cry.

[quote]Why didn't the world simply end that night just from the sheer gayness of it all?

Who says it didn't?

The story that Barbra was an unwashed slob at the start of her career is completely false.

No, darling, R34.

I bet you never read the Torme book, any of you.

There are dozens of stories, R37. They all said she looked, dressed and smelled like a beatnik. Of course you were probably there witnessing it all, true?

R39, she did live around the corner from us and my parents knew her from the Chinese restaurant she worked in, but she was living mostly in Manhattan by the time I was born.

r35 Boob!

Just kidding, dear. It is very moving to see them together on a stage.