Info
- Artist:: Judy Garland with Victor Young and His Orchestra
- Album:: Over the Rainbow / The Jitterbug
- Year:: 1939
- Label:: Decca
- Catalog:: 2672
Track Ratings
| # | Title | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| A | Over the Rainbow | ★★★ |
| B | The Jitterbug |
Log
2017-02-12
it’s been a year since i realized that over the rainbow is a perfect song. since then i’ve listened to it a few times. guess i worked up the courage. i was expecting it to break me, like yesterday did. but so far it hasn’t.
which is odd, since i know it’s beautiful. mathematically. and maybe i love the idea of the song more than the song itself, but i believe that the idea can find real form too.
but this one isn’t it! this one doesn’t make me cry!
i think part of it has to do with the arrangement, and part of it has to do with the limitations of recording technology. i don’t really like judy’s voice here, but it definitely has that sound of old radio tech stuff so maybe that’s why.
as for the arrangement, in related news, i made a bootleg album out of the with tears videos, and have been enraptured by it. and after watching other handbell choir videos, i think the reason this one affects me so much is because it is entirely unpretentious in its arrangements. the songs let the purity of their melodies ring out, with little flashiness to get in the way. i don’t think they have the ability to do any more than they are, honestly, but they’re trying with what they have. they gave what little they had to god, and i’m certain that god was pleased.
you hear the shutter snap and it breaks your heart. you hear someone want to keep this memory for themselves too. these songs find new ways to put me in tears (naturally).
(b-side here is forgettable and forgotten)