[Publius]

YOUR HIT PARADE: 1944

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#1 – Judy Garland: “The Trolley Song”

Entire libraries have been written about Judy Garland, her short life and career. She remains the favorite diva of gay men, eclipsing Barbra Streisand and Bette Midler, due to her outsize stage presence and goddess persona.

This song came from “Meet Me in St. Louis”, one of the indisputably great MGM musicals from the Arthur Freed unit. They don’t make ‘em like this anymore. We’ve lost that innocense.

Judy Garland: “The Trolley Song”

And so we end 1944.

[ConorMacNessa]

I remember "The Trolley Song" well. My Mother, who had a beautiful Soprano voice, sang it to me often in my early youth. It was not until I was an adolescent that I knew it came from a film. It was Liza Minnelli in the perambulator, was it not?



"Dia shábháil ar fad anseo!"

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)