Cooler than Cool JUDY/MEL outtake
Cooler than Cool JUDY/MEL outtake
#1Cooler than Cool JUDY/MEL outtake
Posted: 4/4/14 at 11:48pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPou_i2plhQ
Ooh baby...
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#2Cooler than Cool JUDY/MEL outtake
Posted: 4/5/14 at 5:19pmWas it Mel that didn't like Judy? What was that about?
#3Cooler than Cool JUDY/MEL outtake
Posted: 4/5/14 at 7:47pm
It's not that he didn't like her, but it's in his book "The Other Side of The Rainbow", written, I think in about '71. It was about working on her early 60s TV show (when she was a wreck). Decades later, people thought it was in really bad taste for Mel to write that book. I liked it, and the fact that the show itself hardly showed the "turmoil", is indeed a testament to all those talented peoples' professional abilities.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Other-Side-Rainbow-Television/dp/0195072952
#4Cooler than Cool JUDY/MEL outtake
Posted: 4/5/14 at 8:56pm
I believe the argument is not just that Garland's difficulties were hidden, but that Mel Torme exaggerated them considerably, casting himself as the "hero" who saved her and the show.
Yet every other account of the TV show portrays Garland as behaving very professionally under impossible conditions: by the end, she was doing a one-hour solo concert every week.
I suspect the truth lies somewhere in between.
#5Cooler than Cool JUDY/MEL outtake
Posted: 4/6/14 at 12:28am
Mel Torme's book was self-serving. Judy thought he was a good vocal arranger and guest singer. He thought he was major artist who had been coerced into doing degrading work for a faded diva, the William Holden to her Gloria Steinem, She responded by teasing him, as she did on the Christmas show, when she sings the #1 hit song he had written for Nat King Cole and deliberately sings the lyric "...and see if reindeer really know how to fly" as "...and see if rain-BOWS really know how to fly." Which makes no sense but disses him and seems like a reference to her song.
Find the real story here:
Rainbow's End: The Judy Garland Show
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#7Cooler than Cool JUDY/MEL outtake
Posted: 4/6/14 at 10:33am
"the William Holden to her Gloria Steinem"
I think you meant Gloria Swanson, but we understand what you meant. And thank you for the response. I love watching tv and movies and knowing what was going on behind the scenes. I really like to see if I can see any hint of a sexual liaison or a deep seated hatred.
#8Cooler than Cool JUDY/MEL outtake
Posted: 4/6/14 at 2:22pm
to me, Torme was an A+ List singer/artist of the highest order, and imho was somewhat underated in this regard. "The Velvet Fog" never ceases to amaze me. There's some "scat" thing he does with Ella, that's out of this world...I'm just too lazy right now to look up the link on YouTube.
Perhaps his boyish, not handsome "looks" had something to do with this, I don't know. I just adore him.
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