This December, JSP Records will revisit the musical legacy of the one and only Judy Garland with a new single-disc collection that draws on a past release while offering new-to-CD material, as well. The Best of Lost Tracks 1929-1959 is based on the label’s 2010 box set Lost Tracks which received international acclaim for its presentation of 100 rare tracks from the late superstar – 55 of which (including her two earliest solo recordings) were previously unissued. This release presents 22 highlights from the box set, selected from all four of its discs: The Decca Tests (1935) and Early Radio (1935-1939); Young Judy on the Radio (1940-1944); The Radio Years (1944-1953); and On Stage (1940-1959) and The Gumm Sisters (1929). In addition, it adds five bonus tracks not on the original box set, four of which are new to CD!

Compiled and annotated (like the original set) by Lawrence Schulman, The Best of Lost Tracks naturally features many of the songs most associated with Judy Garland. “Over the Rainbow” is presented in a July 28, 1942 recording from Command Performance, the Armed Forces Radio Service program. “The Trolley Song” is heard in a recording made for Mail Call, another AFRS program, from May 17, 1944. “The Boy Next Door” was recorded for Armed Forces Radio and Television Service’s Basic Music Library (P Series) also in 1944. “The Man That Got Away” was captured at Long Beach, California’s Municipal Auditorium on July 8, 1955. You’ll also hear a host of other standards on The Best of Lost Tracks, such as Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh’s “On the Sunny Side of the Street,” Jerome Kern and Buddy DeSylva’s “Look for the Silver Lining” and Irving Berlin’s “I’ve Got the Sun in the Morning” from Annie Get Your Gun, the MGM film version of which was originally slated to star Garland. Both of Garland’s 1935 Decca solo test recordings (world premieres on the original box) – Jerome Kern, P.G. Wodehouse and Oscar Hammerstein II’s “Bill” and a medley of “On the Good Ship Lollipop,” “The Object of My Affection” and “Dinah” – are reprised on The Best of.

The five bonus tracks here include “On Revival Day” (1936, from The Shell Chateau Hour), “Goody Goodbye” and “Ding Dong, The Witch is Dead” (both 1939, from two broadcasts of The Bob Hope Pepsodent Show), “Over the Rainbow” (1948, The Louella Parsons Show) and “Stars and Stripes Forever” (1951, Hollywood Party). All of these tracks but “Goody Goodbye” make their first appearance on CD here, and all have been restored and remastered by John H. Haley.

Judy Garland’s The Best of Lost Tracks 1929-1959 follows past JSP releases including Smilin’ Through: The Singles Collection 1936-1947 (2011), The Carnegie Hall Concert (2012), Creations (2013) and The Garland Variations (2015). It’s been produced by John Stedman and remastered by Peter Rynston and John H. Haley. The Best of Lost Tracks arrives at Amazon U.K. on December 4, and you can pre-order below!   In the meantime, you can peruse the track listing below!

Judy Garland, The Best of Lost Tracks 1929-1959 (JSP Records, 2015) (Amazon U.S. TBD / Amazon U.K.)

1. Bill (O. Hammerstein II/J. Kern)
2. Medley: On The Good Ship Lollipop (S. Clare/R.A. Whiting)/The Object Of My Affection (J. Greer/C.H. Poe/P. Tomlin)/Dinah (S.M. Lewis/J. Young/H. Akst)
3. Broadway Rhythm (A. Freed/N.H. Brown)
4. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones (H.J. Rome)
5. Comes Love (S.H. Stept/C. Tobias/L. Brown)
6. Minnie From Trinidad (R. Edens)
7. Over The Rainbow (E. Y. Harburg/H. Arlen)
8. On The Sunny Side Of The Street (D. Fields/J. McHugh)
9. Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart (J. Hanley)
10. The Boy Next Door (H. Martin/R. Blane)
11. Speak Low (O. Nash/K. Weill)
12. The Trolley Song (H. Martin/R. Blane)
13. Long Ago (And Far Away) (I. Gershwin/J. Kern)
14. I May Be Wrong (But I Think You’re Wonderful) (H.Ruskin/H. Sullivan)
15. I’ve Got The Sun In The Morning (I. Berlin)
16. (I’m In Love With) A Wonderful Guy (O. Hammerstein II/R. Rodgers)
17. Mean To Me (R. Turk/F.E. Ahlert)
18. My Ship (Has Sails That Are Made of Silk) (I. Gershwin/K. Weill)
19. Look For The Silver Lining (B.G. De Sylva/J. Kern)
20. Who? (O. Harbach/O. Hammerstein II/J. Kern)
21. The Man That Got Away (I. Gershwin/H. Arlen)
22. The Land Of Let’s Pretend (G. Clarke/H. Akst)
23. On Revival Day (A. Razaf)*
24. Goody Goodbye (J. Cavanaugh/N. Simon)
25. Ding, Dong, The Witch is Dead (E. Y. Harburg/H. Arlen)*
26. Over The Rainbow (E. Y. Harburg/H. Arlen)*
27. The Stars And Stripes Forever (J.P. Sousa)

(*) denotes first time on CD

Recording details:
All Tracks: Judy Garland – Vocal

Track 1:
Ethel Gumm – Piano
Decca test. DLA 158. 11″
lacquers: etched notation on
rim: DLA 158A. 29 March 1935.

Track 2:
Ethel Gumm – Piano
Decca test. DLA 159. 11″
lacquers: etched notation on
Rim: DLA 159A. 29 March 1935.

Track 3:
Introduction – Wallace Beery
The Shell Chateau Hour
26 October 1935

Track 4:
The Pepsodent Show with Bob Hope
7 March 1939

Track 5:
Arrowhead Springs Hotel
Opening broadcast
16 December 1939

Track 6:
Command Performance #18
18 June 1942

Track 7:
Command Performance #24
28 July 1942

Track 8:
Command Performance #35
9 October 1942

Track 9:
Command Performance #58
20 March 1943

Track 10:
Armed Forces Radio and
Television Service’s Basic
Music Library – ‘P’ series: P-
226
Circa 1944

Track 11:
Mail Call #72
5 January 1944

Track 12:
Mail Call #91
17 May 1944

Track 13:
Command Performance #129
15 July 1944

Track 14:
Command Performance #134
19 August 1944

Track 15:
Command Performance #241
29 September 1946

Track 16:
The Bob Hope Show
30 January 1951

Track 17:
The Bing Crosby Show
7 March 1951

Track 18:
The Lux Radio Theatre – Lady in the Dark
15 February 1953

Track 19, 20:
A Tribute to Jerome Kern.
Hollywood Bowl. Los
Angeles. 20 July 1946
Track 21:
Municipal Auditorium. Long
Beach, California. 8 July
1955

Track 22:
The Gumm Sisters
Bubbles (First National –
Vitaphone Pictures). 1-reel
bichrome Technicolor short.
Vitaphone #3898 + disc.
Filmed November or
December 1929.
Released January 1930

Track 23:
The Shell Chateau Hour
6 August 1936

Track 24:
The Bob Hope Pepsodent Show
7 November 1939

Track 25:
The Bob Hope Pepsodent Show
26 December 1939

Track 26:
Louella Parsons Show
Pianist(s) unknown
December 1948

Track 27:
Hollywood Party
12 January 1951