Forget Your Troubles: New Judy Garland Love Songs Collection to Arrive on Jasmine In 2018

September 18, 2017 By Joe Marchese — No Comments

Hot on the heels of two recent Judy Garland collections from Mint Audio Records and JSP Records, the U.K.-based Jasmine label has announced that it will be celebrating the late superstar in 2018 with a new 24-track collection. I Can’t Give You Anything But Love features a selection of Garland’s most timeless love songs recorded between 1939 and 1961. We have the full press release below, and will share more – including cover artwork and track listing – as soon as complete details are announced by the label.

LONDON — Jasmine Records is proud to announce the release of JUDY GARLAND: I CAN’T GIVE YOU ANYTHING BUT LOVE in 2018. Judy Garland (1922-1969) sang about love throughout her life, but up to now no career-spanning CD collection has ever brought her greatest love songs together. Here then for the first time on JUDY GARLAND: I CAN’T GIVE YOU ANYTHING BUT LOVE is Garland’s take on the meanders of love. Based on studio, radio and live recordings made between 1939 and 1961, the anthology, featuring songs composed by many of the great songwriters of the Great American Songbook, captures Garland’s voice in youth, as a young lady, and as the mature artist.

Both exuberant and melancholic at the same time, Garland’s voice could take you from the ecstatic highs of love first encountered to the mournful lows of separation, and, above all, all the in-betweens of longing that were her specialty. At 79 minutes 13 seconds, the single-CD 24-track set, which will include a live “Why Was I Born?” (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) that was recorded in 1946 and is new to CD, has been produced, compiled and annotated by the award-winning Garland historian Lawrence Schulman, who has been responsible for numerous CD sets devoted to Garland over the past 24 years, and has also written about her extensively for the ARSC Journal and other publications.

An audiophile who has taken pride in the fact that his releases are cutting-edge insofar as sound quality, Schulman has worked over the years with such distinguished restorers as Robin Cherry, Gary Galo, John H. Haley, Richard Moore, Robert Parker, Peter Rynston, and Jon M. Samuels, and now in the case of JUDY GARLAND: I CAN’T GIVE YOU ANYTHING WITH LOVE with renowned audio restorer, Peter Reynolds, of Reynolds Mastering. Designed by Andrew Gibbons, this collection is one no fan or music lover can do without: a unique set of recordings like none other that uses 21st century technology to bring life back to recordings that are decades old. The set is a contemporary contemplation on the subject of love by one of the greatest singers of the 20th century, and is not to be missed.

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JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song and beyond, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with labels including Real Gone Music and Cherry Red Records, has released newly-curated collections produced and annotated by Joe from iconic artists such as Dionne Warwick, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, The Spinners, Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Meat Loaf, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Liza Minnelli, Darlene Love, Al Stewart, Michael Nesmith, and many others.

Joe has written liner notes, produced, or contributed to over 200 reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them America, JD Souther, Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, BJ Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, Petula Clark, Robert Goulet, and Andy Williams.

Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray.

Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.