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Speak English in America - how provincial!  

We all know how to Press 1 for English - we are smarter than we act! And it's not a bad idea for all Americans to learn Spanish, +++ - the more languages the better chance we have for good sex lives!

But it IS frustrating when you go into a deli & the woman at the counter has not clue what I am saying  - she does understand pointing & fingers (I wanted to give her one!).  

Is is simpler than ever to learn English - or for anyone to learn a foreign language. Just ask Mrs. Google English to Swahili (or whatever) or Swahili to English - will check that one out.  People will be requited to take screen shots of what they have learned & the "English Speaking Task Squad" can see definitively if they are complying with the law.  We do have laws to promote the betterment of our society & to me, speaking English, in America, is for the betterment of our societA friend is spending time in Jolly Old England - she was born there, with a British Accent - Waa can sound very British. Anyway, enough silliness, down to business.  She was required, under serious penalties, to quarantine for 10 days.  She could only leave the house without permission that was somehownoted in their "Big Brother" journal.  

I know, we all have our GPS & that certainly. makes traveling around in the '56 Chevy a lot easier.  But, still so many things that could be done that would make navigating our piece of the planet a little easier.

So, the idea has many permutations:

1- Establish a toll free # to call all over America where a rep (in America, hopefully - not Manila again, please) will take info on the location where you would report an issue with signage.   The agent would take the location & the problem(s) with the signs & then pass that info to a local office that would go out to confirm the problem, then fix it.  Oh my, lions & tigers & bears.

2 - Intersections with lights should have a nice sized sign, lighted at night, to give the cross street in bold letters & the street you are on in smaller letters.

Now street id signs are very small so you need a telescope to read them. Help us poor drivers out, TY.  Then, of course, if it is found a sign is missing or improper, the local gov't would do what has to be done to make a functional sign.  

3 - In NYC, I propose that corner street signs are large enough to read & after NY defines neighborhoods by boundaries, the signs will have under the street name, the name of the neighborhood. Wow, nice to know where I am.  I thought I was in Bushwick, B'klyn, but, no sir, you are in Ridgewood, Queens. 

Speaking of Queens, Ru Paul is the best one in my book!

I have 3 addictions: Judy Garland, bridge & Starbuck Frappachino. 

I started to play bridge in the early 90's & liked it so much because, unlike golf, which I never could figure out what to do to get it right, in bridge there was some hope.  Without doubt it is the most intriging game of all time.  There are many ways to play bridge.  Party, or kitchen bridge, is the getting together & everyoe trying their best.  Duplicate bridge is a whole nother ballgame.  It is called duplicate, because all the pairs play the same hands as the other pairs.  Hands are nos computer generated so at the end of a session (generally 20 hands), you can see what cards were in each hand for each deal (called a board as the cards are face down, 13 in each direction, in a board).  This allows for endless discussions & sometimes heated arguments as why your partner screwed up!  So if yu & I are North-South, all the other North Souths will be playing the same hands. So, very little luck is involved.  It' almost ll skill, genius, cleverness & cunning (like life!).  

Her name is Iris Apfel (sort of like Apple!). She was about 100 in this image & died recently at 102 - she was amazing - youtube her! I have said if I was told I had to give up my left arm or my phone I would say "Take my arm".  I can live without a left arm, but I can not live without my phone.  Remember the olden days with opening maps & stopping all along the way to ask where you are & how you get to there.  No more, off we go.

But Apple & the iphone, with all its glory, has some serious issues that should be corrected:

1 - Customer Service - The reps are competent, but you can not call before 8 am.  I am often up early & want to work on a project & need help. No siree.  "You are really up much too early, Mr. Weiss - go back to be for a while".  I often have an 8 am "meeting" (Staples to print my images) & have to wait to call Apple.  Reps say "We have 24/7 chat".  I told the rep today that I have tried it about 30 times & it just tells me to choose a question & gives an answer that does not help me.  He said he would walk me through it after 1/2 hr. he said he will notify who ever to have a direct link. But what I also said was Apple is one of the largest, most profitable corporations in the world.  The should give their customers what they deserve - human support 24/7.  It's insulting to tell you the truth.  Of course, the customer service reps are mostly very good. And they are all over the world. This morning I spoke to someone in Rumania. Movie theaters are open in Rumania (6-2-21) in case you were interested.

2 - Siri is a sweet child, but that poor girl is learning disabled!  I heard she's a computer, & heard computers can "learn".  Not Siri - you can say the same thing many times, correct it & when I say it again, she does it wrong again.  If she were my secretary I would say "Sweetheart, you are a lovely girl & not bad in bed, but you don't know what the F u r doing so get your stuff together & c u Jan 6, 2022 for the glorious recreation of that Patriot Day.  It will live in infamy.  

3 - Notes - Oy veh!  If I am looking for, say, the Red Robin note, I get all notes with the word red any where in the body of the note - even a word like reduce!  Huh?  What were they smoking when they came up with the search result system. It is frustrating & stupid!  I just want the Red Robin note.

4 - Idea for Apple to sell. millions more phones (any compensation 4 little 'ol me?).  Every photographer wants the ability to control the shutter to allow as much light as the photographer wishes to come in - not what the computer in the phone wants!

5 - Another idea to sell lots 

Dots on Lots - How much of my life have I spend looking for my car in a parking lot.  A circle with a different color could be put at both ends of a parking line of cars. Or just a number would do.  How much would this cost? Bubkis!  I asked Mr. Oy Veh about the idea & he likes it - no Oy Veh!

The seder is the meal Jesus was having at his last supper. After all, he was Jewish & this was Passover in year 0!  Typically, people do not sit at 1 side of the table.  Sometimes seders are very large with hundreds of people.  The Obamas had a seder each year in The White White you can youtube it.  I am not sure about Trump, although Ivana is now Jewish - she converted.  

A seder is the most joyous, intellectual, festive, fun Holiday meal. It is nothing like an Easter ham. No, siree.  There is no reason that all can not enjoy this most wonderful of meals & celebrations.  The teachings & life of Jesus can become part of the non Jewish Seder. The Haggadah tells the story of the Exodus of the Hebrews from Egypt & how, after putting lamb's blood on the place where a Hebrew lived, the "killing of the 1st born" by the Pharaoh, would save those children.  What is the lesson here?  Maybe, being pro active to combat a situation is a good way to move forward.  And move forward they did.  Not having time to bake bread for the flight from Egypt, they made matza, an unleavened bread (the dark chocolate ones are amazing - Uncle Jeff has them on Amazon!).  Then it was off to the Red Sea & that nifty trick & then 40 years in the desert (no GPS then) to make it to Caanan.      

So much "stuff" in one Holiday.  Throughout the Seder, there are 4 cups of wine & the mandatory seder plate is explained with each item a symbol of the Exodus from Egypt.  Every seder plate has a place for each item that is to go there, often with an image. You can google a Seder plate or even buy one - Uncle Jeff will sell them all year.  He's on his new $500 million yacht trying to consume all the champaign he stocked on.  Tough job!  The Haggadah goes over the items & symbols as part of the Seder. The items on the seder plate & their symbolism are: 

A roasted egg - Symbolizes both the festival sacrifice made in biblical times & it is a symbol of Spring, the season when Passover is always celebrated.

Maror - Bitter herbs, generally horseradish, it symbolizes the bitterness of slavery, both actual & emotional.  It is dipped into charoset (see recipe on line) 

to reduce the sharpness of the maror.  It is a commandment in Numbers 9:11 "Eat the paschal lamb with unleavened bread & bitter herbs".

Chazeret - It is included as the Numbers text, as above, has herb as plural, so this is the other herb.

Shank Bone - It symbolizes the Paschal lamb offered as the Passover sacrifice in Biblical Times - seems like only last yr.  Veggie households generally use beets - not sure why.

Charoset - This symbolized the mortar used by the Hebrew slaves to build in Egypt.  It is generally apples, nuts & spices ground together with wine - sounds yummy & a nice good night snack too.

Karpas - This is parsley - although I do not know why something else is never used - I HATE parsley - what is it, anyway?  It is dipped into saltwater during the seder.  The saltwater is a reminder of the tears shed during slavery.  It could a personal "slavery" that might be causing tears also.   The parting of The Red Sea will take care of all that.

                                                                                                                        Passover symbolizes many important concepts like freedom & the joy of being together with family &/or friends +++.  It is a "tradition" to invite someone to a Seder who has not been to one before.  The traditional Seder is outlined in a book called a Haggadah.  There are many different kinds with different trajectories. Uncle Jeff (Amazon) offers 17 Haggadahs.  Many families have a "family" Haggadah that is used yr. after yr.  Often they are "marked up" or with stickers & notes because going through the whole Haggadah could take about 2 hrs.  Some just do the 4 cups of wine & that is enough. Others will decide what to exclude to instruct all what page to turn to.    

Usually everyone at the table is given their own Haggadah, sometimes they are shared at the table.  Of course, like any Holiday meal, there is the "Hello, how are you" section. But generally not cocktails & appetizers.  Why is this night different from all other nights?  That is a famous question asked at the Seder. I am not sure of the origin I will try to find out.  Well, that Mr. Google is right on top of his stuff.  The answer is Passover is not a holiday observed in a Temple or Synagogue (or church if that becomes a Christian custom) - it is a home event.  So, that does make it different from all other nights.  Plus all the yummy food, singing, hiding the matza for a child to find, the 4 questions from The Wise Son, m The I ask myself that same question every night!  Oh well.  Then the host &/or hostess might have made place cards to make sure Uncle Barry is no where near Aunt Tilly, as there was a rumor there might have been some "issue" between them.  So, don't leave that one to chance.  There is 1 leader to the Seder who will generally have others read from the Hagaddah. It is not uncommon to let everyone know what they will be reading so they are less apt. to screw up. Many famous actors were discovered at a Seder - most famous being both Mickey & Minnie Mouse (devout Jews, but they "hide" it).  So, the Passover Seder begins. Of course the most important question most people ask to themselves, or the one next to them (no public announcement here) is "I wonder how long this will take - I'm hungry already.  

Of course, Passover has been just a Jewish tradition forever.  But why shouldn't everyone who follows the Old Testament (the Torah) enjoy this most fabulous of Holidays. It's even better than The Met Gala. And your outfit does not have to be that expensive. But of course, if that becomes a new tradition - there could be "Theme Seders", The Met Gala would be a great 'theme".  

Let the Games Begin - Of course the "leader" welcomes everyone & may note some special people who are at the seder - Hello, Oprah - nice to see you not on TV.  And he/she/whatever might tell a little about the anticipated time so every does not start cheating on taking food on the table.  Food is supposed to be eaten in the order of the service, but, naturally, those hunger pangs overtake responsibility & a hunk of the gafilte fish is missing. Yum.   According to Wikopedia, the word in Hebrew means "telling" & it "sets forth the order of the Passover Seder. Reading the Haggadah at the Seder tale is a fullfillment of the mitzvah of each Jew to 'tell your children'the story from The Book of Exodus of the bringing of the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt 'with a strong hand & an outstretched arm'".

There are so many wonderful traditions of a Seder that all enjoy & look forward to:

The story of The Exodus

4 cups of wine represents the 4 promises God made in Exodus 6.  Each cup has a unique name - 1st cup is for santification, the 2nd for judgement, the 3rd for redemption & the 4th for praise.  

The 4 Questions - Asked by 4 at the table, often the young. 

Why is this night different from all other nights?

Matza on the table & 3 pieces are in a special pouch. At some point in the seder, the middle one is removed & part of it is wrapped in a white cloth & it is hid for a child to find at the end of the meal.  Generally the one who finds it get some money.  It's called the afficomen.  Jeff Bezos never found the afficomen.

If you have not been to a seder, youtube one.  I suggest:

American Family Passover - 3.12 - It looks like Israel to me.  It is just some wonderful "Passover" music show preparation & then cleaning after a seder with some traditional Passover music.  

Explain it to Me Passover (3 min) - The commentator talks about Jews celebrating Passover. It may, one day, be "people celebrate Passover".  Why not?

The Last Supper Passover - The best (35 min).  The leader talks about Jesus' Passover at his Last Supper & how Jesus followed the instructions in The Bible.  He speaks of Jesus' words at his Passover & talks of the bread as his body & the cup of wine is the new covenant in my blood.  This video is beautiful.

Such a wonderful way to teach children history & create a family bond.

Gospel of John - He reads from a passage telling of Jesus washing the feet of the others at his Seder.  Did Jesus know tomorrow he was off to the cross?

Not an original idea - it is from a FB post I got.  I thought it was brilliant!  The body is placed in a decomposable bag & a tree, or a vine,  is plated over it. The nutrients from the decaying body help the tree grow.  It could be a lovely vine also with a siting area for  "visitors".  Ther could be new "neighborhoods" of trees & vines.  I would like my neighborhood to be called Azeleaville - that's where I grew up in St. Pete, Fla. - so 1950's - like "Back to the Future"!     

Naturally, this is ILLEGAL - yup, no problem buying an AR15, but to bury someone without a casket - No Can Do.  For now, anyway - & this is in NY State - not sure of laws in other states.  I hope to work with Pine Lawn in Farmingdale, NY to get legislation in NY to allow this type of burial.  Not sure who, except funeral homes, who could not sell a casket, would be opposed.  But new legislation is complicated - time will tell. 

This should be. pretty complete list of all the songs  she has sung that are on youtube - about 600, or so.  Try 1 & you will finish in less than 2 years!

A - 39

A Cottage For Sale

A Couple of Swells (w Fred Astaire) 

A Foggy Day

A lot of Living to Do

A Journey to a Star

A Pretty Girl & Her Goat 

A Shine on Your Shoes 

A Wonderful Guy 

Abe Lincoln Had Just One Country

Abide w Me

About Me 

After the Holidays

After You’re Gone 

Alabame Bound

Alexander’s Rag Time Band 

All Alone

All I Do is Dream About You

Alice Blue Gown

All God’s Chullin got Rhythm 

All the Things You Are

All Through the Day

Alone

Alone Together 

Always

Am I Blue

America the Beautiful 

Americana - Swing

Among my Souvenirs 

An Angel of Joy

Anchors Away

Any Place I Hang my Hat 

April in Paris

April Showers 

Are You Having Any Fun

Aren’t You Kind of Glad we Did

*As Long as he Needs Me 

At Long Last Here I Am

At the Stroke of Midnight (The Letter)

Auld Lang Syne 

B - 23

Ballin’ The Jack

Barbershop Chord

Battle Hymn of the Republic - Tribute to JFK 

Be a Clown w Gene Kelly 

Be A Football Player

Beautiful Trouble (The Letter)

Bei Mir Bist du Shein

Ben Blue Dance

Better Luck Next Time

Biden my Time 

Bill

Blue Prelude 

Blue Skies 

Blues in the Night 

Boise Idaho

Bombshell From Brazil

Born in a Trunk 

Boys & Girls Like You & Me

Broadway Rythym

Buds Won’t Bud 

But Not For Me (My Sweet Embraceable You - Crazy Girl) 

By Myself 

Bye Bye Blues

C - 26

Call me up Some Rainy Afternoon

Call The Press

Can Do, Will Do - Patriotic

Can This be the end of the Rainbow 

Can’t Help Lovin Dat Man of Mine 

Caro Nome

Carolina in the Morning 

Charlie’s Blues

Changing my Tune 

Chicago 

Chin Up, Cheereo, Carry On

College Swing 

Come All Ye Faithful

Come Rain or Come Shine 

Cole Porter Medly

College Swing - Swing

Come Back (The Letter)

Comes Love 

Comes Once in a Lifetime

Confess

Conn. Is the Place for Me w Bing C 

Consider Yourself

Could You Pass in Love

Could You Use Me 

Cry Baby Cry 

Cryin for the Carolines

D - 24

D’ Y’ Love Me

Daddy 

Danny Boy

Dardenella

Day In Day Out 

Dear Mr Gable 

Deck the Halls

Dinah 

Dirty Hands Dirty Face

Dixie 

Dixieland Band 

Do I Love You 

Do it Again 

Don’t Ever Leave Me 

Don’t Forget Me 

Don’t Get Around Much Anymore 

Don’t Rain on my Parade 

Don’t Tell me That Story 

Do the La Conga

Down on Melody Farm - Everybody Sing

D’Ya Love Me

Doing What Comes Naturally

Down w Love 

Drummer Boy - Swing

E - 6

Easter Parade (w Fred Astaire)

Easy to Love

Embraceable You 

Ever Since the World Began

Everybody Sing 

Eyli Eyli

F - 19

Falling in Love w Love 

Faraway Part of Town

Fascinating Rhythm 

Feeling Like a Million

Figaro x - Swing

Fight For USC

Fly me to the Moon 

Follow the Yellow Brick Road

Football Hero

For Me & My Gal (w Gene Kelly) 

For Once in My Life

For You For Me For Evermore

Forget Your Troubles

Franklin D Roosevelt Jones 

Free & Easy

Friendly Star

Friendship  

Friendship Medley w Ethel Merman

From This Moment On 

G - 15

Get Happy 

Get me to the Church on Time 

Get Off Looking Good

Give my Regards to Broadway

Glen Miller Melody

God Bless America

God’s Country

Go Home Joe 

Good Morning

Good Night my Love

Goody Goodbye 

Going Home Medley w Bobby Daren

Got a A New Pair of Shoes

Gotta be This or That w F Sinatra

Gotta Have me go with You 

Great Day

H - 27

Happiness is Just a Thing Called Joe 

Happy Days are Here Again 

Happy Harvest 

Happy New Year

Have I Stayed Too Long at the Fair

Have Yourself a Merry Christmas 

Here’s That Rainy Day

Here’s to Us

Heartbroken 

He’s Got the Whole World in his Hands

Hello Bluebird 

Hello Dolly w Liza M

Hello Ma Baby

Here’s That Rainy Day

Here’s To Us

Here’s What I’m Here For 

Hey Look me Over 

Hoe Down

Hold that Bulldog 

Holiday Melody (JG Show)

Hooray for Love 

*How About Me? - 

How About You 

How Could You Believe Me

How Insensitive (When a Love Affair is Over)

*How Long has this Been Going On? 

How Lovely to be Me

How You Gonna Keep Them Down on the Farm

I - 91

I am Loved 

I Belong to London

I Can’t Give You Anything but Love - Bday

I Concentrate on You

I Could go on Singing 

I Cried For You (Babes in Arms)

I Don’t Care 

I Feel a Song Coming On

I Get the Blues When it Rains 

I Got Rhythm 

I Got the Sun in the Morning

I Gotta a Right to Sing the Blues 

I Hadn’t Anyone Till You 

I Happen to Like NY 

I Hear a Rhapsody 

I Hear Music 

I Left my Heart in SF w Tony B 

I Like Men w Peggy Lee

I Love a Piano

I Love Paris

I Love Paris Medley  

I Love You

I Love You Today

I Loved Him

I May be Wrong

In the Valley Where the Sun Goes Down

I Never Knew 

I Remember You

I Want to go Back to Michigan

I Will Come Back 

I Wish I Were in Love Again 

I Wish You Love 

I’d Like to Hate Myself in the Morning

If He Walked into my Life m

If I Had a Talking Picture of You

If I Had You

If I Forget You

If I Love Again 

If Love Were All

If You Feel Like Singing, Sing

I’ll Be Seeing You

I’ll Get By 

I’ll Plant my Own Tree 

I’ll Remember April

I’ll Show Them All

I’m Always Chasing Rainbows 

I’m an Indian Too

I’m Confessin I Love You

I’m Following You Medly w Robert Goulet

& Phil Silvers

I’m Glad There is You

I’m in Love w a Wonderful Guy

I’m Just Wild About Harry

I’m Nobodys Baby 

I’m Old Fashioned

I’m on my Way

In Between

In Came Upon a Midnight Clear

In My Merry Oldsmobile

In The Valley Where The Evening Sun Goes

Down

Island in The West Indies

It Came Upon a Midnight Clear 

It Never Rains but What it Pours

It Never Was You 

It Only Happens When I Dance w You

It’s a Great Big World 

It’s a Hap Hap Happy Day

It’s a New World

It’s All For You

It’s Lovely to be Back in London

It’s Love I’m After

It’s Yourself

In Between 

In the Good old Summertime 

In the Valley

Island in the West Indies

It Came Upon a Midnight Clear

It Never Rains but it Pours 

It Never Was You 

It Only Happens When I Dance w You

It’s a Good Day

It’s a Great Big World 

If’s a Great Day for the Irish 

It’s a Hap, Hap, Happy Day

It’s a New World

It’s All For You

It’s Love I’m After

It’s So Lovely to be Back in London

It’s Yourself

I’ve Confessed to the Breeze

I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm

I’ve Got The Sun in The Morning

I’ve Got You Under my Skin

J - 12

Jamboree Jones 

Jitterbug

Joey Joey Joey

Johnny One Note

Judy at The Palace Medley 

Just a Memory

Just Imagine 

Just in Time 

Just Once in a Lifetime 

Just One of Those Things

Just The Way You Are

Just You Just Me

L - 22

Last Call For Love

Last Night When we Were Young 

Laugh? I Thought I Split my Sides 

Let’s Dance

Life is a Bowl of Cherries 

Limehouse Blues

Little Drops of Rain 

Little Girl Blue

Liza

Long Ago & Far Away

Look for the Silver Lining 

Loose that Long Face

Lorna

Lost in the Stars

Love 

Love in the Villiage (The Letter)

Love is Sweeping the Country

Loved Him But He Did’t Love Me

Lover Come Back

Love of my Life

Love Sweet 

Lucky Day 

M - 35

Ma, He’s Making Eyes at Me

Maggie Mae

Make Someone Happy

Making Whoopee

March of the Doagies

Maybe It’s Because

Me & My Shadow 

Mean to Me 

Meet me in St Louis 

Meet me Tonight in Dreamland

Meet the Beat of my Heart 

Memories of You 

Merry Christmas

Mine (w Bing C) 

Minnie from Trinidad

Minstrel Girl Medley

More

My Buddy

My Country Tis of Thee

My Heart is Taking Lessons

My Intuition

My Man’s Gone Now

My Old Kentucky Home 

My Romance w F Sinatra

My Ship

My Wonderful One, Let’s Dance

Moon River

More Than You Know

Mr & Mrs Clown

Music That Makes Me Dance

My Heart is Taking Lessons

My Melancholy Baby

My Man’s Gone Now

My Romance

My Ship

N - 8

Nearer to You

Nelson Eddy, Jeanette McDonald Medly

Never Walk Alone

Never Will I Mary

Nobody 

No Love No Nothing 

Nothing but You 

Notre Dame Victory Song

O - 15

Oceans Apart 

Oh Johnny

Oh, You Beautiful Doll

Ol’ Man River 

Old Devil Moon 

Old Man River 

Olio

On the Atchison, Topeka & The Sante Fe 

On the Bumpy Road to Love 

On the Sunny Side of the St 

One For My Baby

Ooh What You Said

Opera vs Jazz 

Our Love Affair 

Over The Rainbow

P - 15

Paging Mr Greenback

Paris is a Lonely Town 

Peanut Vendor

Pennies from Heaven 

People Will Say We’re in Love

Play Overture Play

Play that Barbershop Chord

Please say, Ah (removed from I Could Go on Singing)

Porgy & Bess Medley w Vic Damone

Poor Butterfly

Poor Little Rich Girl

Poor You

Purple People Eater

Put Your Arms Around Me 

Putin on the Ritz

R - 3

Roses Red Violets Blue

Rock a By Your Baby 

Rudolph the Red Nosed Raindeer

S - 43

Sail Away 

Salute to NYC

Sam’s Song

Savoy 

Say SiSi

Send my Baby Back to Me

Serenade

Seventy Six Trombones

Shall I Sing a Melody

Shenandoah 

Shine on Harvest Moon 

Silent Night

Singing in the Rain 

Skip to my Lou

Slap That Bass

Sleep My Baby Sleep 

Smiles

Smiling Through

Sophie

Some of These Days

Someone at Last 

Some People 

Somebody Touched Me

Something Cool 

Somethings Coming

Something in The Air

Something to Remember You By - w B Crosby

Somewhere

Speak Low

Stars & Stripes Forever

Stay With Me Till After the Holidays

Stepping out w my Baby 

Stomping at The Savoy 

Stormy Weather 

Strike up the Band 

Sun Shine 

Sun Showers

Suppertime 

Swanee 

Sweet Danger

Sweet Sixteen 

Swing Low Sweet Chariot 

Swing Mr Charlie 

T - 54

Take my Hand Paree 

Taking a Chance on Love

Ten Pins in the Sky 

That’s All 

That Old Black Magic 

That Old Feeling

That’s All There Is (The Letter)

That’s Entertainment 

That’s the Good Old Sunny South

The Belboa 

The Bells are Ringing

The Birthday of a King

The Boy Next Door 

The Christmas Song w Mel Torme

The Jitterbug Song 

The Joint is Jumpin 

The Land of Pretend

The Land of Promises

The Last Call for Love 

The Last Dance

The Man I Love

The Man that got Away 

The Music That Makes me Dance 

The Nearness of You 

The Party’s Over 

The Peanut Vendor 

The Red Baloon

The Right Romance

The Star of the East

The Stroke of Midnight (The Letter)

The Texas Tornado 

The Trolly Song 

The Way You Look Tonight 

The Worst Kind of Man (The Letter)

Theme from Mondo Cane

Than You’ve Never Been Blue

There’ll Always Be an England

There is no Breeze 

There’s A Lull in My Life

There’s No Business Like Show Business w Barbra S & Ethel Merman 

There’s Only One Union

These Lush Moments

They Can’t Take That Away From Me

This Can’t be Love 

This Could be the Start of Something

This Heart of Mine

This is It

This is New 

This is the Army

This is New

Three Cheers For The Yanks

Through the Years

Till After the Holidays

Till the Clouds Roll By

Time After Time

Tom, Tom The Piper’s Son

Too Late Now

Too Romantic

Toot Toot Tootsie Goodby

Two Lost Souls

Tzanna 

W - 38

Waltz with a Swing 

We Could Make Such Beautiful Music Together w Liza M

Wearing of the Green 

We’re Off to See The Wizard 

West Side Story Melodies w Vic Damone 

What Childs is This

What’ll I Do

What now my Love 

What the World Needs Now 

When I Look at You

When I’m in Love

When Johnny Comes Marching Home 

When my Sugar Walks Down the Street

When the Midnight Cho cho Leaves for Alabam

When the Saints go Marching In

When the Sun Comes Out xl

When You Walk Through a Storm xl

When You Wore a Tulip 

When You’re Smiling 

When Your Lover has Gone

Where Are You

Where is the Clown

Where The Butterflies Kiss the Buttercups

Where There’s Music

Whispering

Why, Because

Why Can’t I

Why Was I Born

Winter Wonderland

Wish You Were Here 

Wishes

Who 

Why Can’t I

Why was I Born 

Wish You Were Here

Wishing 

Without a Memory 

Wonderful Guy

Ya ta ta x (w Bing Crosby)

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Y - 23

Yes

Yes, Indeed

You Are my Sunshine

You Belong to Me

You Can’t Get a Man With a Gun

You Can’t Have Everything 

You go to my Head 

You Got me Where You Want Me (w Bing Crosby) 

You’ll Never Walk Alone 

You Are My Sunshine

You Belong to Me

You Can Do No Wrong

You Can’t Get a Man With a Gun

You Couldn’t Be Cuter

You Made me Love You

You Wonderful You

Your Broadway & My Broadway

You’re Just in Love 

You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You w Frank S & Dean M 

You’re Nearer

You’re So Right For Me

You’ve Got me Where You Want Me w Bing C 

Yours & Mine

Z - 1

Zing went the Strings of my Heart 

One of the unique things about  Judy Garland is that she "transcends" time & space It is as if she is singing just to you. - good trick!  It's hard to narrow the list down because there are very few of her songs that are less than wonderful!

Judy Garland songs for kids (& adults too):

Mr. & Mrs. Clown - with Van Johnson - so much fun - so brilliant

Be a Clown - with Gene Kelly - How do they wiggle their ears?

Got a Pair of New Shoes - From her movies “Thoroughbreds Don’t Cry” 

Ten Pins in the Sky - From a movie of hers

The Jitterbug - Originally made to be in The Wizard of Oz but never made it into the movie. All her “friends” join her in this song.

Swing Mr. Mendelssohn - Great song also in a movie of hers

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - She wrote this one - a beauty!

Dear Mr Gable - Her song to Clark Gable - info above

Franklin D Roosevelt Jones - Many black families were naming their sons Franklin in “honor” of FDR

God Bless America (soon, please!)

Over the Rainbow - Info above. She would end many of her concerts sitting at the edge of the stage, with no shoes, & sing this song. It was so powerful, people would cry.

Zing Went the Strings of My Heart - Info above

Palace Theater Medley - Sooo beautiful. It is almost her true life story!

76 Trombones - She created this new “version” of the classic song from The Music Man.

All God’s Chillun' Got Rythyem

On The Bumpy Road to Love (It can be very bumpy!)

Here’s to Us - info above

A Couple of Swells - Dressed in hobo outfits with Fred Astaire from the movie “Easter Parade”

Born in a Trunk - Another one almost the story of her life story.

Daddy - Luv it!

Mean to Me - Decide who to sing this to - “Sweetheart, this is for you!” “Mom - for you!”

Could You Use Me - From 1 of her movies with Mickey Rooney

Barn Dance - With Gene Kelly from the movie Summer Stock. Both Gene Kelly & Fred Astaire said they never had a partner who learned so quickly & was the one the audience paid attention to - not them!

The Trolly Song - From Meet Me in St. Louis

On the Atchinson, Topeka & Santa Fee - from the movie The Harvey Girls. Ask Mr. Google about the story behind this movie - it’s sooo interesting.

Who - From a movie of hers - choose the 2.29 min video

Ballin! The Jack - w Gene Kelly

Barbershop Quartet - Also from a movie

I Don’t Care - A good answer when Mom says “Clean up your room!” 

Get Happy - Brilliant

Swanee - Brilliant x 2

Mickey Rooney on The Judy Garland Show - They made many movies together

Happy Harvest - Forgot what movie this is from

Do The LaCondo - Go Judy!

Radio - Judy Garland & Jack Benny - “Spring is in The Air” - (Gregory & Gwedolyn & Herman & Mertyl) - She was a popular guest on many radio shows & sang & “performed”. She plays all the female parts in this one. She sings Alice Blue Gown at the end. This show is a favorite & very funny.

Judy Garland, Phil Silvers & Ribert Goulet - I’m Following You - more joy

I Want to go Back to Michigan - Really? Detroit?

Yah Ta Ta - Duet with Bing Crosby

Boy, that was fun! Never get tired of Judy singing to me. She has the super natural ability to transcend time & space! She’s been dead since 1969, but it’s as if she is singing to YOU! Good trick! That’s how she connected with her audiences in her aporox. 1,100 live concerts. The audiences were wild for her & she would do anything to make them happy. There a few songs of hers that are less than wonderful. 

Judy Garland Songs for Adults (& Kids Too)

Come Rain or Come Shine (in her beige dress)

Hello Bluebird - a Wowie Zowie

When The Sun Comes Out

Paris is a Lonely Town on Jack Paar Show

Alexander’s Ragtime Band

Aren’t You Kinda Glad We Did - Great duet with Bing Crosby. She sang many songs with him including:

Connecticut is The Place For Me

Mine 

I Can’t Give You Anything But Love

I am Loved 

I Get the Blues When it Rains (not me - I love the sound of rain!)

I Can’t Give You Anything But Love

Me & My Shadow

As Long as He Needs Me

I Got Rythym

The Letter - It’s like an opereta with a beautiful story of “lost love”. The full album is not on youtube & on

If You Feel Like Singing Sing

The Man That Got Away - From her brilliant movie A Star is Born. She was “supposed”to win the Academy Award, but Grace Kelly won - because of her “political” connections

Sail Away

A Cottage For Sale

Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries

Poor Butterfly

Rockabye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody - 

I Got The Right to Sing the Blues

Concerts & TV Shows. 

Judy Garland at Carnegie Hall ‘63 - Still called “The Greatest Night in Entertainment History”. 

Judy Garland Musical Special April 8, 1956 - I believe this was to be a GE Theater show but the execs thought Judy’s skimpy dress did not properly represent their button down style. Go Judy!

Judy & Liza at The Paladium - whole concert or just listen to Judy & Liza Hello Dolly

Judy Garland Shows - Google it for list of guests - The best are with her daughter, Liza Minelli, #3 & Barbra Streisand -  #9.  I would scroll past ll the dumb Jerry VanDyke stuff & anything else that is not Judy or her guest singing.  Her producers, for some reason, included all this "junk" 

Long list of Judy Garland songs in top section of pg 2 - Go to the top of the webite & click on pg 2 at the top. To get back to pg 1 - click Home Page at the top.