I love seeing Judy Garland and Ray Bolger together again.

She actually filmed this song in one take. Amazing!

@anon6116

5 жыл бұрын

She was the real deal.

@frankiebowie6174

5 жыл бұрын

One-take Judy. That’s what they called her, and that’s what she was.

@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory

5 жыл бұрын

I'm sure she is in peace considering the millions of fans she has.

@tremecabattle2418

4 жыл бұрын

Yes in deed she did

@omega311888

4 жыл бұрын

@Rebecca Swanson thats hollywood for you.

The way she looks at Ray Bolger, when he joins her, happiness just bursts from her face.

@markterka4830

11 күн бұрын

Which one is he in the video?

God, she really just is the most ethereal and amazing person to ever live isn’t she

@danielwinner3735

Жыл бұрын

It was the scene in the movie that was ethereal. Judy was a wreck.

@williamj.crofts41

9 ай бұрын

​@@danielwinner3735 Wow, aren't you a little hateful demonic little BITCH? 0:32

@adambaum9732

8 ай бұрын

@@danielwinner3735 Her performances were amazing, but her personal life was a complete train wreck. No pun intended.

@SnowdropWood

5 ай бұрын

Most people would be a wreck if they had to endure the things Judy did from birth. That she could withstand all her troubles and still be remembered with fondness around the world (including by her children) more than half a century after her death is to her credit.

@user-qd1km1el2u

5 ай бұрын

No.

As amazing as Judy Garland is, let's not forget to give Johnny Mercer credit for these lyrics....what a songwriter

@jonathankieranwriter

3 жыл бұрын

Josh Clark ...Great call! BUT ... he wrote it for Judy to sing. 😁 All the greatest composers of the day did, back then. They not only wanted to hear her sing their songs, the studios paid them big bucks to write songs for their top musical star. What a different era, what a fascinating era ...

@JanMike9

3 жыл бұрын

Mercer wrote 'Old Black Magic' about Judy. He was crazy in love with her. Then again, who isn't?

@simonduring-nicholson7228

2 жыл бұрын

And the arranger/orchestrator - the undisputed greatest - Conrad Salinger

@stardusth2o

2 жыл бұрын

@@JanMike9 he also wrote I Remember You, Skylark, and Moon River about her. He must have loved her deeply.

@evanstern3222

2 жыл бұрын

@@stardusth2o You're absolutely right about I Remember You. Skylark and Moon River, however, have very different origin stories that were unrelated to Garland. He was, however, quite in love with her and continued to send her money when times were rough- especially at the end.

There really is no one else like Judy. She was absolutely amazing.

I work at the Nevada state Railroad Museum, home of the entire train set used in this film. The coaches are currently unrestored but the Locomotive is up and running on holidays. It's fun to look at the equipment and imagine all the movie casts and crews that have been in and out of them.

@alejandrosigua

2 ай бұрын

I don’t know what locomotive was used🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

@NorthandSouthLineR.R.

26 күн бұрын

The Locomotive used in this scene was Virginia & Truckee No. 18

Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, John Hodiak, Virginia O'Brien, Marjorie Main, Cyd Charisse, just to name a few. These were the days of true entertainment. Star studded films like this could never exist today.

@roccosophie6498

4 жыл бұрын

@Carly Sewell I think Angela is around 92 right now, and just as beautiful and sharp as ever. A very lovely and talented woman in her own right that can not possibly be ignored. Thank you for the reminder.

This was MGM all in its musical glory.

Magnificent. One of the high points of Hollywood's Golden Age.

That voice. Nobody could delver like Judy Garland, Pure talent from the hand of God.

I wish they still made movies like this.

@agentorange153

3 ай бұрын

I actually have a plot outline for a movie of this sort (well, more like Top Gun, but with characters bursting into song several times, including a duet between the main hero and his flight instructor/girlfriend just before they get scrambled to face the dogfight of their lives against the main villain) featuring several hit songs by Boris Grebenschikov ("Aquarium"), but I don't think it will get produced any time soon!

No auto tune, long one shots with no editing. People had talent back then.

@joshadcock1035

4 жыл бұрын

Very true, but Hollywood did secretly dub a lot of actors singing back then instead of auto tune. Of course the amazing Judy never was.

@missmidnight4147

4 жыл бұрын

They had talent, and they put all their effort in for their fans.

@THOMKALLOR

3 жыл бұрын

People were also ground down into looking a certain way. What they did to this woman was a crime. Hollywood isn't all that much different today. Also it's OK to cite her talent and its singularity without implying talent simply doesn't exist at all anymore.

@BryanDelMonte

3 жыл бұрын

As Josh pointed out... musical numbers in cinema is/was dubbed... that said... they also did recordings live as well. This scene is probably shot on a soundstage... it probably was mic'ed up pretty well... but they probably had Judy Garland's voice recorded in the studio separately and then the sound is mixed... same for the accompaniment. Sound direction is an art all to itself. If you want to read an amazing book about the making of the classic Hollywood musicals you must read Hugh Fordin's book The World of Entertainment. It details like how they did The Wizard of Oz, Singing in the Rain, and Showboat... among others. As for craft and talent... there's a fair amount of talent now as well... you'd be surprised how hard it is to do a scene over and over and shoot movies out of sequence and still make a character that is convincing and get an audience to invest themselves into it...

@spaceboy2095

3 жыл бұрын

And they still have today, it's just expressed differently...

There is nothing in her work has pure as the slow and flawless build up to the climax of this song. I just had a dreary crappy day sat down and watched this and in just three minutes later and I am grinning ear to ear.

I feel blessed to have grown up with the Beatles and 60s music but to go to the theatre and see Judy in those beautiful cinematic musicals must have been a real treat in the 40s

When she links arms with Ray Bolger, the look he gives her 😌 I bet he loved to work with her again after Oz

This classic and Academy Award winning song is performed perfectly by the legendary, adorable, beautiful and extremely talented Judy Garland and the chorus is pure movie magic from the 1946 MGM classic movie The Harvey Girls! I love this!

The part that starts at 2:35 makes me so happy I almost cry. Just something about them going down the platform simulating the train wheels brings me immense joy.

@user-hi4fm9wv2z

2 ай бұрын

Same here!

One of my favorite scenes in any musical 💕 I love these old movies so much, and Judy Garland ♊️

“I’m feeling so fresh and alive” - would not be me after spending days on a train.

@jonathankieranwriter

3 жыл бұрын

🤣 ... I was thinking the same thing. How fresh can you *be* Judy? Them old days in the Wild West were mighty dusty. Maybe she had a rainwater “shower car”.

@texshockeycards6155

3 жыл бұрын

The train had a water car and a vinegar car

@agentorange153

3 ай бұрын

@@jonathankieranwriter Also, steam trains (without air conditioning) could be VERY dirty from the coal smoke -- back then people would actually wear "travelling clothes" when riding a train (those were specially designed to be easy to wash)!

yes, yes...and a thousand times YES! #ILoveJudyGarland

Judy is soooo beautiful here. She sings with great gusto!! I’m getting ready to go and work at the Grand Canyon next summer. This song will be my Theme Song and my traveling companion. (I won't be in Kansas no more!!)

This is my favourite Judy Garland novie. And this week her love rival ,Angela Lansbury has passed away.RIP🌹🌹

Outstanding Performance!

Love this movie! Takes me back to the 1980s when the local channels showed great classic movies at 8:00 pm every night!

My dad told me a young Elizabeth Taylor could make a clock on the wall stop running. I won't disagree, but I would put Judy Garland right up there. What a beauty!! What a talent!! When movie stars were really STARS!!!

This is one of my all-time favorite MGM numbers. I always loved watching it on THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT!

@rofojo09

4 жыл бұрын

I miss Frank too.

What an incredible, super-human talent.

When I was 4-8 years old, The "Wizard of Oz," would air without commercials once a year, in Dallas, Texas. It was unbelievable how good the fx seemed back then, even though it was 22 years old,, in 1961!!! Man that's old!!! Today, I have seen "Meet Me In St.Louis," ect. And I have heard most of Judy Garlands other song's. (My favorite is "The trolly song). So, today at 61, I look at The Wizard of Oz.and it's 84 years old!!! Even "Star Wars," is already over 45 years old!!! I am glad we have all of these recordings to replay. Thank you. Brother James OSB

God gave her talent with both of his hands.

@wayneduncan6383

4 жыл бұрын

Jim Perretta Yep. Pressed down, shaken together, and running over, as the Psalm says.

@samiam619

3 жыл бұрын

Too bad she drank and took pills to piss it away...

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Masterpiece! This number is straight from classic musical film Heaven and Judy Garland is the Angel by whom it was sent...❤❤❤

There will Never be a Bigger Star than Judy Garland!

Wow! Judy Garland, none like her. So innocent so graceful. I'm in love! The cast, the costumes, the production!

Oh my gosh! The steam on the train is on beat at 2:37! That's really amazing!!!

@streamer728

4 жыл бұрын

The steam is syncopated! Even better!

@agentorange153

3 ай бұрын

@@streamer728 Syncopated?! I didn't know they used any Gresley A1 Pacifics on the Santa Fe -- those would probably be far too small for the heavy loads they had to pull, they'd have to double-head all the time (especially up in the high desert)!

Up for a million views for this special lady

The bearded cowboy at the beginning was absolutely in awe with her! (I would've been too)

@Dream_ez

5 жыл бұрын

You are so RIGHT!!!!

Fantastic

Lyrics: What a lovely trip I'm feeling so fresh an alive And I'm so glad to arrive It's all so grand It's easy to see You don't need a palace To feel like Alice In wonderland Back in Ohio Where I come from I've done a lot of dreamin an I've traveled some But I never thought I'd see the day When I ever took a ride on The Santa Fe (Wanna take a ride on The Santa Fe) I would lean across my window sill And hear the whistle echoin across the hill Then I'd watch the lights, till they fade away On the Atchison, Topeka, and The Santa Fe What a thrill (What a great big wonderful thrill) With the wheels a singin westward ho Right from the day I heard them start Cross the Kansas plains from New Mexico I guess I've got a little gypsy in my heart When I'm old and gray and settled down If I ever get a chance to sneak away from town Then I'll spend my busmen's holiday On The Atchison, Topeka, and The Santa Fe (All aboard)! All aboard! (We came across the country, lickedy spilt) Ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo I can't believe I'm here at last Ooooooooooooooo, ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo I can't believe that anything could go so fast Then you pull that throttle whistle blows A huffin and a puffin and a way she goes All aboard for Calaforn-i-a On The Atchison On The Atchison, Topeka On The Atchison, Topeka, and On The Atchison, Topeka, and The Santa Fe

@texshockeycards6155

3 жыл бұрын

Hey

@elizabethtaylor9242

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I looked up the lyrics on line, and they weren’t the same as these. I wanted these ones. 👍😁💐

So beautiful

Many people regard Meet Me in St. Louis to be the best film appearance of Judy Garland, but I think this movie has a more valid claim to the title. That beautiful long take in the later part of Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe where Judy fluidly sails across the sea of colorfully dressed supporting actors is not only one of her best moments in her long film career but also a showcase of what the film musical industry could achieve with the concentrated talents the studio system provided them. After that shiny moment, Judy's troubled life began to show in her face and the once impeccable command of her voice gave way to more forced, exaggerated vibrato which became her trademark in her later years. And just like Judy herself, the studio system collapsed and the great era of Hollywood musical was soon no more, leaving such gems like Singing in the Rain as parting gifts. For that reason, this move always claims a special place in my heart.

@coolaunt516

4 жыл бұрын

I agree--I never got the appeal of Meet Me In St Louis. I think Harvey Girls is much better!

@poetcomic1

2 жыл бұрын

She did not 'start aging' after the musicals she REINVENTED herself with the careful guidance of Kay Thompson a genius arranger and cabaret performer. Everything is new: the gestures, the pauses in the middle of a phrase, the hair grab, the reach with both hands.... this whole range of expressive gesture combined with a whole new intimate and mature vocal instrument and she went on to create the apotheosis of herself as a singer on the concert stage, television even filling some of the greatest theaters in the world from Carnegie Hall to London's Palladium. Kay was Liza's godmother and the single greatest influence on the concert Judy.

love this movie

@ilovejudygarland7353

6 жыл бұрын

Me too

She makes me melt.

Can you imagine yourself in this production number and you have a train to practice with ❤

Just wonderful. They have very few with such talent anymore.

One of my favorites, can watch this movie over and over.💖💖

Such a lovely, powerful voice. Her personal life was a train wreck but she had a lot to contend with at an early age that was beyond her control.

Have this gem on vhs. I’m 24 and loved classic movies since I was 17. My friends think their boring but I’m absolutely in love.

@1mespud

3 жыл бұрын

Good 4 U. You have sophisticated taste. People and even friends are not who you want them to be. You can't share happiness because happiness is personal and which also means a lot more for yourself..

@donnalombardo212

3 жыл бұрын

Good for you they were a lot better than the trash today nobody today could hold a candle to Judy Garland tell your friends that

@garrettklages5568

2 жыл бұрын

I'm 27 My Grandma, is 89 I grew up watching the old movies with her. My love of all the old movies comes from her and my uncle movies back then can so beat today's

@garrettklages5568

2 жыл бұрын

@@donnalombardo212 Judy Garland ,Doris Day,Deanna Durbin

@agentorange153

3 ай бұрын

@@garrettklages5568 Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Ray... kzread.info/dash/bejne/lXiE0NWNgqTcebA.html

MGM's genius vocal coach/arranger Kay Thompson coached Judy here & arranged and coached the chorus.

This sequence is my fav in this movie with Judy Garland The Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe song Such a feel good movie and song

Was there anyone else in Hollywood as talented as Judy? I don't think so.

She could have lived so much longer if Hollywood left her alone!

What a talent she was!!! Triple threat....sing, act, dance......

My 90 year old Uncle woke up and asked me to play this on my guitar in Ohio this last Christmas. I was like wut?

No-one seems to mention who put put this all together - Robert Alton. He rehearsed it for twenty days before putting it before the camera.

@jaytaylor7740

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for mentioning Altman. He's my favorite choreographer.

Oh my gods I need to get on a train. This song is making me sob my little eyes out today. I’ve been in one place for way way too long.

@agentorange153

3 ай бұрын

Unfortunately Amtrak doesn't have any steam trains -- you'll either have to find an excursion train with steam traction, or settle for a diesel train (which doesn't sound anything like this, but is still fun to ride)!

In the big production number "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe", from Judy Garland's entrance until the tempo change is one take. Rumor has it they only shot it twice and she was dead-on both times.

I remember. I was 13. T his so g camd to me and I've never cried until 16. I twas used. But'll always use to ust to lose my innocentsy to this song. I shouldv've known. E.

2:38 is my fav part the way they all move together 🖤

Love this song, Judy was an amazing talent!

As a gay, I fucking love this.

The GREAT JUDY G.

I was surprised that BNSF didn't modernize the lyrics for a commercial: "We can take your freight all the way on the Burlington Northern and the Santa Fe!"

1:58: Ray Bolger with Judy:)

@brucer9572

3 жыл бұрын

Boy! I sure missed that one. Thank you for pointing it out. If I Only Had a Brain....

@agentorange153

3 ай бұрын

Was he the Scarecrow? (The Wizard of Oz one, not the Batman one)

Magnificent. And this is just the ending of the 8:30 minute production number of this song in the movie.

thkis is just movie magic

You guys have me sold, never heard of the movie before and I was born in ‘55. Go figure ... ordered it today looking forward watching all of it 😊👍

@jacquelinerussell8530

4 жыл бұрын

A wonderful movie bought the DVD and watched it many many times never gets old Nothing like them old MGM musicals 👍👍👍👍👍

Love how this version is different from Johnny Mercer’s original one

Wow! I like the costumes!

Judy's eldest child Liza sang the very beginning of this song (0:00-0:36) in a few of her concerts - most notably in a 1979 concert in New Orleans that aired on TV as "An Evening With Liza Minnelli" and is now called "Liza In New Orleans", and her 1979 Carnegie Hall concert which was also released as an album called "Live At Carnegie Hall" - changing "what a lovely trip" to "what a lovely night" and mashing it up with "How Long Has This Been Going On" and "It's A Miracle".

What amazing talent. She made MGM

@jonathankieranwriter

3 жыл бұрын

J Thomas ... Astute point! She was and REMAINS MGM. Very few women could command immediate box office during Hollywood’s Golden Era. In 1940 and 1941 only two women were in the Quigley Top 10 Box Office Stars-Bette Davis and Judy Garland. Through the WWII years, the top three female box office names were “the three Gs”-Betty Grable, Greer Garson, Judy Garland. And Garland’s films were all lavish musicals, the most timely and difficult to make. She released perhaps two films a year while Grable and Garson released four or five each. But Garland’s box office returns made mincemeat of the rest. Musicals were a genre completely apart, even then, but a Judy Garland movie was an event. Almost all of her movies debuted at No. 1 and/or made the year-end lists. The very tiny lady was an immense asset.

I saw this a little while back on Turner Classic Movies

Judy make butter churn-y costumes look stunning!

The song was written by two musical geniuses, Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer.

You can tell the difference between her voice here and back when she sang "Over the Rainbow" seven years ago as a younger girl.

An amazing performer. I rank her as number one female star of the 20th century. She could sing like an angel--and I rate her above Barbara Streisand, because Judy could also sing great jazz! She was a marvelous actress as well. Watch her in "Judgment at Nuremberg"! She could also dance with the best of them. And she sang with the best, including Al Jolson. And such a tragedy that the studio heads fed her drugs to keep her "fresh" and awake throughout her rigorously rehearsed cinematic scenes, even at a young age--and she later ended up addicted. I wish there were more government awareness and labor laws to have put a stop to this exploitative practice!

@agentorange153

3 ай бұрын

I think back then it was fairly common to take meth in order to stay awake -- truckers did it all the time (Boxcar Willie even mentions this in his song "Freightliner Fever"), so there was already a public health crisis just out of sight!

maybe 3 edits? amazing for such a big production number!

Thumbs up if you pair this with The Trolley Song

@agentorange153

3 ай бұрын

This song comes right after The Trolley Song in my playlist of train songs!

This was at the end of the golden age of railroading!

A Johnny Mercer song with a Kay Thompson vocal stylized twist hunny......MASTERPIECE!!!!!!!!

@donaldmiller2306

2 жыл бұрын

Actually, it's a Harry Warren song; Mercer wrote the lyrics.

I remember watching an interview of a guy saying that Judy never rehearsed this and was barely paying attention when the choreographer explained it, but somehow, miraculously executed it on the first try. As a kid I believed it. Now I realize he was probably exaggerating. 😂

@irismetcalfe

Жыл бұрын

He probably wasn't exaggerating. She was renowned for being a quick study. She learnt lines, complicated vocal arrangements and choreography etc exceptionally fast.

@jodyhorn297

7 ай бұрын

People nowadays forget that Judy Garland started her career at three or four years of age as a vaudevillian on a live stage, where you had to be a quick study.

One word: Bravo!

San Bernardino California forever !!

ICONIC

One of many favourites

Excellent!

Inestimable talent.

Despite this movie originally being made by Metro Goldwyn Mayer, can you now consider it to be a Warnes Bros. movie, since the fact that Warner Archive owns the rights to it?

So this is the song that Jerry segue’d Tom’s “Hungarian Rhapsody” into, in The Cat Concerto (1946).

Glorious.

Ok, super credit to Minnelli for the beat-this one take tracking shot (ok, edit for chorus shot) well before Welles' 'Touch of Evil' and Cauróns' 'Children of Men' (both amazing, btw). She was just the definition of professional. One take. ONE TAKE!

You don't need a palace to feel like Alice in wonderland love you Judy my idol

Are you aware that Ray Bolger was scalded by the steam from the locomotive's cylinder cocks? That American-type locomotive was pretty powerful, too. That 3-car, fully-loaded train had to get up to at least 15 mph in its own length!

@briancooper4959

5 жыл бұрын

But he played it off like the pro he was, and kept going.

@OldsVistaCruiser

2 жыл бұрын

@@briancooper4959 - You are so right. Ray Bolger was a trouper!

@agentorange153

3 ай бұрын

@@briancooper4959 Well, at least it wasn't superheated steam straight from the boiler -- if it had been, I bet he wouldn't have been able to shrug THAT off!

🎼 Like 🎶 • Cheers from The Detroit & Mackinac Railway 🚂

@agentorange153

3 ай бұрын

You still run steam trains? If so, wonderful -- if not, that's still great!

@trainroomgary

2 ай бұрын

@@agentorange153Hi from Michigan • Yes l run steam locomotives 🚂

@agentorange153

2 ай бұрын

@@trainroomgary Awesome!

@agentorange153

2 ай бұрын

Hel-LO, you filthy Google scumbags! All I said is "Awesome" in response to the comment by @trainroomgary about steam locomotives, and your goddam censorship algorithm REMOVED my comment in BLATANT VIOLATION of your own terms of service! You will IMMEDIATELY CEASE AND DESIST from doing this and COMPLETELY SCRAP this algorithm, and you will IMMEDIATELY RESTORE my comment which you have just removed, or YOU WILL BE CRIMINALLY PROSECUTED -- is that clear?!

Let's all thank Harry Warren.

ISSO QUE E MÚSICA CARA

Seems to be missing a verse, but so what! Judy in all her glory! Big bands are back!

During this scene, Ray Bolger received a scald wound on his leg because of the steam from the locomotive.

@b43xoit

Жыл бұрын

Ouchie!

Wow!

2:35 A retrofitted Virginia & Truckee #22 “Inyo”

Australia's 41st number one hit along with a version by Bing Crosby.