Meet Me in St. Louis (album)

Meet Me in St. Louis
Main album cover
Studio album by
Judy Garland
ReleasedNovember 2, 1944
RecordedApril 20–21, 1944
StudioDecca Studios, Los Angeles, CA
GenreTraditional pop
LabelDecca
Judy Garland chronology
Girl Crazy
(1944) 		Meet Me in St. Louis
(1944) 		The Harvey Girls
(1945)
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Meet Me In St. Louis is an album of phonograph records by Judy Garland with Georgie Stoll's Orchestra, released on November 2, 1944 by Decca Records, featuring songs presented in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer eponymous motion picture.[1]

Reception

Released less than 10 days before Columbia and Victor Records formally ended the 1942-44 recording ban, the album peaked at number two on the April 7, 1945 Billboard Best-Selling Popular Record Albums chart.[2] In their Record Possibilities column, the magazine praised "The Trolley Song":

... There's plenty of bounce and the platter is actually given movie treatment, with everything on wax but the kitchen sink... You have to play this three times to take in everything... Even if you have another version get this, too.[3]

"The Trolley Song" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 15th Academy Awards, but lost to "Swinging on a Star" by Bing Crosby from Paramount's Going My Way. Additionally, the album was the debut of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas", now a perennial holiday standard.

Track listing

With all selections featuring Georgie Stoll's Orchestra and Chorus, these newly issued songs were featured on a 3-disc, 78 rpm album set, Decca A-380.

Disc 1: (23360)

  1. "Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis", recorded April 21, 1944.[4]
  2. "Skip to My Lou", recorded April 21, 1944.

Disc 2: (23361)

  1. "The Trolley Song", recorded April 21, 1944.
  2. "Boys And Girls Like You", recorded April 20, 1944.[5]

Disc 3: (23662)

  1. "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas", recorded April 20, 1944.
  2. "The Boy Next Door", recorded April 20, 1944.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Popular Record Releases" (PDF). American Radio History. The Billboard. 11 November 1944. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
  2. ^ "Best Selling Popular Record Albums". Google Books. The Billboard. 7 April 1945. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
  3. ^ "Record Possibilities". Google Books. The Billboard. 7 April 1945. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
  4. ^ "Judy Garland (vocalist)". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
  5. ^ a b "Decca 23000 - 23500 Numerical Listing". 78discography.com. The Online Discographical Project. Retrieved 29 June 2019.