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Having always been a fan of Judy Garland I was delighted to receive this new CD of her singing some of her many successes. Before I listened I wandered back over the years to when I first became aware of her. It was when she and Mickey Rooney were making all those "Andy Hardy" films in the early 1930s. In England we were seeing more and more films from America, especially musicals. Around fifteen years old, going to the cinema on a Saturday night was my big night out (but home by nine o'clock, of course) and I seem to have seen a lot of her then. Being an avid reader of film magazines, I soon discovered even more about her. I learned she would have been about ten when she first starred with Mickey Rooney, but also that she was already well known in America for her great talent. I remembered reading that when much younger she had been part of a sister singing group and it was only after they split up that she was instantly snapped up by Louis B. Mayer for the movies when she was about thirteen. She shared her screen-debut with Deanna Durbin in a two reel short film and later she signed a recording contract. So, there is a lot more to the early Judy Garland than "The Wizard of Oz" as many people today might think