Disc 1
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| Song Title | Sample |
| 1. Singin' In The Rain - Gene Kelly (from "Singin' In The Rain") ~ Original Soundtrack |  |
| 2. There's No Business Like Show Business - Betty Hutton/Howard Keel/Keenan Wynn/Louis Calhern (from "Annie Get Your Gun") ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| 3. 'S Wonderful - Gene Kelly/Georges Guetary (from "An American In Paris") ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| 4. That's Entertainment - Fred Astaire/Jack Buchanan/Nanette Fabray/Oscar Levant (from "The Band Wagon") ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| 5. Stranger In Paradise - Ann Blyth/Vic Damone (from "Kismet") ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| 6. Easter Parade - Judy Garland/Fred Astaire (from "Easter Parade") ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| 7. Lullaby Of Broadway - Winifred Shaw/Dick Powell & Chorus (from "Gold Diggers Of 1935") ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| 8. Get Happy - Judy Garland (from "Summer Stock") ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| 9. Night And Day - Fred Astaire (from "The Gay Divorcee") ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| 10. True Love - Bing Crosby/Grace Kelly (from "High Society") ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| 11. Honeysuckle Rose - Lena Horne/Benny Carter & His Orchestra (from "Thousands Cheer") ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| 12. They Can't Take That Away From Me - Fred Astaire (from "The Barkleys Of Broadway") ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| 13. Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet - Nancy Walker/MGM Studio Chorus/Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra (from "Broadway Rhythm") ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| 14. Baby, It's Cold Outside - Esther Williams/Ricardo Montalban (from "Neptune's Daughter") ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| 15. For Me And My Gal - Gene Kelly/Judy Garland (from "Me And My Gal") ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| 16. Puttin' On The Ritz - Clark Gable & Co. (from "Idiot's Delight") ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| 17. Hallelujah! - Tony Martin/Vic Damone/Kay Armen/Ann Miller/Debbie Reynolds/Clark Burroughs & Co. (from "Hit The Deck") ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| 18. Bless Yore Beautiful Hide - Howard Keel (from "Seven Brides For Seven Brothers") ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| 19. Taking A Chance On Love - Ethel Waters/Eddie "Rochester" Anderson (from "Cabin In The Sky") ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| 20. As Time Goes By - Dooley Wilson/Elliot Carpenter (from "Casablanca") ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| 21. Lara's Theme (Main Title) - MGM Studio Orchestra (from "Dr Zhivago") ~ Original Soundtrack | | Disc 2
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| Song Title | Sample |
| 1. Over The Rainbow - Judy Garland (from "The Wizard Of Oz") ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| 2. It's A Most Unusual Day - Jane Powell (from "A Date With Judy") ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| 3. Wunderbar - Kathryn Grayson/Howard Keel (from "Kiss Me Kate") ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| 4. Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man - Ava Gardner (from "Show Boat") ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| 5. Going Hollywood - Bing Crosby (from "Going Hollywood") ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| 6. Trolley Song, The - Judy Garland & The MGM Studio Chorus (from "Meet Me In St Louis") ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| 7. Gigi - Louis Jordan (from "Gigi") ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| 8. I Got Rhythm - Judy Garland/Mickey Rooney & Co. (from "Girl Crazy") ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| 9. Aba Daba Honeymoon - Debbie Reynolds/Carleton Carpenter/MGM Studio Chorus (from "Two Weeks With Love") ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| 10. Lady Is A Tramp, The - Lena Horne (from "Words & Music") ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| 11. Best Things In Life Are Free, The - June Allyson/Peter Lawford (from "Good News") ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| 12. Cheek To Cheek - Fred Astaire (from "Top Hat") ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| 13. Kiss To Build A Dream On, A - Louis Armstrong (from "The Strip") ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| 14. Put 'Em In A Box - Doris Day/The Page Cavanaugh Trio (from "Romance On The High Seas") ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| 15. If Swing Goes, I Go Too - Gene Kelly (from "Ziegfeld Follies") ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| 16. Almost Like Being In Love - Gene Kelly (from "Brigadoon") ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| 17. Let's Face The Music And Dance - Fred Astaire (from "Follow The Fleet") ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| 18. Be A Clown - Gene Kelly/Judy Garland (from "The Pirates") ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| 19. Embraceable You - Connie Francis (from "When The Boys Meet the Girls") ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| 20. On The Atchison, Topeka And The Santa Fe - Judy Garland & Co. (from "The Harvey Girls") ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| 21. One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) - Fred Astaire (from "The Sky's The Limit") ~ Original Soundtrack | |
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| Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Compilation producer: George Feltenstein | | Includes liner notes by John Fricke. | | All tracks have been digitally remastered. | | Personnel: Elliot Carpenter (piano). | | As part of its pact with Turner Entertainment, which controls the vaults of several of the great movie studios, Rhino Records has issued many compilations of soundtrack material from the movie musicals of the 1930s to the 1960s. Somewhere Over the Rainbow: The Golden Age of Hollywood Musicals is an attempt to present the musical highlights of the Turner collection on a single album, albeit a two-disc set running two and a half hours. Perhaps inevitably, it ends up sounding like a soundtrack album drawn from the series of MGM anthology films of the 1970s under the title That's Entertainment! Annotator John Fricke admits the tracks are "predominantly (though not exclusively) drawn from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer properties," which he claims is "simply because they had the greatest talents to invest in all aspects of their product." Fair enough, although one might add that 20th Century Fox and Paramount had some pretty great talents, too, and none of them are here unless, like Bing Crosby for example, they occasionally made a picture outside their contracted studios that has somehow fallen into the Turner maw. Still, when you are drawing from the MGM, Columbia, and RKO catalogs, you have some great material to choose from. The songs performed by Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, and Gene Kelly, whom Fricke calls "The Big Three," are a given, and they are also overly familiar. More interesting are the performances by less frequently heard singers like Nancy Walker, Jane Powell, and even Ava Gardner (whose voice was dubbed in the 1951 Show Boat, but not here). Taken from primary sources, the tracks appear in better sound quality than you will hear on the endless European gray-market compilations flooding the market. And if there are favorites missing, it's only because it would take more than two discs to do justice to the era. ~ William Ruhlmann |
Engineer: Doug Schwartz |
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| Technical Info |
| Release Date : 06/04/2002 | | Original Release Date : 2002 | | Catalog ID : 78323 | | Label : Turner Classic Movies Music | | Number of Discs : 2 | | Runtime : 149m : 26s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00081227832322 |
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