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Judy Garland
Solo artist Grand Rapids United States
Judy Garland is an artist from Grand Rapids. Judy Garland has 7 chart appearances on 7 radio countdowns from 3 stations on RockLists, spanning 2001–2023. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Somewhere over the Rainbow”, which appears on 5 lists with a best position of #159. The station that charted Judy Garland most often is WXPN (Philadelphia, PA), with 5 appearances.
Judy Garland was born Frances Ethel Gumm in Grand Rapids in 1922, and she was a trouper before she could read, singing in vaudeville with her two older sisters as the Gumm Sisters from the age of two. MGM signed her at 13, and in 1939 she played Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz. "Over the Rainbow", the song she sang in it, became her signature and launched her recording career, and that rich, aching contralto has never really left the air since.
Through the '40s and '50s she carried MGM musicals like Meet Me in St. Louis, Easter Parade and Summer Stock, before stretching into drama with A Star Is Born and Judgment at Nuremberg, both of which brought Oscar nominations. She made 11 studio albums between 1939 and 1962, and her live album Judy at Carnegie Hall, from 1961, took the Grammy for Album of the Year, a prize no woman had won before her.
She struggled with a dependency on prescription drugs, and she died of an accidental barbiturate overdose in 1969, at 47. The honors kept coming after she was gone: a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997, and six of her recordings in the Grammy Hall of Fame.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Judy Garland on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somewhere over the Rainbow | 5 | #159 | – | – | |
| 2 | Over the Rainbow | 1 | #297 | – | – |
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 297 | Over the Rainbow | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of All Time |
| 2020 | 208 | Somewhere over the Rainbow | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time |
| 2014 | 159 | Somewhere over the Rainbow | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2014) |
| 2009 | 315 | Somewhere over the Rainbow | WXPN 885 Desert Island Songs (2009) |
| 2006 | 336 | Artist ranking | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Artists (2006) |
| 2004 | 269 | Somewhere over the Rainbow | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2004) |
| 2001 | 161 | Somewhere over the Rainbow | WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time |
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