" Yip " Harburg ( performed by Judy Garland in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz ), " White Christmas " written by Irving Berlin ( best-known performance by Bing Crosby ), " This Land Is Your Land " written and performed by Woody Guthrie, " Respect " written by Otis Redding ( best-known performance by Aretha Franklin ), and " American Pie ".

Other popular exhibits were the various auto manufacturers, the Midway ( filled with nightclubs such as the Old Morocco, where future stars Judy Garland, The Cook Family Singers, and The Andrews Sisters performed ), and a recreation of important scenes from Chicago's history.

* " The Boy Next Door ", Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, 1944, performed by Judy Garland.

* " Under the Bamboo Tree ," Words and music by Robert Cole and The Johnson Bros., 1902, performed by Judy Garland and Margaret O ' Brien.

* " Over the Banister ," 19th-century melody adapted by Conrad Salinger, lyrics from the 1888 poem " Over the Banisters " by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, adapted by Roger Edens ( 1944 ), performed by Judy Garland.

* " The Trolley Song ", Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, 1944, performed by Chorus and Judy Garland.

* " Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas ", Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, 1944, performed by Judy Garland.

Patrick Garland wrote and directed a play Brief Lives based on Aubrey's work of the same title ; featuring Roy Dotrice in the title role, the production has been performed worldwide since 1969.

Whites who performed in blackface in film included Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor, Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Mickey Rooney, Shirley Temple and Judy Garland.

* American film actress and singer Judy Garland performed at the opera house in Aitkin as a young child.

On that evening she performed a number of songs including: " The Trolley Song ", " Over the Rainbow " and " Get Happy " all originally made famous by Judy Garland.

** Jim Silke ( art director ) for Judy at Carnegie Hall performed by Judy Garland

** Robert Arnold ( engineer ) for Judy at Carnegie Hall performed by Judy Garland

When the Astrodome opened on April 9, 1965, Judy Garland and The Supremes performed on opening night to a capacity crowd.

The two had first met on the set of Strike Up the Band ( 1940 ), a Busby Berkeley film for which Minnelli was asked to design a musical sequence performed by Garland and Mickey Rooney.

It was adopted ( along with Irving Berlin's " White Christmas ") by American troops in Europe in World War II as a symbol of the United States -- in fact, Garland even performed the song for American troops as part of a 1943 command performance.

Garland always performed the song without altering it, singing exactly as she did for the movie.

It is striking that Kamakawiwo ' ole's recording of the song, which was hastily prepared, has performed better in those countries in which English is not the native tongue ; his free interpretation of the song using not exactly the same lyrics was perhaps less noticeable to listeners and audiences not as familiar with the original recordings by Garland.

** Robert Arnold ( engineer ) for Judy at Carnegie Hall performed by Judy Garland

So, to my good fortune, we dined each night with the likes of Ol ' Blue Eyes, Judy Garland, Nat " King " Cole, Rosemary Clooney, Louis Prima and Keely Smith and every other singer that ever performed on Capitol, Decca or R. C. A.

After the Second World War, Garland performed with Billy Eckstine, Roy Eldridge, Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker, and Lester Young.

Perhaps his best remembered song is " You Made Me Love You ( I Didn't Want to Do It )" ( lyrics by Joseph McCarthy ) introduced by Al Jolson in 1913 and performed by Judy Garland with revised lyrics as " Dear Mr Gable " in 1937.

Garland and Bull performed together, per Steven Brust, ConFusion's Toastmaster that year.

Lewis tried his hand at releasing solo music in the 1950s, having a chart hit with the song " Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody " ( a song largely associated with Al Jolson and later re-popularized by Judy Garland ) as well as the song, " It All Depends on You " in 1958.

Both the fair and the song are focal points of the 1944 feature film Meet Me in St. Louis starring Judy Garland, which also inspired a Broadway musical version.

A notable recording of a popular song, such as Judy Garland singing Over the Rainbow ( from The Wizard of Oz ), Mary Martin singing Never Never Land ( from Peter Pan ), Allan Jones singing The Donkey Serenade ( from The Firefly ), or Danny Kaye singing Inchworm ( from Hans Christian Andersen ) would be heard while the cutouts played on the screen, animated by a concealed puppeteer.

Thereafter, Astaire nicknamed Rogers " Feathers " — also a title of one of the chapters in his autobiography — and parodied his experience in a song and dance routine with Judy Garland in Easter Parade ( 1948 ).

Judy Garland thought the song as written was too mean to sing to Margaret O ' Brien, so he changed the lyrics.

* Judy Garland recorded a studio version of the song for her " London Sessions " with Capitol.

In 1938, composer Harold Arlen and lyricist E. Y. Harburg ( composers of " Over the Rainbow " and many other hits ) wrote the song " God's Country ", for the finale of the MGM musical Babes in Arms, starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney.

In spite of the 1962 animated feature Gay Purr-ee ( distributed by Warner Bros .), which featured the voices of Judy Garland and Robert Goulet and a Harold Arlen / Yip Harburg song score, and the beloved animated special Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol, UPA was shut down in 1964.

Lee recorded the song, " Rockin ' Around the Christmas Tree ", in July with a prominent twanging guitar part by Hank Garland.

The song was to be recorded by Judy Garland, who was fired from the film.

Another song Ebb wrote with Springer was " Heartbroken " ( 1953 ), which was recorded by Judy Garland, the mother of his future protégée, Liza Minnelli.

In the 1938 film " Love Finds Andy Hardy ", Judy Garland sings a song lamenting being an " inbetween ", a term considering being too young to be a teen that can date but too old to be a child.

Translated as What Now My Love, the song became a hit by Shirley Bassey, Sonny & Cher, Elvis Presley, Judy Garland, Andy Williams, Herb Alpert, and Frank Sinatra.

The title track, a cover version of a song by Garland Jeffreys, had previously appeared on Posh Boy Records ' 1980 compilation Rodney on the Roq.

Judy Garland first pre-recorded the song on the MGM soundstages on October 7, 1938, using an arrangement by Murray Cutter.

However, " Over the Rainbow " would eventually become the signature song most closely identified with Garland, and she would perform it for the next thirty years, until her death in 1969.

" The song as sung by Judy Garland as Dorothy and some of the establishing dialogue survived from the soundtrack as the B-side of the disc release of Over the Rainbow.

In addition to musical performances from Garland and the week's guest stars, the series ' initial format included the recurring segments " Born in a Trunk " ( the name taken from a number in A Star is Born ) in which Garland would tell stories of her show business career and sing a related song, and " Tea for Two " which would feature her chatting with a surprise guest.