” I’m so lonely and blue when I’m without you, I don’t know what I’d do sweetheart without you.”
” The joy and tears that love endears would have no meaning, if I didn’t have you to keep me dreaming.”
Robert Goulet singing If Ever I Would Leave You to Judy
Judy Garland, Robert Goulet & Phil Silvers Special (1963)
Marvelous Mort Lindsey (1923-2012) passed away Friday May 4, 2012. His long career touched many performers.
My primary associations with Mort are his conducting and arranging for Judy Garland for stage concerts, for television (including her 1963-64 CBS television series), and on screen in 1963’s I Could Go On Singing. I only once had the privilege of seeing him conduct in person — the Garland Carnegie Hall concert overture in Carnegie Hall during each of two nights of tribute concerts in June 1998 hosted by Lorna Luft and Robert Stack. Lindsey in that storied hall conducting the concert overture to which I been listening for several decades on the never-out-of-print recording. It was quite a thrill.
This image is my crop of a fan’s audience picture of Mr. Lindsey deep in adoration mode, during Garland inter-song patter on May 6, 1961 at Chicago’s Civic Opera House. Judy Garland is presenting her “Carnegie Hall” concert here as part of her multi-city tour leading up to and after April 23, 1961’s momentous concert at Carnegie Hall.
Original image taken by friend and fellow fan Mike VanFossen.
