Judy Garland belts out the hit song from the then-hit 1946 musical, "Annie Get Your Gun" by Irving Berlin, "I Got the Sun in the Morning". Originally transcribed on September 29, 1946, for the Armed Forces Radio Service (no these 'broadcasts' were never heard domestically (in the USA), but were broadcast via shortwave from transcription disc to the troops overseas as part of the war effort.

This 'restoration' source (damaged and poor) was downloaded from The Internet Archive - which seems to have the only circulating public domain copy of this transcription - so all the pops and crackles, although majorly noise reduced, are in the original poor source (as you can hear yourself) - so with using 2 different noise reduction plug-ins, this is the best I could produce. I used 2 stems to isolate Judy's vocal and the background music, as can be heard under the end screen, in combination with the mono source.

Still, although you bring out a great deal of crap, I was somehow able to achieve some kind of high fidelity (the original was cut at 10kHz) and instrument separation. The bass (as usual) is non-existent - so to 'pull' any bass out that is recognizable and not just the rumble is always rough on these bad sources - but it's there, although always muddy.

Enjoy Judy in Dyna-Stereo. Not the best outcome, but it was an experiment with a crappy source.

From Command Performance U.S.A. broadcast/released December 1, 1946, from the transcription disc from AFRS, the Armed Forces Radio Service.

As for Judy Garland, some years later she was to record tracks for the M-G-M film version of "Annie Get Your Gun" and film some scenes for a movie she was eventually removed from, replaced with Betty Hutton.

As per Wikipedia:

Annie Get Your Gun is a 1950 American musical Technicolor comedy film loosely based on the life of sharpshooter Annie Oakley. The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer release, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin and a screenplay by Sidney Sheldon based on the 1946 stage musical of the same name, was directed by George Sidney. Despite several production and casting problems (Judy Garland was fired from the lead role after a month of filming in which she clashed with the director and repeatedly showed up late or not at all), the film won the Academy Award for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture and received three other nominations. Star Betty Hutton was recognized with a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress.

On the Broadway stage, Ethel Merman was Annie Oakley, and the song from the musical, "There's No Business Like Show Business", became Ethel's iconic song.
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