Unique Recordings Send West Covina Woman Over the Rainbow

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WEST COVINA - As Judy Garland shrines go, Cynthia Meader's is rather understated: a "Wizard of Oz" clock, some wallpaper trim bearing the words "there's no place like home," and a Judy Garland star painted on the floor.

But Meader, 56, keeps the centerpiece of her Garland collection at a secure site. She owns two Decca Records demos of Garland's earliest studio tests, when the young star was merely 12 years old.

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Unique Recordings Send West Covina Woman Over the Rainbow

The 1935 records are one-of-a-kind, and Garland scholars considered them lost for decades before Meader realized in 2003 what she had. Her mother Dorothy Kapano had picked them out of a junkpile near Garland's h...

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