Lorna Luft, Judy Garland, Stonewall, Over the Rainbow

Lorna Luft at 54 Below. June 22nd 2016 discusses her mom's funeral, Stonewall, and sings "Over the Rainbow at 54 Below. June 22nd, 2016.

[@danielpruna9884]

I met Lorna, and she is so sweet. A very nice lady indeed.

[@sheldoncooper1134]

I saw Lorna live in concert in the 90's and she has a beautiful voice, but no one can ever sing this song like her mother the great Judy Garland! But Lorna knows that, just a nice tribute.

[@matthewbennett9928]

Oh this made me cry what a beautiful loving tribute. Just heart wrenching. If you close your eyes you can see her and she is standing there singing that song again. Its like she never died. I am crying just typing this. She lives so much through her daughters. Always remember Judy did not pass away she is here in spirit everyday and when we miss her she is never far away. God bless you Lorna and thank you very much. Judy honey I hope you heard this because you would be so proud.

[@pattibrooks1907]

I agree ! Judy is in her two daughters Lorna Liza humor wise too !

[@LizaFan]

I cried and clapped at home, under the covers.

[@lenwelch2195]

Beautiful heart felt job Lorna

[@Cristiano48239]

You can tell she is very emoitional. God Bless you Lorna, it must have been difficult to do, but you did it. Mamma would be proud. x

[@ecneb]

Cool! I had never heard Lorna Luft sing. I can hear catches of her mother in her singing voice. This was very nicely done.

[@amykolterman3744]

she's one of the Pink Ladies in the 2nd not so good sequel of Grease 2. She was such a stand out performer in that movie, I wish the movie didn't get such a bad wrap. Of course, Grease 2 is NOT the original. A lot of people's careers ended with that movie or they were damaged. Everyone knows about Liza; however, Lorna has a great voice too.

[@lamb83]

Thank you very much for capturing this intensely emotional, poignant moment. God bless Lorna and her family; she definitely did her Mama proud.

[@pattibrooks1907]

Lorna did a wonderful tribute to Judy her Mother by singing Over The Rainbow her Moms song ! She sang it with love and Joy it brought tears to my eyes ! Judy d be very proud of Lorna !

[@DJW18]

You can hear her fighting back the tears while she is singing. Still beautifully done 💜🏳️‍🌈

[@brandycarter5706]

Damn! She still got it! ❤️ Beautifully done, Lorna Luft! ❤️❤️❤️

[@pattibrooks1907]

Lorna did a wonderful job singing Over The Rainbow She sang it beautifully !!

[@sherrystates9149]

Wonderful. I can hear her mom in her voice. That was simply wonderful. I got goosebumps just listening to her.

[@stevers62]

Thanks so much for filming and sharing. This is the sort of thing that should be preserved for the historical content. Loved the intro.

[@karenbaumgartel6077]

Geez people, give her a break! It‘s really hard to sing when you are emotional and all choked up! She has a lot to live up to, and I don‘t understand why some of the comments here are so vindictive and nasty. She is not trying to make a big career now, but is using her celebrity for a good cause.

[@nickyd.7169]

I agree completely

[@clam_509]

Thank you. I agree.

[@shanedeleon5376]

Never much of a fan of Lorna's later voice, but the emotional rawness of her mother is present here in its full, heart-rending capacity. My heart is truly melting and I simply adore Lorna.

[@deshaunx776]

This woman was a BRILLIANT singer for DECADES. And throughout that entire time, people teased her because she didn't look like mother. Then they shamed her for "trying to" sound too much like her mother. Then they mocked her for not singing as well as her mother. Then they ridiculed her for not being as great a performer as Liza. She never achieved the fame and prestige that she deserved. And now that she is in her mid 60's and can't sing like she used to, people want to chide her again. Judy Garland is probably crying in her grave over the way that her baby daughter has been treated in the industry. This family will never have peace.

[@gailtroxell3575]

Wonderfully preformed. I saw emotions running high. Your momma would have been proud.

[@billlombard9911]

😢😢😢beautiful, just beautiful, Judy Garland still lives in her daughters talents , you hear her voice in them

[@voceangelo]

No words: just grateful, happy, and heartbroken tears. Thank you, Lorna.

[@theatreandart6862]

You can totally hear traces of her mother in her voice

[@mobrien411]

Yep - traces of both Mom and liza. Interesting, she is 54 and when Liza and Judy were over 40 their voices too started to go off key and get a little shaky.

[@cherylstemen8063]

She is 63

[@brodenm2024]

you can hear the upset in her voice,she lost her mother at the young age of 16 i cant imagine how she mustve felt singing this nearly 50 years after judys passing

[@NathanWBrown]

So moving... Brought tears to my eyes.

[@rjnuzzi1648]

We luv Lorna Luft, her sister, her mother... all great singers, great women ♡☆♡☆♡☆

[@pattibrooks1907]

Lorna sang her mother s song Over The Rainbow Beautifully ! Loving tribute to your Mom mafe me so happy pleased proud of you ! Your Mom would is proud of her daughter ! Love your humor !

[@janicewilliams100]

I'll never forget this performance thanks to you Joe Naughton. So full in every way. So much emotion packed into such an elegant daughter.

[@norasteel5353]

Oh God...Thank you Lorna...thank you. A fan always, yours, Liza's and of course, Momma~

[@collinnc2001]

I think I kinda hear her voice in Lorna's

[@kimberlyloeffler5024]

Love this and I was there

[@barnsweb52]

Beautifully done - wonderful tribute - my favorite song of all time.

[@pattibrooks1907]

GOD BLESS YOU LORNA I LOVE YOU ! YOUR MOM IS SO PROUD OF YOU SO AM I

[@chandapfeifer7944]

I was at Cafe On The Beach in Holmes Beach one day years ago and she came up and sang this. I was like, wow! Unforgettable

[@HollandDennisMcRae]

this was Amazing Lorna is a wonderful performer not as good as her Mom Judy Garland Still a great performer I love her such a nice sweet lady watched many of her interviews she has done . I love how she honors her mom's memory people say that she is not a nice person how do you know Judy would be proud o all three of her children Lisa Minnelli , Lorna Luft , and Joey Luft Can't Believe people are means words in the comments section about Lorna . If Judy were alive she wouldn't tolerate all of the negative commemts about her children

[@lenwelch2195]

She hit the nail on the head . We were so sad and we weren’t in the mood for a raid. “

[@infamouscanadiandecomposer]

Lorna! Come and do a concert in Toronto. We'd love to see/hear you. Happy pride!

[@kimbuck6680]

This brings tears to my eyes

[@albertstefani9114]

She did a fine job to honor the victims❤️

[@lenwelch2195]

This made me love Lorna.

[@traincub]

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing.

[@jesser3856]

amazing as always

[@johnirvin7880]

ok well that ripped my heart out

[@kyledrummond56]

Oh my God this literally gave me chills

[@hansi6119]

Undeniably powerful message.

[@yusepp]

She had to sing it during the vigil! It would've been so emotional.

[@AlanKSchusterFilms]

The most beautiful gift from NYC Pride 2016 from Judy Garlands daughter to all who love her as a intimate friend and family. The telling of the true historical beginnings and meaning when our lives changed forever. A time when our lives came over the rainbow and evolved to our true colors. PEACE KISSKISS

[@pat1clare]

That was fantastic 🥲

[@ChrisOtheBigC]

Lorna, that was real. Very proud of you.

[@conniefoster9733]

Beautiful...

[@DeanLeonard1]

I heart Lorna. :)

[@sspdirect02]

😭 That was amazing.

[@djs2356]

Yes.. the Stonewall riots began about a week after Judy's death. Connect the dots.

[@stevejarrettnc]

There was no couple of weeks. It was the same night as Judy’s funeral.

[@akrenwinkle]

@@stevejarrettnc Djs didn't say funeral, he said "death." Death was June 22, riot was June 28.

[@markstabinski2568]

God and your mother is smiling

[@colesmith1256]

Nice performance.

[@joerodman7206]

Although I've always been a huge Liza fan I truly think Lorna has the better voice.

[@websurfin9575]

Are you DEAF?! Lorna literally BUTCHERED her mother's beautiful classic.... Over The Rainbow song! Sounded like a CHOAKING CHICKEN when she screeched it out!

[@kimberlyloeffler5024]

Her head is cut off in alot of this, I was told I couldn't film this number so glad you got away with filming it for us, but mine I wouldn't have moved the camera around so much

[@randallagbayani7466]

When she belts out into her chest voice she kind of sounds like her mother Judy

[@mike48877]

Lorna has made a career out of being Judy Garland's daughter -- and she won't let you forget it. If she wasn't Judy's daughter, who would have ever heard of her? 🙄

[@websurfin9575]

True!

[@mike48877]

@@websurfin9575 Lorna is a ham; just looking for attention. That performance was terrible.

[@websurfin9575]

@@mike48877 While "singing" Luft sounds like an ole bellerin cow that is caught out in a hailstorm! HORIFFIC! It's sad that after all these many decades, people who are close to her have not told her the truth about her (so-called) talent!

[@SaxonC]

Get the hook!

[@davidpercival1666]

Lorna was as hot as hell in grease2 great movie better than the awful first movie .

[@j.b.9260]

She still is.

[@WayneRemington]

she kinda sounds like miranda sings

[@SaxonC]

Nasally

[@websurfin9575]

With all the money she has, it seems that a voice teacher should have been somewhere in her past. Wonder why that wasn't the case?! The crowd there was very-VERY generous to her! Luft surely was crying because she knew that she absolutely BUTCHERED... her mother's wonderful "classic" song.

[@florencefazzini2544]

Its Liza Minelli who heredited their mother's voice.Sorry to say that her voice is terrible

[@albertstefani9114]

You need to apologize right now to everybody apologize on your knees!!!!!!!

[@grai]

isn't she ever bored of talking about her mother? 47 years! how well can Lorna Luft have known Garland anyway? - she was very centred on her career and away from her kids a lot and Luft was 16 when Judy died - sad to make a whole "career" out of that she would never had had a career as a singer that's for sure

[@grai]

Garland has been dead the best part of 50 years!! I find it very srange to be *STILL* talking about your dead mother - it's macabre...apart from the fact that no-one under 30 knows who Judy Garland is anyway

[@grai]

***** you don't talk about your grandmother on a daily basis the way Liza Minnelli & Lorna do - but then they *have* paid their rent that way for most of their adult lives so it's a little different - even so it's hard to believe they're not secretly completely bored of the subject of Judy Garland and only doing it for the cash

[@grai]

thats a totally different thing - 47 years later from the age of 16 you would be sick of always talking about a person no matter how much you loved them Unless of couse you're lorna Luft or Liza Minnelli and it was how you paid your rent

[@albertstefani9114]

grai are you crazy how can you say such a rude remark about her you are disgusting keep your ugly opinions to yourself

[@graibrad4050]

Get a life

[@fredslick2341]

Terrible , i'm cringing. She's a mediocre talent and shes not a nice person, everyone knows that. She spent too much time with her father growning up.

[@pjoseph777]

So very true about her.Never cared for voice.She is too nasal and her reputation is legendary.She is nightmare to work with. I do know Liza and brother Joe are both down to earth and sweet

[@websurfin9575]

Who said that she's not a nice person?

[@albertstefani9114]

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww TMI !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GROSS !!!!!!!!!!!! Get back on your medications!!!!!!!!!!!

[@websurfin9575]

Medication.... explain?!

[@xoobis]

Is she a lesbian?....

[@paulsimpson4155]

what a stupid comment!

[@xoobis]

You got that one right... HOMOSEXUAL is the new name now.... Brown ass share everywhere..... Or am I being OBTUSE... lol

[@maxerli]

Why do you ask? Is this important for you to live on?

[@BrianDusel]

You are one pitiful excuse for a human & obviously dumber than a fucking rock!

[@xoobis]

So you answered my question... YES SHE IS... !! Under the RAINBOW..

[@loganbagley7489]

No she would not like that he'll bound rainbow flag, she sung about the rainbow in the sky not this junk she said.

[@edgardovegega6304]

terrible

[@thaliajen]

Beautiful.