MGM Records' soundtrack to the 1946 Jerome Kern biopic Till the Clouds Roll By was not only the first album to contain actual soundtrack recordings from a film, it was also the first album MGM Records ever released, with a catalog number of 1. This was the era of 78 rpm records, however, and the package contained only eight tracks on four discs, for a total of less than 24 minutes, while the movie from which it sampled featured many more songs by performers such as Frank Sinatra and Dinah Shore, who recorded for other record companies and were thus unavailable. But Judy Garland was featured, along with Lena Horne and some lesser lights such as June Allyson and Kathryn Grayson. By 2005, the album had long passed the 50-year copyright limit on recordings in Europe and entered the public domain, allowing British discount label Prism Leisure to issue this unlicensed version, which presents the original recordings and then pads out the CD with an extra 33 minutes of similarly purloined tracks. All composed by Kern, the 11 bonus cuts are studio recordings of songs featured in other films, eight of them performed by Fred Astaire and taken from Swing Time and You Were Never Lovelier, with the remaining three featuring Deanna Durbin and drawn from Can't Help Singing. Since Till the Clouds Roll By was a Kern anthology to begin with, the result is basically a Kern compilation dominated by Astaire, but also featuring Garland, Horne, Durbin, and others. Of course, it's excellent music, but the album should not be confused with an actual full-scale soundtrack recording of Till the Clouds Roll By.