AUTHOR BIO:

Scott Schechter has devoted over a quarter of a century to researching
the lives and careers of Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli, earning his
status as the premier Garland-Minnelli authority.

His research and devotion have led to his working with many of the
companies that continue to release Garland-Minnelli material, including
Capitol Records and Geneon / Pioneer Entertainment. His expertise as
a Garland-Minnelli historian has been acknowledged on his TV and
Radio appearances; as a source in PR functions; and in dealing with media
such as Liz Smith, et Al. Mr. Schechter is perhaps proudest of his role as
archivist, which has led to the uncovering and releasing of rare or lost material.

TV shows that Mr. Schechter has consulted or appeared on as a Judy
Garland or Liza Minnelli authority have included NBC's Dateline, ABC’s 20/20
and Good Morning, America, AMC’s Behind The Screen, and A&E's Biography
series. E! Entertainment Television’s True Hollywood Story 2-Hour
special on Garland’s life and career was critically acclaimed by TV
Guide and USA Today, etc.; For this episode -- which was one of the 15
highest-rated THS shows of that series' first 5-year and 200-episode run
-- Schechter served as Consulting Producer. The program was honored with
a GRACIE AWARD, and was nominated for a PRISM AWARD, for best TV
documentary. Schechter also contributed to E!'s two-hour E! THS Of The
Year, 2002 on Minnelli, for which she videotaped a wraparound, giving
the special her blessing -- and he contributed to A&E's 2-hour June 2004
Biography on Liza, which the star also authorized.

For his marketing and PR efforts, Mr. Schechter has obtained the highest
profile exposure for his clients. Media such as Rolling Stone magazine,
USA Today, Fox News Channel, ABC Network, E! Entertainment, and TV Guide
have been utilized.

In 1998, Mr. Schechter co-produced what is considered the definitive
audio overview of Garland’s career : the 4-CD box set Judy from 32
Records, which spans the entire 40 years of her recorded legacy, from
her earliest known recordings in 1929 at age 7, to one of her final
appearances in 1969, shortly before her passing. Along with compiling
the material for the compact discs from his archives of Garland’s work,
he performed similar duties for the set’s 32-minute video, and its
100-page book. This lavish set received rave reviews from the New York
Times, People, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, and the NY Post, which
concluded its review by saying “music historian Scott Schechter’s essay
is an excellent read and will earn him a nomination for the prestigious
Grammy Award for best liner notes.”

Mr. Schechter’s liner notes on other Garland-Minnelli projects have been
mentioned in USA Today, Billboard, and the Los Angeles Times. As a
writer, his words on Garland and family have appeared in the Advocate,
Show Music magazine, and three editorials printed in the New York Times
(1994, 1998 and 2001).

In 2000, Mr. Schechter was instrumental in getting Garland’s historic,
Grammy-winning Album Of The Year Judy at Carnegie Hall released
complete and uncut, exactly as it happened that night, in its proper
running order -- for the first time ever -- and as a deluxe 24-Karat
Gold audiophile set.

Schechter’s recent CD projects include Capitol Records Judy at Carnegie
Hall: Fortieth Anniversary Edition, and that label’s 2-CD set of
material he produced and compiled, called Classic Judy Garland -- The
Capitol Years (1955-1965); Collectables Records CDs (under license from
Capitol): Miss Show Busines /Judy, and Judy: That’s
Entertainment!/I Could Go On Singing; S&P Records CD (under license
from Capitol): Judy in Love/Alone; Varese Saraband’s Engelebert
Humperdinck: You Belong To My Heart; Sony-BMG’s reissue of Liza With
a ‘Z’; DRG Records’ Liza Minnelli: The Complete Capitol Collection;
Hip-o Records/Universal Music’s Liza Minnelli: Ultimate Collection
-- which Miss Minnelli liked so much it was mentioned in her most recent
concert souvenir program -- and that label’s definitive audio
compilation he produced and compiled of Garland’s TV series: The Judy
Garland Show: The Show That Got Away includes legendary duets, plus
solos and rare outtakes.

Mr. Schechter recently completed work on the projec that along with the
Judy box and the Carnegie reissues he is proudest of : getting Garland’s
long-lost 1963-64 TV series released to the public in their entirety for
the first time. The Judy Garland Show DVDs have been an astounding
success for Geneon-Pioneer Entertainment and Classic World Productions. As well
as being instrumental in getting the project green lighted by both
companies, he has served as a consultant on the creative end (compiling
the acclaimed Just Judy DVD of solo moments) and with the products
marketing and PR -- which included crafting the advertising slogan:
The Show That Got Away. The projects’ 1999 Holiday Season Judy Garland
Show Collection DVD box set was honored with the Best Overall
Presentation Award (non-theatrical) by the Video Software Dealers
Association (VSDA). The latest DVDs from “the series of the series”
include: Judy Garland: Songs for America, in which all the proceeds
benefit the American Red Cross, in the aftermath of 9-11. Mr. Schechter
conceived and compiled this project -- and supplied liner notes and consulting
on the final five individual Judy Garland Show DVDs that were released from
January through May 2006.

Mr. Schechter's latest book was published in November 2004 by Citadel
Press / Kensington Publishing Corp: THE LIZA MINNELLI SCRAPBOOK is a
full-color book containing well over 200 rare pieces of art, and is the
first time a book has focused exclusively on Minnelli's career, not her
personal life. The book has been critically acclaimed, featured in Liz
Smith, Playbill online, etc., and Schechter and the book were also
included on the NBC network TV series DATELINE NBC. Liza's own musical
arranger BILLY STRITCH supplied the book's foreword, and the star has
embraced the book as being “the only official one, the only one that
counts.”