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TBH I had forgotten about all those bonus tracks as well, and I realize I need to record those to CD while my laserdisc player still works (fingers crossed).

Watched this tonight, what a beautiful disc. If you listen over earphones, it is dead center, which means L and R are identical. Warners used to use 1.0 for truly monophonic soundtracks, but lately seems to be 2.0 with the identical track on each. I loved the stereo outtake; I turned off all...

Here is George Feltenstein's essay from a Judy Garland laserdisc collection about the stereo-ization" of some soundtracks and musical numbers. Paragraphs 4, 5 and 6 directly address it. You may need to magnify the scan to read it.

My understanding is that they used the separate tracks recorded from mics placed around the orchestra before being mixed down to mono. Those tracks don't exist for all of the films, however. IIRC they did Meet Me in St Louis that way, but not Easter Parade because they only had the mono mix...