My Fair Lady (1956 Original Broadway Cast)
Tuesday, May 28, 2002
Catalog: Music, Priced: 12, Sale:8 Used:7, 3rd Party Price:7, Hobbie Price: 19
Sales Rank:1068
UPC:696998999725; MPN:89997
Sales Rank:1068
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My Fair Lady (1956 Original Broadway Cast) Tracks: 
A Hymn To Him A Post-Recording Conversation (bonus track) Ascot Gavotte Get Me To The Church On Time I Could Have Danced All Night I'm An Ordinary Man I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face Just you Wait On The Street Where You Live Overture Playback: Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe (bonus track) Show Me The Rain In Spain Why Can't The English? With An Ordinary Man Without You Wouldn't It Be Loverly You Did It
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The 2,700 performances of Lerner and Loewe's musical adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion gracefully spanned the Eisenhower and Camelot eras, then begat a wildly popular film version, whose 1965 Best Picture Oscar capped the show's decade of prominence. The crowning achievement of Lerner and Loewe's rich body of work began its recording life on this 1956 cast recording, a collection of performances that long ago became a ubiquitous and indispensable fixture of American musical theater. Indeed, it's hard to imagine anyone else but Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison in the roles of the cockney Eliza Doolittle and her long-suffering mentor, Henry Higgins, delivering definitive versions of the show's embarrassment of riches: "Why Can't the English?," "Wouldn't It Be Loverly," "The Rain in Spain," "I Could Have Danced All Night," and "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face." This new edition offers a digitally burnished take of the already glorious recording, now supplemented with a post-recording conversation track featuring Harrison, Andrews, Lerner, conductor Franz Allers, and original producer Goddard Lieberson, as well as a 1961 audio interview with Lerner and Loewe. --Jerry McCulley
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Rex Harrison Julie Andrews Frederick Loewe Alan Jay Lerner
You Did It Wouldn't It Be Loverly Without You With An Ordinary Man Why Can't The English? The Rain In Spain Show Me Playback: Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe (bonus track) Overture On The Street Where You Live Just you Wait I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face I'm An Ordinary Man I Could Have Danced All Night Get Me To The Church On Time Ascot Gavotte A Post-Recording Conversation (bonus track) A Hymn To Him My Fair Lady (1956 Original Broadway Cast) Music Lyrics, Music, Reviews and Ratings Sony
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