Alan Jay Lerner - My Fair Lady (1956 Original Broadway Cast)
Our Price: $24.95
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $0.84 (click here)
Category: Music CD
See more new music releases
Buy this Music CD at online store in your country
Canadian Music Store
Canadian Music Store
Music CD Cover
Artist: Alan Jay LernerComposer: Frederick Loewe
Orchestra: Frederick Loewe
Performer: Julie Andrews
Performer: Gordon Dilworth
Performer: James Morris
Performer: Reid Shelton
Performer: David Thomas
Performer: Philippa Bevans
Performer: Paul Brown
Performer: Melisande Congdon
Performer: Robert Coote
Performer: Gloria van Dorpe
Performer: William Drach
Performer: Gordon Ewing
Performer: Lola Fisher
Performer: Rosemary Gaines
Performer: Maribel Hammer
Performer: Rex Harrison
Performer: Stanley Holloway
Performer: Glenn Kezer
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Overture ... Why Can't the English?
- Wouldn't it Be Loverly?
- With a Little Bit of Luck
- I'm An Ordinary Man
- Just You Wait
- The Rain in Spain
- I Could Have Danced All Night
- Ascot Gavotte
- On the Street Where You Live
- You Did It
- Show Me
- Get Me to the Church on Time
- A Hymn to Him
- Without You
- I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
My Fair Lady (1956 Original Broadway Cast) Poster
This recording was produced more than 40 years ago, only in mono, but from the day it was released it was a deserved phenomenon. It out-grossed the mega-hit show for months, and it still holds the record for the most weeks as a Billboard Top 40 album: 292. The reasons are many. Start with the 20-year-old Julie Andrews in peak voice, singing no fewer than eight sensational Lerner and Loewe songs, soaring most memorably to high C in "I Could Have Danced All Night." Rex Harrison perfected the art of talk-singing in a clutch of equally captivating numbers written especially for his voice, of which the most indelibly delivered is "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face." And Stanley Holloway brought the best English music-hall style to an eager American audience with "A Little Bit of Luck" and "Get Me to the Church on Time." There were no scene-changers in Frederick Loewe's best score, and Alan Jay Lerner managed to fashion his libretto and lyrics so close to the language of George Bernard Shaw (on whose play Pygmalion the musical was based) that experts couldn't tell where Shaw left off and Lerner took over. Every song created character and advanced the plot. My Fair Lady was a show you "got"--and still get--on first listening--without having seen it. The London cast album (with the same leads) can give you stereo; the movie version, a fuller orchestra, Harrison and Holloway in full sail, and Marni Nixon dubbing Audrey Hepburn. But the Broadway cast album is still the one to have, and the one absolute must in any musical collector's CD library. --Robert WindelerBroadway & Vocalists Music CDs
Music Genres
Top music charts in Broadway & Vocalists Music CDs
George Shearing, Mel Torme - Elegant EveningSHEARING,G/TORME,M; Release date: 1990-10-25; Music CD
Best price: $7.33
Price in other shops:
Stan Getz - Spring Is HereRelease date: 1993-01-11; Music CD
Price in other shops:
Rosemary Clooney - Girl SingerRelease date: 1999-04-01; Music CD
Best price: $8.97
Price in other shops:
The Blenders - NogRelease date: 1998-10-20; Music CD
Best price: $9.51
Price in other shops:
Brave Combo, Tiny Tim - GirlTIM,TINY/BRAVE COMB; Release date: 1996-03-19; Music CD
Best price: $10.88
Price in other shops:
Belleville a Cappella Choir - Southern Journey, Vol. 11: Honor The Lamb - The Belleville A Cappella ChoirRelease date: 1998-02-10; Music CD
Best price: $83.93
Diane Schuur - Love SongsRelease date: 1993-05-11; Music CD
Best price: $4.00
Price in other shops:
![Love Is the Thing [Vinyl] Image](/images/noimg.gif)
Nat King Cole - Love Is the Thing [Vinyl]Release date: 1996-11-19; Music CD
Best price: $169.99
Linda Ronstadt - Linda Ronstadt: Greatest HitsRelease date: 1998-01-13; Music CD
Price in other shops:
Buddy Rich, Sammy Davis Jr - Sounds of 66Release date: 1996-09-17; Music CD
Price in other shops:
Top Rated Albums
Christopher Plummer, Julie Andrews - The Sound of Music (35th Anniversary Collector's Edition)TCM; Release date: 2000-08-22; Music CD
Best price: $12.79
Price in other shops:
Man of La Mancha: A Decca Broadway Original Cast Album (Original 1965 Broadway Cast)Release date: 2001-03-06; Music CD
Best price: $11.17
Price in other shops:
West Side Story (1957 Original Broadway Cast)West; Release date: 1998-09-15; Music CD
Best price: $6.72
Price in other shops:
Oklahoma! (1955 Film Soundtrack)TCM; Release date: 2001-03-13; Music CD
Best price: $8.46
Price in other shops:
![The Music Man (1957 Original Broadway Cast) [Angel Reissue] Image](/images/The-Music-Man-1957-Original-Broadway-Cast-Angel-Reissue-B000002SNL-X.jpg)
The Music Man (1957 Original Broadway Cast) [Angel Reissue]Release date: 1992-11-17; Music CD
Best price: $6.09
Price in other shops:
The Music Man (1962 Film Soundtrack)TCM; Release date: 1990-10-25; Music CD
Best price: $4.50
Price in other shops:
The King and I (1956 Film Soundtrack)TCM; Release date: 2001-03-13; Music CD
Best price: $5.77
Price in other shops:
![Camelot [Original Broadway Cast Recording] Image](/images/Camelot-Original-Broadway-Cast-Recording-B002M2Z3O2-X.jpg)
Camelot [Original Broadway Cast Recording]Release date: 2009-10-06; Music CD
Best price: $6.56
Price in other shops:
South Pacific (1958 Film Soundtrack)TCM; Release date: 2000-10-24; Music CD
Best price: $5.82
Price in other shops:
Original 1956 Broadway Cast Recording - My Fair LadyRelease date: 2009-05-05; Music CD
Best price: $6.62
Price in other shops: