Original 1956 Broadway Cast Recording - My Fair Lady
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Artist: Original 1956 Broadway Cast RecordingComposer: Frederick Loewe
Conductor: Frederick Loewe
Performer: My Fair Lady
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 2009-05-05
Music Label: SONY CLASSICS
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
- A Post-Recording Conversation
- Playback: Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe
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Free Music Review: I could have cried all night
Hit: 5 Stars
To reviewer Martin I. Saperstein - and anyone else I can buttonhole: My Fair Ladyitis was NOT confined to NYC in the mid-1950s! As a 7 year-old Londoner, I was transfixed by the LP my father brought home for me and my brother. Now that I have listened to this recording again, as a 60 year-old, I am beginning to understand why.
On so many levels, My Fair Lady, and this version in particular, is an artistic and cultural tour-de-force. What an education in speech, music, song-writing, the mysterious nature of men and women, the relations between them - and how to encapsulate all of this in magnificent songs, brilliantly performed - to put in the hands of a child.
But there is still another dimension that catapults this piece of art beyond the category of best 1950s musical, or even best all-time musical - the plot is built on one of the Greek myths that still offers insight into the nature of men and women, at a very deep level. The delightful cartoon/caricature on the album sleeve quietly alludes to all that, and more.
My father had his own caricature of the title of the song that climaxes the whole musical: he would sing "I've thrown a custard in her face" (we were also all great fans of slapstick at the time). We all laughed at this, but I knew, even at 7, that if we had not, then we would all have cried. Even now, I cannot understand how such a young child could have had such an excellent intuitive understanding of a fundamental contradiction that so many men face in their attitude towards Woman.
Why can't our present culture produce art like this?
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Columbia Masterworks' most successful Broadway album! This is the 1956 original with Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison: On the Street Where You Live; I Could Have Danced All Night; I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face; The Rain in Spain , and more from this Best Musical-winning classic.Broadway & Vocalists Music CDs
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