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Track Listings
| 1. Overture |
| 2. Why Can't The English? |
| 3. Wouldn't It Be Loverly |
| 4. With A Little Bit Of Luck |
| 5. I'm An Ordinary Man |
| 6. Just You Wait |
| 7. The Rain In Spain |
| 8. I Could Have Danced All Night |
| 9. Ascot Gavotte |
| 10. On The Street Where You Live |
| 11. You Did It |
| 12. Show Me |
| 13. Get Me To The Church On Time |
| 14. A Hymn To Him |
| 15. Without You |
| 16. I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face |
| 17. A Post-Recording Conversation |
| 18. Playback: Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe |
Product Description
Album Description
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.
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This review is from: My Fair Lady (Audio CD)
After visiting the Shaw Festivals rendition of the classic musical and knowing all the words to sing along to...I just had to get the CD. It was $20 @ the Shaw(Niagara-on-the-Lake,ON,Canada)I looked it up on Amazon.ca and found the original cast from London, Englands West End production!!!It was also $10 cheaper. I haven't stopped playing it. I still to this day, 40 yrs,later believe that Julie Andrews should have been cast in the movie version!! Not that Audrey Hepburn didn't do a good job, but she wasn't British & lip-synced!! So you can imagine how delighted I was to know an orig.cast CD was available! Thanks Amazon for the price,availability and speediness of receiving the product!Julia Wood-Emery My Fair Lady
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5.0 out of 5 stars (13 customer reviews) 25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
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Same as the 2002 Remaster,
By Great Faulkner's Ghost - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: My Fair Lady (Audio CD)
This is identical to the 2002 remaster, except that it is packaged in a cardboard digipak instead of a jewel case. It is the 1956 Original Broadway Cast recording, in mono, with additional interviews with the cast at the end, which most reviewers seem to prefer the to the later 1959 London Cast Stereo version. I'm a My Fair Lady fan, and I have both recordings, and as far as I am concerned they are both great, and different enough to justify having both. The major difference is in Rex Harrsion's performances. In the London version he uses a mixed singing and talking in the major songs, whereas in Brwy it was pure singing. London seems to reflect his evolution in terms of what would get the audience going. Both work well IMO. Enjoy! PS: I'm not a big fan of the movie soundtrack, because it doesn't have Julie Andrews.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Oh That Towering Feeling,
By Martin I. Saperstein "music lover" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: My Fair Lady (Audio CD)
Can you imagine an 11 year old with a small record player listening almost every day in 1956 to this original cast recording? That was me. Most New Yorkers after the show's opening and the broadcast of the music, caught My Fair Ladyitis. The album was featured in the window showcase of my neighborhood record store. It sold like hotcakes. Julie Andrews became an overnight sensation. "Sexy Rexie" Harrison created a men's fashion vogue with his tweed hat. The sheer exhilaration that Lerner & Lowe created a musical masterpiece is captured in this and only this recording. The 1959 London stereo recording finds the cast members having lost the enthusiasm and energy that so informs the 1956 recording. Although not stereo, this is still a high fidelty recording and the remastering is excellent. This is a cornerstone of the American Musical Theatre. A must have.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
the original cast; still definitive,
By Byron Kolln - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: My Fair Lady (Audio CD)
Firstly, please be aware that this is the exact same disc and contents as the previous 2002 Broadway Masterworks pressing, but in a new eco-pack cardboard sleeve (natch).The original 1956 Broadway cast album of MY FAIR LADY is a mandatory disc in every self-respecting musical fan's collection. It captures the cast at the top of their game, and Julie Andrews at the peak of her Broadway career. Her voice is sparkling and effervescent, with Rex Harrison as a thrilling Higgins and Stanley Holloway a delight as Eliza's erstwhile father Alfred P. Doolittle. The monaural sound is warm and lush in Columbia's best style. This newest remaster of the album sounds better than ever. By the time the London cast album was recorded three years later (to take advantage of the new stereo format), a tired feeling had crept into Julie Andrews' singing (or perhaps boredom), so the Broadway edition is the format of choice, despite the technical limitations of the mono mix. |
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