180g Vinyl LP! Pressed & Plated at RTI!
Cut From Original Mono Tapes By Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound!
Incontestably one of the greatest Broadway musicals of all time, My Fair Lady, which opened at the Mark Hellinger on March 15, 1956 and enjoyed a long run of 2,717 performances, set the standards for its perfect integration of the songs and the plot in a smooth amalgamation of music and drama. The work of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, who adapted George Bernard Shaws whimsical tale of Pygmalion to the musical stage, it starred a non-singing actor, Rex Harrison, another first, and Julie Andrews in her first major role on Broadway. When its producer, Herman Levin, sought to raise the money needed to bring the expensive show to New York, he found in Columbia Records President Goddard Lieberson a tolerant patron of the arts who, single-handedly, provided the $375,000 capitalization, in exchange for the rights in perpetuity to the original cast album. That recording has always been one of the biggest sellers in the Columbia catalog.
Features:
180g Vinyl LP
Pressed & Plated at RTI
Cut From Original Mono Tapes By Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound
Stoughton old style tip-on jacket
Selections:
Side A:
1. Overture - Franz Allers
2. Why Can't the English? - Rex Harrison
3. Wouldn't It Be Loverly - Julie Andrews, Reid Shelton, Glenn Kezer, Herb Surface
4. With a Little Bit of Luck - Gordon Dilworth, David Thomas, Stanley Holloway, Rod McLennan
5. I'm An Ordinary Man - Rex Harrison
6. Just You Wait - Julie Andrews
7. The Rain In Spain - Julie Andrews, Rex Harrison, Robert Coote, Glenn Kezer, Gloria van Dorpe, Colleen O'Connor, Rosemary Gaines, Muriel Shaw
8. I Could Have Danced All Night - Julie Andrews, Philippa Bevans, Gloria van Dorpe, Colleen O'Connor, Rosemary Gaines, Murial Shaw
Side B:
1. Ascot Gavotte - My Fair Lady Ensemble
2. On the Street Where You Live - John Michael King
3. You Did It - Rex Harrison, Robert Coote, Glenn Kezer, Philippa Bevans, Gloria van Dorpe, Colleen O'Connor, Rosemary Gaines, Murial Shaw
4. Show Me - Julie Andrews, John Michael King
6. Get Me To the Church On Time - Stanley Holloway
7. A Hymn to Him - Rex Harrison
8. Without You - Julie Andrews
9. I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face - Rex Harrison
Cut From Original Mono Tapes By Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound!
Incontestably one of the greatest Broadway musicals of all time, My Fair Lady, which opened at the Mark Hellinger on March 15, 1956 and enjoyed a long run of 2,717 performances, set the standards for its perfect integration of the songs and the plot in a smooth amalgamation of music and drama. The work of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, who adapted George Bernard Shaws whimsical tale of Pygmalion to the musical stage, it starred a non-singing actor, Rex Harrison, another first, and Julie Andrews in her first major role on Broadway. When its producer, Herman Levin, sought to raise the money needed to bring the expensive show to New York, he found in Columbia Records President Goddard Lieberson a tolerant patron of the arts who, single-handedly, provided the $375,000 capitalization, in exchange for the rights in perpetuity to the original cast album. That recording has always been one of the biggest sellers in the Columbia catalog.
Features:
180g Vinyl LP
Pressed & Plated at RTI
Cut From Original Mono Tapes By Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound
Stoughton old style tip-on jacket
Selections:
Side A:
1. Overture - Franz Allers
2. Why Can't the English? - Rex Harrison
3. Wouldn't It Be Loverly - Julie Andrews, Reid Shelton, Glenn Kezer, Herb Surface
4. With a Little Bit of Luck - Gordon Dilworth, David Thomas, Stanley Holloway, Rod McLennan
5. I'm An Ordinary Man - Rex Harrison
6. Just You Wait - Julie Andrews
7. The Rain In Spain - Julie Andrews, Rex Harrison, Robert Coote, Glenn Kezer, Gloria van Dorpe, Colleen O'Connor, Rosemary Gaines, Muriel Shaw
8. I Could Have Danced All Night - Julie Andrews, Philippa Bevans, Gloria van Dorpe, Colleen O'Connor, Rosemary Gaines, Murial Shaw
Side B:
1. Ascot Gavotte - My Fair Lady Ensemble
2. On the Street Where You Live - John Michael King
3. You Did It - Rex Harrison, Robert Coote, Glenn Kezer, Philippa Bevans, Gloria van Dorpe, Colleen O'Connor, Rosemary Gaines, Murial Shaw
4. Show Me - Julie Andrews, John Michael King
6. Get Me To the Church On Time - Stanley Holloway
7. A Hymn to Him - Rex Harrison
8. Without You - Julie Andrews
9. I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face - Rex Harrison
