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Composer (s) Frederick Loewe. Lyricist (s) Alan Jay Lerner. " Wouldn't It Be Loverly " is a popular song by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, written for the 1956 Broadway play My Fair Lady. [1] The song is sung by Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle and her street friends. It expresses Eliza's wish for a better life.
My Fair Lady. My Fair Lady is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story, based on the 1938 film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw 's 1913 play Pygmalion, concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phonetician, so that she may pass as ...
Contents. My Fair Lady (Shelly Manne album) My Fair Lady, recorded by " Shelly Manne & His Friends" and released in 1956 by Contemporary Records, is the first album ever made consisting entirely of jazz versions of tunes from a single Broadway musical. [ 4 ] It was an instant hit and became one of the best-selling jazz albums of its day.
My Fair Lady is a 1964 American musical comedy-drama film adapted from the 1956 Lerner and Loewe stage musical based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 stage play Pygmalion.With a screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner and directed by George Cukor, the film depicts a poor Cockney flower-seller named Eliza Doolittle who overhears a phonetics professor, Henry Higgins, as he casually wagers that he could teach ...
English. Audrey Hepburnas Eliza Doolittle on the set of 1964 film adaptation. Eliza Doolittleis a fictional character and the protagonist in George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion(1913) and its 1956 musical adaptation, My Fair Lady. Eliza (from Lisson Grove, London) is a Cockneyflower seller, who comes to Professor Henry Higgins asking for ...
Impulse! Reissue cover. My Fair Lady Loves Jazz is an album by American jazz pianist Billy Taylor featuring performances of show tunes from the musical My Fair Lady recorded in 1957 and originally released on the ABC-Paramount label and rereleased Impulse! label in 1964 following the release of the film. [1]
Alan Jay Lerner. " Get Me to the Church on Time " is a song composed by Frederick Loewe, with lyrics written by Alan Jay Lerner for the 1956 musical My Fair Lady, where it was introduced by Stanley Holloway. It is sung by the cockney character Alfred P. Doolittle, the father of one of the show's two main characters, Eliza Doolittle.
Sellers performs "Wouldn't It Be Loverly", a popular showtune from Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady, as Mr Banerjee, a stereotypical Indian man. [28] The musical accompaniment to the track employs sitar and tabla, the first time George Martin had used Hindustani classical music instrumentation in one of his productions. [35] "