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"I Could Have Danced All Night" is a song from the musical My Fair Lady, with music written by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, [1] published in 1956. The song is sung by the musical's heroine, Eliza Doolittle , expressing her exhilaration and excitement after an impromptu dance with her tutor, Henry Higgins, in the small hours of ...
"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 is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.The story, based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play Pygmalion and on the 1938 film adaptation of the play, concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phonetician, so that she may pass as a lady.
"London Bridge Is Falling Down" (also known as "My Fair Lady" or "London Bridge") is a traditional English nursery rhyme and singing game, which is found in different versions all over the world. It deals with the dilapidation of London Bridge and attempts, realistic or fanciful, to repair it.
"The Rain in Spain" is a song from the musical My Fair Lady, with music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, published in 1956. The song is a turning point in the plotline of the musical. Professor Higgins and Colonel Pickering have been drilling Eliza Doolittle incessantly with speech exercises, trying to break her
Mar. 17—Anette Barrios-Torres was a nerdy kid. She'll be the first to admit it. " 'Pygmalion' was one of the stories that I would read over and over again," Barrios-Torres says. "I had an ...
In the film Thunderball, James Bond, while dancing with SPECTRE assassin Fiona Volpe, tells her “Strange as it may seem, I’ve grown accustomed to your face.”; Cary Grant, in an extremely drunken state from an enforced imbibing of liquor in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, 1959, briefly succeeds at crooning this melody, slurring the words, "I've grown accustomed to my Bourbon," as ...
André Previn and Shelly Manne - My Fair Lady (1956) Bing Crosby recorded the song in 1956 [6] for use on his radio show and it was subsequently included in the box set The Bing Crosby CBS Radio Recordings (1954-56) issued by Mosaic Records (catalog MD7-245) in 2009. [7] Julius La Rosa also released a recording of the song in 1956. It was the ...