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"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.
The Broadway cast recording of the musical My Fair Lady was first released April 2, 1956 by Columbia Records, [2] with songs by Lerner and Loewe, conducted by Franz Allers, starring Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews. Columbia president Goddard Lieberson provided the $375,000 needed to stage the show in return for the rights to the cast recording. [2]
When Alfred P. Doolittle sang the other of his two songs "Get Me to the Church on Time" (Act 2), he was not an impoverished workingman but rich middle-class owing to Higgins' recommendation to an American millionaire, although Doolittle was a man who didn't want "middle-class morality". Clearly, "With a Little Bit of Luck" and "Get Me to the ...
Shelly Manne & his Friends* (*André Previn and Leroy Vinnegar): modern jazz performances of songs from My Fair Lady, as the full name appeared on the 12-inch LP jacket (Contemporary Records C3527), was begun when drummer Shelly Manne, pianist André Previn, and bassist Leroy Vinnegar assembled on August 17, 1956, in the Contemporary studios in Los Angeles to produce an album of jazz versions ...
There isn’t a song in the show that I don’t go, ‘You know, I could die tomorrow, just hearing that one again.’” Peters didn’t have a chance to discuss “Old Friends” with Sondheim ...
Pages in category "Songs with music by Frederick Loewe" ... Wouldn't It Be Loverly This page was last edited on 8 February 2018, at 16:38 (UTC). ...
Image credits: Footlingpresentation #10. There was an article in Norway some years back asking rich people how they saved money. I think this was after the 2008 financial crisis.
"Wouldn't It Be Loverly" (Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner) – 2.51 (Previously issued on the 1957, 45rpm EP, "Lena Horne at the Cocoanut Grove" only) "What's Right for You (Is Right for Me)" (Hubert Doris, Tommy Goodman, Bernie Gluckman) – 2.55 (Previously issued in 1956 as a 78rpm single release only)