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"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
To accept the requests from customers and radio stations, Columbia Records released "The Rain in Spain" backed with "With a Little Bit of Luck" in 1956 (Columbia 4-40696) from Percy Faith's My Fair Lady album (Columbia CL-895) as an instrumental single record of My Fair Lady music. [5] Both of Faith's tunes were the first single versions. [6]
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.
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 ...
The original soundtrack to the 1964 film My Fair Lady was released by Columbia. [3] Billboard reviewed the album in its issue from 3 October 1964, writing: "A blockbuster! Cast is excellent. Performance is outstanding. Sound is great.
Songs from My Fair Lady. Pages in category "Songs from My Fair Lady" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. ... The Rain in Spain; W.
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]
Nat King Cole Sings My Fair Lady is an album by Nat King Cole released by Capitol Records in 1963 of songs from the 1956 musical My Fair Lady. [3] The album was recorded in Philadelphia with members of The Philadelphia Orchestra. The cover art shows Cole in Philadelphia's Elfreth's Alley standing in for London's Covent Garden setting in the ...