My Fair Lady (1959 Original London Cast) [Cast Recording]

My Fair Lady (Related Recordings) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Cast Recording
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000024OY
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #247,977 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Overture

2. Why Can't The English?

3. Wouldn't It Be Loverly

4. With A Little Bit Of Luck

5. I'm An Ordinary Man

6. Just You Wait

7. The Rain In Spain

8. I Could Have Danced All Night

9. Ascot Gavotte

10. On The Street Where You Live

11. You Did It

12. Show Me

13. Get Me To The Church On Time

14. A Hymn To Him

15. Without You

16. Ive Grown Accustomed To Her Face

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I agree that this is the one., June 8, 2004

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This review is from: My Fair Lady (1959 Original London Cast) (Audio CD)

I recently decided to replace a worn out audio tape I had from years ago with a spiffy new CD of "My Fair Lady." I purchased the Broadway cast recording and was...really disappointed. This is a very measured performance by all the actors that only seems to really kick in towards the end. The London recording was made later. It is wonderful. Every performance is much improved, more vital, more witty, more sarcastic. I highly recommend it.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars this is the one, October 26, 2003

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michael fierman (alabama, usa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Fair Lady (1959 Original London Cast) (Audio CD)

I assume that if you have made it to reading this review it would be redundant to try to sell you on My Fair Lady...I'm recommending this particular performance. Obviously the film is out of the question. One can only hope that Jack Warner got his just rewards post mortem. This recording is in stereo which was the original reason to release it in 1959. (the cast is identical to the new york album) The songs are so exquisitely rendered...informed by years of performance in New York. Harrison's "accustomed to her face" is utterly poignant. magisterial even. Julie Andrews is superb in every way. Her defiance in just you wait is biting and the sweetness of "Loverly" and "I could have danced..." this album has such riches of feeling. I hope that they will remaster this performance as with the New York 1956 one. Not to worry however; the recording has more than adequate sonics.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Peculiar thing about this CD, August 9, 2006

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John Ellis "jonthes" (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Fair Lady (1959 Original London Cast) (Audio CD)

A huge fan of the original Broadcast cast LP as a child, I bought the Stereo London cast (same principals) and was disappointed that as noted inside in the notes the cast had colds when it was recorded and were just slightly off pitch, everyone. I also thought that after doing it for three years, they were a bit weary of the material. So I delayed getting the London cast CD for years. Now I listen to it and no evidence of the colds, nor mention of it in the notes. I suspect that the vocals were every so slightly sweetened upwards and if so, thank you. Now this recording is very nearly as good as the Broadway and has the bonus "Embassy Waltz". I still slightly prefer the Broadway, which has the fizzy excitement of a new major hit preserved in every note. Either of these are hugely preferable to the film recording, which suffered from Audrey Hepburn in her only inadequate performance (Jack Warner deigned that it would be Cary Grant and Julie Andrews OR Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn, but was determined to break up the tandem). Now, either way, you can't go wrong.