Album: My Fair Lady (1956)

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• This inspirational song is perhaps the most endearing of many fine songs from the smash Broadway musical My Fair Lady; the spelling and pronunciation of lovely as loverly is due to its being sung by the Cockney street seller and leading lady Eliza Doolittle, who was played in the original by Julie Andrews. In the 1964 film version, the song is actually sung by Marni Nixon whose voice was dubbed; the lead was played by Audrey Hepburn.
  
  The music was composed by Frederick Loewe, and the lyrics were written by Alan Lerner, as were all the songs; Lerner also wrote the book, which is adapted from the George Bernard Shaw classic Pygmalion. >>>

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  Alexander Baron - London, England

Comments: 2

• Sam Burkes from Philadelphia, Ms.I came home for lunch one afternoon fr. 4th Grade in Hempstead, N.Y., must've been 1957. Our family radio, A Bakelite Regal, was playing. Suddenly, this beautifully written piece of exquisite music comes as an intro, and the most beautiful, songbird-like voice of a young, darling Julie Andrews starts singing...I was a smitten 8-yr-old..I never, ever let this song leave my steel-trapped, positive-pitch musical mind. I can actually play, by ear-memory, the chords to this song on guitar, either in E major or D major...have those orchestrated changes engrained, etched permantly in my memory. I've always loved Julie Andrews. This play was a huge smash in the N.Y. Area then.
  Thank You
  Sam A. Burkes lll
• Carolyn from Knoville, TnDidn't Andy Williams croon "Moon River" that was supposedly "sung" by Audrey Hepburn in another film? Marni Nixon did a good job on this song, but I will always think of Julie Andrews when I hear it.

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