My Fair Lady with the Un-original Cast

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My Fair Lady with the Un-original Cast
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Studio album by
Released1964
RecordedJuly 28, and August 3, 4 & 6 1964
Studio Capitol (Hollywood)
Genre Jazz
Length39:26
Label Capitol T/ST 2173
Producer Dave Cavanaugh
Shelly Manne chronology
My Son the Jazz Drummer!
(1962)
My Fair Lady with the Un-original Cast
(1964)
Manne–That's Gershwin!
(1966)

My Fair Lady with the Un-original Cast is an album by drummer Shelly Manne with Jack Sheldon and Irene Kral and musical direction by Johnny Williams, recorded in 1964 and released on the Capitol label. [1] The album, featuring Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's music from the Broadway musical My Fair Lady , sought to capitalize on Manne's previously successful My Fair Lady album and the contemporaneous film adaptation.

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Reception

Professional ratings
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The AllMusic review stated: "An interesting but not essential release". [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe

  1. "Overture/Why Can't the English" - 3:45
  2. "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" - 3:00
  3. "With a Little Bit of Luck" - 3:15
  4. "I'm an Ordinary Man" - 3:38
  5. "The Rain in Spain" - 4:38
  6. "I Could Have Danced All Night" - 2:38
  7. "Ascot Gavotte" - 2:29
  8. "On the Street Where You Live" - 3:20
  9. "You Did It" - 2:16
  10. "Show Me" - 2:57
  11. "Get Me to the Church on Time" - 3:30
  12. "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" - 4:00

Personnel

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References

  1. Capitol Records discography accessed August 18, 2015
  2. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. My Fair Lady with the Un-Original Cast – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved August 18, 2015.