My Fair Lady: The Original Broadway Cast Recording

My Fair Lady is the original studio cast recording of the 1956 Broadway musical of the same name, released by Columbia Records. The musical is based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, with music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics and book by Alan Jay Lerner, and introduced songs like "I Could Have Danced All Night", "The Rain in Spain" and "On the Street Where You Live" to a global audience. The album captures the performances of the original Broadway cast, including Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews, and Stanley Holloway, and was rushed to market to capitalize on the show's immediate success. Produced by Goddard Lieberson, it was recorded with the original cast and a full orchestra. in a single marathon session on March 25, 1956, at Columbia's 30th Street Studio in New York. Commercially, it became Billboard's number one bestseller for fifteen weeks and spent a total of 480 weeks on the Billboard 200. Decades later, the album earnead inductions into the Grammy Hall of Fame and the Library of Congress National Recording Registry. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Fair...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)