The original Broadway cast recording of
Alan Jay Lerner
and
Frederick Loewe
's musical, based on
George Bernard Shaw
's Pygmalion, about the relationship between an elocutionist and a flower girl. This is one of the great musical scores, and includes
"Wouldn't It Be Loverly,"
"I Could Have Danced All Night,"
"On the Street Where You Live,"
sung by a cast that includes
Rex Harrison
,
Julie Andrews
, and
Stanley Holloway
. The album spent 15 weeks at number one in the charts in 1956. ~ William Ruhlmann