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The Broadway cast recording of the musical My Fair Lady was released as an album by Columbia Records on the Masterworks label on April 2, 1956. The songs were composed by Frederick Loewe with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and conducted by Franz Allers, while the cast included stars Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews. The album became a massive seller, topping the charts on the US Billboard 200 for fifteen weeks at different times in 1956 (eight consecutive weeks), 1957, 1958 and 1959. It was the first LP record to sell 1 million copies. In the UK, upon its release in 1958, the album reached No.1 for 19 consecutive weeks and became the biggest-selling album of the year. Columbia's President, Goddard Lieberson provided the $375,000 needed to stage the show in return for the rights to the Cast record

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  • My Fair Lady (Broadway cast recording) (en)
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  • The Broadway cast recording of the musical My Fair Lady was released as an album by Columbia Records on the Masterworks label on April 2, 1956. The songs were composed by Frederick Loewe with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and conducted by Franz Allers, while the cast included stars Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews. The album became a massive seller, topping the charts on the US Billboard 200 for fifteen weeks at different times in 1956 (eight consecutive weeks), 1957, 1958 and 1959. It was the first LP record to sell 1 million copies. In the UK, upon its release in 1958, the album reached No.1 for 19 consecutive weeks and became the biggest-selling album of the year. Columbia's President, Goddard Lieberson provided the $375,000 needed to stage the show in return for the rights to the Cast record (en)
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  • My Fair Lady (en)
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  • the original Broadway cast (en)
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  • My Fair Lady Cast Recording.jpg (en)
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  • John Michael King
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  • Julie Andrews (en)
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  • Rex Harrison, Robert Coote, Philippa Bevans and Ensemble (en)
  • Julie Andrews and Ensemble (en)
  • Julie Andrews and John Michael King (en)
  • Julie Andrews, Philippa Bevans and Ensemble (en)
  • Rex Harrison, Robert Coote and Julie Andrews (en)
  • Stanley Holloway, Gordon Dilworth, Rod McLennan and Chorus (en)
  • Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews, Robert Coote and Ensemble (en)
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