THE GREAT SONGS FROM ‘MY FAIR LADY’ AND OTHER BROADWAY HITS – ORIGINAL ANDY WILLIAMS ALBUM SLEEVE NOTES (1964)
NO ARTISTIC NOTES featured on the back of the original vinyl long-player, but BILLBOARD made it a Spotlight Pick on September 19, 1964...
The paper's accompanying anonymous review served as both a summation of the material and a forecast of the record’s prospects...
“A SURE-FIRE WINNER results from the combination of ANDY WILLIAMS and selections from ‘My Fair Lady’ during the season when the Warner Bros film treatment of the Broadway hit musical will go into national release.
“This is further buttressed with a half dozen top tunes from other Broadway shows.”
Liner notes for a compact disc re-issue in 2017 were by music journalist CHARLES WARING...
“LIKE THE SINGER’S previous album, it had a mouthful of a title that – while seemingly uninspired – was an accurate description of its contents.
ASTUTE JUDGES
“BOB MERSEY continued to sit in the producer / arranger / conductor’s chair and both he and WILLIAMS decided that side one of the L.P. would be devoted exclusively to songs from LERNER & LOEWE’s 1956 hit musical, ‘My Fair Lady’, adapted from GEORGE BERNARD SHAW’s 1913 play, ‘Pygmalion’, about a cockney flower girl called Eliza Doolittle, who is taught to masquerade as a lady...
“The pair had profited before from a movie tie-in (1962’s MOON RIVER album, which coincided with the Breakfast At Tiffany’s movie) and looked certain to do so again.
“They were a good team who were astute judges of the marketplace and what was deemed ‘hot’ in the wider public consciousness.”
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