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"On the Street Where Yous Live"
Song
Written	1956 (1956)
Genre	Musical theatre
Composer(s)	Frederick Loewe
Lyricist(s)	Alan Jay Lerner
Track listing
Deed I "Overture" "Busker Sequence" "Why Tin can't the English?" "Wouldn't It Be Loverly?" "With a Little Bit of Luck" "I'm an Ordinary Man" "With a Niggling Bit of Luck (Reprise)" "Simply You Wait" "The Servants' Chorus (Poor Professor Higgins)" "The Rain in Espana" "I Could Have Danced All Night" "Ascot Gavotte" "On the Street Where Y'all Live" "Eliza'due south Entrance/Embassy Waltz" Act Ii "You Did It" "Just You Wait (Reprise)" "On the Street Where You Live (Reprise)" "Evidence Me" "The Flower Market/Wouldn't It Be Loverly? (Reprise)" "Go Me to the Church on Time" "A Hymn to Him" "Without You" "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" "I Could Have Danced All Night (Reprise) / Finale"

"On the Street Where You lot Live" is a song with music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner from the 1956 Broadway musical My Fair Lady.^[1] It is sung in the musical past the grapheme Freddy Eynsford-Hill, who was portrayed past John Michael King in the original production. In the 1964 film version, information technology was sung past Nib Shirley, dubbing for player Jeremy Brett.

Recorded versions [edit]

"On the Street Where You lot Live"
Unmarried by Vic Damone
B-side	"We All Demand Dear"
Released	April 1956
Genre	Show melody
Length	2:38
Characterization	Columbia
Composer(s)	Frederick Loewe
Lyricist(due south)	Alan Jay Lerner
Vic Damone singles chronology
"Por Favor" (1955) "On the Street Where Y'all Live" (1956) "War and Peace" (1956)

The virtually pop single of the song was recorded by Vic Damone in 1956 for Columbia Records. It reached No. four on the Billboard chart^[2] and No. 6 on Cashbox magazine'southward chart. It was a No. 1 striking in the U.k. Singles Nautical chart in 1958.^{[3] [iv]} Eddie Fisher likewise had a elevation 20 Billboard hit with the vocal in 1956, reaching No. 18.^[v] Lawrence Welk and His Orchestra released a version that went to No. 96 in 1956.^[6] Andy Williams' recording appeared in the Billboard top 40 in 1964, reaching No. 3 on the adult contemporary nautical chart and No. 28 on the Billboard Hot 100.^[5]

The most successful recorded version was by vocalist Vic Damone

The vocal has been recorded past a broad diversity of other performers, including Ray Conniff and Bing Crosby, who recorded the song in 1956^[7] for use on his radio show and it was afterwards included in the boxed ready The Bing Crosby CBS Radio Recordings (1954–56) issued by Mosaic Records (catalog MD7-245) in 2009,^[viii] Lawrence Welk (whose band besides performed it on his weekly Boob tube series numerous times), Shirley Horn, Doris Day, George Shearing, Frank Chacksfield, Alfie Boe, Bobby Darin, Dean Martin, Mario Lanza, Nat Rex Cole, Holly Cole, Marvin Gaye, Ben E. King, Perry Como, Ray Accomplish, Harry Connick Jr., Cistron Pitney, The Miracles (on their I'll Try Something New album), Earl Grant, Dennis DeYoung, Quincy Jones, David Whitfield, Nancy Wilson, Billy Porter, Ilse Huizinga, Matt Sunset, Richard Clayderman, Ricki Lee Jones, Mr Hudson & The Library, Peggy Lee, Song Spectrum, Steve Hogarth from Marillion, Neb Frisell, André Previn & Shelly Manne, Bryn Terfel, Ed Townsend, Chet Baker, Jason Manford and BirdyHop.^[nine]

In popular culture [edit]

• In 1991, on the children'due south show Sesame Street, Oscar the Grouch, completely fed up with all the dainty people effectually him on Sesame Street, but even so very grateful for his trash can, sang a vocal called "On This Street Where I'm Grouchy", which spoofed "On the Street Where Yous Live".^[10]
• In the 1999 film Blast from the Past, Adam (Brendan Fraser) sings function of this vocal to Eve (Alicia Silverstone) and explains that he doesn't desire another adult female as he can just recall about her.^[11]
• The song is also featured in the television serial, Mad Men, in the finale of the first flavour's get-go episode.
• In the ninth episode of the third season of Better Things, actors sing the song in a bar after completing a table read of a fictional Broadway play^[12]

Run into also [edit]

• List of Britain Singles Nautical chart number ones of the 1950s

References [edit]

1. ^ Rice, Jo (1982). The Guinness Volume of 500 Number One Hits (1st ed.). Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. p. 37. ISBN0-85112-250-vii.
2. ^ Joel Whitburn, Top Pop Singles
3. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 86. ISBNane-904994-10-5.
4. ^ Tony Brown, Jon Kutner & Neil Warwick, The Complete Volume of the British Charts
5. ^ ^{a b} Joel Whitburn, Superlative Pop Singles
6. ^ "On the Street Where Y'all Live (song by Lawrence Welk and His Orchestra) ••• Music VF, US & United kingdom hits charts". Musicvf.com. 23 June 1956. Retrieved 4 April 2014.
7. ^ "A Bing Crosby Discography". BING magazine. International Society Crosby. Retrieved eight December 2017.
8. ^ "The Bing Crosby CBS Radio Recordings (1954–56)". allmusic.com . Retrieved 8 December 2017.
9. ^ Ed Townsend, Glad to Be Here Retrieved sixteen August 2016.
10. ^ "Sesame Street – On This Street Where I'm Grouchy". IMDb.com. Archived from the original on 21 Dec 2021. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
11. ^ "Nail from the Past (1999)". IMDb.com . Retrieved 28 April 2021.
12. ^ Sepinwall, Alan. "'Better Things' Recap: Cold Readings". Rolling Rock . Retrieved 27 June 2021.

External links [edit]

• "On the Street Where You Alive" from "My Fair Lady" on YouTube, 2001 London revival
• Ben E. King – On the Street Where You Live (1962) [Digitally Remastered] on YouTube, Ben E. King
• Matthew Morrison – On The Street Where You Live on YouTube, MDA Telethon feat. Matthew Morrison
• Quincy Jones and His Orchestra – On the Street Where You Live on YouTube, Quincy Jones & His Orchestra (instrumental)

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