Together on one CD for the first time: the original casts singing almost every number from those two great Lerner & Loewe musical blockbusters, My Fair Lady & Gigi.

“Ah yes! I remember it well.” Honoré’s immortal line from Gigi could equally apply to the whole astonishing output of Lerner & Loewe, the duo of lyricist and librettist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick “Fritz” Loewe, second only to Rodgers & Hammerstein as creators of some of Broadway's most successful musical shows, including Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon, My Fair Lady, Gigi and Camelot.

The greatest of all these was My Fair Lady from 1956 with its wonderful score of such unforgettable melodies as On The Street Where You Live, I Could Have Danced All Night, Wouldn’t It Be Loverly? and Get Me To The Church On Time. The perfect casting brought fame to Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews, and a new lease of life to Stanley Holloway’s career. In New York it ran for a record-breaking 2,717 performances and in London for 2,281.

Impossible to top perhaps, but Lerner & Loewe’s next triumph was the 1958 film musical Gigi, which broke the Oscar-winning record in collecting nine awards, plus a special one for Maurice Chevalier – ideally cast alongside Leslie Caron (whose songs were sung by Betty Wand) and Louis Jourdan.

Retrospective uniquely offers virtually all the songs from both these heavenly scores.

Contents:
My Fair Lady
Original Broadway Cast (1956) - including Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews, Stanley Holloway, Robert Coote and John Michael King
1. Overture
2. Why Can’t The English?
3. Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?
4. With A Little Bit Of Luck
5. I’m An Ordinary Man
6. The Rain In Spain
7. I Could Have Danced All Night
8. Ascot Gavotte
9. On The Street Where You Live
10. You Did It
11. Show Me
12. Get Me To The Church On Time
13. A Hymn To Him
14. Without You
15. I’ve Grown Accustomed To Her Face
16. Finale

Gigi
Original Soundtrack Cast (1958) - including Maurice Chevalier, Betty Wand (For Leslie Caron), Louis Jourdan and Hermione Gingold . . .
1. Overture
2. Thank Heaven For Little Girls
3. It’s A Bore
4. I Don’t Understand The Parisians
5. The Night They Invented Champagne
6. I Remember It Well
7. Gigi (Gaston’s Soliloquy)
8. I’m Glad I’m Not Young Anymore
9. Say A Prayer For Me Tonight
10. Finale – Thank Heaven For Little Girls (Reprise)