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On the Street Where You Live
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Wikipedia article
"'On the Street Where You Live'" is a song with music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner from the 1956 Broadway musical 'My Fair Lady'. It is sung in the musical by the character Freddy Eynsford-Hill, who was portrayed by John Michael King in the original production. In the 1964 film version, it was sung by Bill Shirley, dubbing for actor Jeremy Brett.
Recorded versions
The most popular single of the song was recorded by Vic Damone in 1956 for Columbia Records. It reached No. 4 on the 'Billboard' chartJoel Whitburn, 'Top Pop Singles' and No. 6 on 'Cashbox' magazine's chart. It was a No. 1 hit in the UK Singles Chart in 1958.Tony Brown, Jon Kutner & Neil Warwick, 'The Complete Book of the British Charts' Eddie Fisher also had a top 20 'Billboard' hit with the song in 1956, reaching No. 18.Joel Whitburn, 'Top Pop Singles' Lawrence Welk and His Orchestra released a version that went to No. 96 in 1956. Andy Williams' recording appeared in the 'Billboard' top 40 in 1964, reaching No. 3 on the adult contemporary chart and No. 28 on the 'Billboard' Hot 100.
The song has been recorded by a wide variety of other performers, including Ray Conniff and Bing Crosby, who recorded the song in 1956 for use on his radio show and it was subsequently included in the boxed set 'The Bing Crosby CBS Radio Recordings (195456)' issued by Mosaic Records (catalog MD7-245) in 2009,
Lawrence Welk (whose band also performed it on his weekly TV series numerous times), Shirley Horn, Doris Day, George Shearing, Frank Chacksfield, Alfie Boe, Bobby Darin, Dean Martin, Mario Lanza, Nat King Cole, Holly Cole, Marvin Gaye, Ben E. King, Perry Como, Ray Reach, Harry Connick Jr., Gene 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 Dusk, Richard Clayderman, Ricki Lee Jones, Mr Hudson & The Library, Peggy Lee, Vocal Spectrum, Steve Hogarth from Marillion, Bill Frisell, Andr Previn & Shelly Manne, Bryn Terfel, Ed Townsend, Chet Baker, Jason Manford and BirdyHop.[https://www.discogs.com/Ed-Townsend-Glad-To-Be-Here/release/2698577 Ed Townsend, 'Glad to Be Here'] Retrieved 16 August 2016.
In popular culture
*In 1991, on the children's show 'Sesame Street', Oscar the Grouch, completely fed up with all the nice people around him on Sesame Street, but still very grateful for his trash can, sang a song called "On This Street Where I'm Grouchy", which spoofed "On the Street Where You Live".
* In the 1999 film 'Blast from the Past', Adam (Brendan Fraser) sings part of this song to Eve (Alicia Silverstone) and explains that he doesn't want another woman as he can only think about her.
* The song is also featured in the television series 'Mad Men' in the finale of the first season's first 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
See also
*List of UK Singles Chart number ones of the 1950s
References
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