Why Can’t the English?

~ Recording by Rex Harrison, Robert Coote & Julie Andrews

Annotation

Robert Coote barely gets a line in; and Julie Andrews only utters two sounds.

Annotation last modified on 2017-06-04 18:41 UTC.

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack artistRelease titleRelease artistRelease group typeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
1.2Why Can’t the English?2:41Lerner & LoeweMy Fair Lady: Original Broadway CastLerner & LoeweAlbum + Soundtrack
Back BiterBB 61023
1.2Why Can’t the English?2:40Lerner & LoeweMy Fair Lady: Collector’s EditionLerner & LoeweAlbum + Soundtrack
  • US1994-09-27
Sony Classical, Legacy (reissue division of Sony Music Entertainment)SK66128
1.2Why Can’t the English?2:42Rex Harrison, Robert Coote, Julie AndrewsMy Fair Lady (remastered)Lerner & LoeweAlbum + Soundtrack
  • US2002-05-28
Legacy (reissue division of Sony Music Entertainment), Sony Classical, Columbia Broadway MasterworksSK 89997
1.2Why Can’t the English?2:39Rex Harrison, Franz Allers & My Fair Lady OrchestraMy Fair LadyLerner & LoeweAlbum + Soundtrack
  • US2002-05-28
Columbia Broadway Masterworks
1.2Why Can’t the English2:41Higgins, Pickering, ElizaMy Fair LadyLerner & LoeweAlbum + Soundtrack
  • GB2008-06-02
Naxos Musicals8.120876
1.2Why Can’t the English??:??Rex HarrisonMy Fair LadyLerner & LoeweAlbum + Soundtrack
Masterworks Broadway88697499172
(unknown)
1.2Why Can’t the English?2:42Rex HarrisonMy Fair LadyLerner & LoeweAlbum + Soundtrack

Relationships

vocals:Rex Harrison (actor) (on 1956-03-25)
conductor:Franz Allers (European-American conductor) (on 1956-03-25)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:Columbia Records (not for release label use! company owned by Sony Music Entertainment, only use for manufacturing/distribution and copyright holding) (in 1956)
recorded at:CBS 30th Street Studio in Manhattan, New York, New York, United States (on 1956-03-25)
compiled in:Overture / Why Can’t the English by Orchestra ([theatre], Special Purpose Artist - Do not add releases here, if possible.) / Rex Harrison (actor)
recording of:Why Can't the English? (My Fair Lady) (on 1956-03-25)

Why Can't the English? (My Fair Lady)

lyricist:Alan Jay Lerner
composer:Frederick Loewe
publisher:Warner Chappell Music Ltd. (no slash; used 1988–1996)
later translated versions:Kann denn die Kinder keiner lehren, wie man spricht
Los ingleses no quieren aprender
למה זה האנגלים אינם דוברים אנגלית (גבירתי הנאווה)
later versions:Is hier nu niemand
part of:My Fair Lady (full musical)