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On the Street Where You Live

Song with music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner

Summary

Song with music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner

Field	Value
name	On the Street Where You Live
written
genre	Musical theatre
composer	Frederick Loewe
lyricist	Alan Jay Lerner

"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.{{cite book

Recorded versions

| B-side = We All Need Love The most popular single of the song was recorded by Vic Damone in 1956 for Columbia Records. It reached No. 4 on the Billboard chart and No. 6 on Cashbox magazine's chart. It was a No. 1 hit in the UK Singles Chart in 1958.{{cite book

The most successful recorded version was by vocalist Vic Damone

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 (1954–56) 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, André Previn & Shelly Manne, Bryn Terfel, Ed Townsend, Chet Baker, Jason Manford, Ronnie Hilton, Willie Nelson, Etta Jones, Jordan Donica, and Eddie Fisher.

In popular culture

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

References

[[Joel Whitburn]], ''Top Pop Singles''
Tony Brown, Jon Kutner & Neil Warwick, ''The Complete Book of the British Charts''
Joel Whitburn, ''Top Pop Singles''
(23 June 1956). "On the Street Where You Live (song by Lawrence Welk and His Orchestra) ••• Music VF, US & UK hits charts". Musicvf.com.
"A Bing Crosby Discography". International Club Crosby.
"The Bing Crosby CBS Radio Recordings (1954–56)".
(26 April 2019). "'Better Things' Recap: Cold Readings".

Wikipedia Source

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