Nat King Cole Sings My Fair Lady Songwriting Credits by Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole Sings My Fair Lady is a studio album by Nat King Cole released on Capitol Records in 1964, devoted entirely to the songbook of the Lerner and Loewe stage musical My Fair Lady. Every song was written by lyricist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe for the 1956 Broadway production, and Cole sings the material as an interpreter rather than a writer. The sessions were recorded in September 1963 in Philadelphia with an orchestra that drew on members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, arranged and conducted by Ralph Carmichael and produced by Lee Gillette. The program runs through standards such as 'I Could Have Danced All Night,' 'On the Street Where You Live,' 'I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face,' and 'Get Me to the Church on Time,' recasting the show's numbers in Cole's warm baritone. The cover photographs Cole in Elfreth's Alley in Philadelphia, standing in for the London setting of the musical. It is one of Cole's late-career concept albums, built around a single Broadway score rather than an assortment of pop standards.