On The Street Where You Live

Album

Best in Lounge: Easy Listening

Label

Columbia Records

Genre

Stage & Screen

Composer(s)

Alan Jay Lern; Frederick Loewe

Entered Chart

Apr 21, 1956

Peak Date

Jul 14, 1956

Released

Unknown

Recorded

Unknown

Catalog #

Columbia 40654

B-Side

"We All Need Love"

Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe wrote this for the Broadway musical My Fair Lady. The song was almost cut after a preview in New Haven, Connecticut where it did nor register with the audiences as the singer was a minor character who had not been properly introduced. Lerner added some dialogue to introduce Freddie Eynsford-Hill as a possible threat to Professor Higgins, thus reminding who the character singing the song was and the song became a show-stopper. Vic Damone recorded the most successful version of this around the time the show opened. In 1964, anticipating the film release of My Fair Lady, Andy Williams released his version, which reached #28 in the US. >>

Oh, the towering feeling just to know somehow you are near

I have often walked down this street before
But the pavement always stayed beneath my feet before
All at once am I several stories high
Knowing I'm on the street where you live

Are there lilac trees in the heart of town?
Can you hear a lark in any other part of town?
Does enchantment pour out of every door?
No, it's just on the street where you live

And oh, the towering feeling just to know somehow you are near
The overpowering feeling that any second you may suddenly appear

People stop and stare, they don't bother me
For there's nowhere else on earth that I would rather be
Let the time go by, I won't care if I
Can be here on the street where you live