Columbia Masterworks Records by John Gielgud—the longest-running "Hamlet" in Broadway history to date. Columbia Masterworks' most successful Broadway album was the original cast recording of "My Fair Lady" (OL-5090, 1956), starring Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews, Stanley Holloway and Robert Coote. This first album was issued only in mono, but the first stereo recording of "My Fair Lady"—featuring the same four stars, this time with the London cast—followed in 1959. And in 1964, Columbia Masterworks issued the film soundtrack album of the show, starring Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn's "singing voice", Marni Nixon. The most successful film soundtrack release on Columbia Masterworks was the
My Fair Lady (Shelly Manne album) issued on the Contemporary label. "My Fair Lady" itself was redone over the years by other jazz artists, starting very soon after the Manne hit. Billy Taylor and Quincy Jones brought out "My Fair Lady Loves Jazz" in 1957, and this was followed by albums of "My Fair Lady" music by Nat King Cole ("Nat King Cole Sings My Fair Lady") ; Wild Bill Davis; Dick Hyman with Ruby Braff; Oscar Peterson ("The Oscar Peterson Trio Plays "My Fair Lady""); and others. Manne himself worked with arranger John Williams to present a different whole-album treatment of the musical in 1964,