The Great Songs from "My Fair Lady" and Other Broadway Hits "People" gave her a number five hit on the "Billboard" Hot 100, three weeks at number one on the Easy Listening chart, and the Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Female. From the liner notes for the original album: The Great Songs from "My Fair Lady" and Other Broadway Hits The Great Songs from "My Fair Lady" and Other Broadway Hits is the fifteenth studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams and was released in September 1964 by Columbia Records, one month before the premiere of the film version of "My Fair Lady" starring Audrey Hepburn. The album made
My Fair Lady Tony Llewellyn-Jones as Colonel Pickering, Deidre Rubenstein as Mrs. Pearce, and David Whitney as Karpathy (later Glen Hogstrom). According to Geoffrey Block, "Opening night critics immediately recognized that "My Fair Lady" fully measured up to the Rodgers and Hammerstein model of an integrated musical...Robert Coleman...wrote 'The Lerner-Loewe songs are not only delightful, they advance the action as well. They are ever so much more than interpolations, or interruptions.'" The musical opened to "unanimously glowing reviews, one of which said 'Don't bother reading this review now. You'd better sit right down and send for those tickets...' Critics praised the thoughtful use