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
The King and I (1956 film) O'Hara, who had a pleasant soprano voice, was originally cast, but Richard Rodgers did not agree to the casting. It was Yul Brynner who pressed for Deborah Kerr to play the role. Marni Nixon provided Kerr's singing for the film. Nixon and Kerr worked side-by-side in the recording studio for songs which combined speaking and singing. Nixon would also dub Kerr's singing the following year, for the film "An Affair to Remember". Donald Bogle's biography of Dorothy Dandridge claims that Dandridge was offered the role of Tuptim in partial fulfillment of her three-picture contract with 20th Century-Fox, but that Dandridge