With a Little Bit of Luck With a Little Bit of Luck "With a Little Bit of Luck" is a popular song by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, written for the 1956 Broadway play "My Fair Lady". It was sung by Stanley Holloway as Alfred P. Doolittle in both the original stage and film versions. It is sung by Eliza's bin man father, Alfred P. Doolittle and is about a list of everyday situations which one finds themselves in, and a desire to take the easy way out as "With a Little Bit of Luck" one's fate might change, thus avoiding any responsibility. The song
Donald Adams in Chicago in 1983, which led to many seasons there, including as Baron Zeta in "The Merry Widow" and the Theatre Director and the Banker in "Lulu". He sang Alfred Doolittle in "My Fair Lady" for Scottish Opera in December 1983. He made his Covent Garden debut on 4 November 1983 as a Frontier Guard in "Boris Godunov" (having also prepared the role of a monk) going on to sing Quince in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in July 1986, and Colonel Frank, the prison governor, in "Die Fledermaus," a role, said "The Times", that suited his comic talents to perfection.