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
Eliza Doolittle Jim! One evening the king will say: 'Oh, Liza, old thing, I want all of England your praises to sing. Next week on the twentieth of May I proclaim ‘Liza Doolittle Day!' </poem> Fans of "My Fair Lady" have ever after been fond of making an informal observance of Eliza Doolittle Day each May 20. Eliza Doolittle Eliza Doolittle is a fictional character from London who appears in the play "Pygmalion" (George Bernard Shaw, 1912) and the musical version of that play, "My Fair Lady". Eliza is a Cockney flower girl, who comes to Professor Henry Higgins asking for elocution