Frederick Loewe, music · Alan Jay Lerner, lyrics · Introduced by John Michael King in My Fair Lady
On the Street Where You Live
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner wrote this song for the 1956 Broadway musical My Fair Lady. Its 64 state the main tune twice, move to a contrasting middle, then come home. Shelly Manne's trio, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Chet Baker and Bill Frisell's trio all recorded it.
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The path starts with John Michael King on the 1956 cast recording, then follows jazz players through a piano trio, a hard-bop quintet and a trumpet quintet. It continues with Dean Martin and an eight-piece band, and ends with a modern guitar trio.
2000sBill Frisell, Ron Carter, Paul Motian2005 · Contemporary jazz
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John Michael King (Original Broadway Cast) · 1956
My Fair Lady
John Michael King sang it as Freddy Eynsford-Hill when My Fair Lady opened on Broadway on March 15, 1956. The cast recorded the album at Columbia's 30th Street Studio in New York that month, and Columbia released it on April 2, 1956.
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John Michael King sings the tune with the show's orchestra behind him, so you hear it as the theatre audience first did. The track runs 2:56.
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Play the first eight : , , B♭maj7, Cm7 F7, B♭maj7, , Cm7, F7, humming the tune over them. Smaller version: play only bars 1 to 4.
Shelly Manne, André Previn and Leroy Vinnegar recorded an album of My Fair Lady songs in Los Angeles on August 17, 1956, a few months after the show opened. Producer Lester Koenig had suggested playing songs from the show.
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Piano, bass and drums make up the whole band. The track runs 5:38, almost twice as long as the cast recording.
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Play the 's first four , bars 33 to 36: , , , E♭maj7. Full version: play the whole bridge, bars 33 to 48, using the iReal Pro chart.
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers (feat. Johnny Griffin) · 1957
1957 Second Edition
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers recorded a set of Lerner and Loewe songs at Webster Hall in New York on March 13, 1957, with Johnny Griffin on tenor saxophone. The set came out on Vik LX-1103 that year and was reissued on Bluebird in 1995.
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Bill Hardman's trumpet and Johnny Griffin's tenor saxophone play over Sam Dockery's piano, Jimmy De Brest's bass and Art Blakey's drums. At 9:05 the track is more than three times as long as the cast recording.
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Play 9 to 16 of the first : , , , , Cm7, , , Cm7 F7. Smaller version: play only bars 9 to 12.
Oscar Peterson recorded a whole album of My Fair Lady songs with Ray Brown on bass and Gene Gammage on drums in Chicago on November 20 and 21, 1958. This song also came out as a single, Verve V-10192, in 1959.
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Oscar Peterson's piano leads, with Ray Brown's bass and Gene Gammage's drums behind him. The track runs 5:34, a little shorter than Shelly Manne's trio.
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Play 41 to 48, the second half of the : B♭/F, , , , , , , . Smaller version: play only bars 41 to 44.
Chet Baker recorded his Lerner and Loewe album at Reeves Sound Studios in New York on July 21 and 22, 1959. On this track he plays with Pepper Adams on baritone saxophone and a .
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Two horns, Chet Baker's trumpet and Pepper Adams's baritone saxophone, play over piano, bass and drums. The track runs 8:35.
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Play the last four of the final , bars 61 to 64: , , , B♭6. Smaller version: play only the last two bars, B♭6 held for two bars.
Dean Martin recorded the album This Time I'm Swingin'! at Capitol's studio in Hollywood in May 1960, with Nelson Riddle conducting. Capitol released it on October 3, 1960.
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Dean Martin sings the song with an orchestra conducted by Nelson Riddle. After four instrumental tracks on this path, a singer is back in front. The track runs 3:41.
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Play 5 to 8: , , , , humming the tune over them. Smaller version: play only the D♭°7 and the Cm7 after it.
Slide Hampton led an eight-piece band in New York on October 17, 1960, and arranged the music. This track opens side one of Somethin' Sanctified, released on Atlantic 1362 in 1961.
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Listen for the horns playing together as a group, with Larry Ridley's bass and Pete La Roca's drums underneath. The track runs 5:00.
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Play the last four of the tune, bars 61 to 64: , , , B♭6, then hold the last . Smaller version: play only the B♭6.
Guitarist Bill Frisell, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Paul Motian recorded their album at Avatar Studios in New York on February 14 and 15, 2005. Nonesuch released it in 2006.
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A guitar, a bass and drums make up the whole band. At 9:26 the track is the longest on this path.
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Play the first , 1 to 16, at half speed: , , B♭maj7, Cm7 F7, B♭maj7, , Cm7, F7, Cm7, , , , Cm7, F7, , Cm7 F7. Smaller version: play only bars 1 to 8.
The song arrives in My Fair Lady in 1956. That year Vic Damone's single reaches No. 4 on Billboard, and Shelly Manne's trio records an album of the show's songs; Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and Oscar Peterson's trio follow.
1960s
Dean Martin sings it with Nelson Riddle conducting in 1960. Slide Hampton arranges it for an eight-piece band that October, and Etta Jones and Mel Tormé sing it on albums that year.
1990s
Holly Cole's Toronto trio records it in 1991, with piano, double bass and a bass clarinet joining her voice.
2000s
Guitarist Bill Frisell, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Paul Motian record it in New York in February 2005, with no piano or singer, in a 9:26 version.
More great versions
6 more, from 1956 to 1991. Tap a cover to play it here.
1950sVic Damone with Percy Faith1956 · Vocal
Billy Taylor Trio1957 · Cool jazz
1960sEtta Jones1960 · Vocal
Mel Tormé with the Marty Paich Orchestra1960 · Vocal
“On the Street Where You Live (Single Version)”, On the Street Where You Live / We All Need Love
Vic Damone's Columbia single came out in April 1956 and reached No. 4 on Billboard's chart. The linked track is the single version, with Percy Faith's orchestra, on an expanded edition of his album On the Swingin' Side.
Pianist Billy Taylor made an entire album of My Fair Lady songs for ABC-Paramount in 1957, with Earl May on bass, Ed Thigpen on drums and Quincy Jones conducting an orchestra on the album.
Etta Jones sings it on Don't Go to Strangers, released by Prestige in October 1960 with Richard Wyands on piano and Roy Haynes on drums. Rudy Van Gelder recorded the album.
Holly Cole's trio recorded Blame It on My Youth at Eastern Sound in Toronto in the summer of 1991. On this track a bass clarinet joins her voice, piano and double bass.
The tune's layout, its keys and the chord chart, for anyone who wants to play along.
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How the tune works
B♭ majorusual key
64 barsA · A · B · A form
B♭ major → E♭ major → B♭ major → D major → B♭ majorkey centers
A16 bars
A16 bars
B16 bars · bridge
A16 bars
B♭
E♭
B♭
D
B♭
The tune is 64 in the order A, A, B, A and starts and ends in . Each is 16 bars. Bars 1 to 8 play , , B♭maj7, Cm7 F7, B♭maj7, , Cm7 and F7. Bars 9 to 14 play Cm7, , , , Cm7 and F7. The first A ends with and Cm7 F7, which lead back to the top. The second and last A end with two bars of B♭6. The , bars 33 to 48, plays , , , E♭maj7, , , B♭6, B♭6, then B♭/F, , , , , , Cm7 and F7. The areas in the list are approximate. These follow the iReal Pro chart; other lead sheets may spell some differently.