With a Little Bit of Luck
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Holloway as Doolittle (center), Dilworth as Harry (left), McLennan as Jamie (right) in "With a Little Bit of Luck" segment, 1957
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| Musical number from My Fair Lady | ||||
| Released | 1956 | |||
| Genre | Musical theatre | |||
| Writer(s) | Composer: Frederick Loewe Lyricist: Alan Jay Lerner |
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| Act I |
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"Overture" "Busker Sequence" "Why Can't the English?" "With a Little Bit of Luck" "I'm an Ordinary Man" "With a Little Bit of Luck (Reprise)" "Just You Wait" "The Servants' Chorus (Poor Professor Higgins)" "I Could Have Danced All Night" "Ascot Gavotte" "On the Street Where You Live" "Eliza's Entrance/Embassy Waltz" |
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"You Did It" "Just You Wait (Reprise)" "On the Street Where You Live (Reprise)" "Show Me" "The Flower Market/Wouldn't It Be Loverly? (Reprise)" "Get Me to the Church on Time" "A Hymn to Him" "Without You" "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" "I Could Have Danced All Night (Reprise) / Finale" |
"Overture"
"Busker Sequence"
"Why Can't the English?"
"With a Little Bit of Luck"
"I'm an Ordinary Man"
"With a Little Bit of Luck (Reprise)"
"Just You Wait"
"The Servants' Chorus (Poor Professor Higgins)"
"I Could Have Danced All Night"
"Ascot Gavotte"
"On the Street Where You Live"
"Eliza's Entrance/Embassy Waltz"
"You Did It"
"Just You Wait (Reprise)"
"On the Street Where You Live (Reprise)"
"Show Me"
"The Flower Market/Wouldn't It Be Loverly? (Reprise)"
"Get Me to the Church on Time"
"A Hymn to Him"
"Without You"
"I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face"
"I Could Have Danced All Night (Reprise) / Finale"
"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 is traditionally sung in a deep Cockney accent.
The song occurs twice at Act 1 in the musicals. Both "With a Little Bit of Luck" scenes are at the same tenement in Tottenham Court Road, London in 1912. Firstly, Alfred P. Doolittle sings along with bin men Harry and Jamie who are his drinking companions after the scene Eliza's "Wouldn't It Be Loverly?" and secondly (reprise), three days later, with new verses to hear of Eliza he sings along with all the common people there (ensemble) after Prof. Higgins' "I'm an Ordinary Man". However in the Holloway's film version in 1964, this song occurred only after "I'm an Ordinary Man" and some verses were omitted.
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