Alan Jay Lerner
American pop lyricist and librettist from the 1940s through the 1960s, Alan Jay Lerner had many movie musical and Broadway successes with songwriting partner Frederick Loewe, including their first hit, Brigadoon, and their biggest hit, My Fair Lady. Lerner was born in N.Y.C. in 1918 into a wealthy family; his father was the founder of Lerner's, the women's clothing chain. Alan Jay Lerner went on to study at Juilliard, in England and, finally, at Harvard, where he wrote for college productions. After graduating, Lerner wrote radio scripts from 1940-1942, but already had ambitions for Broadway by the time he met composer Frederick Loewe. Thus began the successful duo of Lerner & Loewe, whose first songs appeared in the 1943 stage production What's Up? The duo had their first success four years later with the Broadway smash Brigadoon. Other stage and movie successes followed, such as Paint Your Wagon (1951), 1958's Gigi (an Academy Award-winning score), and Camelot (1960), but no success was bigger for the duo than 1956's My Fair Lady, which had a record-breaking run of over 2,500 performances. In 1961, Loewe suffered a heart attack and retired and Lerner teamed up with Richard Rodgers. Lerner had teamed up with another composer once before, in 1948, with Kurt Weill for the successful stage production Love Life. Some of Lerner's best-known songs include "Almost Like Being in Love" (1947), "I Could Have Danced All Night," "On the Street Where You Live" (1956), "If Ever I Would Leave You" (1960), and "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever."
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Discography
21 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Camelot (The 2023 Broadway Cast Recording)
Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe
Film Soundtracks - Released by Broadway Records on Jun 2, 2023
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
My Fair Lady (2018 Broadway Cast Recording)
Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner
Film Soundtracks - Released by Broadway Records on Jun 8, 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Lerner & Loewe's Brigadoon (New York City Center 2017 Cast Recording)
Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe
Film Soundtracks - Released by Ghostlight Records on Dec 7, 2018
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
My Fair Lady (Complete Recording All Star Studio Cast) (DigiMIX Remaster 2022)
Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe
Film Soundtracks - Released by JAY Records on Mar 3, 1998
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Camelot (Original 1982 London Cast)
Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe
Film Soundtracks - Released by Jay Records on Jan 1, 1982
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
My Fair Lady (2001 Cast London Recording)
Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe
Film Soundtracks - Released by First Night Records on Jul 1, 2001
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Brigadoon (1988 London Cast Recording)
Alan Jay Lerner, Frank Loesser
Film Soundtracks - Released by First Night Records on Feb 6, 1989
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
An Evening With Alan Jay Lerner
Film Soundtracks - Released by First Night Records on Nov 1, 1987
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Brigadoon (2005 Studio Cast Recording)
Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe
Film Soundtracks - Released by JAY Records on Jul 30, 2001
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
2012 American Choral Directors Association, Western Division (ACDA) - Pacific Standard Time Vocal Jazz Ensemble
Pacific Standard Time Vocal Jazz Ensemble
Jazz - Released by Mark Records on Apr 1, 2012
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Brigadoon (1995 London Studio Cast Recording)
Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe
Film Soundtracks - Released by Jay Records on Jul 15, 1995
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Gigi (Original 1985 London Cast Recording)
Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe
Film Soundtracks - Released by First Night Records on Dec 31, 1985
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Dance a Little Closer (Original Broadway Cast)
Alan Jay Lerner, Charles Strouse
Film Soundtracks - Released by Jay Records on May 25, 1988
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Gigi (All Star Studio Cast)
Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner
Film Soundtracks - Released by Jay Records on Oct 17, 2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Broadway
Coastal Communities Concert Band
Classical - Released by Soundset on Aug 14, 2016
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Musicality of Lerner and Loewe
Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe
Film Soundtracks - Released by JAY Records on Feb 5, 2002
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Lerner & Loewe's Brigadoon (New York City Center 2017 Cast Recording)
Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe
Film Soundtracks - Released by Ghostlight Records on Dec 7, 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Lerner, Loewe, Lane & Friends
Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe, Burton Lane
Musical Theatre - Released by Concord Theatricals Recordings on Mar 24, 1998
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Great Songs from the Musicals and Light Opera ('embassy' Collection) Vol. 2
Film Soundtracks - Released by The Digital Gramophone on Oct 9, 2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
An Evening with Alan Jay Lerner (Highlights)
Film Soundtracks - Released by First Night Records on Jul 19, 1993
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Selections From Lerner And Loewe's My Fair Lady
Film Soundtracks - Released by Pirouette Records on Jul 11, 1962
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo