The Broadway cast recording of the musical My Fair Lady was first released April 2, 1956 by Columbia Records,[2] with songs by Lerner and Loewe, conducted by Franz Allers, starring Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews.

Columbia president Goddard Lieberson provided the $375,000 needed to stage the show in return for the rights to the cast recording.

[2] A commercial success, the album became the first LP record to sell 1 million copies.

Columbia first released the Broadway album on compact disc in 1988, followed by numerous subsequent reissues.

[5][deprecated source] As of 2023[update], the original cast recording remains among the longest-charting albums in the U.S., with 480 weeks on the Billboard 200.