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Get Me to the Church on Time

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Covers and parodies
Notable recordings
References

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"Get Me to the Church on Time" is a song composed by Frederick Loewe, with lyrics written by Alan Jay Lerner for the 1956 musical My Fair Lady, where it was introduced by Stanley Holloway.

It is sung by the cockney character Alfred P. Doolittle, the father of the show's main character Eliza Doolittle. He has received a surprise bequest of four thousand pounds a year from an American millionaire, raising him to middle class respectability.^[1] Consequently, he feels he must marry Eliza's "stepmother", the woman with whom he has been living for many years. Doolittle and his friends have one last spree before the wedding and the song is a plea to his friends not to let his drunken merriment forget his good intentions and make sure he gets to his wedding.^[2]

Covers and parodies

On the children's show Sesame Street, Oscar the Grouch and his girlfriend Grundgetta get engaged by accident, but they agree to get married anyway to have a huge trashy party. Amid the chaos of all the wedding preparations, Oscar sings "I'm Getting Married in the Trash Can", a spoof of "Get Me to the Church on Time"^[3]

Notable recordings

André Previn and Shelly Manne - My Fair Lady (1956)
Bing Crosby recorded the song in 1956^[4] for use on his radio show and it was subsequently included in the box set The Bing Crosby CBS Radio Recordings (1954-56) issued by Mosaic Records (catalog MD7-245) in 2009.^[5]

References

1. ^Get Me To The Church On Time. SongFacts.com. Accessed June 3, 2012.
2. ^Lerner Alan Jay: My Fair Lady - The libretto. Penguin Books
3. ^[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSeT0G8_riM Sesame Street Episode 3609 Street Story]
4. ^{{cite web|title=A Bing Crosby Discography|url=http://www.bingmagazine.co.uk/bingmagazine/CBS.html |website=BING magazine|publisher=International Club Crosby|accessdate=December 3, 2017}}
5. ^{{cite web|title=allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-bing-crosby-cbs-radio-recordings-1954-56-mw0001951404|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=December 3, 2017}}

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