Get Me to the Church on Time

"Get Me to the Church on Time"
"Get Me to the Church on Time"
Song
Released	1956 in My Fair Lady
Genre	Musical theatre
Composer(s)	Frederick Loewe
Lyricist(s)	Alan Jay Lerner
Track listing
	Act I "Overture"; "Busker Sequence"; "Why Can't the English?"; "Wouldn't It Be Loverly?"; "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)"; "The Rain in Spain"; "I Could Have Danced All Night"; "Ascot Gavotte"; "On the Street Where You Live"; "Eliza's Entrance/Embassy Waltz"; Act II "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";

"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 one of the show's two main characters, 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]
On The Carol Burnett Show the song is performed by Burnett with The Pointer Sisters.
On Gavin and Stacy, Uncle Bryn is singing this song as he carries in the flowers for Gavin and Stacy’s wedding. Gwen, Nessa, and Stacy happily join in. The scene ends abruptly as Stacy’s brother, Jason, enters the room and whatever awkwardness exists between him and Uncle Bryn regarding the “fishing trip” evaporates the joy of the moment and everyone stops singing.

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[]

^ Get Me To The Church On Time. SongFacts.com. Accessed June 3, 2012.
^ Lerner Alan Jay: My Fair Lady - The libretto. Penguin Books
^ Sesame Street Episode 3609 Street Story
^ "A Bing Crosby Discography". BING magazine. International Club Crosby. Retrieved December 3, 2017.
^ "allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved December 3, 2017.

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[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] Sesame Street Episode 3609 Street Story

[4] "A Bing Crosby Discography". BING magazine. International Club Crosby. Retrieved December 3, 2017.

[5] "allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved December 3, 2017.

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v t My Fair Lady by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner (Lerner and Loewe)
Characters	Eliza Doolittle
Source	Pygmalion (1913 play) by George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion (1938 film) by George Bernard Shaw adapted by W. P. Lipscomb and Cecil Lewis
Films	My Fair Lady (1964 film) The Opening of Misty Beethoven (1976) ^[ru] (1977) Man Pasand (1980)
Albums	My Fair Lady (1956 Broadway cast recording) My Fair Lady (1956 Shelly Manne album) My Fair Lady (1958 Oscar Peterson Trio album) Nat King Cole Sings My Fair Lady (1963 album) My Fair Lady Loves Jazz (1964 Billy Taylor album) The Great Songs from "My Fair Lady" and Other Broadway Hits (1964 Andy Williams album)
Musical numbers	"Wouldn't It Be Loverly? " "With a Little Bit of Luck" "The Rain in Spain" "I Could Have Danced All Night" "On the Street Where You Live" "Get Me to the Church on Time" "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face"
Television	"My Fair Laddy" "One If by Clam, Two If by Sea" Selfie
Related	The Street Where I Live

"Get Me to the Church on Time"
Song
Released	1956 (1956) in My Fair Lady
Genre	Musical theatre
Composer(s)	Frederick Loewe
Lyricist(s)	Alan Jay Lerner
Track listing
Act I "Overture" "Busker Sequence" "Why Can't the English?" "Wouldn't It Be Loverly?" "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)" "The Rain in Spain" "I Could Have Danced All Night" "Ascot Gavotte" "On the Street Where You Live" "Eliza's Entrance/Embassy Waltz" Act II "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"