Why Can't the English? (My Fair Lady)

~ Song

Relationships

lyricist:	Alan Jay Lerner
composer:	Frederick Loewe

publisher:	Warner Chappell Music Ltd. (no slash; used 1988–1996)

later translated versions:	Kann denn die Kinder keiner lehren, wie man spricht Los ingleses no quieren aprender למה זה האנגלים אינם דוברים אנגלית (גבירתי הנאווה)
later versions:	Is hier nu niemand
part of:	My Fair Lady (full musical)

Recordings

Date	Title	Attributes	Artist	Length
	recordings
1956-03-25	Overture / Why Can’t the English		Orchestra / Rex Harrison	5:41
1956-03-25	Why Can’t the English?		Rex Harrison, Robert Coote & Julie Andrews	2:41
1959-02-01	Overture / Why Can’t the English?		Orchestra / Rex Harrison	5:37
1959-02-01	Why Can’t the English?		Rex Harrison, Robert Coote	2:47
1959-02-01	Why Can’t the English?		Rex Harrison	2:50
1964-04-14 – 1964-04-17	Why Can’t the English? (Henry Higgins, Eliza Doolittle, Colonel Pickering)		Rex Harrison, Audrey Hepburn, Wilfrid Hyde‐White	2:34
1987	Overture... Why Can't the English?		Sir John Gielgud, Jeremy Irons, Kiri Te Kanawa, London Symphony Orchestra, John Mauceri, David Beavan	7:04
	Overture / Why Can’t the English?	cover	Lerner & Loewe	2:42
	Overture: Why Can’t the English		Ian Richardson	5:29
	Why Can't The English		The Knightsbridge Theatre Orchestra And Chorus	?:??
	Why Can't the English?		Lerner & Loewe	2:39
	Why Can't the English?		Denis Quilley	1:39
	Why Can’t the English		Alec McCowen, National Symphony Orchestra, John Owen Edwards	2:52
	Why Can’t the English?		Tony Britton	?:??
	Why Can’t the English?		The London Theatre Orchestra & Cast	2:41