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The Rain in Spain Player Piano Word Roll Aeolian 1714
The Rain in Spain Player Piano Word Roll Aeolian 1714
The Rain in Spain Player Piano Word Roll Aeolian 1714
The Rain in Spain Player Piano Word Roll Aeolian 1714

The Rain in Spain Player Piano Word Roll Aeolian 1714

$ 9.98

Availability: 43 in stock
  • Brand: Aeolian
  • Condition: Good condition. Dirt and smudges on the leader with a small tear, but the rest of the roll looks good.
  • Modified Item: No
  • MPN: 1714
  • Custom Bundle: No
  • Exact Year: Unknown
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

    Description

    From Wikipedia:
    "The Rain in Spain" is a song from the musical My Fair Lady, with music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner.  The song was published in 1956.
    The song is a turning point in the plotline of the musical.  Professor Higgins and Colonel Pickering have been drilling Eliza Doolittle incessantly with speech exercises, trying to break her Cockney accent speech pattern. The key lyric in the song is "The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain", which contains five words that a Cockney would pronounce with [æ?] or [a?] – more like "eye" [a?] than the Received Pronunciation diphthong [e?]. With the three of them nearly exhausted, Eliza finally "gets it", and recites the sentence with all "proper" long-As. The trio breaks into song, repeating this key phrase as well as singing other exercises correctly, such as "In Hertford, Hereford, and Hampshire, hurricanes hardly happen", in which Eliza had failed before by dropping the leading 'H'.