Get Me to the Church on Time
"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.
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.
Stanley Holloway
Stanley Augustus Holloway, OBE (1 October 1890 – 30 January 1982) was an English stage and film actor, humourist, singer, poet and monologist.
He was famous for his comic and character roles on stage and screen, especially that of Alfred P. Doolittle in "My Fair Lady".
He was also renowned for his comic monologues and songs, which he performed and recorded throughout most of his 70-year career.
Born in London, Holloway pursued a career as a clerk in his teen years.
He made early stage appearances before infantry service in the First World War, after which he had his first major theatre success starring in "Kissing Time" when the musical transferred to the West End from Broadway.
In 1921, he joined a concert party, "The Co-Optimists", and his career began to flourish.
At first, he was employed chiefly as a singer, but his skills as an actor and reciter of comic monologues were soon recognised.
Characters from his monologues such as Sam Small, invented by Holloway, and Albert Ramsbottom, created for him by Marriott Edgar, were absorbed into popular British culture, and Holloway developed a following for the recordings of his many monologues.
By the 1930s, he was in demand to star in variety, pantomime and musical comedy, including several revues.
Following the outbreak of the Second World War, Holloway made short propaganda films on behalf of the British Film Institute and Pathé News and took character parts in a series of war films including "Major BarbaraThe Way AheadThis Happy Breed" and "The Way to the Stars".
After the war, he appeared in the film "Brief Encounter" and made a series of films for Ealing Studios, including "Passport to PimlicoThe Lavender Hill Mob" and "The Titfield Thunderbolt".
In 1956 he was cast as the irresponsible and irrepressible Alfred P. Doolittle in "My Fair Lady", a role that he played on Broadway, the West End and in the film version in 1964.
The role brought him international fame, and his performances earned him nominations for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
In his later years, Holloway appeared in television series in the UK and the US, toured in revues, appeared in stage plays in Britain, Canada, Australia and the US, and continued to make films into his eighties.
Holloway was married twice and had five children, including the actor Julian Holloway.
O Valencia!
" O Valencia!" is the fifth single by the indie rock band
The Decemberists, and the first released from their fourth studio album," The Crane Wife".
The music was written by The Decemberists and the lyrics by Colin Meloy.
It tells a story of two star- crossed lovers.
The singer falls in love with a person who belongs to an opposing gang.
At the end of the song, the singer's lover jumps in to defend the singer, who is confronting his lover's brother( the singer's" sworn enemy") and is killed by the bullet intended for the singer.
Thomas Scott (diver)
Thomas Scott( 1907- date of death unknown) was an English diver.
With a Little Bit of Luck
" With a Little Bit of Luck" is a popular song by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, written for the 1956 Broadway play" My Fair Lady".
It was sung by Stanley Holloway as Alfred P. Doolittle in both the original stage and film versions.
It is sung by Eliza's bin man father, Alfred P. Doolittle and is about a list of everyday situations which one finds themselves in, and a desire to take the easy way out as" With a Little Bit of Luck" one's fate might change, thus avoiding any responsibility.
The song is traditionally sung in a deep Cockney accent.
The song occurs twice at Act 1 in the musicals.
Both" With a Little Bit of Luck" scenes are at the same tenement in Tottenham Court Road, London in 1912.
Firstly, Alfred P. Doolittle sings along with bin men Harry and Jamie who are his drinking companions after the scene Eliza's" Would n't It Be Loverly?" and secondly(" reprise"), three days later, with new verses to hear of Eliza he sings along with all the common people there( ensemble) after Prof. Higgins'" I'm an Ordinary Man".
However in the Holloway's film version in 1964, this song occurred only after" I'm an Ordinary Man" and some verses were omitted.
When Alfred P. Doolittle sang the other of his two songs" Get Me to the Church on Time"( Act 2), he was not an impoverished workingman but rich middle- class owing to Higgins' recommendation to an American millionaire, although Doolittle was a man who did n't want" middle- class morality".
Clearly," With a Little Bit of Luck" and" Get Me to the Church on Time" are related and similar to each other as music hall- style songs.
Theodred II (Bishop of Elmham)
Theodred II was a medieval Bishop of Elmham.
The date of Theodred's consecration unknown, but the date of his death was sometime between 995 and 997.
Billy Milano
Billy Milano is a Bronx- born heavy metal musician now based in Austin, Texas.
He is the singer and- occasionally- guitarist and bassist of crossover thrash band M.O.D., and he was also the singer of its predecessor, Stormtroopers of Death.
He was also the singer of United Forces, which also featured his Stormtroopers of Death bandmate Dan Lilker.
Etan Boritzer
Etan Boritzer( born 1950) is an American writer of children ’s literature who is best known for his book" What is God?" first published in 1989.
His best selling" What is?" illustrated children's book series on character education and difficult subjects for children is a popular teaching guide for parents, teachers and child- life professionals.
Boritzer gained national critical acclaim after" What is God?" was published in 1989 although the book has caused controversy from religious fundamentalists for its universalist views.
The other current books in the" What is?" series include
What is Love?,
What is Death?,
What is Beautiful?,
What is Funny?,
What is Right?,
What is Peace?,
What is Money?,
What is Dreaming?,
What is a Friend?,
What is True?,
What is a Family?,
What is a Feeling?"
The series is now also translated into 15 languages.
Boritzer was first published in 1963 at the age of 13 when he wrote an essay in his English class at Wade Junior High School in the Bronx, New York on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
His essay was included in a special anthology by New York City public school children compiled and published by the New York City Department of Education.
Boritzer now lives in Venice, California and maintains his publishing office there also.
He has helped numerous other authors to get published through" How to Get Your Book Published!" programs.
Boritzer is also a yoga teacher who teaches regular classes locally and guest- teaches nationally.
He is also recognized nationally as an erudite speaker on" The Teachings of the Buddha."
Annette Tucker
Annette May Tucker is an American songwriter, who found success in the 1960s as co-writer of songs for The Electric Prunes(" I Had Too Much to Dream( Last Night) Get Me to the World on Time"), The Brogues(" I Ai n't No Miracle Worker"),
The Knickerbockers(" A Coming Generation"), Nancy and Frank Sinatra(" Feelin' Kinda Sunday") and others.
Bernie Bonvoisin
Bernard Bonvoisin, known as Bernie Bonvoisin( born 9 July 1956 in Nanterre, Hauts- de- Seine), is a French hard rock singer and film director.
He is best known for having been the singer of Trust.
He was one of the best friends of Bon Scott the singer of AC/ DC and together they recorded the song" Ride On" which was one of the last songs by Bon Scott.

Question: What is the date of death of the performer of song Get Me To The Church On Time?
Answer: 30 January 1982