With A Little Bit Of Luck - Stanley Holloway (My fair Lady)

[@geo2301able]

I first heard this song in my teens and thought this was the cleverest writing I had ever heard! I think that's what started me on my writing career, which has been going strong for more than 50 years!

[@jjhpor]

I saw "My Fair Lady" in a theatre in Heidelberg Germany in 1965 and probably five times since. I've loved this film ever since. Stanley Holloway certainly was fantastic in this and all of his appearances in the film. Audrey Hepburn, in this film and many others, was the essence of beauty.

[@bryanbryan6108]

What have you written?

[@turqoiseillinois9955]

@@bryanbryan6108 That's what I'm saying I want to know the same thing!

[@turqoiseillinois9955]

I would like to know what you have written?

[@KillerKlownsfromOuterSpaceGame]

@@turqoiseillinois9955 the Simpsons theme song

[@folarinosibodu]

This song is stuck in my head forever. Every so often, it just pops up.

[@erik878]

I'm a foreman I deal with his type all the time, always singing and dancing

[@juliuskyalimpa5073]

The British film industry doesn't make movies as good as this anymore.

[@haweater1555]

This movie was produced by Warner Brothers in Hollywood and entirely filmed on soundstages there.

[@NyahsMom26]

It's just some British actors. I don't think Audrey was lol

[@PaixCB]

@@NyahsMom26I think she’s half British

[@alexanderkarayannis6425]

Lovely song and a crowning moment in the career of this great British artist and WW1 veteran, Stanley Holloway.This and his "I am getting married in the morning"/"Get me to the church on time"rendition, in the same wonderful musical brought him more fame and fortune than all his other stage and film appearances put together ever did...A well deserved and long overdue success, in a long and full life and career...on stage and off. R.I.P. Stanley Holloway.🙏

[@stephenbezanson4633]

Always remember and enjoy so very many of Stanley Holloway’s performances from all those years ago. My favorites were his monologues, especially The Lion & Albert, Three Ha’Pence a Foot, Yorkshire Pudding, The Beefeater. I think my grandmother had all of his monologues and my Mom had an LP of My Fair Lady - the best of both worlds!

[@RogueAce93]

It’s amazing how spry he still was at that time! Plus, this song, and the way he sings it, makes it sound like a tune to cheer one’s self up with and keep going through a tough time.

[@bradvine4564]

He unquestionably has the best two songs in the whole darn show.

[@LoudlyHowl]

Excuse me but no, you're wrong

[@bradvine4564]

@@LoudlyHowl the only two I ever listen to when I'm not watching the movie

[@parksyist]

Stan Holloway was 74 here incredible

[@nigeve01]

Doesn't get any better... I don't think this movie could ever be remade. The sets and the scenes are breathtaking...

[@aminsadeghpour1549]

They were planning to remake this movie but for some reason it got shelved

[@philipbarrett3151]

That opening scene is a single continuous take for nearly 2 minutes! No one makes movies like this anymore.

[@thephantomoftheparadise5666]

They don't call him Dolittle for nothing.

[@newcreationstudios]

Lol I didn't even think of that

[@erik878]

Thats a good a one, but i no think a the jokes, i think a the ryhmes. Im a writin a real nice musical right now so dont nobody call me a dolittle, i already write one before but i forgot a the audience

[@smoothsailor5101]

🤩🤣🤣👍

[@erik878]

I guess my humour is tongue and Chico, and much a do about nothin

[@erik878]

@@smoothsailor5101 why cant the english learn to speak?

[@jackredelfs]

I hadn't seen this in decades, but I remember being enraptured... And it didn't disappoint. One of the greatest moments in musical comedy... Holloway can only be described as spellbinding here. Want to see more of his work.

[@DianaBell_MG]

We would watch this all the time when I was a kid, and my grandfather would get so irritated at him during this song, he took it all seriously and was just so angry that a man would be proud of being like that. He was a good man.

[@JC-ph3ku]

I feel like your grandfather and i are kindred spirits. Much as i appreciate the writing, and the acting, it STILL irritates me watching this scene

[@NyahsMom26]

@@JC-ph3ku I just got it after all these years. Haven't really watched it since I was a kid or a teen. NOW, yes, this song makes me kinda angry too. I get it's the character but it's still infuriating when the context is blurred or it's just kinda low key thrown in your face as a joke for you to laugh at the slapstick while not really understanding what exactly he's singing about. Ur grandpa was a gem. Now no one would even understand what they're saying now, let alone get mad at WHAT he's saying. Pfft everyone's so dumb now tbh. It's depressing. Psyops were even thrown into My Fair Lady but they were subtle playful things like this and your grandpa was, in hindsight, very right to be angry about it. (Not some kook like most would just roll their eyes and think now.) He saw the end result of things like this being acceptable "jokes" back then, even w/ a fun catchy musical backing. Like a warrior would. God bless him. You really see it when you wake up and looook, even in places (or times) you'd never expect, like this.... honestly pretty disturbing.

[@zacariasdelalcazar8873]

@@NyahsMom26 Well, that's the whole point. He's a scumbag. Remember that even kind Colonel Pickering asks him: "Have you _no_ morals, man?" And he says no, with the lame excuse that he can't afford them.

[@marietta1335]

LOL!

[@michaelnally2841]

Sad fact is that there’s still drunks like Mr Doolittle in real life

[@hamoodal-sinaidi6144]

I remember our highschool teacher playing us this movie for 3 classes straight because we were seniors, and basically we were well in our senioritis stage. When this part of the movie came, the whole class was singing along, great times great times !!!

[@krogdog]

Oscar nominated for Best Supporting Actor 1964

[@Lorabliss]

"My Fair Lady" was very popular in Russia. Everything was perfectly translated and performed in the Musical theatres. Now I sing this song in English, though it is not easy to find karaoke version.

[@waynemullally6423]

Keep trying, your lovely

[@Lorabliss]

@@waynemullally6423 Thank you!

[@waynemullally6423]

@@Lorabliss Thank you love. All I want is a room somewhere. I'll bring my mum. She used to sing that when I was a boy. She's 91.

[@CrazyPocky355]

This has been stuck in my head for a few days now. 😅

[@NyahsMom26]

It will do that. Try not watching it since you were in high school and the song gets stuck in your head in your 30s and you actually listen to the words and have your head blown.

[@nathanaellee8356]

Stanley Holloway played the part of Alfred Doolittle perfectly

[@krogdog]

He was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar that year as well.

[@johndean4765]

Nathaniel your are so right Stanley Holloway was perfect for the part AND got the cockney accent spot on.Thanks to Councils tearing down their homes and destroying the close knit communities, then government with mass uncontrolled immigration it is a rarity to even hear a Cockney accent in the East End.What a disgrace to do this to well established communities.

[@matthewbulger5876]

@@krogdog Did you know that Jack Warner wanted James Cagney for the part of Alfred Dolittle, because he felt Stanley Holloway was too old for the big screen version? At that time Mr.Holloway was 73 and James Cagney was 63. Fortunately James Cagney rejected the part, and was lucky to play the part he owned In the 1964 big screen version of " My Fair Lady". I wonder what was James Cagney thinking about at that time. Was he thinking Is my ex boss Jack Warner off his rocker? I can't play this part. This part belongs to Stanley Holloway. I await your reply.

[@krogdog]

@@matthewbulger5876 Really! Doesn’t surprise me at all. Coincidentally enough I just watched Yankee Doodle Dandy a few weeks ago and, holy jeez, who _wouldn’t_ want Cagney in their musical! You can tell he grew up idolizing George M Cohan because he played that part with so much fanboy enthusiasm. As for MFL, I don’t know how well he could’ve done the Cockney accent, maybe that’s what drove him away? Holloway absolutely nailed it 👍

[@aminsadeghpour1549]

Besides rex Harrison Stanley Holloway was also on Broadway

[@TheEulerID]

This performace rejuvenated Stanley Holloway's career, late in life, and he became something of a celebrity on yhr US talk show circuit.

[@laurencegladwell529]

One of my favourite artists ever , very talented man ,

[@johndean4765]

Laurence I agree such a talented man great charisma and got the Cockney accent spot on unlike many people who try to imitate the accent and fail miserably. What a personality S Holloway was they'll never be another .

[@agent99-g7i]

My favorite. I sing it in my head weekly.

[@marthamoore1286]

I love this song, and this guy is so funny!

[@VivekVerma-zh2wk]

Yes but guys dead now

[@aclark903]

@@VivekVerma-zh2wk His luck ran out.

[@martm216]

Love the gentle irreverence of this piece. Once, at a small birthday gathering, I got the group singing along to it. (They weren't keen mind, did it in the end to humour me.)

[@alvincash3230]

I was singing this song to myself this morning. So I came to KZbin to hear it sung properly.

[@LacksleyTM]

One of my favourites from My fair lady

[@aritragupta161]

The greatest dance moves ever..

[@Cavallaro2376]

This song is an absolute classic from a classic movie for all ages.

[@elramondo8232]

Stanley Holloway was a legend, and this song is one of the reasons why!

[@frannyzooey11]

I love the way Alfred Dolittle thinks.

[@oscarrocabert6268]

I totaly adore the lifting trousers turn.

[@JMDinOKC]

I've seen the movie but it's been a long time. At first this looked to me like a video recording of the London stage version, but maybe it's the movie. If it IS the movie, it's remarkable, because it looks like it was done straight through in real time on two divided walled sets, not assembled from cuts, with all that amazing choreography, and especially because Stanley Holloway was 74 years old at the time.

[@danieryaichle8274]

My favorite part in this movie.

[@MrRoberthVanecek]

Even better is the part where old Alfie sings that he's getting married in the morning 🙂

[@shelostit8008]

I can’t help think of someone from work when I hear this

[@Gorboduc]

If you like Stanley Holloway (and who doesn't?) check him out with Alec Guinness in The Lavender Hill Mob.

[@FrogSpatula42]

RIP Stanley Holloway

[@aminsadeghpour1549]

I remember in the year of 1998, the year before I started high school my local high school put on a show of musical songs from shows they had previously done. Three teachers preformed the song on stage. They were great! I believe the drama teacher played Mr dolittle.

[@alextepe4309]

Stanley Halloway stole the show. I enjoyed every bit of his screen time.

[@JoeS-NY]

Im 44, was just singing this and couldn't remember what it was from ha. Now i remember my 8th grade English teacher letting us watch this in the early 90s one day.

[@TnseWlms]

The Lord above called me to join the church choir, Every Sunday, to sing songs that inspire, I bring my money for the collection basket, but, With a little bit of luck, with a little bit of luck, They'll pass 'round while I'm in the choir.

[@bluedale6563]

2023 still loving it

[@jennifervaughn1541]

😂😂😂😂😂 I love this song, this is one of the funniest songs

[@DaveTheBunny]

My great grand father did this sort of stiff spined step dancing like in this scene. Had spurs to click during it. Nothing ive seen in this world has made me smile as big as his nonsense click dancing. 😊😊

[@jonathanmorgan1793]

Utterly brilliant Stanley Holloway.... Thank you Sir!

[@alanroberson9749]

Very good job fellows throughout the 1st grade AA felicitous week of said May!! Congratulations y'all. I think that's what started me on my writing career, which has been going strong for more than 50 years!

[@corinnebertho8370]

Bravo excellent film

[@friendlybanjoatheist5464]

One of the GREAT scenes in musical theater.

[@ratnamunasinghe6525]

I saw this film in 1966/67 for the first time. Therafter I saw it several times. I can see it many more times

[@RichardHell1959]

A great actor ... see him in the Titfield Thunderbolt playing the upper class drunk and Passport to Pimlico as the local shopkeeper .....

[@juliuskyalimpa5073]

He was called Stanley Holloway. Great actor indeed.

[@felicitygeorgegeorge6685]

Beautiful movie 👍👌🤝👏🇮🇳🙏

[@eandsm4620]

Love the movie & the whole soundtract!

[@peterrraklliproductions2020]

Oh, a duel! How very delightful!

[@groovy7715]

I love the shuffling he does on with a little bit of luck with a little bit of luck. I wanna do it

[@RebeccaTurner-kf8gx]

He’s little dance is classy I just love him

[@HouseWildercrest]

Legit my favorite song from this movie next to Loverly.

[@twc3546]

Great, funny song with the perfect actor in the part

[@CaptainLeviAckerman]

We are singing this song for our concert 💝

[@peterlewis6324]

Wonderful in everything.

[@Anonymous-fb1qu]

The way he pinches his pants and jigs always gets me, so funny!!

[@2000toddowen]

"the bloodhound" I suppose you could call it the scourge. But it's what keeps us blokes honest...god bless 'em.

[@sidtom2741]

Anyone else think this movie had incredible cinematography? That too for a 60s movie??

[@NyahsMom26]

Duuh. Older movies usually always had better cinematography lol Ru a kid or something?? U think movies got BETTER as time went on? Prove that please. Just look at the Oscar winning movies over the years. The only people liking this comment are people under 20 who literally never watched a movie older than the Matrix.......................

[@stylishboy004]

@@NyahsMom26 True......... older movies such as this one here proves are the worth of theatre. And all the cinematography you see here, is actually theatrical training, and it's quite an old art, older than movies themselves.

[@Spencer7660]

True story I heard of this song in my high school choir class

[@DoroteoVilla]

Still hysterical 🤣😅🤣🤣

[@matthewbulger2549]

Do you agree the late Stanley Holloway , owned the part of Alfred Doolittle? How many times did he part In "My Fair Lady" on Broadway and In London before playing the part In the 1964 , big screen version? I await your reply.

[@def6414]

With a little bit of luck we will make it through the night

[@Barbara-jq2se]

Again; I’m singing along to every single lyric(s)! YAY! 👏😊with a little bit of luck. With a little bit of luck you won’t get caught! With a little bit of blooming luck!

[@toni79144]

Great lyrics!

[@notanotherguitarchannel]

I've met real-life people like this.

[@CharlotteErcoli]

Thank you

[@sportstrader2175]

I came here after viewing Stan in Brief Encounter, a performance I thoroughly enjoyed.

[@meerzinta3847]

i have to play alfred doolittle in my play wish me besties

[@ruivog]

Thank you.

[@calidahill3374]

I love this song lol

[@evaerlebachova9734]

❤💛🖤⚘

[@megankeil5228]

I think this is the general attitude of some of the youth I used to work with.

[@NyahsMom26]

Agree. It's crazy this wasn't picked up on more in the 60s but it got away as being a joke from a low life when it's not really presented that way unless u are older & understand nuances. Early sophisticated psyop is what it smells like to me. Tapping your foot to mental rubbish unknowingly.... But they started psyoping everyone ever since motion pictures began. We only THINK it just started in recent decades. When you LOOK it's been with us since the beginning. It just was a process. A very dedicated slow process to infect everyone's mind's unwillingly with crap here and there. Like a brain worm.

[@nonjaninja4904]

Life goals.

[@Serioussamurai300]

My Dad used to sing this 😂

[@vwsmusic]

Wonderful!

[@liamalexander6863]

Just a little bit of luck 🎉

[@angelabaciu7237]

❤❤

[@TnseWlms]

Danger: Construction Zone: Do not enter without a felt derby.

[@SteelTheStoic]

Awesome doo rag.

[@ravenhill_the_crusader_1968]

Alfred had the right idea. 😅

[@ravenhill_the_crusader_1968]

wiv a little bit of luck guv.

[@yzamonteiro3689]

😍😍

[@MONSTERDR451]

The Lord about you say... THIS JUST IN...

[@ekowest]

Classic

[@mrmusickhimself]

Mr. Doolittle was the best character in the entire movie, and the poor guy ended up with a "downer" ending.

[@thelivinglegend2611]

What was the rope thing the kids were swinging on? Pus what are all the guys digging?

[@JohnMark-nb5ek]

We used to call it a maypole. One kid walks round the other kid's ropes then the others pull theirs taught and start running clockwise and that one kids rope starts to unwind us pulled literally takinf off and flying round the maypole holding the rope.

[@chrishinton970]

Digging trenches, he was in WW1.

[@alfredroberthogan]

Most likely a new water main trench.

[@waynemullally6423]

Sewers. They were IN the shit!

[@TnseWlms]

What's the name and purpose of the pole at 4:00?

[@artygnat3806]

Its for entertainment, you can swing on it

[@Jeffrey1344]

For god sake, what else could be more entertaining

[@Iggywiggywoo]

Does this song have the same melody as Listen To The Mockingbird?

[@gregorysullivan7175]

Just great entertainment. Infectious. Fuck social comment for a bloomin' moment.

[@OmayraPacheco-m7n]

Cagney was offered this role. He said Holloway was better suited. Cary Grant said No, Rex Harrison to JL.

[@waynemullally6423]

Good old Jim Cagney. He was a real Yankee. He played horrible roles so he could show the world how not to be. Better than Jesus. A great great man. I'm on top of the world Ma!

[@nbenefiel]

Didn’t Holloway play Doolittle on Broadway?

[@leannavong8276]

Good

[@natoshisakamotorcade]

Crazy thing re. fashion & trends it works in 40yr cycles. I picked it years ago as just a matter of time before westerns and musicals would be back BIGTIME. Saturday Night Fever was early rebirth of musicals. There is ONLY so much twerking and porn the masses can tolerate from ' tinsel town ' DANCE IS THE NEXT BIG THING checkout visits to Fred Astaire done with remix music plus shuffle dancing & rock and role dancing they have mega visits on youtube.

[@falcngnzx2]

Why wasn't Eliza Doolittle in "Dr. Doolittle"? Rex Harrison was in both movies. "Doolittle" is not that common an English surname, is it?

[@Harfa_Traw]

"Pan Bozia dał nam ręce jak z żelaza i każdy z nas ma nimi robić coś. Pan Bozia dał nam ręce jak z żelaza, lecz - starczy jeden szczęścia łut, starczy mały szczęścia łut, by pracował za nas inny ktoś! Jeden szczęścia łut, mały szczęścia łut, jeden mały szczęścia łut, by za nas ktoś! Pan Bozia dał nam sznapsa na pokusę, byśmy się strzec Go mieli cały czas. Pan Bozia dał nam sznapsa na pokusę, lecz - starczy jeden szczęścia łut, starczy mały szczęścia łut, by pokusa znikła wewnątrz nas! Jeden szczęścia łut, mały szczęścia łut, jeden mały szczęścia łut - by wlać się w kij! Przeważnie człowiek na czczo chodzi, lecz starczy jeden szczęścia łut, by wlać się w kij! Kobiety są, ażeby je poślubić i wiecznie czołgać już się im do stóp. Kobiety są, ażeby je poślubić, lecz - starczy jeden szczęścia łut, starczy mały szczęścia łut, by je zdobyć wpierw i po co ślub?! Jeden szczęścia łut, mały szczęścia łut, jeden mały szczęścia łut i po co ślub? Starczy szczęścia łut, starczy szczęścia łut, by je zdobyć wpierw i po co ślub? Pan Bozia dał rozlicznych nam przyjaciół, co strzegą nas i szczęścia chcą nam dać. Pan Bozia dał rozlicznych nam przyjaciół, lecz - starczy jeden szczęścia łut, starczy mały szczęścia łut, by przestali wreszcie o nas dbać! Jeden szczęścia łut, mały szczęścia łut, przez ten jeden szczęścia łut przestaną dbać! O nasze szczęście dbają, ale przez jeden szczęścia łut przestaną o nas dbać! To straszny grzech mieć babkę gdzieś na boku i martwić żonę, co dba o twój wikt. To straszny grzech mieć babkę gdzieś na boku, lecz Starczy jeden szczęścia łut, starczy mały szczęścia łut, by się nie dowiedział o tym nikt! Jeden szczęścia łut, mały szczęścia łut, jeden mały szczęścia łut i nie wie nikt! Starczy szczęścia łut, starczy szczęścia łut, by się nie dowiedział o tym nikt!" Przekład: Antoni Marianowicz, Janusz Minkiewicz (ok.1963 -`64 r.)

[@わらわら-s9v]

日本語の空耳。ラスト付近の取り巻き二人が溝に落とされる付近のガヤの声が「ちょうど良い！やっちまえ！」って聞こえる。

[@淑王-r3b]

I'm no

[@matthewbulger5876]

Is It true Jack Warner wanted James Cagney for the part of Alfred Dolittle before giving the part to Stanley Holloway? Is It also true James Cagney felt he was not the right man for the part because he might look out of place playing an Englishman? I await your answer.

[@waynemullally6423]

Seems he was. He rooted for Stanley after Cary Grant turned it down. He was nominated for an Oscar. Cagney was a great Yankee Gentleman, and like every American he loves a silly Englishman wot can lawf at hisself

[@henryshepherd1050]

The first baseball cap on backwards. Blame Doolittle

[@spirikraft1970]

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