"On the Street Where You Live" is a song with music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner from the 1956

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''. It is sung in the musical by the character Freddy Eynsford-Hill, who was portrayed by John Michael King in the original production. In the 1964 film version, it was sung by

Bill Shirley William Jesse Shirley (July 6, 1921 – August 27, 1989) was an American actor and tenor/lyric baritone singer who later became a Broadway theatre producer. He is perhaps best known as the speaking and singing voice of Prince Phillip in Walt Disn ...

, dubbing for actor Jeremy Brett.

Recorded versions

The most popular single of the song was recorded by

Vic Damone Vic Damone (born Vito Rocco Farinola; June 12, 1928 – February 11, 2018) was an American traditional pop and big band singer and actor. He was best known for his performances of songs such as the number one hit "You're Breaking My Heart", and ...

in 1956 for Columbia Records. It reached No. 4 on the '' Billboard'' chart and No. 6 on '' Cashbox'' magazine's chart. It was a No. 1 hit in the

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in 1958. Eddie Fisher also had a top 20 ''Billboard'' hit with the song in 1956, reaching No. 18.Joel Whitburn, ''Top Pop Singles''

Lawrence Welk Lawrence Welk (March 11, 1903 – May 17, 1992) was an American accordionist, bandleader, and television impresario, who hosted the '' The Lawrence Welk Show'' from 1951 to 1982. His style came to be known as "champagne music" to his radio, te ...

and His Orchestra released a version that went to No. 96 in 1956. Andy Williams' recording appeared in the ''Billboard'' top 40 in 1964, reaching No. 3 on the adult contemporary chart and No. 28 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Vic Damone 1959

The song has been recorded by a wide variety of other performers, including Ray Conniff and Bing Crosby, who recorded the song in 1956 for use on his radio show and it was subsequently included in the boxed set ''The Bing Crosby CBS Radio Recordings (1954–56)'' issued by Mosaic Records (catalog MD7-245) in 2009,

(whose band also performed it on his weekly TV series numerous times), Shirley Horn, Doris Day,

George Shearing Sir George Albert Shearing, (13 August 1919 14 February 2011) was a British jazz pianist who for many years led a popular jazz group that recorded for Discovery Records, MGM Records and Capitol Records. Shearing was the composer of over 300 ...

Frank Chacksfield Francis Charles Chacksfield (9 May 1914 – 9 June 1995) was an English pianist, organist, composer, arranger, and conductor of popular light orchestral easy listening music, who had great success in Britain and internationally in the 1950s and e ...

, Alfie Boe,

Bobby Darin Bobby Darin (born Walden Robert Cassotto; May 14, 1936 – December 20, 1973) was an American musician and actor. He performed jazz, pop, rock and roll, folk, swing, and country music. He started his career as a songwriter for Connie ...

, Dean Martin,

Mario Lanza Mario Lanza (, ; born Alfredo Arnold Cocozza ; January 31, 1921 – October 7, 1959) was an American tenor and actor. He was a Hollywood film star popular in the late 1940s and the 1950s. Lanza began studying to be a professional singer at ...

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, Holly Cole, Marvin Gaye,

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, Perry Como, Ray Reach, Harry Connick Jr., Gene Pitney,

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(on their '' I'll Try Something New'' album),

Earl Grant Earl Grant (January 20, 1931 – June 10, 1970) was an American pianist, organist, and vocalist popular in the 1950s and 1960s. Career Grant was born in Idabel, Oklahoma. Though he would be known later for his keyboards and vocals, Grant also p ...

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, Nancy Wilson, Billy Porter, Ilse Huizinga, Matt Dusk,

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, Mr Hudson & The Library, Peggy Lee, Vocal Spectrum,

Steve Hogarth Steve Hogarth (born Ronald Stephen Hoggarth, 14 May 1956 in Kendal, Westmorland) also known as "h", is an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Since 1989 he has been the lead singer of the British rock band Marillion, for which ...

from Marillion,

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, André Previn & Shelly Manne,

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Ed Townsend Edward Benjamin 'Ed' Townsend (April 16, 1929 – August 13, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, producer and attorney. He performed and composed "For Your Love", a rhythm and blues doo wop classic, and co-wrote "Let's Get It On" with Marvi ...

, Chet Baker,

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and BirdyHop.

In popular culture

*In 1991, on the children's show ''

Sesame Street ''Sesame Street'' is an American educational children's television series that combines live-action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry. It is produced by Sesame Workshop (known as the Children's Television Workshop until June 2000) ...

'', Oscar the Grouch, completely fed up with all the nice people around him on

, but still very grateful for his trash can, sang a song called "On This Street Where I'm Grouchy", which spoofed "On the Street Where You Live". * In the 1999 film '' Blast from the Past'', Adam (

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) sings part of this song to Eve ( Alicia Silverstone) and explains that he doesn't want another woman as he can only think about her. * The song is also featured in the television series ''

Mad Men ''Mad Men'' is an American period drama television series created by Matthew Weiner and produced by Lionsgate Television. It ran on the cable network AMC from July 19, 2007, to May 17, 2015, lasting for seven seasons and 92 episodes. Its f ...

'' in the finale of the first season's first episode. * In the ninth episode of the third season of '' Better Things'', actors sing the song in a bar after completing a table read of a fictional Broadway play

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Recorded versions

In popular culture

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