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Lovely Lonely Man
Song from "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"
"Lovely Lonely Man" is a song from the 1968 musical film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. It was written by Richard & Robert Sherman and sung by Sally Ann Howes as Truly Scrumptious. In the song, she pines for eccentric inventor Caractacus Potts (played by Dick Van Dyke) at her family's estate after she has an outing with the inventor and his children in the eponymous car.
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Sally Ann Howes used the song in her audition for the role; van Dyke later recalled "They couldn't have picked a better Truly Scrumptious than Sally. ... I heard her voice and it was the richest contralto ... I thought 'My God, this girl is great'".[1]