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Charting the Original Cast Albums
…best-selling record albums in the country that week. Hello, Dolly! made it to the top just once in the summer of 1964, but had fifty-eight solid weeks on the charts….
The Second Time Around
…song to be sung by some Harmonia Gardens entertainer in Hello, Dolly! Can anyone disagree that Herman had a better idea in having the waiters sing as Dolly entered? And…
This Is the Man of Milk and Honey
…three songs from La Cage aux Folles and three from Hello, Dolly! There were also two from Mame and one each from Mack & Mabel and even Dear World. But…
The Overture Is about to Start
…for the recording. Nearly four years after Hello, Dolly! opened, Pearl Bailey took over and got her own cast album – and an overture. Note the way that Glenn (Abe)…
Nightclubbin’ on Broadway
…wrote “The Man in the Moon (is a lady)” for this spot but Gower Champion thought that the “Hello, Dolly!” number would suffice in that scene. Herman conceded the point,…