Hello Dolly

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The Scholars are essentially Whiting Tennis, a New York-based singer-songwriter, whose 1999 debut, Hello Dolly, showcases his remarkable songwriting abilities. Most of the songs found here are built upon simple guitar ideas ingeniously layered upon one another to create one unified, distinct sound. Occasionally Tennis will use a drummer or throw some sparse keyboards on top, but the songs primarily revolve around his unique voice and guitar work. If the songwriting weren't so solid, many of these songs might feel unfinished, but the spare, stripped-down production lends itself to Tennis's laid-back delivery and his quirky, introspective lyrics. On songs such as "100 Years of Waiting" and "The Bullet Hole," Tennis's less-is-more approach provides his songs with the lo-fi appeal of Palace, Radar Bros., and even early Elliott Smith. And the muted, electric buzz of Sebadoh and Beck's "Mutations" are recalled on "Three Way Valentine" and "Believe Me." Full of self-doubt, hidden malice, bitter recriminations, and, surprisingly, a razor-sharp sense of humor, the lyrics give the record a tremendous feeling of gravity and despair mixed with defiance. On Hello Dolly's best track, the Robyn Hitchcock-esque "Troll for You," Tennis tosses off comical, self-deprecating lines about feeling like a monster next to the object of his desire. But as distortion abruptly feeds into it, the song quickly changes from a story of unrequited love to one of stalking and violence. It's Tennis's ability to tweak songwriting conventions that make Hello Dolly such an unexpectedly fresh listen. --Paul Ducey

About the Artist
Seattle guitar player-songwriter moves to New York and forms sad-pop trio.

Band members: Whiting Tennis - gtr/vox
John Devore - drums
Pete Moe - bass

Album Description
Lo-fi guitar-Casio rock music.

Hello Dolly

Hello, Dolly! (1964 Original Broadway Cast) (Deluxe Edition)
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Wonderful Soundtrack
  • DOLLY WILL NEVER GO AWAY
  • The excitement is there, but.....
  • Goodbye, Dolly!
  • Toxically Corny!!!!
 Hello, Dolly! (1964 Original Broadway Cast) (Deluxe Edition)
Jerry Herman , and Carol Channing
Manufacturer: RCA Victor Broadway
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ASIN: B000099SZ0
Release Date: 2003-06-03

Tracks:

  1. Prologue
  2. I Put My Hand In
  3. It Takes a Woman
  4. Put on Your Sunday Clothes
  5. Ribbons Down My Back
  6. Motherhood
  7. Dancing
  8. Before the Parade Passes By
  9. Elegance
  10. Hello, Dolly!
  11. It Only Takes a Moment
  12. So Long Dearie
  13. Finale
  14. I Put My Hand In [*] - Mary Martin
  15. Before the Parade Passes By [*] - Pearl Bailey
  16. Hello, Dolly! [*] - Pearl Bailey
  17. So Long Dearie [*] - Mary Martin
  18. Love, Look in My Window [*] - Ethel Merman
  19. World, Take Me Back [*] - Ethel Merman
  20. On Recording Hello, Dolly! [*] - Carol Channing
  21. When Did You Sense That Hello, Dolly! Would Be a Hit? [*] - Carol Channing
  22. On the Title Number [*] - Carol Channing
  23. "Dolly Changed Me..."; the Book [*] - Carol Channing
  24. Plot [*] - Carol Channing
  25. Optimism, And Finding One's Character [*] - Carol Channing
  26. Prime of Life [*] - Carol Channing

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Sitting in the balcony at the final preview of this 1964 Jerry Herman show, still very much in school and long before my career as a critic began, I knew somehow that I was witnessing theatrical history. Even as that callow youth, I was certain that Carol Channing had been born to play the role of Dolly Gallagher Levi, the meddling turn-of-the century New York widow who had been adapted from Thornton Wilder's straight play The Matchmaker. Channing has proved me right by playing the role ever since, of course, miraculously only improving with age. Beyond Dolly herself, however, the musical emitted a synergistic exuberance (at least five years before we used the word "synergy"). The supporting cast, including David Burns, Eileen Brennan, and Charles Nelson Reilly, were terrific. Herman's tunes and lyrics were sublimely crafted both to create their characters and stand alone. (The title song took on a life of its own.) The show's designers, librettist Michael Stewart and director Gower Champion, combined to transport the audience to 60 years earlier in little old New York. This wasn't all just my opinion: Hello, Dolly! won a record 10 Tonys. The original cast recording can still take you to that other time and place, even if you didn't see the original show. But, at the risk of offending my inner adolescent, the 1994 revival, naturally starring Channing, was even better--both on stage and on disc. --Robert Windeler

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Wonderful Soundtrack.......2007-06-27

This is the original recording, with all of the best names included. Wonderful, wonderful music.

5 out of 5 stars DOLLY WILL NEVER GO AWAY.......2007-05-17

Great re-mastering of original BWay cast album with wonderful other Dollys, particularly Pearl Baily who makesHello, Dolly! (1964 Original Broadway Cast) (Deluxe Edition) the title tune her own. It is still a great score and a delight to own.

4 out of 5 stars The excitement is there, but............2007-01-24

Hello Dolly is one of my favorite shows. When you listen to the cast album, you really do--as others have said--feel the excitement of being there on opening night when Broadway history was being made. The wonderful RCA cast album has been a best seller for 43 years. But while I do feel it is necessary for any musical fan to have this cast recording in their collection, this is not personally my "Dolly" album of choice. I have three of the 5 major DOLLY recordings in my collection; this Original Cast, the Barbra Streisand movie soundtrack, and the Mary Martin London cast on LP (the others I do not have are the Pearl Bailey cast album and the Carol Channing revival). My preferred recording is a tie between the movie soundtrack and the Mary Martin album, with this one trailing (not far) behind. As far as the supporting cast are concerned, the original cast wins hand down. But HELLO DOLLY is really about the star, and in my opinion, Carol Channing can't sing...err, croak...her way out of a cardboard box. I realize that that is Channing's trademark, but it just doesn't work for me. As I said, this album is required equipment in any serious musical lover's collection, but I think that I too will "stick with Streisand." And for God's sake, I wish RCA would get off their rump and get the Mary Martin cast album out on CD, and reissue the Pearl Bailey cast album too while they're at it!

2 out of 5 stars Goodbye, Dolly!.......2005-10-30

This Deluxe Edition of the orginal "Hello, Dolly!" has three distinct problems.

For starters, this is not the classic musical that afficianados would have you believe, nor is it Jerry Herman at his best (that honor goes to "Mame"). Rather, this is a fair to middling score with three socko numbers (title tune not included), three rather fine songs (title song included) and the rest either average or inadequate. "Put On Your Sunday Clothes" and "Before the Parade Passes By" are two of the most galvanizing songs ever written for the Broadway stage and no singer can detract from their euphoric energy (though Carol Channing tries -- more on that later). "So Long, Dearie", though slower in tempo than Barbra Streisand's definitve rendition, is a showstopping character song that's both clever and compelling. These three numbers are what gives "Dolly" it's class and they are three of the best things Herman ever wrote. Then we have "Dancing", "Elegance" and (gulp!) the by now overly familiar title song, each an accomplished tune that propels the plot with, well, elegance. The song "Hello, Dolly!" may now annoy as a Broadway warhorse, but it was as fresh as daffodils when it first premiered. The rest of the score, sadly, isn't up to these standards. "It Takes a Woman" and "It Only Takes a Moment" are indistinguished at best, and "Ribbons Down My Back" is downright annoying. Worse still, "I Put My Hand In" is a lackluster opener that pales in comparison to "Just Leave Everything to Me", its replacement in the movie and a bonifide Jerry Herman rouser. And "Motherhood" sounds like exactly what it was, a stage wait for the scenery to move in. Totally expendable.

The second problem here is that this may be the worst sung original cast recording in Broadway history. Charles Neslon Reilly's wobbly tenor struggles to maintain pitch, Eileen Brennan's stilted soprano sounds more like light operetta than musical comedy, and David Burns makes his movie counterpart, Walter Matthau, sound like Mario Lanza in comparision. Then there is Dolly, the incomprehensibly overrated Carol Channing. From her first froggy notes in "I Put My Hand In" you know it's going to be rough sledding and, sure enough, she croaks and screeches her way through one song after another, rendering most of what she sings unlistenable. Channing's voice is thin, harsh and completely unequalized throughout its range and she effectively saps all of the charm out of "...Sunday Clothes" and "Parade". By the time the recording has ended, you want to banish this CD to a deserted island. But wait, there's more! An almost unrecognizable Mary Martin starts the "extras" on this disc with a shock. Some of her last recordings, these "Dolly" numbers unfortunately display how Martin's once lovely instrument had deepened and thickened over the years. A full throttle but somewhat tremulous Ethel Merman fairs little better on some poorly recorded songs added to the show when she took over. These two giants actually make the songs Pearl Bailey does on this disc seem all the more astonishing. While arguably not as talented as Martin or Merman (although, in reconsidering this recording and her career, I think I'm entirely wrong in that observation), Bailey hits a home run on each of her renditions and her recording of the title song is absolutely definitive. Someone should quickly get the cast recording of her "Dolly" back in circulation. "She" and "we" deserve it.

The final problen here is a lengthy recent interview with Ms. Channing that has to be heard to be believed. Does she actually think we're buying the idea that she was doing high kicks in the studio while recording her songs? Please! She barely catches her breath between phrases. And her comparing her premonition that the show would be a hit to a passage in the bible is as laughable as it is sacriligious. Yes, she may have done the show over 5000 times, but she lucked into a classic without earning her own classic status. No wonder all she could do was repeat herself for the rest of her career. Stick with Streisand.

And I guess from the reviews of THIS review, disliking Channing is sacriligous. I better watch my back.

1 out of 5 stars Toxically Corny!!!!.......2005-01-22

A lot of my friends wonder why I violently detest Broadway Musicals so much. Well, this particular recording is at least one reason why. Exposed to this piece of Toxic Schlock at a very young age (about 4 I reckon), and ever since, for me it has epitomized EVERYTHING I detest about musicals, the thin corny plots, even cornier songs, people breaking out into song at the most ridiculous times and so much glitz that my system nearly went into toxic shock. The worst part of it all, CAROL CHANNING!!!! This woman CANNOT SING TO SAVE HER LIFE, PERIOD!!!

I've even asked people who DO like B'way what is the deal with her? I hear it's that she has charisma. OK, since when does charisma equal talent (I honestly believe they are NOT the same thing).

And I have even tried to listen to other musicals over the years, and I just CANNOT get the appeal of it on ANY level! I guess this is well-done as these things go (there is work involved), but I just CANNOT understand what the fuss is all about.

Signed,

One perplexed Owl.



Broadway - The American Musical (PBS Series)
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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 Broadway - The American Musical (PBS Series)

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ASIN: B00064ADMK
Release Date: 2004-10-19

Tracks:

  1. Give My Regards To Broadway- Joel Grey
  2. Swanee- Al Jolson
  3. When The Moon Shines On The Moonshine- Bert Williams
  4. A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody- John Steel
  5. My Man- Fanny Brice
  6. Fascinating Rhythm- Fred Astaire, Adele Astaire
  7. If You Knew Susie (Like I Know Susie)- 78rpm Version Eddie Cantor
  8. Someone To Watch Over Me- Gertrude Lawrence
  9. Bill- 78 rpm Version Helen Morgan
  10. Ol' Man River- Paul Robeson
  11. Ain't Misbehavin'- Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
  12. Ten Cents A Dance- Ruth Etting
  13. Body And Soul- Libby Holman
  14. Brother, Can You Spare A Dime- Bing Crosby
  15. Night And Day- Fred Astaire
  16. Heat Wave- Ethel Waters
  17. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes- Tamara
  18. You're The Top- Ethel Merman
  19. Summertime- Anne Brown
  20. September Song- Walter Huston
  21. My Heart Belongs To Daddy- Mary Martin
  22. It Never Entered My Mind- Shirley Ross
  23. Bewitched, Bothered, Bewildered- Vivienne Segal
  24. Oh, How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning- Irving Berlin
  25. Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'- Alfred Drake

Tracks:

  1. New York, New York- Cris Alexander,Adolph Green,John Reardon
  2. If I Loved You- John Raitt,Jan Clayton
  3. Come Rain Or Come Shine- Ruby Hill,Harold Nicholas
  4. There's No Business Like Show Business- Ensemble
  5. How Are Things In Glocca Morra? From "Finian's Rainbow"- Ella Logan
  6. Once In Love With Amy- Ray Bolger
  7. Wunderbar- Alfred Drake,Patricia Morison
  8. Some Enchanted Evening- Ezio Pinza
  9. Lost In The Stars- Todd Duncan
  10. Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend- Carol Channing
  11. Luck Be A Lady- Robert Alda,Guys
  12. Getting To Know You- Gertrude Lawrence
  13. Who Cares?- Jack Carson,Betty Oakes
  14. Stranger In Paradise- from " Kismet" Doretta Morrow,Richard Kiley
  15. Ballad Of Mack The Knife- Gerald Price
  16. Hey There- from "The Pajama Game" John Raitt
  17. Whatever Lola Wants- Gwen Verdon
  18. I Could Have Danced All Night- Julie Andrews
  19. Standing On The Corner- from "The Most Happy Fella, 1956" Shorty Long,John Henson,Alan Gilbert
  20. The Party's Over- Judy Holliday
  21. Glitter And Be Gay- Barbara Cook
  22. Tonight- Larry Kert, Carol Lawrence

Tracks:

  1. Seventy-Six Trombones- Robert Preston
  2. I Enjoy Being A Girl- from "Flower Drum Song, 1958" Pat Suzuki
  3. Everything's Coming Up Roses- Ethel Merman
  4. My Favorite Things- from "The Sound Of Music" Mary Martin
  5. Put On A Happy Face- from "Bye Bye Birdie" Dick Van Dyke
  6. Try To Remember- Jerry Orbach
  7. Camelot- from "Camelot" Richard Burton
  8. Love Makes The World Go 'Round- Anna Maria Alberghetti
  9. I Believe In You- Robert Morse And Co.
  10. The Sweetest Sounds- Diahann Carroll,Richard Kiley
  11. Comedy Tonight- Zero Mostel
  12. What Kind Of Fool Am I?- Anthony Newley
  13. As Long As He Needs Me- Georgia Brown
  14. Hello, Dolly!- Carol Channing,Cast
  15. People- Barbra Streisand
  16. Anyone Can Whistle- from "Anyone Can Whistle" Lee Remick
  17. If I Were A Rich Man- Zero Mostel
  18. Night Song- Sammy Davis, Jr.
  19. The Impossible Dream- Richard Kiley
  20. If My Friends Could See Me Now- Gwen Verdon
  21. Open a New Window- from Mame Voice

Tracks:

  1. Willkommen- from "Cabaret" Joel Grey
  2. Let The Sunshine In- James Rado,Lynn Kellogg,Melba Moore,Cast
  3. I'll Never Fall In Love Again- Jill O'Hara,Jerry Orbach
  4. The Ladies Who Lunch- from "Company" Elaine Stritch
  5. Tea For Two- Roger Rathburn,Susan Watson
  6. I'm Still Here- Yvonne De Carlo
  7. I Don't Know How To Love Him- Yvonne Elliman
  8. We Go Together- Adrienne Barbeau,Barry Bostwick,Walter Bobbie,Cast
  9. Corner Of The Sky- John Rubinstein
  10. Send In The Clowns- Glynis Johns
  11. Ease On Down The Road- Stephanie Mills,Tiger Haynes,Ted Ross,Hinton
  12. One- from "A Chorus Line" Cast
  13. All That Jazz- Chita Rivera,Ensemble
  14. Tomorrow- Andrea Mcardle
  15. Don't Cry For Me Argentina- Patti Lupone
  16. Come Follow The Band
  17. Lullaby Of Broadway- Jerry Orbach
  18. And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going- Jennifer Holliday
  19. The Bells Of St. Sebastian- Raul Julia

Tracks:

  1. Memory- Betty Buckley
  2. I Am What I Am- George Hearn
  3. Move On- Bernadette Peters,Mandy Patinkin
  4. Do You Hear The People Sing?- Michael Maguire,Cast
  5. The Music Of The Night- Michael Crawford
  6. You're Nothing Without Me- James Naughton,Gregg Edelman
  7. The American Dream- Jonathan Pryce,Cast
  8. Doctor Jazz- Gregory Hines,Company
  9. With One Look- Glenn Close
  10. On Broadway- Adrian Bailey,Frederick B. Owens,Ken Ard,Victor Trent Cook
  11. Le Jazz Hot- Julie Andrews,Ensemble
  12. Seasons Of Love-
  13. Hakuna Matata- Max Casella,Tom Alan Robbins,Scott Irby-Ranniar,Jason Raize
  14. I Wanna Be A Producer- Matthew Broderick,Ensemble
  15. Dancing Queen- Louise Plowright,Jenny Galloway
  16. Good Morning Baltimore- Marissa Jaret Winokur
  17. Movin' Out- Michael Cavanaugh,Band
  18. I Go To Rio- Hugh Jackman,Company
  19. Defying Gravity- Kristin Chenoweth,Idina Menzel

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Fabulous for any Broadway-lover.......2007-01-30

Packs into 5 CD's a sampling of Broadway tunes from the 20's thru (almost) today, mostly from original cast recordings. Includes not just well-known hits, but also some lesser-known gems. Sound quality is first rate, booklet is informative too. Have given this as a gift to several friends with rave reviews.

5 out of 5 stars Top Shelf.......2007-01-04

This is THE definitive collection of Broadway hits. I have other collections, and none of them measure up. A great deal of care was obviously taken in compiling and presenting this box set. It covers a lot of ground, starting with some long-forgotten but still very enjoyable hits from the days of yore, and finishing with present-day favorites. To the best of my knowledge, the recordings are by those who made them famous. You won't be disappointed.

5 out of 5 stars TERRIFIC CD'S.......2006-03-23

THESE BROADWAY MUSICALS CD'S ARE A BROADWAY LOVERS DREAM. WITH EACH SONG, MEMORIES COME FLOODING BACK. BOTH THE FAMILIAR AND THE FORGOTTEN SONGS ARE A TRUE LISTENING PLEASURE. IF YOU LIKE BROADWAY, YOU'LL LOVE THIS SET.

5 out of 5 stars Great Collection of Broadways greatest Songs .......2005-06-14

This Collection was perfectly made it has almost all the most famous Broadway songs on this 5 cd set. The Music is great and has Broadways greatest treasures like "Memory""People""With One Look""Give my regards Too Broadway" just to name a few of this numerous cd set with over 100 songs. This is a great buy if you like musicals or The music of Broadway

5 out of 5 stars Great Compilation!.......2005-01-17

If you are a fan of the Broadway Musicals, this is a collection that you should purchase. Since I got the 5 disc set I've enjoyed listening to it. The majority of the songs are done by the original singers. The collection is priceless considering that you will have over 100 songs from popular musicals since the beginning of Broadway
Hello, Dolly! (1969 Film Soundtrack)
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Hello, Dolly!
  • Good to listen to
  • Barbra miscast...but still fabulous!
  • 5 STARS ONLY FOR BABS
  • What a great album!
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Jerry Herman , Barbra Streisand , and Michael Crawford
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ASIN: B000001F32
Release Date: 1994-11-08

Tracks:

  1. Just Leave Everything to Me
  2. It Takes a Woman
  3. It Takes a Woman (Reprise)
  4. Put On Your Sunday Clothes
  5. Ribbons down My Back
  6. Dancing
  7. Before the Parade Passes By
  8. Elegance
  9. Love Is Only Love
  10. Hello, Dolly!
  11. It Only Takes A Moment
  12. So Long Dearie
  13. Finale

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Hello, Dolly!.......2007-06-14

I am very excited about the Hello, Dolly! cd with Barbra Streisand. It's just what I hoped for.

4 out of 5 stars Good to listen to .......2007-04-01

Very well done music and catchy music to sing along to

4 out of 5 stars Barbra miscast...but still fabulous!.......2006-11-27

Although the film version of HELLO DOLLY proved to be a creative misstep, the soundtrack album features Miss Barbra Streisand in top vocal form. While she now readily admits to being hopelessly-miscast as the matchmaking Dolly Gallagher Levi, her performance still carries the film (and it's soundtrack). It's great to have Barbra "back where she belongs", singing these classic numbers.

HELLO DOLLY opened on Broadway in 1964 starring Carol Channing (ironically in the same season, Barbra opened in "Funny Girl"). Reviews were ecstatic, and DOLLY went on to run for several years, including a special all-black cast headed by Pearl Bailey and Cab Calloway. In 1969, the film version was released, and given the huge success of the stage production, Twentieth Century-Fox expected the same sort of response from movie audiences. With Barbra Streisand, the most popular, talked-about musical star of the period; and the rousing melodies of Jerry Herman, how did it fail? The miscasting of Streisand was the main problem (people just could not buy her as a middle-aged widow), but the zero chemistry between Streisand and Walter Matthau, playing Dolly's curmudgeonly love interest Horace Vandergelder, was also a key factor (and clearly there was no love lost between the pair). The sad truth was that movie musicals were beginning to fall out of fashion with moviegoers.

Happily, the soundtrack album glitters with Jerry Herman's rousing score, filled to the brim with his trademark brand of showtune magic. Barbra gets things off to a rattling start in "Just Leave Everything to Me" (a brand-new song that replaces "I Put My Hand In" from the stage score), and later belts the showstopper "Put on Your Sunday Clothes". She also gets another brand-new song, "Love is Only Love" (a delicate, bittersweet ballad about romance the second time around, originally intended for the stage score of "Mame"). Dolly's tunestack also features the hilarious 11 o'clocker "So Long Dearie" and the reaffirming "Before the Parade Passes By"; not to mention the iconic Title Song, which Streisand shares with a cameo appearance from Louis Armstrong.

A very young Michael Crawford plays the nervous counter clerk Cornelius Hackl; ably-partnered by the glowing (albeit dubbed) Mrs Molloy of Marianne McAndrew. Their duet of "It Only Takes a Moment" is sheer bliss. Danny Lockin (reprising his Broadway role of Barnaby Tucker) and E.J. Peaker as the flirty Minnie Faye provide the comical younger romantic couple.

The original master tapes have a lush and warm tone to them; and the remastering is excellent. For fans of Barbra, this soundtrack album captures her at the very apex of her superstardom, performing a role that she may not have been entirely-suitable for, but nevertheless offering a capable and fun-loving performance.

[Philips/Polygram 810 368-2]

5 out of 5 stars 5 STARS ONLY FOR BABS.......2006-07-13

WE GET CHEATED ON THIS RELEASE AS THEY LEAVE OUT ALL THE EXTRA MUSIC THATS SO DELICIOUS (LIKE THE OVERTURE, LEAD INS, DANCING MUSCIC, ETC.) THE ONLY PARTS WORTHWHILE ALL BELONG TO BABS (& LOUIS ARMSTRONG) WHO SINGS THE HELL OUT OF THE SCORE. KEEP YOUR FINGER ON THE SKIP BUTTON SO THE REST OF THE UNBEARABLE PERFORMANCES DON'T HAVE TO BE HEARD AND YOU CAN GET RIGHT TO BABS IN ALL HER GLORY AND AT FULL THROTTLE!!!

CAN SOMEONE TELL THE POWERS THAT BE, TO RE-RELEASE THIS ABLUM WITH THE FULL SCORE (EVEN IF IT HAS TO BE A 2 DISC SET).

5 out of 5 stars What a great album!.......2006-06-26

I first saw "Hello Dolly" when it was shown on CBS in the early 1970s,and I have loved both the movie and the album ever since.
I owned the original 20th Century-Fox Records album for years,
and was delighted to see it finally released on CD.This is still
one of the best 1960s soundtrack albums!The score is beautifully
performed by the Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Orchestra,under the superb direction of Lennie Hayton,Lionel Newman,and their
colleagues(They won a much deserved Oscar for it).Michael
Crawford,Marianne McAndrew,Danny Lockin,and E.J.Peaker all sing well.Even Walter Matthau does an acceptable job.And this is
Barbra Streisand at her peak!Just listen to her let it rip in
"Before The Parade Passes By" and the title song,and you'll know what I mean!Babs simply performs magnificently here!And Jerry Herman has never had it so good!
So,you may be wondering,is there anything wrong with this CD?Yes,
there is.Like Phillips's "Doctor Dolittle" reissue,this is the
original 20th Century-Fox Records album,NOT AN EXPANDED DELUXE
EDITION.Hopefully,someday someone will get around to doing one!
Until then,however,this one will do just fine.
Hello, Dolly! (1975 New York Revival)
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • JERRY HERMAN'S CLASSIC SCORE AT ITS VERY BEST . . .
  • Simply the best Dolly ever
  • Pearl Bailey is Magnificent!
 Hello, Dolly! (1975 New York Revival)

Manufacturer: RCA
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ASIN: B000002W1R
Release Date: 1991-05-28

Tracks:

  1. Overture
  2. I Put My Hand In
  3. It Takes A Woman
  4. Put On Your Sunday Clothes
  5. Ribbons Down My Back
  6. Motherhood
  7. Dancing
  8. Before The Parade Passes By
  9. Elegance
  10. Hello, Dolly!
  11. It Only Takes A Moment
  12. So Long, Dearie
  13. Finale

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It almost seemed as though every elderly female stage and film star--from Ethel Merman to Dorothy Lamour to Ginger Rogers--tried their hand at portraying Thornton Wilder's famous matchmaker, Dolly Levi, following the musical's smash 1964 opening, and yet the role will always belong to Carol Channing. When Pearl Bailey assumed the role on Broadway, however, she created yet another critical sensation with Jerry Herman's first major musical--not only because it was an all-black cast, setting off a long-running trend; and because the great Cab Calloway came out of retirement to play Horace Vanderbilt; but mainly because "Miss Pearlie Mae" brought her own famous ad-libbing personality to the role, creating a most interesting interpretation that is immortalized on this recording. Her version of the title song stands alongside Channing's own. --Bill Holdship

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars JERRY HERMAN'S CLASSIC SCORE AT ITS VERY BEST . . . .......2007-06-20

"What is it about Dolly, the meddlesome widow of Ephram Levi that has continued to attract leading ladies of a certain age? Unless you are a Dolly addict, you might wonder what makes the character such a perfect fit for so many different personalities. [Carol] Channing, who played the role on Broadway from January 16, 1964 until August 8, 1966, and [Pearl] Bailey, who captivated a whole new audience when she played it from November 12, 1967 to mid December 1969, were hardly similar types. During Bailey's run the extraordinarily beautiful and petite Thelma Carpenter played Dolly at Wednesday matinees.

"Dolly was also a refreshing and revitalizing showcase it proved to be for fabled and still able film stars and dancers and comediennes. The Broadway run featured in succession: As of August 9, 1966, Fred Astaire's best dancing partner Ginger Rodgers appeared. She was followed by big band singer/big mouth comedienne of radio, stage and screen Martha Raye from February 27, 1967. 20th Century Fox musical film star Betty Grable, known for her "million dollar legs"" may or may not have tried to show them off from June 12th, 1967, until she was replaced by hilarious TV/ nightclub standup comedienne Phyllis Diller on December 26, 1969.

"After Diller it was time for the legendary Ethel Merman to belt out Herman's tunes, including two he wrote especially for her. Actually, Merman was Herman's first choice to play Dolly. Her gig began on March 28, 1970 and she harnessed the miserly Horace Vandergelder for the last time on December 27, 1970. After Bailey returned with the first revival on November 6, 1975 for approximately seven weeks, Channing made a successful return in the role on March 5, 1978. She returned again, presumably for the last time, and ate those dumplings from October 19, 1995 to January 28, 1996." -- Simon Saltzman,[...]

Because Ms. Channing never missed a performance, no one ever got the chance to see her understudy, Jo Anne Worley. But other Dollys include Barbra Streisand in the 1969 film version, Betsy Palmer and Tovah Feldshuh (Paper Mill Playhouse), Mary Martin in the London production, Bibi Osterwald (Bailey's replacement for a week in November 1969), Lainie Kazan in Atlantic City, Dorothy Lamour in the national road company, Molly Picon at the North Shore Music Theatre, and Michelle Lee and Eve Arden in separate road tours.

I'm not going to tell you that Ms. Bailey is the best Dolly on records, for it's impossible to hear anyone in the part and prevent my subconscious from immediately referencing Carol Channing. I sat third row center in Minneapolis during her 1995 farewell tour of HELLO, DOLLY! And she was spectacular, even at 70-plus years.

However, overall this IS the best DOLLY on records. Philip J. Lang revamped his orchestrations and wrote a brand new overture for this recording of the 1975, all-Black revival. Jack Crowder's gorgeous baritone gives us a Cornelius far different from Charles Nelson Reilly's interpretation, and Emily Yancy's sweet soprano is softer and less forceful than Eileen Brennan's, which is fine with me. But back to Ms. Bailey. Michael Portantiere writes ("TheaterMania Guide") "The performance of the title song is the best ever recorded: Bailey and the boys have the time of their lives as saxophones wail, trumpets blare, a banjo strums, and the xylophone player goes nuts. A real pistol as Dolly, Bailey is very funny, but just as strong when delivering a serious song like 'Before the Parade Passes By.'" My only carp is with the slightly ragged singing by the chorus.

The recorded sound is swell, and thanks to ArkivMusic, you can now own this marvelous recording, since it's available as an ArkivCD, part of their CD-on-Demand service. You can order it either from amazon.com or directly from ArkivMusic. Unfortunately, this one does not come with liner notes.

It's a must have!

5 out of 5 stars Simply the best Dolly ever.......2002-07-04

The classic Jerry Herman score has never been done better than it is here. Pearl Bailey is superb, as is Cab Calloway. It outshines the original Carol Channing version. The woefully miscast movie version (with Streisand reprising her Funny Girl role under the guise of Dolly Levi)isn't even in the same league. In fact, it isn't in the league under this one or the one under that one.

If you like musicals, you'll probably like the orginal version, but this one is a treasure not to be missed.

5 out of 5 stars Pearl Bailey is Magnificent!.......2000-02-27

I've got several cast versions of "Hello, Dolly!" -- including the Streisand movie soundtrack -- but this is the one that I always seem to come back to. The whole album is well-sung and well-orchestrated, but the ultimate reason to listen to it over and over is Bailey's incredible performance. There's a genuinely impish quality to her rendition of "I Put My Hand In," but below that you hear the strength of a real survivor. She's all personality in the show's title number, and this really comes through as she kids with the waiters. Maybe the highpoint on the album, though, is the version of "So Long, Dearie" near the end of the album -- you'll never forget the way she delivers the line about Horace's cash register.

If you're a fan of musical theatre, this unforgettable performance is a must-have for your collection. Buy it as a document of one of the last performances of a truly great lady. Buy it to celebrate Black History Month. Just buy it!
Hello, Dolly! (1964 Original Broadway Cast)
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Wonderful Soundtrack
  • DOLLY WILL NEVER GO AWAY
  • The excitement is there, but.....
  • Goodbye, Dolly!
  • Toxically Corny!!!!
 Hello, Dolly! (1964 Original Broadway Cast)
Jerry Herman , and Carol Channing
Manufacturer: RCA Victor Broadway
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ASIN: B000002W5P
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

  1. Prologue - Orchestra
  2. I Put My Hand In
  3. It Takes A Woman - Company
  4. Put On Your Sunday Clothes
  5. Ribbons Down My Back - Eileen Brennan
  6. Motherhood
  7. Dancing
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  10. Hello, Dolly!
  11. It Only Takes A Moment - Company
  12. So Long Dearie
  13. Finale

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Sitting in the balcony at the final preview of this 1964 Jerry Herman show, still very much in school and long before my career as a critic began, I knew somehow that I was witnessing theatrical history. Even as that callow youth, I was certain that Carol Channing had been born to play the role of Dolly Gallagher Levi, the meddling turn-of-the century New York widow who had been adapted from Thornton Wilder's straight play The Matchmaker. Channing has proved me right by playing the role ever since, of course, miraculously only improving with age. Beyond Dolly herself, however, the musical emitted a synergistic exuberance (at least five years before we used the word "synergy"). The supporting cast, including David Burns, Eileen Brennan, and Charles Nelson Reilly, were terrific. Herman's tunes and lyrics were sublimely crafted both to create their characters and stand alone. (The title song took on a life of its own.) The show's designers, librettist Michael Stewart and director Gower Champion, combined to transport the audience to 60 years earlier in little old New York. This wasn't all just my opinion: Hello, Dolly! won a record 10 Tonys. The original cast recording can still take you to that other time and place, even if you didn't see the original show. But, at the risk of offending my inner adolescent, the 1994 revival, naturally starring Channing, was even better--both on stage and on disc. --Robert Windeler

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Wonderful Soundtrack.......2007-06-27

This is the original recording, with all of the best names included. Wonderful, wonderful music.

5 out of 5 stars DOLLY WILL NEVER GO AWAY.......2007-05-17

Great re-mastering of original BWay cast album with wonderful other Dollys, particularly Pearl Baily who makesHello, Dolly! (1964 Original Broadway Cast) (Deluxe Edition) the title tune her own. It is still a great score and a delight to own.

4 out of 5 stars The excitement is there, but............2007-01-24

Hello Dolly is one of my favorite shows. When you listen to the cast album, you really do--as others have said--feel the excitement of being there on opening night when Broadway history was being made. The wonderful RCA cast album has been a best seller for 43 years. But while I do feel it is necessary for any musical fan to have this cast recording in their collection, this is not personally my "Dolly" album of choice. I have three of the 5 major DOLLY recordings in my collection; this Original Cast, the Barbra Streisand movie soundtrack, and the Mary Martin London cast on LP (the others I do not have are the Pearl Bailey cast album and the Carol Channing revival). My preferred recording is a tie between the movie soundtrack and the Mary Martin album, with this one trailing (not far) behind. As far as the supporting cast are concerned, the original cast wins hand down. But HELLO DOLLY is really about the star, and in my opinion, Carol Channing can't sing...err, croak...her way out of a cardboard box. I realize that that is Channing's trademark, but it just doesn't work for me. As I said, this album is required equipment in any serious musical lover's collection, but I think that I too will "stick with Streisand." And for God's sake, I wish RCA would get off their rump and get the Mary Martin cast album out on CD, and reissue the Pearl Bailey cast album too while they're at it!

2 out of 5 stars Goodbye, Dolly!.......2005-10-30

This Deluxe Edition of the orginal "Hello, Dolly!" has three distinct problems.

For starters, this is not the classic musical that afficianados would have you believe, nor is it Jerry Herman at his best (that honor goes to "Mame"). Rather, this is a fair to middling score with three socko numbers (title tune not included), three rather fine songs (title song included) and the rest either average or inadequate. "Put On Your Sunday Clothes" and "Before the Parade Passes By" are two of the most galvanizing songs ever written for the Broadway stage and no singer can detract from their euphoric energy (though Carol Channing tries -- more on that later). "So Long, Dearie", though slower in tempo than Barbra Streisand's definitve rendition, is a showstopping character song that's both clever and compelling. These three numbers are what gives "Dolly" it's class and they are three of the best things Herman ever wrote. Then we have "Dancing", "Elegance" and (gulp!) the by now overly familiar title song, each an accomplished tune that propels the plot with, well, elegance. The song "Hello, Dolly!" may now annoy as a Broadway warhorse, but it was as fresh as daffodils when it first premiered. The rest of the score, sadly, isn't up to these standards. "It Takes a Woman" and "It Only Takes a Moment" are indistinguished at best, and "Ribbons Down My Back" is downright annoying. Worse still, "I Put My Hand In" is a lackluster opener that pales in comparison to "Just Leave Everything to Me", its replacement in the movie and a bonifide Jerry Herman rouser. And "Motherhood" sounds like exactly what it was, a stage wait for the scenery to move in. Totally expendable.

The second problem here is that this may be the worst sung original cast recording in Broadway history. Charles Neslon Reilly's wobbly tenor struggles to maintain pitch, Eileen Brennan's stilted soprano sounds more like light operetta than musical comedy, and David Burns makes his movie counterpart, Walter Matthau, sound like Mario Lanza in comparision. Then there is Dolly, the incomprehensibly overrated Carol Channing. From her first froggy notes in "I Put My Hand In" you know it's going to be rough sledding and, sure enough, she croaks and screeches her way through one song after another, rendering most of what she sings unlistenable. Channing's voice is thin, harsh and completely unequalized throughout its range and she effectively saps all of the charm out of "...Sunday Clothes" and "Parade". By the time the recording has ended, you want to banish this CD to a deserted island. But wait, there's more! An almost unrecognizable Mary Martin starts the "extras" on this disc with a shock. Some of her last recordings, these "Dolly" numbers unfortunately display how Martin's once lovely instrument had deepened and thickened over the years. A full throttle but somewhat tremulous Ethel Merman fairs little better on some poorly recorded songs added to the show when she took over. These two giants actually make the songs Pearl Bailey does on this disc seem all the more astonishing. While arguably not as talented as Martin or Merman (although, in reconsidering this recording and her career, I think I'm entirely wrong in that observation), Bailey hits a home run on each of her renditions and her recording of the title song is absolutely definitive. Someone should quickly get the cast recording of her "Dolly" back in circulation. "She" and "we" deserve it.

The final problen here is a lengthy recent interview with Ms. Channing that has to be heard to be believed. Does she actually think we're buying the idea that she was doing high kicks in the studio while recording her songs? Please! She barely catches her breath between phrases. And her comparing her premonition that the show would be a hit to a passage in the bible is as laughable as it is sacriligious. Yes, she may have done the show over 5000 times, but she lucked into a classic without earning her own classic status. No wonder all she could do was repeat herself for the rest of her career. Stick with Streisand.

And I guess from the reviews of THIS review, disliking Channing is sacriligous. I better watch my back.

1 out of 5 stars Toxically Corny!!!!.......2005-01-22

A lot of my friends wonder why I violently detest Broadway Musicals so much. Well, this particular recording is at least one reason why. Exposed to this piece of Toxic Schlock at a very young age (about 4 I reckon), and ever since, for me it has epitomized EVERYTHING I detest about musicals, the thin corny plots, even cornier songs, people breaking out into song at the most ridiculous times and so much glitz that my system nearly went into toxic shock. The worst part of it all, CAROL CHANNING!!!! This woman CANNOT SING TO SAVE HER LIFE, PERIOD!!!

I've even asked people who DO like B'way what is the deal with her? I hear it's that she has charisma. OK, since when does charisma equal talent (I honestly believe they are NOT the same thing).

And I have even tried to listen to other musicals over the years, and I just CANNOT get the appeal of it on ANY level! I guess this is well-done as these things go (there is work involved), but I just CANNOT understand what the fuss is all about.

Signed,

One perplexed Owl.



Hello, Dolly! (1994 Broadway Revival Cast)
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Amazing
  • Variation on Original Cast Album w/ Plus & Minus
  • RETIRE DOLLY
  • Dolly (and Carol) are back where they belong!
  • Wonderful recording of the beloved score
 Hello, Dolly! (1994 Broadway Revival Cast)
Jerry Herman , Carol Channing , Michael DeVries , Florence Lacey , Jay Garner , and Cory English
Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande
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ASIN: B0000014VF
Release Date: 1994-11-22

Tracks:

  1. Overture
  2. I Put My Hand In
  3. It Takes A Woman
  4. Put On Your Sunday Clothes
  5. Ribbons Down My Back
  6. Motherhood
  7. Dancing
  8. Before The Parade Passes By
  9. Elegance
  10. The Waiter's Gallop
  11. Hello, Dolly!
  12. It Only Takes A Moment
  13. So Long Dearie
  14. Hello, Dolly! (Reprise)
  15. Finale

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars Amazing.......2007-06-01

I have'nt heard the Original Original (from 1964). I can only assume this is a case of The Emperors New clothes and no one had the courage to kill this recording at birth. Whoever had the idea that asking Carol Channing to revisit the part of Dolly Levi was worthwhile deserves to be drummed out of the Entertainment Industry. In case there is any confusion this recording is dire. It sounds like Walter Mattau after a very heavy night on the tiles (I have no reason to assume Walter M ever had a heavy night on the tiles). The only reason to buy this is to give confidence to anyone who fancies trying musical theatre and thinks their voice is not up to scratch. If this can reach Broadway there is hope for anyone. I am only familiar with a few recordings of Dolly but would suggest that so far Barbra Striesand in the movie is the best bet if its music you enjoy.

4 out of 5 stars Variation on Original Cast Album w/ Plus & Minus.......2006-07-01

The 1994 Farewell Tour revival album of Dolly is smart, snappy & of interest to fans, tho I doubt it replaces the original cast album for warmth & charm. Channing is amazing but not in good voice (if you doubt she ever had a good voice listen to her on the legendary Jazz Baby CD). The revival version of Ribbons Down My Back by Florence Lacey sets a new standard for that number. At times the chorus energy seems a bit forced rather than hitting the right tone for this tuneful highly agreeable musical adaptation of The Matchmaker. This version should not replace the original, but make a good addition to anyone's collection of major Broadway musicals.

3 out of 5 stars RETIRE DOLLY.......2005-06-17

FIRST THE GOOD NEWS-THIS IS THE FIRST NEARLY COMPLETE RECORDING OF THE "DOLLY" SCORE INCLUDING "THE WAITERS GALLOP" THE FRANTIC AND ENERGETIC DANCE THAT PRECEDES THE TITLE NUMBER. NOW FOR THE BAD NEWS-WHETHER YOU LIKE HER OR NOT THE CHARM ABOUT CAROL CHANNING IS HER VOICE WHICH SOUNDS LIKE A STRANGULATED DUCK-ON THIS RECORDING AND WELL INTO HER SEVENTIES SHE SOUNDS MORE LIKE A COMATOSE DUCK. SO MY SUGGESTION IS BUY THE ORIGINAL CAST ALBUM WHEN HER UNUSUAL VOICE HAD ITS VIBRANCY AND BUY THIS FOR ITS COMPLETENESS WITH NOSTALGIA FOR WHAT USED TO BE.

5 out of 5 stars Dolly (and Carol) are back where they belong!.......2003-10-28

HELLO DOLLY! is still one of musical theatre's crowning-glories. The original 1964 production catapulted Carol Channing into the annals of Broadway folklore and the role became her signature performance.

In 1994, Carol Channing and DOLLY! came back to Broadway for a limited-run revival. Channing has lost few steps since originating the role and turns in a fabulous performance. Like a fine wine, her performance and portrayal of Dolly grew richer and more honed.

Channing was surrounded by a strong cast including Florence Lacey as Irene Molloy, Jay Garner as Horace Vandergelder, Michael DeVries as Cornelius Hackl, Cory English as Barnaby Tucker and Lori Ann Mahl as Minnie Fay.

Florence Lacey sings a deeply-affecting "Ribbons Down My Back", DeVries and English are wonderful with "Dancing" and Jay Garner is the perfect stuffy foil to Channing's manic and free-wheeling matchmaker.

There are many differences to the original 1964 cast album, including the addition of a new, longer Overture, and the extended sequence to "Dancing". Sound quality is also very impressive, though the original cast album's sound quality is still as fresh as paint.

Get this superb CD today (or buy both albums if you have yet to discover the joys of this landmark Broadway show).

5 out of 5 stars Wonderful recording of the beloved score.......2003-07-11

Jerry Herman's score for "Hello, Dolly!" has its lesser points: a few underwhelming songs like "It Takes a Woman," "It Only Takes a Moment" and "Motherhood" and an undeniably hokey title song. However, it also has several genuine showstoppers, including "Put On Your Sunday Clothes" and "Before the Parade Passes By," the beautiful "Ribbons Down My Back" and a couple of irresistable charm songs, "Elegance" and "So Long Dearie." And even that title song, hokey as it is, is also undeniably one of the greatest numbers Broadway has ever produced in terms of sheer galvanizing energy - audiences have been giving it standing ovations for just about 40 years.

This recording must surely be one of the best, if not possibly *the* best, recording of the score out there, because the entire cast gives such a spirited (and, in my opinion, thoroughly professional) performance that the weak songs sound great and the great ones sound greater still. Carol Channing's voice takes an awful lot of getting used to, but her take on Dolly is so undeniably original and, after a while, so thoroughly enjoyable that you wonder how anyone can *not* say she *is* Dolly Levi. And having seen her in the movie "Thoroughly Modern Millie," I know in person she has great capacity to entertain an audience, which must be made even greater in a live theatre. Although, as I said, the entire cast is professional and spirited, the only other standout is Florence Lacey, who may be out of the traditional age range for ingenue Irene Molloy, but has such a lovely voice, used to particularly wonderful effect in "Ribbons Down My Back," that it hardly matters.

Though I have yet to hear the original Broadway cast recording, or others featuring Pearl Bailey and Mary Martin, I have heard the film soundtrack and seen the film it came from, and despite Barbra Streisand's incredible singing, that recording just doesn't make you revel in the wonders of this score from the first listen like this one does.
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    Release Date: 1992-10-09

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    4. The Wedding Sequence Fom Milk And Honey
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    Hello, Dolly!
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    • One of the Greatest Jazz/Pop/Dixieland Albums!
    • Not His Best But Significant
    • Good reissue, but track missing?
    		 Hello, Dolly!
    Louis Armstrong
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    ASIN: B000050I0R
    Release Date: 2000-11-07

    Tracks:

    1. Hello, Dolly!
    2. It's Been A Long, Long Time
    3. A Lot Of Livin' To Do
    4. A Kiss To Build A Dream On
    5. Someday
    6. Hey, Look Me Over
    7. I Still Get Jealous
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    9. Be My Life's Companion
    10. Blueberry Hill
    11. You Are Woman, I Am Man
    12. Jeepers Creepers

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars One of the Greatest Jazz/Pop/Dixieland Albums!.......2004-03-07

    Released in 1964, this hep cat album from a 60+-year-old American legend featured the title song that pushed the Beatles off their #1 perch on the charts at the peak of their popularity. A must-have album in which Satchmo shows the world he's still got it by blaring that famous trumpet to then-current Broadway tunes,old standards and pop hits. Listen for his inside joke "broken record" that only us "old" people can grin at in this digital age. I dare anyone to groove to "Jeepers Creepers" and not find themselves snapping their fingers!
    PS: An earlier review mentions missing/out-of-sequence songs. I did not find this to be the case on my "black and white" (and red)CD, but perhaps that is the case on the CD with the "color" album cover.

    3 out of 5 stars Not His Best But Significant.......2001-03-12

    Matt's right, a nice re-issue for collectors. "Louis Armstrong's 'Hello Dolly!'" may have been one of the last acoustic jazz hit records in the sixties. Unlike Matt's copy, however, my recently purchased MCA CD has all the tracks extant, but MCA hasn't gotten the credits completely correct: Russell Moore IS playing trombone on one of the sides that the liner notes say he's not. In fact, Louis calls for him to solo as part of his lyric. No mention either of the strings that subtley underplay on "Jeepers Creepers."

    Louie doesn't seem at peak form here -- as he does on his recordings paying tribute to Fats Waller and J.C. Handy, for example -- and the relationship of these tune selections to each other seems random, but it is nonetheless delightful to hear the master player/singer in his waning years, when many of us were enjoying the Beatles and loosing our jazz footings a bit. An historically significant recording.

    4 out of 5 stars Good reissue, but track missing?.......2000-11-14

    This is a nice album to have even if you are only mildly interested in Armstrong's playing and singing (like me). There are some really endearing songs, like "It's Been a Long, Long Time" and "A Kiss to Build a Dream On." However, on the reissue, they may have messed up. "Blueberry Hill" is missing. Either the song listing is incorrect or the song was to be included and the disc was pressed incorrectly. In either case, this reissue (with the mistake) may turn out to be somewhat collectible.
    Hello, Dolly!
    Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    • Satchmo K.O.'s Fab Four
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    		 Hello, Dolly!
    Louis Armstrong
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    ASIN: B000002NWR
    Release Date: 1990-10-25

    Tracks:

    1. Hello, Dolly!
    2. It's Been A Long, Long Time
    3. A Lot Of Livin' To Do
    4. A Kiss To Build A Dream On
    5. Someday
    6. Hey, Look Me Over
    7. I Still Get Jealous
    8. Moon River
    9. Be My Life's Companion
    10. Blueberry Hill
    11. You Are Woman, I Am Man
    12. Jeepers Creepers

    Amazon.com

    OK, some jazz fans may tell you you're not supposed to like this--that Satchmo somehow "perverted" his talent and went commercial here--but then maybe some jazz fans just don't have a sense of fun. Hello, Dolly was a true musical phenomenon--and it introduced a whole new generation (who'd missed his 40-year heyday) to the joys of Louis Armstrong. In fact, Armstrong's single helped save the Broadway show, which had been predicted to be a huge flop... until the banjo and trumpet-driven single came out of nowhere--smack dab in the middle of Beatlemania-- and became a smash hit. The inevitable album that followed then knocked The Beatles' Second Album out of its No. 1 spot, remaining there for six weeks. The rest of the LP includes his mirthful takes on some pop standards ("Jeepers Creepers") as well as tunes from other Broadway shows--Funny Girl and Bye Bye Birdie, among them. Armstrong coasted on the strength of this one LP the rest of the decade until his death in 1971. --Bill Holdship

    Customer Reviews:

    3 out of 5 stars Satchmo K.O.'s Fab Four.......1999-12-09

    Ok, so this isn't primo Louis. But you know something works right in the universe when Satchmo is annointed to knock the Beatles out of #1. Like, who else was qualified?

    Hello Dolly is the kind of song you wouldn't bother to hear in any version but the one here. Jeepers Creepers is perfect for him (check out Tony Bennett's devotional rendition of the tune with Count Basie). Got A Lot of Livin' to Do never sounded better. The band is ragged & far beneath Armstrong's jazz abilities, but as a Sixties pop album this is pretty good. Face it, you were sick of the Beatles anyway.

    Bob Rixon, WFMU

    5 out of 5 stars A very good album.......1999-11-07

    I bought this album in 1964 and the CD is every bit as good. Armstrong's version of "Got A Lot of Living to do" is very good and is my favorite from the album. Armstong's trumpet was the sharpest and cleanest trumpet as ther ever was & singing style is good

    5 out of 5 stars You must try this one!.......1998-09-16

    This is a great first album for those who are interested in Satchmo. Tunes from broadway shows from the fifties and sixties as only Louis Armstrong can interpret them. Great fun for Louis Armstrong fans and those who want to take a first listen. You won't be sorry. Extremely popular when it was released in mono in the sixties.
    'N Love: Music for Your Wedding
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    Manufacturer: Compendia
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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