Hello, Dolly! (Song)
Hello, Dolly! is the theme song of the popular musical of the same name . The music and lyrics are by Jerry Herman , who also wrote the music for other musicals like A Cage Full of Fools . Louis Armstrong made the song a chart success in 1964. His version was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001.
history
Hello, Dolly! was first sung by Carol Channing , who played Dolly Gallagher Levi in the original 1964 version on Broadway . In December 1963 , Louis Armstrong made a demo recording of Hello, Dolly! that was used to promote the musical. The musical premiered on January 16, 1964 at the St. James Theater in New York City and quickly became a huge hit. That same month, Kapp Records released Armstrong's demo recording as a commercial single and shortly thereafter an album of the same name .
The most famous recording by Louis Armstrong is from 1964. His version became a number one hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 , ending the success of the Beatles . The song became the biggest hit of Armstrong's career, with the album of the same name reaching a gold record . The song stayed at the top of the Adult Contemporary chart for nine weeks, shortly after the musical premiered.
Hello, Dolly! won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1965, and Armstrong received a Grammy for Best Vocal Performance . Louis Armstrong later recorded the song with Barbra Streisand for the film Hello, Dolly! on. Lyndon Johnson used another version of the song in the election campaign.
For his song, Herman obviously borrowed from Mack David and his song Sunflower (1948); Mack David successfully sued Herman.
Well-known cover versions
Hello, Dolly! was covered by the following artists:
- Carol Channing (1964)
- Petula Clark in English, French and Spanish
- Bobby Darin (1964)
- Duke Ellington (1964)
- Ella Fitzgerald (1964)
- Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli (1964)
- Marvin Gaye (1964)
- Benny Goodman (1964)
- Frank Sinatra (1964)
- Frankie Vaughan (1964)
- Lawrence Welk (1964)
- Andy Williams (1964)
- Herb Alpert (1964)
- Sammy Davis, Jr. (1965)
- Mary Martin (1965)
- The Bachelors (1966)
- Pearl Bailey (1967)
- Violetta Villas (1968)
- Matt Monro (1968)
- Pinky and Perky (1968)
- Barbra Streisand (1969)
- Ethel Merman (1970)
- Jean-Jacques Perrey (1970)
- Lou Rawls (1979)
- Cab Calloway (1991)
- Wayne Newton (1992)
- Liza Minnelli (1997)
- Nancy Wilson (2001)
- Harry Connick, Jr. (2007)
- Zooey Deschanel (2007)
- Kelly Ripa (2004)
literature
- Max Cryer: Love Me Tender. The Stories Behind the World's Favorite Songs. 2010, ISBN 978-1-4587-7956-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Review of the song at allmusic
- ↑ Fred Bronson: The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits. 2003, Billboard Books, ISBN 0-8230-7677-6 .
- ↑ a b William Emmett Studwell The popular song reader: a sampler of well-known twentieth century songs. P. 152.