Hello, Dolly! (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | 
| Artists: Barbra Streisand, Michael Crawford
Creators: Jerry Herman, Lionel Newman, Walter Matthau
Label: Philips
Category: Music
List Price: $17.98
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Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 2484
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 810368
UPC: 042281036828
EAN: 0042281036828
ASIN: B000001F32
Release Date: November 8, 1994
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| Tracks:
| • | Just Leave Everything to Me | | • | It Takes a Woman | | • | It Takes a Woman (Reprise) | | • | Put on Your Sunday Clothes | | • | Ribbons down My Back | | • | Dancing | | • | Before the Parade Passes By | | • | Elegance | | • | Love Is Only Love | | • | Hello, Dolly! - Herman, Jerry | | • | It Only Takes a Moment | | • | So Long Dearie - Herman, Jerry | | • | Finale - Herman, Jerry |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 24 more reviews...
 I Love Dolly! September 25, 2008
Bridein05
This is an amazing soundtrack! The insert even had history on the film, as this cd celebrates the anniversary of the film release. It is a treat to listen to, and all songs are performed by the original cast of the film!!
hello dolly July 29, 2008
Mitchell Brown (Statesboro, Georgia United States)
very good. amazing that Michael Crawford started off in this movie then did the Phantom of the Opera. he's amazing
 It takes Barbra to save the album January 5, 2008
R. Graff (South Windsor, CT United States)
Released in 1969, the movie Hello Dolly, while performing well at the box office, and even garnering an Oscar Nod for Best Picture, was considered a failure, often due to the miscasting of Barbra Streisand as the title character (ironically, she is the film's only saving grace). The soundtrack did not perform much better, and as of this day, still has not been certified gold.
But even so, this is a must-own album for Barbra Streisand fans. While she does not perform on all tracks, the ones she does perform on are far and away the soundtrack's best offerings. "Just Leave Everything to Me," written specifically for the movie, is a wonderful introduction, "Put on Your Sunday Clothes" is great fun, and extremely catchy, "Before the Parade Passes By," while clearly an attempt to recreate "Don't Rain on My Parade" from Funny Girl, is still well done, and the title song, a duet with Louis Armstrong, is fantastic, if a bit overlong.
Unfortunately, the songs not featuring Barbra are not worth listening to at all. They are dull, not sung well, and just try to fill up space in what was probably promoted as a Barbra Streisand album. Because of that, I can only give this album three stars. Buy it for her tracks (which are 5-stars at least), but skip the rest.
Barbra Miscast? Not So Much!! September 30, 2007
Tom George (Wash. DC)
At the time the film was released, and still today, many people ponder the fact that Barbra was 20 or so years too young to play the part. This may have been true, yet the fact remains that she is terrific in the part. On the whole, this is a fine film musical, true to the original. Very funny and hugely entertaining. There have been a lot more succesful film musicals that weren't nearly as well done. The CD is enjoyable, though I agree with others that much of the music has been needlessly abbreviatted. And the overture should most definetly have been included. Still BS is great, and you can hear what Michael Crawford's REAL singing voice is (not the breathy, over miked noise he now passes off).
Fox needs to reissue this CD September 16, 2007
Les G. Solomon (NSW, Australia)
There are very few soundtrack Cds from this period that haven't had a makeover (even "Goodbye Mr Chips" which has yet to be released on DVD)This CD is only the LP version cleaned up and transferred, leaving so much of the lavish music which can be heard in the film, on the cutting room floor. You will wonder at the end of "Just leave Everything to Me" where is the sparkling overture we are so used to in the film? You wont hear it here, nor the full dance segments from "Dancing", nor the Waiter's Gallop AT ALL. Can someone please shake up Fox and get them to release a restored and complete version of this classic score?
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