An extremely rare film clip of Carol Channing performing the title number from Jerry Herman’s Hello, Dolly! in 1965 with members of the original Broadway cast. This is a (mostly) silent film of a command performance given at the White House for Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson. The soundtrack is drawn from the original-cast album:
(This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)