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Hello, Ethel!: Merman sings 'Before the Parade Passes By' (but what was this TV show?)
Last Edit: WaymanWong 02:19 am EST 02/16/19
Posted by: WaymanWong 02:13 am EST 02/16/19

Just found this on YouTube: Ethel Merman doing this ''Hello, Dolly!'' number from 1982. Was it a variety special? (Joe Namath is in it!)

Ethel also does a second number, ''There Is No Tune Like a Show Tune,'' which sounds like an early version of ''It's Today'' (in ''Mame'').

Ethel sings a countermelody to it that includes the lyric: ''You know how fond I'm of anything by Stephen Sondheim.''

Could Jerry Herman have written that, or was it specialty material penned by someone else for this TV salute?
Link Ethel Merman: 'Before the Parade Passes By' Broadway salute (1982)
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re: Hello, Ethel!: Merman sings 'Before the Parade Passes By' (but what was this TV show?)
Posted by: dbdbdb 11:08 am EST 02/16/19
In reply to: Hello, Ethel!: Merman sings 'Before the Parade Passes By' (but what was this TV show?) - WaymanWong 02:13 am EST 02/16/19

"Show Tune" is by Herman. It was featured in the 1960 Off Broadway revue Parade. Interesting to see it turn up in this clip, so many years after Mame.
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re: Hello, Ethel!: Merman sings 'Before the Parade Passes By' (but what was this TV show?)
Posted by: showtunetrivia 02:36 am EST 02/16/19
In reply to: Hello, Ethel!: Merman sings 'Before the Parade Passes By' (but what was this TV show?) - WaymanWong 02:13 am EST 02/16/19

TEXACO STAR THEATRE: OPENING NIGHT. And the "No Tune Like a Show Tune" was first written for Herman's 1960 revue, PARADE.

Laura
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