Encore, encore! Pickering Musical Society's last production Hello Dolly! is a triumph

Encore, encore! Pickering Musical Society's last production Hello Dolly! is a triumph

Jerry Herman’s Hello Dolly! is the last musical Pickering Musical Society and its director Luke Arnold will produce.

Louis Armstrong Says ‘Hello Dolly’!

On December 3, 1963, Louis Armstrong and the All Stars were in a New York City recording studio to cut a song for Kapp Records. It was the first time Louis had been in the studio for over two years and he was there at the request, and as a favor for, Joe Glaser, who in turn was helping out, Dave Kapp, the brother of Jack Kapp, Decca’s old head of A&R, as well as a song plugger friend. One of the two songs they recorded was “Hello Dolly” from a n…