Hello Dolly! – Louis Armstrong & The All Stars (1964)

An Individual, limited edition, example of vinyl record silhouette art made from a genuine, original, 45rpm, 7” single featuring Hello Dolly by Louis Armstrong & The All Stars. Released on the London American Recordings record label in 1964, this vinyl single has been reworked into a silhouette of  a sheep.

Hello, Dolly! is the title song of the popular 1964 musical of the same name. The music and lyrics were written by Jerry Herman, who also wrote the scores for many other popular musicals including Mame and La Cage aux Folles. Louis Armstrong’s version was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001 and it become the most successful single of Armstrong’s career. Louis Armstrong also performed the song (together with Barbra Streisand) in the popular film Hello, Dolly!.

Dolly (5 July 1996 – 14 February 2003) was a female domestic sheep, and the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell, using the process of nuclear transfer. Dolly was cloned by Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and colleagues at the Roslin Institute, part of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and the biotechnology company PPL Therapeutics, based near Edinburgh.