Streisand, Barbra - Before The Parade Passes By Lyrics

one of the most incredible vocal performances in the history of popular music - the last note is held for 14 seconds - ask any of today's 'divas' to do that

She was obviously too young for the role. She was obviously cast not because she "fit" the role better but she was a bigger movie star than the other actresses who had done the role and were more age-appropriate. But Streisand OWNED this part by the end of the movie. She sells the hell out of the songs and is note-perfect for the comedy scenes.

Best performance ever! Hope you have this movie (Hello Dolly) in your collection. Barbara Streisand at her best!

Barbra at her best

Come on 2019?!

I just got out of watching this on stage with the legend Betty Buckley. It was amazing.

But I will always love Babs version!

i love it

I love this scene in HD. The floats, clothes, the set, and the last part of it. I trained my voice to hit the last note. Not easy.

Carol Channing could not hold a candle to Barbra.

In this, yes she could. They were totally different. Channing didn't have to take a back seat to anybody!

I have sang this out loud in front of a group of people and they liked it!

This song I listened to a lot during my breakup with my ex boyfriend but now I'm gonna feel my heart coming alive again before the parade passes by

Streisand was, of course, miscast. She was way too young for the role. But she sells the hell out of the songs and walks away with the role. I love her performance.

I watch this movie over and over and it always amazes me. I fell in love with this movie the very first time I saw it . When I watch it with my husband he always says when she sings hello dolly and the song is over he says rewind it rewind it so I can see her sing hello dolly again. Lol

No one can compare to Streisand especially this number. Wow

This song always cheers me up :)

She was decades too young. So she decided to camp it up. So she didn't seem deluded for doing it. And the gay's loved it. But the critics didn't. Lol

Always loved this song from the musical "Hello Dolly". Fantastic film too!

I don't care what the critics think either she has a voice to die for my favourite singer

Slay it Babs, slayyyyy!!!!!!

Sometimes I listen to this for a pick me up. Say what you want about Streisand as a person, but damn she sure could belt it out and slap some soul on it.

Streisand as a person : Generous & a winner. She is a DEMOCRAT! Equal Rights, Healthcare, Education, Fair Pay, A Clean Planet, & A Woman's Right to Choose. I'm so, so proud this great artist is one of US.

GreginNYC I heard her only human weakness is a duet with Neil Diamond.

I love Mrs Levi. I saw Hello Dolly! Years ago and I still love it.

Don't close the Broadway show- put Babs in!!

I have to audition with this for something, this is my first time listening to it. I’m a little scared now😅

Jenna K How did it go? I hope you got it. This song takes pipes!

What a woman .... What a voice

This movie and soundtrack will always hold a special place in my heart. Sublime !!

Super important: Does anyone know what key this song is in?

G in this version, then A flat (after the snare drum entry), up to A, off into G flat for the marching band.......

Never liked her a bit. But I'll take my hat off to her for that.

who was that old woman in that close up shot?

She is amazing !!!!!

Her interpretation of this score is incomparable. Other actresses can and should shine in this role but no one ever sang it like Streisand.

The long note at the end...spectacular

The best singing of this musical by the extraordinary Barbra Streisand who manages emotive vocal moments throgh all this wonderfull songs.
I love you Barbra for this deluxe performance

The Hello Dolly movie was woefully out of place in 1969 Vietnam/Nixon-era America. But it has aged very well. It's like an old-fashioned operetta with great singing and dancing. It evokes a long-ago world. A wonderful step back in time.

In her prime, she was the best. The perfection, the respect for each syllable. Brilliance. I love her in this performance of a lifetime. Unquestionable, Star of stars !!!!

Just compared this rendiition with Ms. Midler.... I know its not a competition and one can enjoy both but.... the wistful subtleness of Barbra's intro is terrific - as young as she was she gets the mood of widow reclaiming her life....

The indomitable Barbara Streisand.
I hate her politics which are disturbingly left-wing liberal but I could watch her perform for literally hours on end. The lady is the essence of talent with a gorgeous voice. You go, Babs!

Halo101st agree lol

I think it would be a good idea if you began thinking for yourself instead of parroting the media filth and Hollywood. All these absurd accusations against President Trump and not one shred of supporting fact in any of them. Just childish left-wing liberal babble.

Loved your comment. You remind me of my dad who didn't like her politics at all .. and he once said, "there are plenty of reasons to not like Streisand; but her singing isn't one of them."

My grandparents say the same thing! She’s been very jarring with her politics, but her talent seems undeniable.

I agree. I've often wondered how can people be so talented and so nutty at the same time?

Justin Bieber wrote this song.

one of the all time most charismatic and vocally gifted artist of the century....what this women cld do with a note her hey-day!!!

I don't care that the critics didn't like this movie. I watch it every time it comes on TV and I think Barbra rose to the occasion even though they said she was too young. I can't think of anyone who could do more justice to the music of this movie.

Brooklyn Bobby I saw the movie last year ... it was fantastic! 😁

I don't understand why the critics didn't like it. What's not to like 🎉

Brooklyn Bobby I totally agree .Raised My five daughters and Grandkids on Barbra& Walter’s “🎶HelloDolly🎶”. Now I’m starting on the Great- Grand’s. The 19 year old lived too far away and the other’s weren’t very available, but I’ve got #12 ,Scarlet Piper and Her Mom living here and she loves GG’s music. I also can turn it on anytime and enjoy. Can’t say that about too many movies. My 5th. daughter Alanna was in all the Musicals at her High School and I so wanted them to do Hello Dolly ,but that didn’t happen till after She Graduated. She got to be Ado Annie in Oklahoma. That was cool. 🎶💕💜🎶

@Kaitlyn Rogers She was NOT too young...most Dollys are too old. WIlder did not intend for her to be a senior citizen.

@SG R What critics did not like all stemmed from some idiotic backlash about Hollywood casting films with people who are far more age appropriate and more appropriate for a film. What works on stage does not necessarily work on screen but there are fools who always think that because someone did a show, they should automatically get the film version. there are fools who think that Idina Menzel and Kristen Chenoweth should be in the film version of Wicked. They were too old for the stage and they are WAAAAYYY too old to have their faces blown up on a movie screen in these roles. Shirley MacLaine was needlessly mauled for Sweet Charity but Gwen Verdon was WAAAAYYY too old by the time the film was made.

She wasn't too young... Walter Matthau was TOO old! Good grief!

This goes through my mind { + i sing parts of it }on my way to gay pride since the 80's "I Am What I Am'' also. tradition since the 80's

my school is performing Hello Dolly next week I'm excited

Who are you playing?

the brass sections sounds amazing

sublime,melodic while touchy  and I heard the longest held note in a movie up to themoutstanding!

She made her own of the score of Hello Dolly... for all that she was too young for the role... she carried it off beautifully and her singing throughout is sublime... go Barbra go!

my favorite musical of Barbara Striesnand

thanks for comment she is the best

And 45 years later, she still sounds pretty damn good!

Spectacular

Excellent, memories of little boy days!!!

Very nice !  :)

Thank the maker they went with this one. That alternate version well, sucks. This one has been an inspiration to me for the past 46 years. "Hello, Dolly!" remains one of my most beloved musicals of all time.

+Raymond Maurer Though Streisand performed both songs admirably, the director would have to go with this version. The other one has so many tempo changes and breaks, no marching band could ever play a song this way while marching. This version is the only version that makes sense in the context of the film's setup to use a marching band in a parade. Actually, I'm assuming the alternate version may have been intended as a Streisand single rather than be used in the context of the film. Streisand sometimes re-recorded her film tracks in a more contemporary way for use on an album or to be released as a single in support of the film.

What makes that last note so amazing, are all the notes leading up to it! She was, and always will be...the best! Barbra!

Longest held note in a movie!!

loved that movie and this song in particular
she is great

4:34-End Of that note WOW!!!!!

Vines Famous Damn! 14 seconds! Never timed it in its brilliance for the past 30 years!

Barbra can really belt out a tune.  That last note is incredible.  Barbra's voice is unwavering and just as strong to the end.  

she held it perfectly for 16 seconds unreal!

i love this song and i love the way barbra sings it---sheer perfection!

I LOVE this song, and  movie, don't care all the abuse it's taken over the years, the fact is the fans loved (and LOVE)it!

This was my HS class play. I adored how Barbra could hold that note at the end!

MUSICAL not play

this was my first HS musical. it was so much fun!!! 

@Alonda Perkins It's a play that happens to be a musical. Geez.

@irvinemuscle No, your comment should be "It's a production that happens to be a musical" a play and a musical are very different. A play is a production with no songs performed. Then there is a play with music which is a production were there are songs performed during the production, but it's a performance in the play world as well, with an audience in the play. A musical is a production that has songs performed about whats happening in the show with no in show audience, though there may be musicals that have songs that also have in show audiences, ex. Jersey Boys, and Dream Girls. Then there are Opera's which are productions were everything is sung, and no lines are said.

@irvinemuscle  I didn't correct the play. Play  musical  doesn't make a difference just as long as you have fun with it! 

tytytytyty so much i love it--and moving boxes are the thing in most songs that are album cuts here on youtube ...look around Mr Noe no offence

Thanks for the upload but please consider in the future a video with really smooth  transitions. These jumping boxes merely detract from the soundtrack and take the viewer's attention from the real focus: the music. 

I'm glad something did.

Great voice, great movie, which I cherish for ever.
Love this!!!
Thanks Barbra!

the power of music!

i heard this song contains the longest held note in Musicals ' history up to 1969!

What is the longest now?

Well, the last note she sings in "On A Clear Day..." was about as long, maybe longer than this one. Anyway, both were fantastic. Babs was the best.

My mother bought this album back in 1969. I remember listening to it almost every day until 1972. What a voice! What glorious music! It was one of the best movie scores of 1969. She looked really beautiful in that movie. You are right the last note is pure genius sung with unbriddled passion capable of shatering glass. One of the greatest female vocalists of the century!

Vibrato :')

She is the BEST talent in the world!

Such a motivating tune! Always loved this.

barbara killed every inch of this song. lol and i do mean that in a good way. I am just blown away by her lung power and perfection.

it's the one of the best songs of this play .... its real after of 30 years old and ahedad.
if no have couple friend or lover or someboy who'd love you .

i just posted it (as well as PUT ON YOUR SUNDAY CLOTHES). enjoy!

Can you please upload the finale song from the movie?

I go around whistling "Put on Your Sunday Clothes," but I think this song is my favorite.

She's so so so very beautiful, talented, elegant and a million and one other words. It's amazing and I could watch this film over and over again :)

i'm so glad you enjoyed it!

Love that last note! No one but Barbra!

@DorisDayFanatic YOU'RE VERY WELCOME!!

THANK YOU!