The song "Love Is Only Love," which Barbra Streisand's Dolly sings in her bedroom before the Harmonia Gardens scene, was not in the stage production of "Hello, Dolly." "Love Is Only Love" was written originally by Jerry Herman for the Broadway musical "Mame" but was cut before the show's opening. The song occurred in the story as Mame Dennis tries to explain falling in love to her pre-teen nephew, Patrick. 20th Century-Fox executives had asked Herman to write a new song for the film version of Hello Dolly so they would have a candidate for the Academy Award for Best Song. The executives were not too happy to discover that instead of giving them a new song. Herman instead placed Love Is Only Love in the scene with Streisand singing it. Because the song had already been performed publicly during the Mame out-of-town tryouts, it was therefore not eligible as a nomination for the Academy Award
