From The Ed Sullivan Show for March 30, 1969: Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme sing the title song from the Jerry Herman musical, Dear World. The show had opened a few weeks earlier at the Mark Hellinger Theatre and it wasn't a hit. It lasted 45 previews and 132 performances and I've never heard of it being revived anywhere. Steve and Eydie weren't in it. It starred Angela Lansbury and a pretty large cast of folks I've never heard of.
An awful lot of performers sang this title song on TV shows and records and other places and when I've heard it, the lyrics are always somewhat different. I have the feeling Herman wrote eleven versions or thereabouts of them…