What Hello, Dolly! song does WALL-E play while watching the musical video?

The Hello, Dolly! song WALL-E plays while watching the musical video is “It Only Takes a Moment.”

WALL-E watches a videotape of the 1969 film Hello, Dolly!, collecting the scene as one of his treasured human artifacts. The song’s romantic image of two people holding hands fascinates him, and he later imitates that gesture with EVE. It becomes a simple visual lesson in affection for a robot who has never experienced human romance directly.

A common mix-up is “Put On Your Sunday Clothes,” which also appears in WALL-E. That number accompanies the film’s opening journey from space toward the ruined Earth and was chosen because its story involves two hopeful young men seeking companionship. “It Only Takes a Moment” is the song specifically connected to the video WALL-E watches.

Both songs were written by Jerry Herman for Hello, Dolly! and performed in the film by Michael Crawford and Marianne McAndrew. WALL-E’s use of archival musical footage also reinforces its themes of nostalgia, cinema, and love communicated without much dialogue.