Hello, I Must Be Going (song)

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| artist = Groucho Marx

| album = Animal Crackers

| released = {{Start date|1930}}

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| writer = Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby

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"Hello, I Must Be Going" is a song from the Marx Brothers' 1930 film Animal Crackers, written by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby. It was sung by Groucho, along with Margaret Dumont, just before the dialogue that preceded the song "Hooray for Captain Spaulding". It did not feature in the earlier stage production of Animal Crackers which opened on Broadway in 1928.

In the film story the song, together with “Hooray For Captain Spaulding”, create a mock grand operatic entry, complete with chorus, for the famed African explorer Captain Spaulding, played by Groucho.{{Cite web|url = https://humorinamerica.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/hello-i-must-be-going-the-musicianship-of-the-marx-brothers/|title = Hello, I Must Be Going: The Musicianship of the Marx Brothers|date = 3 January 2013|access-date = 26 March 2015|website = Humor in America}} The song expresses Spaulding's contempt for this elaborate welcome.{{Cite web|url = http://www.filmsite.org/anim.html|title = Animal Crackers|date = 2015|access-date = 26 March 2015|website = Film Site}}

The song is very closely associated with Groucho. A biography of Groucho was titled, Hello, I Must be Going!{{Cite book|title = Hello, I Must Be Going: Groucho and His Friends|last = Chandler|first = Charlotte|publisher = Simon and Schuster|year =2012|isbn = 9781471105852}} He also sang the song, with Erin Fleming, as the opening number of his Carnegie Hall concert in 1972.