"Hello There" is a song written by Rick Nielsen and first released on Cheap Trick's 1977 album In Color. The song was also often used as the first song of Cheap Trick concerts, and as a result was the first song on the band's seminal live album Cheap Trick at Budokan. The song is a frantic, energetic, raucous hard rock song. Critic Dave Marsh of Rolling Stone Magazine detected echoes in the song of the "manic verve" of The Beatles' song "Birthday".