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Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado and music by Galt MacDermot.The work reflects the creators' observations of the hippie counterculture and sexual revolution of the late 1960s, and several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War peace movement.
Hair ' s cast album stayed at No. 1 for 13 weeks in 1969. [2] The recording also received a Grammy Award in 1969 for Best Score from an Original Cast Show Album [3] and sold nearly 3 million copies in the U.S. by December 1969. [4] The New York Times noted in 2007 that "The cast album of Hair was ... a must-have for the middle classes. Its ...
The musical’s title song begins as character Claude slowly croons his reason for his long hair, as tribe-mate Berger joins in singing they "don't know." [1] They lead the tribe, singing "Give me a head with hair," "as long as God can grow it," [1] listing what they want in a head of hair and their uses for it.
Hair is a 1968 album recording of the London cast production of the musical Hair featuring Paul Nicholas, Vince Edward, Oliver Tobias, Michael Feast, Peter Straker, Annabel Leventon, Linda Kendrick, Marsha Hunt, Sonja Kristina and others conducted by Derek Wadsworth.
"Good Morning Starshine" is a song from the second act of the musical Hair (1967). It is performed by the character Sheila, played off-Broadway in 1967 by Jill O'Hara, and by Lynn Kellogg in the original 1968 Broadway production. In the 1979 film version of the musical, Sheila is portrayed by Beverly D'Angelo. [2]
Hair is the cast recording of the original, Off-Broadway cast of the musical Hair: An American Tribal Love-Rock Musical.It was released in 1967 by RCA Victor. [1] Hair premiered Off-Broadway at the Public Theater on October 17, 1967, and the cast album was recorded two weeks later.
"Easy to Be Hard" is a song from the 1967 rock musical Hair. It was written by Galt MacDermot, James Rado, and Gerome Ragni, who put the musical together in the mid-1960s. The original recording of the musical featuring the song was released in May 1968 with the song being sung by Lynn Kellogg, who performed the role of Sheila on stage in the ...
"Ain't Got No, I Got Life" is a 1968 single by American singer-songwriter Nina Simone, from her album 'Nuff Said. It is a medley of two songs, "Ain't Got No" and "I Got Life", from the musical Hair, with lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot. The combination of the two songs was rewritten by Simone to suit her purpose.