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"Good Morning Starshine" is a pop song from the musical Hair (1967). It was a No. 3 hit in the United States in July 1969, and a No. 6 hit in the United Kingdom in October 1969, for the singer Oliver. The chorus makes extensive use of apparent nonsense words: "Glibby gloop gloopy, Nibby Nabby Noopy, La La La Lo Lo.
He was a member of two popular music groups — The Virginians and, later, The Good Earth — and was then known as Bill Swofford. His uptempo single "Good Morning Starshine" from the pop/rock musical Hair reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in July 1969, sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. a month later ...
Oliver covered "Good Morning Starshine" in 1969, hitting #3. Strawberry Alarm Clock covered "Good Morning Starshine" in 1969, charting at #87. [16] Three Dog Night covered "Easy to Be Hard" in 1969, hitting #4. Run–D.M.C. sampled "Where Do I Go?" in their 1993 song "Down with the King", which charted at #21 on the Hot 100.
Songs from Hair have been recorded by numerous artists, [121] including Nina Simone, Shirley Bassey, Barbra Streisand and Diana Ross. [122] "Good Morning Starshine" was sung on a 1969 episode of Sesame Street by cast member Bob McGrath, [123] and versions by artists such as Sarah Brightman, Petula Clark, and Strawberry Alarm Clock have been ...
The title song as well as another song from the musical, "Good Morning Starshine," were featured in Mystery Science Theater 3000 in the Season 5, 8th episode "Hercules Unchained". [23] On The Simpsons episode, "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious", the song is played in the background as Marge's hair starts to fall out from stress ...
MacDermot also composed music for film soundtracks, jazz and funk albums, and classical music, and his music has been sampled in hit hip-hop songs and albums. He is best known for his work on Hair, which produced three number-one singles in 1969: "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In", "Good Morning Starshine", and the title song "Hair".
Earlier in 1969, Oliver had reached #3 on the Billboard pop and easy listening charts with his version of "Good Morning Starshine," a song from the musical Hair. While working on an album with producer Bob Crewe (which would also be called Good Morning Starshine ), "Jean" was selected as a song for the record and subsequently chosen as the ...
Rambeau recorded a few more singles for DynoVoice, including "Good Morning, Starshine" in 1968, which was released under the name Eddie Hazelton (as a nod to Rambeau's hometown of Hazleton). Coincidentally, a few years later Rambeau would appear in the Broadway production of Hair , the musical which spawned "Starshine" among other songs that ...